"He did," Eli keeps his voice professional, like he's just talking about an old colleague. Yet there's a hint of wistfulness. "I originally just wanted to be a supply officer, but then I was assigned as his translator, and then he talked the higher-ups into making me his aide. I wasn't very happy about that at first."

Even if he came around, Eli still feels that he was justified in his anger at the time. "He was the best thing that happened to my career." And to me. "And, honestly, I think I was way more loyal to him than I was to the Empire itself. We found out that they were up to some pretty shady bantha dung."