"Capitalism's such a fucking cancer," Devero says, his voice without heat despite the strong language. "Rich people are always rich at the expense of others. Your Stakar... he probably understood that, didn't he?"

But Devero's less worried about what Stakar understood and more about the well-being of his friend beside him.

"You were trying to protect yourself," he says. "How better to protect yourself from people with money than money of your own, right? You were making the best decisions for yourself as you could given the context. And when you realized that you were being used, you could have put your head down and kept taking that money, Yondu.

"But you didn't. You had a choice and you made the right one, and then you kept making the right one, not only for yourself but for your people."