[ Poe pours him another, slightly smaller shot, thinking he doesn't want to have to repeat this, just in case. Then he mimics Cassian and knocks back his drink.
Poe grimaces. He's not sure, suddenly, if tequila is meant to get you drunk or wake you the hell up. It certainly seems capable of the latter. ]
After Jedha, the Battle of Scarif, General Organa got the Death Star plans. [ There doesn't seem to be much point in pretending Leia isn't what she is, if they're going to talk about this. ] Princess, then.
[ Because that needs saying now. ] She got the plans to the rebels, but she was captured herself. They did it. The Alliance -- Luke Skywalker, Leia's brother -- he fired the shot that took down the first Death Star.
[ All right. Poe pours himself another glass. This... this isn't old war stories, this isn't tales twenty or thirty years removed from the violence that birthed them. This is Cassian's life, his death, his movement. ] But before the Alliance destroyed it, they used it. To try and break the General -- the Princess. The Empire destroyed Alderaan. Bail Organa was there at the time. I'm sorry, Cassian.
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Poe grimaces. He's not sure, suddenly, if tequila is meant to get you drunk or wake you the hell up. It certainly seems capable of the latter. ]
After Jedha, the Battle of Scarif, General Organa got the Death Star plans. [ There doesn't seem to be much point in pretending Leia isn't what she is, if they're going to talk about this. ] Princess, then.
[ Because that needs saying now. ] She got the plans to the rebels, but she was captured herself. They did it. The Alliance -- Luke Skywalker, Leia's brother -- he fired the shot that took down the first Death Star.
[ All right. Poe pours himself another glass. This... this isn't old war stories, this isn't tales twenty or thirty years removed from the violence that birthed them. This is Cassian's life, his death, his movement. ] But before the Alliance destroyed it, they used it. To try and break the General -- the Princess. The Empire destroyed Alderaan. Bail Organa was there at the time. I'm sorry, Cassian.