#clone wars stuff

Death doesn't discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it takes And we keep living anyway. We rise and we fall and we break And we make our mistakes. And if there's a reason I'm still alive When everyone who loves me has died I'm willing to wait for it.

Mercenary work was one option for the historical cultures that inform Star Wars, but it sure wasn’t the only one- insert rant on how most SW media doesn’t seem to draw a distinction between bounty hunting, merc work, and assassination. The go-to for samurai and Western medieval knights when there wasn’t a war on was administrative/clerical work. For the Helenes, it was politics, or privately tutoring aristocrats. For the Norse, it was farming or exploration/colonial expansion. For many of the above, a normal career trajectory was “martial stuff while you’re young and spry, and religious asceticism as a retirement option on the off chance that you live that long.”