Cassian stepped back to make room, falling in line shoulder to shoulder with Revan.
"I'd like to hear more about that," he said, "if you're willing. The only thing that saves me from opinion of others is anonymity.
"The Republic maintained peace for a thousand years before those more interested in their own power than the service of others wilfully twisted it from within. I've never understood… how they could be a minority, yet make the majority utterly helpless to stop them. We couldn't let our own efforts turn not to their advantage."
There's pain that, echoingly, cavernously deep, in his words and Force presence. Though walled up over it… is mostly just sounding tired.
"Maybe it's entropy. Maybe it takes such collective effort to hold something up… its own weight does most of the work when someone decides to start tearing it down."
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"I'd like to hear more about that," he said, "if you're willing. The only thing that saves me from opinion of others is anonymity.
"The Republic maintained peace for a thousand years before those more interested in their own power than the service of others wilfully twisted it from within. I've never understood… how they could be a minority, yet make the majority utterly helpless to stop them. We couldn't let our own efforts turn not to their advantage."
There's pain that, echoingly, cavernously deep, in his words and Force presence. Though walled up over it… is mostly just sounding tired.
"Maybe it's entropy. Maybe it takes such collective effort to hold something up… its own weight does most of the work when someone decides to start tearing it down."