I guess I just want there to be some way to allow the Republic to do something instead of being useless and then dying. Even Hal decided against using my dialogue discussing the Hosnian system because it would draw attention to the fact that the Republic seems to not even bother evacuating. I feel like after the Resistance learns of the Starkiller, there has to be some system in place even in a gridlocked Senate to act against its impending destruction.
Regardless of if there is dialogue about the Republic response, it might be neat to add the ships from TLJ into the final D’kar planet shot for continuity purposes.