General,

Your request to assign Captain Andor to Operation Fracture is approved.

I have never doubted Captain Andor’s abilities or his dedication to the rebel movement. He is truly one of our best and brightest, and I trust his judgment on his mission.

I am concerned about him, however. I understand that for our rebel movement to survive, brave men and women must do terrible things that we’d rather not talk about. But what happens to those men and women afterward? Are we doing enough to help them live with what they’ve had to do? Do we encourage them when they feel guilty? Comfort them when they can’t sleep? And do we notice when they stop feeling guilty? When they no longer lose sleep?

Captain Andor has been a rebel fighter his entire life. You say this with pride, and I’m sure he would, too. But it worries me. If we succeed and overthrow the Empire, what kind of life will someone like Captain Andor have?

Mon Mothma.

Rebel Dossier: Info & Intel on the Rebellion's Bravest Band of Spies by Jason Fry, © & TM 2016 Lucasfilm Ltd.

"I have friends everywhere"

"know your way out"

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios Characters: Alexsandr Kallus, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s04e15-16 Family Reunion – and Farewell, Post-Star Wars: A New Hope, Rebel Alexsandr Kallus, Difficult Decisions, Rebel Alliance Intelligence (Star Wars), Star Wars Galactic Empire Era, Galactic Empire (Star Wars) Summary:

‘Have you ever done anything that you weren’t proud of in the name of undermining the Empire?’ Zeb only stared at him with blank incomprehension. Of course they had all used methods that wouldn’t pass the smell test as far as honor was concerned. He didn’t particularly like it, but found it necessary evil. Kallus continued to press him. ‘Did you ever question the ethical boundaries of the tactics you’ve used?’

Your mistakes aren’t the worst of it, other Fulcrum agents had warned him. You might expect that, but no.

They sting, they wound—how could it not, knowing that your error, your wrong choice, led to people dying?—but they also reflect imperfect knowledge. Time pressure. Not seeing the terrain clearly through the fog of war. Things that, as clichéd as it is to say, could happen to anyone.

Other times, it's been the harsh demands of self-preservation. Tivik was bad, but at least he’d done his own killing that time. Looked the man in the eye. Had a reason more pressing, less abstract than the calculus of what was to be gained in future.

No, the deaths you let happen with clean hands and clear sight are the worst.

Every time he leaves a city knowing exactly when it will be bombed. Every time ships jump straight into an ambush because warning them would be too obvious. Every time he and Draven agree they can’t act on intercepted intelligence yet, because it could give away their source and choke off the flow of valuable information. Standing aside, watching the numbers on a screen tick up and up.

Cassian Andor Appreciation Week: Day 7

(originally written for Day 5, but not finished on time)

"It doesn’t matter what I tell you. Or what command tells you. Or even what the Council tells you. Because in the end, the only person who has to live with what you’ve done, is you."