all he’d had to do to secure his release had been to pledge his loyalty to the new regime—to treat the whole affair like politics instead of like the atrocity it was and assure everyone that the Emperor was legitimate. He’d agreed—for his own sake, for the sake of his family, for the sake of the galaxy—and he’d kept within the boundaries of political dialogue since then. He’d kept words like tyrant and massacre out of his speeches, even when the implication was there.
