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Post #1482138

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NeverarGreat
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The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
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Date created
29-Apr-2022, 10:56 PM

I do! It’s a good reminder not to lose sight of the basics like the First Order’s villainy. Though I wonder if there could be a way to work in their menace without having them outright attack the Republic, as well as offering this peace. In the film Poe looks astonished at the hangar which could mean that they are so reclusive that almost nobody in the Republic knows about them.

I will think on this further.

JEDIT: Thinking about it, it makes sense to capitalize on the idea that the First Order are established enemies of the Republic but I don’t think we need to specify acts of aggression, since it’s not felt anywhere else in the movie (no ruins from First Order attacks, for example), and people generally seem pretty chill about the First Order in general and consider it a ‘there’ problem not a ‘here’ one.

I also feel like the opening attack can work with the prior insistence of them being established enemies of the Republic as well as some language at the end of the third paragraph:

The galaxy is in crisis.
Luke Skywalker, failing in
his quest to restore the
Jedi Order, has vanished.

In his absence, enemies
of the New Republic have
returned from exile as the
IMPERIAL FIRST ORDER
bearing an astonishing
offer of peace, requiring
only that the noble Jedi
shall forever be declared
extinct.

With the Senate divided,
a few rebellious leaders
have secretly called upon
a daring RESISTANCE
to find the last Jedi
and unmask the Imperial
shadow now spreading
across the stars…