+1 for Fett survival...

"passing the torch" is a convenient device but Star Wars could go more like Asimov's "Foundation" where a passing of the torch is implicit, jumping ahead by decades or more. I think for it to be part of the same story it basically has to be some kind of torch-passing, else it's a spinoff. I could totally get into an Old Republic saga. I don't think many of us have an objection to separate stories being told. If they are going to continue the Star Wars story from E6 to E7, I do want that connection.