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We weren't TOLD they were alone, until Yoda told Luke "the last of the Jedi will you be", which could've been said for multiple reasons and been interpreted in a number of ways, not to mention that Yoda is not omniscient and so he could've simply been wrong. In ROTS, nobody had responded to the signal from the temple or to Bail's communications, so Yoda & Obi-Wan thought they were on their own. Yoda was ready to go into exile even before learning of the twins. Mace could easily have done the same... decided to trust in the Force, or given up. Who knows how his defeat may've affected him? How injured he may've been?
None of that means your slippery-slope nonsense of Aayla & Plo surviving could or would happen. Mace could plausibly survive based on facts in evidence from other instances in the films: the Coruscant chase in AOTC showed Force-users surviving great falls in Coruscant traffic; Luke was shown surviving quite a bit of Palpatine's lightning; a severed hand didn't kill Luke, Anakin, Zam, etc. His survival is arguably more plausible than Maul's, and we know Maul did survive. That could lead to an interesting story, perhaps, as it did with Maul. It's not "drivel" at all, since you don't know how a surviving Mace's story would play out.
None of that means your slippery-slope nonsense of Aayla & Plo surviving could or would happen. Mace could plausibly survive based on facts in evidence from other instances in the films: the Coruscant chase in AOTC showed Force-users surviving great falls in Coruscant traffic; Luke was shown surviving quite a bit of Palpatine's lightning; a severed hand didn't kill Luke, Anakin, Zam, etc. His survival is arguably more plausible than Maul's, and we know Maul did survive. That could lead to an interesting story, perhaps, as it did with Maul. It's not "drivel" at all, since you don't know how a surviving Mace's story would play out.
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