“ I never claimed to be the Chosen One. That was Qui-Gon. Even the Council doesn’t believe it anymore, so why should you? Because I think you believe it, Obi-Wan said calmly.I think you know in your hea… James Luceno
“ You don’t mind that the war will go on and on?Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it’s up to people like you to end it. Tarkin nodded. And so we shall. James Luceno
“ Tarkin himself had discussed the need for such a weapon with the Emperor long before the end of the Clone Wars. But no one outside the Emperor knew the full history of the moonlet-sized project. Some… James Luceno
“ If we aren't willing to do whatever is required, he said finally, then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect. James Luceno
“ You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples. James Luceno
“ I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin James Luceno
“ I don’t work for the Republic, and I’m certainly not about to work for Count Dooku. Science doesn’t take sides, is that it? James Luceno
“ Tarkin smiled. Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities. James Luceno
“ Space was more appropriate for the Sith than for the Jedi. The invisible enslavement to gravity, the contained power of the stars, the utter insignificance of life … Hyperspace, by contrast, was more… James Luceno
“ My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire’s intelligence chiefs. James Luceno
“ Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targe… James Luceno
“ His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as the Tarkin Rush, James Luceno
“ The Goliath could have been carrying a squadron of the new—and seemingly disposable—TIE fighters. James Luceno
