He let out a long breath through his nose. Yeah. Yeah, he couldn't avoid this.
"War broke out." He didn't know how to tell this story, so just- broad strokes. "Not in a little way, Jess. Not our skirmishes with the First Order, always on the edges, ignored by the republic. The First Order built a weapon. They called it Starkiller, and it- they used it. They fired it."
He swallowed.
"The whole Hosnian system - it's gone." Then, quickly: "We destroyed it, after - That's Finn, by the way, that's where he comes into this, he was the one that gave us the key to destroying it - but the damage was already done. The Senate is gone. The Navy is gone. And after we took it out... They chased us down. All of us."
He breathed. "You weren't there. Black squadron, you guys - thank the Force you guys were on another mission. But everyone else... We lost nearly everything, Jess. Everyone. The entirety of the Resistance can fit on the Millenium Falcon, now. And other than your x-wings, that's all the ships we got."
We begged the galaxy for help, and no one came.
That secret is one that his powers will have to drag out of him. Because he sure as hell isn't saying it willingly.
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He let out a long breath through his nose. Yeah. Yeah, he couldn't avoid this.
"War broke out." He didn't know how to tell this story, so just- broad strokes. "Not in a little way, Jess. Not our skirmishes with the First Order, always on the edges, ignored by the republic. The First Order built a weapon. They called it Starkiller, and it- they used it. They fired it."
He swallowed.
"The whole Hosnian system - it's gone." Then, quickly: "We destroyed it, after - That's Finn, by the way, that's where he comes into this, he was the one that gave us the key to destroying it - but the damage was already done. The Senate is gone. The Navy is gone. And after we took it out... They chased us down. All of us."
He breathed. "You weren't there. Black squadron, you guys - thank the Force you guys were on another mission. But everyone else... We lost nearly everything, Jess. Everyone. The entirety of the Resistance can fit on the Millenium Falcon, now. And other than your x-wings, that's all the ships we got."
We begged the galaxy for help, and no one came.
That secret is one that his powers will have to drag out of him. Because he sure as hell isn't saying it willingly.