( Kylo rolls his eyes at her response. A pointless endeavor, given that she can't actually see it. )
You won't be able to avoid a battle if General Organa decides to stay, and it's a battle that you won't win, I can assure you.
( He's nearly back at the Falcon now, picking his way through the forest with careful, precise steps, the weight of his saber banging into his thigh where he's clipped it to his belt. Kylo knows what the First Order's - what Hux's and even his own - strategy would be were positions flipped. Corellia would take its place as a wash, lost to the opposition, and that would be that. Organa has more sympathy for lost planets than is good for her, though he supposes he can sympathize with the idea that losing Corellian support would be a devastating loss to the Resistance's chances. It's more difficult to look at it that way, through the lens of a First Order operative that can choose to be more selective about the systems left standing.
In the Resistance camp now, firmly or otherwise, sweat starts to bead again under the high neck of Kylo's tunic. )
The First Order will follow the bulk of the Resistance when it leaves the system. Hux isn't going to risk losing both the general and a traitor to Lord Snoke personally in order to teach the Corellians a lesson. Snoke wouldn't stand for it. Whether or not the Order is able to locate the Resistance fleet immediately after leaving Corellian airspace is neither here nor there. Corellia will have to be dealt with in one way or another. ( But it's not his decision to make and he doesn't rightfully give a damn what happens to the Corellians, if he's being perfectly honest. ) I don't envy Dameron that conversation.
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You won't be able to avoid a battle if General Organa decides to stay, and it's a battle that you won't win, I can assure you.
( He's nearly back at the Falcon now, picking his way through the forest with careful, precise steps, the weight of his saber banging into his thigh where he's clipped it to his belt. Kylo knows what the First Order's - what Hux's and even his own - strategy would be were positions flipped. Corellia would take its place as a wash, lost to the opposition, and that would be that. Organa has more sympathy for lost planets than is good for her, though he supposes he can sympathize with the idea that losing Corellian support would be a devastating loss to the Resistance's chances. It's more difficult to look at it that way, through the lens of a First Order operative that can choose to be more selective about the systems left standing.
In the Resistance camp now, firmly or otherwise, sweat starts to bead again under the high neck of Kylo's tunic. )
The First Order will follow the bulk of the Resistance when it leaves the system. Hux isn't going to risk losing both the general and a traitor to Lord Snoke personally in order to teach the Corellians a lesson. Snoke wouldn't stand for it. Whether or not the Order is able to locate the Resistance fleet immediately after leaving Corellian airspace is neither here nor there. Corellia will have to be dealt with in one way or another. ( But it's not his decision to make and he doesn't rightfully give a damn what happens to the Corellians, if he's being perfectly honest. ) I don't envy Dameron that conversation.