I agree that Disney's continually evolving range of hyperspace tricks and Force powers is making things worse rather than better.

I enjoyed it. Not to the level of the OT, but not in the depths of the worst of the PT.
A couple take aways:
I think that we can finally put to rest the debate about why there are no handrails in Star Wars. In the Star Wars universe, the best way to assure you DON'T die is to fall down a seemingly bottomless pit. Exhibits are as follows:
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker's lightsaber
Palpatine
Darth Maul
Kylo Ren/Ben Solo
Various characters from Jedi: Fallen Order (I don't want to post spoilers)
The list goes on, I'm sure there's more but that's just the media that comes to mind quickly.
I didn't like the hard clock. (X hours and this happens). Didn't like it in TLJ and don't like it here. I preferred when Star Wars had a flexible time schedule that made it believable for a rational human being. Who's to say that it didn't take several days for the Falcon to get from Tatooine to Aldaraan? Why didn't it take a couple months for the Falcon to limp to Bespin from Hoth on it's backup hyperdrive?
Hyperskipping? "I don't like it. I don't agree with it. But I accept it." In general, I don't like how each installment of the franchise since Disney took over has made hyperspace into handwavium. I don't need realistic physics in my science fantasy, but consistency in the physics of the universe itself would be nice.
I was thinking about the relative ages of Ben and Rey. The timeline checks out if Palpatine had a kid shortly before Revenge of the Sith. So he would have been powerful and dignified instead of an evil lightning face. Plausible.
The pacing in the first hour was bonkers fast.
I wasn't a fan of Palpatine suddenly having beyond Force Unleashed powers. At that point your space wizard battle turns into Superman vs General Zod.
Hux had an incredibly plausible motivation. I give him a passing grade for the first time in the sequel trilogy.
I feel like if Force Ghosts could use the Force so well... Order 66 may have gone off the same, but the next 10 minutes would have been pretty bad for the clone army. Why wasn't there an Army of the Dead a la Lord of the Rings during the Clone Wars?
 
And now... the elephant in the room. (I'm surprised nobody has gone into detail on this yet)...
Force AT&T (Visions, whatever) now allow you to interact physically and transmit matter through space? How... incredibly mindbogglingly... what? Why did Kylo Ren even bother to hunt her down physically when he had instaduel on speed dial? Why didn't Rey carry a thermal detonator in her pocket and casually toss it during a session? Bye bye Sith stronghold...
I haven't been so weirded out by something so un-Star-Warsy wedged into Star Wars since GM Filoni used time travel to save his GMPC...

I enjoyed it. Not to the level of the OT, but not in the depths of the worst of the PT.
A couple take aways:
I think that we can finally put to rest the debate about why there are no handrails in Star Wars. In the Star Wars universe, the best way to assure you DON'T die is to fall down a seemingly bottomless pit. Exhibits are as follows:
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker's lightsaber
Palpatine
Darth Maul
Kylo Ren/Ben Solo
Various characters from Jedi: Fallen Order (I don't want to post spoilers)
The list goes on, I'm sure there's more but that's just the media that comes to mind quickly.
I didn't like the hard clock. (X hours and this happens). Didn't like it in TLJ and don't like it here. I preferred when Star Wars had a flexible time schedule that made it believable for a rational human being. Who's to say that it didn't take several days for the Falcon to get from Tatooine to Aldaraan? Why didn't it take a couple months for the Falcon to limp to Bespin from Hoth on it's backup hyperdrive?
Hyperskipping? "I don't like it. I don't agree with it. But I accept it." In general, I don't like how each installment of the franchise since Disney took over has made hyperspace into handwavium. I don't need realistic physics in my science fantasy, but consistency in the physics of the universe itself would be nice.
I was thinking about the relative ages of Ben and Rey. The timeline checks out if Palpatine had a kid shortly before Revenge of the Sith. So he would have been powerful and dignified instead of an evil lightning face. Plausible.
The pacing in the first hour was bonkers fast.
I wasn't a fan of Palpatine suddenly having beyond Force Unleashed powers. At that point your space wizard battle turns into Superman vs General Zod.
Hux had an incredibly plausible motivation. I give him a passing grade for the first time in the sequel trilogy.
I feel like if Force Ghosts could use the Force so well... Order 66 may have gone off the same, but the next 10 minutes would have been pretty bad for the clone army. Why wasn't there an Army of the Dead a la Lord of the Rings during the Clone Wars?
 
