I don't know how they run things in the New Republic, but I didn't get to the position I held by biting the hand that feeds me. Not when that hand also had the potential to do so much good for the galaxy. If I had questioned my superiors, about the DS-1, about Ettam... I never would have been able to do what I could for my people, for the men in my command.
[ Is this the first time he mentions Ettam to Poe? He doesn't know, and frankly right now, he's too incensed to care. ]
That's just the way things were in the Empire. The higher ups told you what was up and what was down, and you agreed. And if that ran counter to the ideals you wanted to achieve, then you did what you could, quietly, to set things right.
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I don't know how they run things in the New Republic, but I didn't get to the position I held by biting the hand that feeds me. Not when that hand also had the potential to do so much good for the galaxy. If I had questioned my superiors, about the DS-1, about Ettam... I never would have been able to do what I could for my people, for the men in my command.
[ Is this the first time he mentions Ettam to Poe? He doesn't know, and frankly right now, he's too incensed to care. ]
That's just the way things were in the Empire. The higher ups told you what was up and what was down, and you agreed. And if that ran counter to the ideals you wanted to achieve, then you did what you could, quietly, to set things right.