“You’d rather a madman rule the galaxy than risk standing against him?” He wanted to know. He wanted to understand. Haki shrugged. “Madmen come and go. I’ve lived a long time, Senator. I saw a lot of bad regimes on my homeworld, and the worst thing isn’t tyranny but fear—not knowing whether a war’s going to start, not knowing if someone’s speeder is going to explode as you’re walking to market. Scars a person for a lifetime, and every conflict plants the seeds for the next.”
