NFBisms and I are now directly collaborating on this and he has the latest raw file. I can’t promise timings but it’s looking positive. I’m so excited to have NFB onboard, he’s been an absolute gent, and has exactly the skills I was missing.

One question for you all: As I’ve said just earlier, I’m now really happy with the flow of scenes through this version. It feels very balanced to me. (And it took absolutely AGES to get this way - this episode has 50 scene transitions and only about two of them are the original ones!) The one thing I can see people taking slight issue to is the question of who learns about the Aldhani heist in what order. As I currently have it, the ISB find out first, Mon Mothma becomes aware (without the rest of Coruscant knowing), then it hits the news on Ferrix, then a few days later it comes out on the Coruscant news.

I don’t personally have a problem with that - I figure it can be reasonably explained as (1) obviously the ISB would know nearly immediately, (2) Coruscant politicians would likely know before the rest of the planet, (3) Ferrix has a far less tight grip on its media than Coruscant (and an imperial presence potentially talking about the new laws), then (4) Coruscant news could well have been deliberately delayed until the Empire got on top of the messaging. I can see it as a potential point of concern for you guys, but it underpins a lot of my current ordering enough that I think the above justification should be enough to allow story flow to be the priority.

Anyone got a major issue with that?