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“On their way out they passed a knot of troopers, all carved from the same rock, all with the same broad shoulders and shielded faces, the same military bearing and polish. With surprising tenderness they cared for their defeated brother, and Obi-Wan wondered … The Nautolan’s tendrils lifted and Kit turned, seeming to read his mind. “Obi-Wan?” “For a moment I wondered if I had met him before.” “And?” “And I realized how foolish that thought was.” “Foolish?” Kit asked. “Yes. I’ve met every one of them.” True enough. Yet watching them caring for one of their own as if none of the witnesses existed, he wondered if he, or any outsider, really knew them at all.”

— The Cestus Deception, chapter II