all these ideas sound perfect. i especially look forward to the colour correction and blue sabers.

you could just have ani go straight to the homestead, assuming he sensed shmi through the force to that location, only to be surprised she married, and then that she is a corpse.

i would like to see the suggestion someone made of having the senate lights going out, so there is a visual sign of the republic crumbling, and maybe the first senate scene reintroduced to aid this.

are you going to keep the title?