Well, I already liked the idea, and I like it even more now that you've explained where you'd put it. I'm going to work on another final video with some new footage. Could you sort of work on the parts of the script where you might include Madine, includeing what lines you might add. I'm thinking perhaps the shot where we get a close up of his face, we may be able to dub one of his bridge officer's shouting something like, "General, we're detecting a large energy buildup from the Death Star," or something like that. His stoic face might fit well with a dramatic moment, and we wouldn't have to actually see who's talking. But we'd still need to include him in one or two previous shots to establish that he's there. Perhaps we could even keep his involvement in the lead up to the jump to hyperspace: while Ackbar is making his fleet orders, Madine could be giving some orders and comments of his own, potentially just to his own crew.

For those who don't like how this doesn't mesh with EU (Madine lives to fight another day) I personally feel that a fanedit should not be restricted by EU. Inevitably the changes we make will conflict with something in the original storyline, and thus with the stories that follow and relied on the original movies. This is especially true of PT edits. I think we simply should disregard EU when making fanedits in most cases, at least when it's convenient.

FYI, I'm updating the first post a bit to include handy references for our editing. In the future if you want to find something like the wishlist, movie mistakes, or ships size references, go to the first post.