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[evasives]

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[unjedi]

What club?

[evasives]

It is a code name I have also used.

[unjedi]

Huh.

Guess it is a club after all.

[evasives]

It has been in use for some time. It tends to circulate across the sectors and people, to keep the agent from being caught.

You must be one of the first.

[unjedi]

It makes sense. It becomes harder to pin a person down if the name is passed down.

[evasives]

Exactly. It has thus far proved very successful.

Though rarely do we know who else serves as a fulcrum.

[unjedi]

I think I know one.

Saw.

[evasives]

Saw Gerrera?

[unjedi]

Yeah. He's a friend of mine. I helped him retake Onderon.

[evasives]

Yes, I have met him, though he was likely much older than you remember.

The Alliance cut ties with him several years ago due to his methods. I would not have guessed he once served as a fulcrum.

[ but. it makes sense, now that he knows. it's mostly the complete disassociation high command preferred to keep with the partisans. ]

[unjedi]

His methods? What did he do?

[evasives]

His resistance to the Empire is too openly violent for what the Alliance publicly wants.

[ even as... intelligence does many of the same things, just behind the scenes. cassian never quite got over the hypocrisy of that. ]

[unjedi]

[ she's never known saw without steela, but this sounds odd to her. ]

What would be considered as "too violent"?

[evasives]

Some in the Alliance would call him a terrorist. Mon Mothma prefers to use extremist. I find regardless of who it is doing the rebelling, the Empire has designated all of us terrorists.

There was an incident several years ago on Inusagi. When the chieftess signed a treaty to align with the Empire, his partisans infiltrated the palace during a festival and killed all the guests alongside the imperials gathered inside, though the central target was the newly installed governor.

[unjedi]

[ oh saw. her heart aches. ]

He wasn't always like that. I guess losing his sister changed him in more ways than I realized.

[evasives]

He had been fighting even longer than I had. I think the galaxy itself tore him apart in his quest to save it.

[ which is hashtag relatable :) ]

[unjedi]

He's been a soldier almost as long as I have. I'm not surprised.

[evasives]

Twenty years of fighting the Empire will do it.

[unjedi]

I'd say it's more than that.

[evasives]

Twenty years of the Empire actually calling itself one. I know he was fighting before the Clone Wars ended too.

He was consistently zealous about the fight in ways the Alliance has not quite reached. I think it became all he knew.

[unjedi]

[ saw. onderon holds a special place in her heart, for the part she played in it. in the failures. and she had respected saw. ]

War seems to have a way of doing that to people.

[evasives]

At least it is consistent.

[unjedi]

There's no denying that.

[evasives]

Hopefully one day it will no longer be necessary.

end there?

[unjedi]

I hope so too.