I was there when the First Order started testing their strength again the New Republic. I was there, Finn, I watched them spread, I watched--
[ He pauses. It's dangerous to talk about this. It brushes up against the raw wound of Hosnian Prime's loss. The names and faces he'll never see again. ] Conquest doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen just because two jerks wake up one day and say 'I know, let's do this.' The First Order might have had power from the moment it was formed but it didn't have support. That took years. It took decades.
[ It's so strange to be on the other side of things. He'd been getting used to Finn being the one with the level head, the addiction to hard facts, the deathgrip on reality. Quieter: ] It took people pretending the problem didn't exist. It took people running away. Finn. Even if they do mean what they're saying, and I don't believe for a second that they do, the only way they get what they want is if everyone on this moon agrees to give it to them.
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Date: 2017-12-07 08:42 pm (UTC)[ He pauses. It's dangerous to talk about this. It brushes up against the raw wound of Hosnian Prime's loss. The names and faces he'll never see again. ] Conquest doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen just because two jerks wake up one day and say 'I know, let's do this.' The First Order might have had power from the moment it was formed but it didn't have support. That took years. It took decades.
[ It's so strange to be on the other side of things. He'd been getting used to Finn being the one with the level head, the addiction to hard facts, the deathgrip on reality. Quieter: ] It took people pretending the problem didn't exist. It took people running away. Finn. Even if they do mean what they're saying, and I don't believe for a second that they do, the only way they get what they want is if everyone on this moon agrees to give it to them.