And now... the elephant in the room. (I'm surprised nobody has gone into detail on this yet)...
Force AT&T (Visions, whatever) now allow you to interact physically and transmit matter through space? How... incredibly mindbogglingly... what? Why did Kylo Ren even bother to hunt her down physically when he had instaduel on speed dial? Why didn't Rey carry a thermal detonator in her pocket and casually toss it during a session? Bye bye Sith stronghold...
I haven't been so weirded out by something so un-Star-Warsy wedged into Star Wars since GM Filoni used time travel to save his GMPC...

I enjoyed it. Not to the level of the OT, but not in the depths of the worst of the PT.
A couple take aways:
I think that we can finally put to rest the debate about why there are no handrails in Star Wars. In the Star Wars universe, the best way to assure you DON'T die is to fall down a seemingly bottomless pit. Exhibits are as follows:
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker's lightsaber
Palpatine
Darth Maul
Kylo Ren/Ben Solo
Various characters from Jedi: Fallen Order (I don't want to post spoilers)
The list goes on, I'm sure there's more but that's just the media that comes to mind quickly.
I didn't like the hard clock. (X hours and this happens). Didn't like it in TLJ and don't like it here. I preferred when Star Wars had a flexible time schedule that made it believable for a rational human being. Who's to say that it didn't take several days for the Falcon to get from Tatooine to Aldaraan? Why didn't it take a couple months for the Falcon to limp to Bespin from Hoth on it's backup hyperdrive?
Hyperskipping? "I don't like it. I don't agree with it. But I accept it." In general, I don't like how each installment of the franchise since Disney took over has made hyperspace into handwavium. I don't need realistic physics in my science fantasy, but consistency in the physics of the universe itself would be nice.
I was thinking about the relative ages of Ben and Rey. The timeline checks out if Palpatine had a kid shortly before Revenge of the Sith. So he would have been powerful and dignified instead of an evil lightning face. Plausible.
The pacing in the first hour was bonkers fast.
I wasn't a fan of Palpatine suddenly having beyond Force Unleashed powers. At that point your space wizard battle turns into Superman vs General Zod.
Hux had an incredibly plausible motivation. I give him a passing grade for the first time in the sequel trilogy.
I feel like if Force Ghosts could use the Force so well... Order 66 may have gone off the same, but the next 10 minutes would have been pretty bad for the clone army. Why wasn't there an Army of the Dead a la Lord of the Rings during the Clone Wars?
 
And now... the elephant in the room. (I'm surprised nobody has gone into detail on this yet)...
Force AT&T (Visions, whatever) now allow you to interact physically and transmit matter through space? How... incredibly mindbogglingly... what? Why did Kylo Ren even bother to hunt her down physically when he had instaduel on speed dial? Why didn't Rey carry a thermal detonator in her pocket and casually toss it during a session? Bye bye Sith stronghold...
I haven't been so weirded out by something so un-Star-Warsy wedged into Star Wars since GM Filoni used time travel to save his GMPC...

You mean like these?
I know they're not official, but definitely close enough for government work...

There, I fixed it for you.
I mean, not every character can be a min-maxed stat block *cough* I mean Pantoran, with a super convenient adoptive parent that explains away playing her as a straight up bluman, also conveniently flying the most outright mis-statted/broken ship in the game (excepting of course, the legendary C-Roc). *cough*

Anyway @P-47 Thunderbolt, I don't see any problem with keeping a handicap at creation, especially with a XP generous game (the discrepancies should normalize after a few sessions).  I'd also allow you to drop one stat to one for a reduced amount of XP (maybe 10xp), but on a per-player basis with the understanding that it was for RP, and not so you could bump another stat higher at character creation. But that's just me.

That's at character creation. During the game, I'd expect you to be dropping XP into skills you actually use while adventuring. Not saying you can't, but it'd seem really strange to keep pouring XP into a "Mysterious Past". If you're dumping a ton of XP into it you could run into the issue @JohnDoe244 mentioned above. A character that has flaws/weaknesses is interesting. A character that can't do anything is cement shoes to a swimming party.

