The council is never pleased. [Luke says, while actually, literally kicking sand.]
[He'd go into more detail-- he has a litany of complaints he's been practicing since he got off Coruscant. But his father wants to know about being a smuggler's bodyguard, so he talks about that instead, eyes wide.]
Oh, just smugglers. They're not so bad. They all told me stories from the War, [there's only one War anymore,] and battles they saw, or fought in, or smuggled for. I didn't know so many smugglers were veterans.
[Separatists, mostly. Be on the losing side, and it gets harder and harder to find legitimate work.]
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[He'd go into more detail-- he has a litany of complaints he's been practicing since he got off Coruscant. But his father wants to know about being a smuggler's bodyguard, so he talks about that instead, eyes wide.]
Oh, just smugglers. They're not so bad. They all told me stories from the War, [there's only one War anymore,] and battles they saw, or fought in, or smuggled for. I didn't know so many smugglers were veterans.
[Separatists, mostly. Be on the losing side, and it gets harder and harder to find legitimate work.]