"Were you ever in the war senator?"
Seven simple words spoken in a scene with no response. Little reaction beyond silence to the twi'lek general's words. After all they were irrelevant moments later. But they carry such a weight they are hard to forget. These are the grief filled words of Hera Sydulla. A woman who has lived through two wars and is trying to prevent a third. A woman who does not want her son, her last peice of her partner, to grow up as she did. The words of Hera, the pilot who left her war torn world to fly. Who then flew for the rebellion and saved it through her passion. Phenix leader Hera who nearly died to the empire. Who nearly lost her life to the empire while desperately trying to fight back. General Hera Sydulla, who lost her partner, her son, who was tortured by Thrawn. The amount of PTSD she must have. And yet she lives on. She lives on to comfort her daughter, who's entire world, entire family was murdered. Hera lives on to comfort Sabine and her loss. Hera lives on to raise her youngest. To stabilize the galaxy. To see Ezra, her son again.
Were you ever in the war senator?
A question that asks him, are you speaking from a place of privilege? You have not seen what I lost, you have not felt what I lost. You have not lost nearly as much as I have.
And yet Hera does not yell. She does not respond to his anger with more. Because she is not him. She didn't cower before the empire and she won't cower before a senator who did.
It's an interesting scene, to see the new Republic in action.
We knew it fell, despite its best efforts.
"there are imperial remnants in all levels of the new Republic government"
Oh there are. There are. The same people the empire employed to turn the other way for money, or power or even just their own life still run the galaxy.
The people who have never been on the battlefield, never experience the war can never be trusted with matters concerning another.
