Star Wars Quotes

“Vader might very well be Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, whom Tarkin had fought beside during the Clone Wars, and for whom he had developed a grudging appreciation.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy.” Tarkin”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“This was how the Empire would conquer and rule, he thought: through might and fear. The”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist.”
― John Jackson Miller, Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire

“You can think of the Carrion Spike as just a ship, but she’s more than that. She’s an expression of who Tarkin is; a small-scale example of the lengths he’s willing to go. Stealth, speed, power…That’s Tarkin, the omniscient, ubiquitous Imperial enforcer. And that’s why we’re turning her into a symbol of something else: of resistance.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Even the most powerful of Dark Side Adepts believed that shrines of that sort existed only on Sith worlds remote from Coruscant, and even the most powerful of the Jedi believed that the power inherent in the shrine had been neutralized and successfully capped. In truth, that power had seeped upward and outward since its entombment, infiltrating the hallways and rooms above, and weakening the Jedi Order much as the Sith Masters themselves had secretly infiltrated the corridors of political power and toppled the Republic.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“The bareheaded others comprising Vader’s squad were human regulars who had enlisted after the war.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Nothing about Vader seemed natural—not his towering height, his deep voice, his antiquated diction—yet despite those qualities and the mask and respirator, Tarkin believed him to be more man than machine. Although he had clearly twisted the powers of the Force to his own dark purposes, Vader’s innate strength was undeniable. His contained rage was genuine, as well, and not simply the result of some murderous cyberprogram. But the quality that made him most human was the fierce dedication he demonstrated to the Emperor. It was that genuflecting obedience, the steadfast devotion to execute whatever task the Emperor assigned, that had given rise to so many rumors about Vader: that he was a counterpart to the Confederacy’s General Grievous the Emperor had been holding in reserve; that he was an augmented human or near-human who had been trained or had trained himself in the ancient dark arts of the Sith; that he was nothing more than a monster fashioned in some clandestine laboratory. Many believed that the Emperor’s willingness to grant so much authority to such a being heralded the shape of things to come, for it was beyond dispute that Vader was the Empire’s first terror weapon.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Tarkin had long nursed suspicions about who Vader was beneath the black face mask and helmet, as well as how he had come to be, but he knew better than to give open voice to his thoughts.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Nothing about Vader seemed natural—not his towering height, his deep voice, his antiquated diction—yet despite those qualities and the mask and respirator, Tarkin believed him to be more man than machine.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“promoted to admiral after a daring escape from the Citadel prison;”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Never try to live decently, boy—not unless you’re willing to open your life to tragedy and sadness. Live like a beast, and no event, no matter how harrowing, will ever be able to move you.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Droid Gotra, a lethal band of repurposed battle droids with what some considered legitimate grievances against the Empire for having been abandoned after their service during the Clone Wars.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire

“Force is the only real and unanswerable power. Oftentimes, beings who haven’t been duly punished cannot be reasoned with or edified.”
― John Jackson Miller, The Rise of the Empire