>>99459887Honestly hoping leads into a roundabout plot that ends up with Thrawn assuming the codename fulcrum in episode 9 and bringing in a reservist fleet headed by an executor and a fuckton of old armaments that just quietly got mothballed in an out of the way area by mon mothma and leia as a "just in case"
and episode 9 is just fleet level action with someone that knows strategic use of interdictors and screening your cap ships with heavily shielded frigates instead of just trying "bigger is better and more superweapons" and just wrecks the first order to restore peace and stability to the galaxy because that ultimately is beneficial to the chiss ascendancy.
well have that as the b plot I guess, since the A plot will obviously be Rey and Kylo's 1v1 and whatever contrived shennanigans brings back phasma.
Regardless, they don't even have to reveal who he is, do the holo thing they used when Ashoka was using the name and have the music that cues who it is as his fleet tears apart whatever first order group that was. Poe would obviously want to meet this "fulcrum" person, but as he requests it Thrawn would say "there will be time for that later commander, right now however we need to reposition and assault their main battlegroup before word of this fleet's arrival reaches their commanders"
