What do the parents know about the “Great Work”, is it true or a lie?
Considering it started before the Empire (and they didn’t even know what happened), it seems to me that the Great Work was simply just the money minting operation. In fact, seeing how hard the whole planet has this '70s-80s America vibe, I imagine that it’s a really old ass secret, like, from a very long time ago in the Old Republic (as old as '70s America is to us!), the entire reason it got so big - because money. Everybody was simply indoctrinated into it, into keeping the secret and not stealing anything or leaving, but it wasn’t much more than that. Early guesses were that it would link into the sequel trilogy somehow, but it looks like it was simply a forgotten secret from the past, not for the future.
Jod’s fate can be anything they need, if they ever want to pick up the story later, if they want Jod to return, they can just say he escaped or hid or maybe he did time in prison and then got out. If they don’t, if Disney were to collapse tomorrow, you can just assume that Jod was captured and that’s that. There’s no real point in saying RIGHT NOW, if ever, how this wraps up, you don’t write yourself into a corner when you really don’t need it at all. It doesn’t matter, the good guys won. Any later detail is not that interesting until they follow through with something else.
What about the other At planets? Why are they just abandoned?
The Republic collapsed. It’s safe to assume that one planet got lucky and the others didn’t. Probably because they didn’t follow protocol as scrupulously as our guys!
Considering it started before the Empire (and they didn’t even know what happened), it seems to me that the Great Work was simply just the money minting operation. In fact, seeing how hard the whole planet has this '70s-80s America vibe, I imagine that it’s a really old ass secret, like, from a very long time ago in the Old Republic (as old as '70s America is to us!), the entire reason it got so big - because money. Everybody was simply indoctrinated into it, into keeping the secret and not stealing anything or leaving, but it wasn’t much more than that. Early guesses were that it would link into the sequel trilogy somehow, but it looks like it was simply a forgotten secret from the past, not for the future.
Jod’s fate can be anything they need, if they ever want to pick up the story later, if they want Jod to return, they can just say he escaped or hid or maybe he did time in prison and then got out. If they don’t, if Disney were to collapse tomorrow, you can just assume that Jod was captured and that’s that. There’s no real point in saying RIGHT NOW, if ever, how this wraps up, you don’t write yourself into a corner when you really don’t need it at all. It doesn’t matter, the good guys won. Any later detail is not that interesting until they follow through with something else.
The Republic collapsed. It’s safe to assume that one planet got lucky and the others didn’t. Probably because they didn’t follow protocol as scrupulously as our guys!