You actually think so? No blood or gore or anything.
I think dismemberment without cauterization definitely counts as R-rated level gore.
I perhaps wouldn't be so quick to rule out Captain Phasma....
She's a tool, not a mastermind. She didn't even do anything other than stand around barking orders menacingly. The most exciting thing she did in the movie was get tackled by Chewie.
I'm not sure the franchise could justify having the story follow Kylo Ren as the last standing Skywalker by the end of Episode IX, and remaining on the Dark Side...that just doesn't fit the kind of storytelling the Episode films are about. Especially since it seems to be Rey's story.
Sure it could, but they won't let it for the same lame reasons that the DC restrict all the DS users from getting anything cool. Because the Dark side is "evil" and the Sith are "bad guys". "The only way to be good is the way we say so." This mentality smacks heavily of real world subjects that are forbidden on the forum.
Random brain thought due to being a kid in the 1980s.
The Dark Crystal . Was it a kyber crystal?
Yes. It was later found by a Mando Jedi. He used the Dark Crystal to make the Dark Saber.