That being said, in your particular case, you might run into an issue where starting characters really can't emulate Jedi as shown in the source material. So you might have to spend a few sessions worth of XP into Force Powers, which, depending on the campaign, could lead to a really cool reveal when you suddenly have Force powers (if you haven't used them in the past). So YMMV.
I myself am thinking of rolling up a chadra-fan mechanic for my next game, and I'm toying the idea with keeping one of the starting 1's (but the hit to soak really hurts, and I don't want to play a pushover, so we'll see)

Shiny!
Avg Underworld: 1eP+2eA+2eD 1 success, 1 Triumph

Sorry, I've been busy as well, but I'm game to continue the story. I don't need to do anything else on the Ring (I've been mostly tagging along anyway).

Corr looks down at the fallen Weequay who had thrown the grenade. His side is burning from the grenade wound, and for a second, his grip on his left pistol tightened.
No. He holstered both of his pistols. May be a hunter but I'm no murderer. Besides... He kicked the Weequay in the head. Whatever his punishment for failing will probably be worse than a blaster bolt to the brain.
"Of course," he turns to the two Sullustan brothers. As the sirens being blaring, he continues "That would be our cue. Please, follow me."
 
While the other crewmembers load the skiff and Kr'owk starts preflight, Corr leads the brothers onto the ship. "Just in here,  our guest quarters, you can stay here while we get you to Jabba." He walks slightly past and opens a hatch, revealing a darkened room. The two brothers walk in.
"Wait... what is this?" One of the brothers starts to turn, but both of Corr's pistols are out and both brothers collapse after taking stun bolts at point blank range.
"Oops, maybe this is the holding cell. My mistake. I always get so twisted around." Corr says as he seals the door.
Now... he thinks as the Corellian Freighter leaps into the sky. Time to track down that medkit...
/screenwipe

Corr looks down at the fallen Weequay who had thrown the grenade. His side is burning from the grenade wound, and for a second, his grip on his left pistol tightened.
No. He holstered both of his pistols. May be a hunter but I'm no murderer. Besides... He kicked the Weequay in the head. Whatever his punishment for failing will probably be worse than a blaster bolt to the brain.
"Of course," he turns to the two Sullustan brothers. As the sirens being blaring, he continues "That would be our cue. Please, follow me."
 
While the other crewmembers load the skiff and Kr'owk starts preflight, Corr leads the brothers onto the ship. "Just in here,  our guest quarters, you can stay here while we get you to Jabba." He walks slightly past and opens a hatch, revealing a darkened room. The two brothers walk in.
"Wait... what is this?" One of the brothers starts to turn, but both of Corr's pistols are out and both brothers collapse after taking stun bolts at point blank range.
"Oops, maybe this is the holding cell. My mistake. I always get so twisted around." Corr says as he seals the door.
Now... he thinks as the Corellian Freighter leaps into the sky. Time to track down that medkit...
/screenwipe

Corr looks down at the fallen Weequay who had thrown the grenade. His side is burning from the grenade wound, and for a second, his grip on his left pistol tightened.
No. He holstered both of his pistols. May be a hunter but I'm no murderer. Besides... He kicked the Weequay in the head. Whatever his punishment for failing will probably be worse than a blaster bolt to the brain.
"Of course," he turns to the two Sullustan brothers. As the sirens being blaring, he continues "That would be our cue. Please, follow me."
 
While the other crewmembers load the skiff and Kr'owk starts preflight, Corr leads the brothers onto the ship. "Just in here,  our guest quarters, you can stay here while we get you to Jabba." He walks slightly past and opens a hatch, revealing a darkened room. The two brothers walk in.
"Wait... what is this?" One of the brothers starts to turn, but both of Corr's pistols are out and both brothers collapse after taking stun bolts at point blank range.
"Oops, maybe this is the holding cell. My mistake. I always get so twisted around." Corr says as he seals the door.
Now... he thinks as the Corellian Freighter leaps into the sky. Time to track down that medkit...
/screenwipe

Corr looks down at the fallen Weequay who had thrown the grenade. His side is burning from the grenade wound, and for a second, his grip on his left pistol tightened.
No. He holstered both of his pistols. May be a hunter but I'm no murderer. Besides... He kicked the Weequay in the head. Whatever his punishment for failing will probably be worse than a blaster bolt to the brain.
"Of course," he turns to the two Sullustan brothers. As the sirens being blaring, he continues "That would be our cue. Please, follow me."
 
