I'm glad you're enjoying the thread. If you want to, progress the story past the point where they get off the turbolift in whatever way you think makes sense. I feel like maybe I put a little pressure on peoples shoulders because I just dropped that on them lol, like "you're at the bottom of an elevator, at the top there is a room full of men pointing guns at the door."
A little intimidated because I noticed that the Ryloth thread was starting to get bogged down and people were posting multiple times a round and whatnot. I asked Padme to split most of the current OOC thread into a separate one in the story OOC forum, because I felt like it was getting unnaturally large for a general OOC about the series of threads. Hopefully now that there's less people, it will all work more fluidly.