Thanks for the feedback, all! Seems pretty unanimous that the newly proposed story structure would be a great benefit if I can technically pull it off in a truly believeable way, and so far, I think I can.

I have been rolling ahead with this idea the last couple days and am currently about an hour into the new film. I have a couple VFX shots to go back and work on in that first hour (need to replace an approach to Tatooine with an approach to Nevarro, trying to swap out the planet backdrops), but a lot of that first hour is content that already doesn’t have Grogu from the Mando BoBF storylines. I have a working draft for early S3 Nevarro, and that wasn’t hard at all (Grogu is already missing from some of the scenes as I showed!), but now I’m into the nitty gritty of the Mines. It’s a lot of work, but I think it’s going well though. Modern editing tools are a great blessing and Grogu’s carrier is a near perfect shape to be able to track masks around. I’ll start sharing some demos of the VFX this week and uploading the clips to make sure the edits are “near invisible” as Peon wrote!