Gif animation - Sub animation + randomizing

Hello everyone!
I want to create a repeating, pixel art GIF animation. The basic idea is nyan cat swapped for a spaceship, in my usual video resolution. Now I made all the assets, and I thought I can use the star animation as a sub animation, so I can tell it to appear in random heights, move from right to left and start at a random frame, so I made a GIF just for that. But I fail to see any sort of controls that let me do what I was planned. Any ideas/methods to solve this? Perhaps I should use an other program?

Wrong program. Get After Effects. PS does not allow nesting and retiming you would have to "expand", that is copy&paste the bits and pieces to the relevant frames in your then new frame timeline for your final GIF.
Mylenium

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