Yesterday I came across WhillsConsortium’s radical 3-in-1 and noticed they merged D’Qar and Ajan Kloss, declaring them both to be Yavin IV. Then I remembered I had my own idea kicking around to merge Starkiller Base and Kijimi. That’s when it hit me: if we do both those things, we can have consistent bases of operation for both sides throughout the entire trilogy.

Removing the superweapon angle is my preferred approach to Starkiller Base so at that point blowing it up is easily excised. It can simply be attacked, seriously damaged, but nonetheless usable for the next two films. Blowing up Kijimi, which would either no longer make much sense or could be recontextualized as the Sith Eternal asserting dominance over the First Order. Either way, it’s absolute trivial to remove, so it doesn’t really matter.

One minor issue is that neither base would appear in TLJ as it stands, since there’s no snow, grass, or jungle planet nor any permanent planetary base besides the abandoned one on Crait. While we’re on TLJ, it’s worth mentioning the space battle at the start of the movie would need to be recontextualized as no longer being the evacuation of D’Qar. This is once again absolutely trivial, since the only indication of such is a few shots at the start that could easily be removed.

Anyway, I think this would work well with my approach of making the ST about balance in contrast to the dominant light in the PT and dominant darkness in the OT. Everyone is on equal footing with their own permanent base. No more underdogs.