RogueLeader said:
I think a fun way to start the crawl would be with a line like, “Chaos reigns.” Then you could describe how both sides are scrambling to reorganize after the destruction of Hosnian and Starkiller Base. Or replace ‘reigns’ with another word. “The First Order invades.”
This just reminded me of an opening line I had always wanted to use in my hypothetical Star Wars crawl: “War has torn the galaxy asunder.”
Regarding the Resistance referring to themselves as Rebels lines, I’m guessing the idea was that “Godspeed Rebels” was something the old rebels would say to each other, but it’s kinda weird since we never heard anyone say that. It would be pretty easy to take out the two instances this is said. I know there are other instances besides this though.
Hal could always sneak in a fan voiced line during ROTJ’s Battle of Endor of somebody yelling that (or in any of the pre-ST, post-Prequel movies really). lol