[ cassian does one of the things he does best: listen. he frowns, jaw slightly tightening. his curiosity about what jyn was told is mildly tempered by her; how she sounds, sits, speaks. ]

[ he never much cared about the jedi. as a child, he just assumed they hated his planet. as an adult, he had no real feelings on their seeming demise. it doesn't even surprise him that they might have been with the empire, since the republic and empire seamlessly floated together for most of his youth. ]

It cannot be the only reason. [ he sounds firm in that, not arguing with her so much as arguing with what she was told. ] One person cannot win an entire rebellion on his own. That - that is not how war works.

[ he'll get back to the fact that the emperor eventually dies in a moment, but he's too concerned and wrapped up in how devastated jyn looks. ] Come here. Please?