I just find it the biggest well in the canon adventures for new characters and stories to take place given the 6 Month Gap that we are never told what happens in, and Forces big selling point was... original characters XD

If ya have an idea for a better point in time for the story to take place, I'm open to it. Just would take a bit of reworking of what I've got since I planned a lot of things around it already.

And yeah, a big point in the AU is implementing Legacy Characters with changes that work with the story while trying to keep their core characters intact.