Greater Good (Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, #2)

by Timothy Zahn

“He captured that gravity-well generator the researchers are still trying to figure out, but then lost the big alien ship from Lesser Space before anyone could get a look inside.”

Emblazoned on the underside of the Nikardun frigate was a familiar image: a nest of small stylized snakes with two larger ones curving up from among them. The same image as the ring Thrawn was still holding to the cam.

“The odds are never impossible,” Thrawn said calmly. “Merely unfavorable.”

“All lives are important, and I resist the thought of standing by and watching two hundred possibly needless deaths.

But if one wants the joy of giving, one must in turn accept the humbleness of receiving, so as to allow others their own joy.