It's certainly not well thought out. You're smarter than this, don't pretend like you don't know what you're doing. You have no right to destroy an entire galaxy's worth of people by pulling one half of an army suddenly away from a civil war. A galaxy you've never stepped foot in.
No. Obviously. They're children. I think you're justifying one atrocity by preventing a different one, instead of using your supposed military prowess to come up with a more fitting solution.
I know because your primary source for information about my galaxy is Fives. Fives who is intelligent but also doesn't benefit from forty years of hindsight. It certainly wasn't Luke, who knew nothing about this idea.
You have the moral backbone of a jellyfish, and the brain to match. If you truly don’t want me to eat your precious empire while it’s mewling in its crib, feel free to save us both time and put in the unpair request now. For, as I believe I called it from day one, conflict of interest.
Or you can spend the whole half year shooting your jets against that particular event horizon.
You're an idiot if you think that's my primary motivation here. I'm not going to unpair us, I'm trying to make you understand that attempting this is the worst thing you could do for you. For Fives, for your children, for everyone who is going to be left behind in that galaxy.
There's a far easier way to dismantle the Empire's war machine and you don't even see it.
Please. This is crucial. I don't know what you're doing with your children once this is all over and I need to stop making these 'wild assumptions'. Please tell me.
I need to know the specifics because the methods of extraction, the timing, and the placements afterwards are crucial to preventing the cycle from repeating over and over again.
For example, what time are you going to take them? From the moment of their births on Kamino, where they'd never know war? From later on, so that Fives would know them, and have his personal relationships with his brothers? That would involve them already being shipped out across the galaxy, unless you want to wait for them to die at the fullness of their lives, which leads to the trauma of being pulled away from what they thought was their singular purpose in life. Is Fives going to explain what happened? Will they be grateful?
How do you prevent the Republic from simply ordering more? Do you eliminate their proto-creator? Kill the creatures who began the clone processing units? Kill the Separatist army?
I'm starting to think you haven't even read the file.
[Understandably, Jedao is very concerned with the cycles of history.]
You said it yourself. Once this is all over. Once I'm out and you are no longer my glassfucking warden. The plan isn't yours to judge, Hux. It isn't yours to 'fix' or interfere with. I've considered all of those questions. And I'm not interested in sharing the answers with someone whose judgement I don't value, and whose actions I don't trust.
I'll say this. I am going to raise them. I'm not stealing them to cripple the Empire's war machine. I'm aborting the war machine so that it can't have them. That is my goal. Everything I do to that galaxy will be to make it fit to raise them in.
If you think there's some masterstroke I should know about, you can tell me, and I'll consider whether it's useful. But I'm not bargaining with you for it, and I'm not dancing for your permission or your approval. I'm going to do this, or I'm going to die here. Those are the possibilities.
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It's a stupid plan.
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You think they belong where they are, then?
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No. Obviously. They're children. I think you're justifying one atrocity by preventing a different one, instead of using your supposed military prowess to come up with a more fitting solution.
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Or is this a confession of espionage?
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And there is no one else.
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You have the moral backbone of a jellyfish, and the brain to match. If you truly don’t want me to eat your precious empire while it’s mewling in its crib, feel free to save us both time and put in the unpair request now. For, as I believe I called it from day one, conflict of interest.
Or you can spend the whole half year shooting your jets against that particular event horizon.
[But his goals won’t change.]
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There's a far easier way to dismantle the Empire's war machine and you don't even see it.
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And easy is usually a trap.
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I want to hear your plan. In detail. And then I'll tell you mine.
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[Sarcasm doesn't count as lying, right?]
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Please. This is crucial. I don't know what you're doing with your children once this is all over and I need to stop making these 'wild assumptions'. Please tell me.
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For example, what time are you going to take them? From the moment of their births on Kamino, where they'd never know war? From later on, so that Fives would know them, and have his personal relationships with his brothers? That would involve them already being shipped out across the galaxy, unless you want to wait for them to die at the fullness of their lives, which leads to the trauma of being pulled away from what they thought was their singular purpose in life. Is Fives going to explain what happened? Will they be grateful?
How do you prevent the Republic from simply ordering more? Do you eliminate their proto-creator? Kill the creatures who began the clone processing units? Kill the Separatist army?
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[Understandably, Jedao is very concerned with the cycles of history.]
You said it yourself. Once this is all over. Once I'm out and you are no longer my glassfucking warden. The plan isn't yours to judge, Hux. It isn't yours to 'fix' or interfere with. I've considered all of those questions. And I'm not interested in sharing the answers with someone whose judgement I don't value, and whose actions I don't trust.
I'll say this. I am going to raise them. I'm not stealing them to cripple the Empire's war machine. I'm aborting the war machine so that it can't have them. That is my goal. Everything I do to that galaxy will be to make it fit to raise them in.
If you think there's some masterstroke I should know about, you can tell me, and I'll consider whether it's useful. But I'm not bargaining with you for it, and I'm not dancing for your permission or your approval. I'm going to do this, or I'm going to die here. Those are the possibilities.
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There’s your masterstroke . You’ll still have the Republic to contend with, but the person initiating it will be gone. Without him it falls apart.
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Was there anything else?
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[Hux, unspeakably angry for about twelve reasons, hangs up]
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See you around.