While the other crewmembers load the skiff and Kr'owk starts preflight, Corr leads the brothers onto the ship. "Just in here,  our guest quarters, you can stay here while we get you to Jabba." He walks slightly past and opens a hatch, revealing a darkened room. The two brothers walk in.
"Wait... what is this?" One of the brothers starts to turn, but both of Corr's pistols are out and both brothers collapse after taking stun bolts at point blank range.
"Oops, maybe this is the holding cell. My mistake. I always get so twisted around." Corr says as he seals the door.
Now... he thinks as the Corellian Freighter leaps into the sky. Time to track down that medkit...
/screenwipe

Oooo I like these results better.
Rerolling deception: 3eA+2eD 4 successes, 1 threat

I mean, there are worse ways to fail, I guess...
Bluffing our way out of the cell?: 3eA+2eC 0 successes

Count me in on the "needlessly complex" club.
What's the matter with saying ships hit with a tractor beam "Can't move relative to the tractor beam" (ie change range bands or facing) and let the ship with the bigger silhouette determine absolute movement?
This way, Slave 1 can tractor an ISD: ISD can't move away from Slave 1, but  because of the sil difference the ISD will drag Slave 1 along if it moves.
Clean, simple, and the only math is comparing silhouettes.
I'm AFB but that's how I've always interpreted the rule.

"Would you take a look at this..."
Castar appraises the room.
"Great setup you guys have here. Though it definitely isn't the private viewing box that this guy..." He taps Den on the chest and continues, "thought the infochant was talking about"... Oh well. Hey Scarpa! Good to see you, best of luck to you all!" He turns to Briar, "Unless you had something else for the gentlebeing..."

Count me in on the "needlessly complex" club.
What's the matter with saying ships hit with a tractor beam "Can't move relative to the tractor beam" (ie change range bands or facing) and let the ship with the bigger silhouette determine absolute movement?
This way, Slave 1 can tractor an ISD: ISD can't move away from Slave 1, but  because of the sil difference the ISD will drag Slave 1 along if it moves.
Clean, simple, and the only math is comparing silhouettes.
I'm AFB but that's how I've always interpreted the rule.

Initiative (Cool): 1eP+1eA+1eB 2 successes, 2 advantage

I think GG is referring to this gem...
https://youtu.be/Vn-lJZmRXfk?t=186
*Sigh* Rebels... I really tried to like you. I did. I get that you're a kids show, but why?

Kneeling by the flattened grass, Senla turns his head towards Dhac.
"It looks like speeder bikes have gone through here. Recently too. Unfortunately I can't tell which way they were coming or going, so we might as well head towards the building Joto saw. I just suggest we do it quietly..."
He turns his attention towards his companions and the herd, surveying his options.

Corr follows behind Fitz and leans casually with his back against the wall between the bar and the first booth on the northern wall. From here he attempts to keep both  the Aqualish and the Nikto in his peripheral vision, while keeping his attention primarily on Fitz and the Sullustans.
Bringing up his comlink to his mouth, he says loud enough for the Sullustans' benefit "Hear that Wes? Whatever you're doing out there, looks like you have a not-so-friendly bartender heading your way, and he's packing heat..."
He quickly drops the comlink in his pocket before any confusion on the line unraveled Fitz's story.

Ironically I'm not bad at survival. Apparently I'm just really bad at climbing...

Castar takes his pass without comment and keeps pace with his companions.
Addressing Briar, "Unfortunately I wasn't able to dig up much intel. I did catch that there is a fence name Scazio who deals in stolen goods. He may be a good lead to follow up on to see if we can pick up this pirate's trail."

Casting a sidelong glance at Den, he continued, "Yeah man. This is the Outer Rim. Most folks in this place are bent and wouldn't blink about taking from their mothers, most likely. What exactly do you propose we do IF we find this evidence, considering the hefty amount the administration pays exactly to sidestep this kind of investigation?"

My presence send to be something of an albatross with these pbp games, but I'm interested if there's still space.
 
You seem to be short a gun hand, will a gunslinger fit in the party?

Apologies. It's been a crazy week or so. I'll get back to regular posts...