Star Wars: Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn series)

by Timothy Zahn

“My servant?” the Emperor asked, his eyes flicking to Parck. “I do not refer to Captain Parck,” Thrawn said. “I speak of another. Perhaps I assumed incorrectly that he was your servant. Yet he always spoke highly of Chancellor Palpatine.” The Emperor leaned forward a little, his yellowish eyes glittering. “And his name?” “Skywalker,” Thrawn said. “Anakin Skywalker.”

“All the barks in a single hound.

At one time or another, every warrior wishes to have an unconquerable fortress. Such a fortress is perceived as a refuge, a place of defiance, or a rock upon which enemies can be goaded into smashing themselves to their own destruction.

It is said that one should keep one’s allies within view, and one’s enemies within reach.