Alphabet Squadron Quotes

“The answer," the torture droid said, "is simple: The Emperor who ordered Operation Cinder, who oversaw countless genocides and massacres and created an Empire where torture droids were in common use, was not a man of secret brilliance and foresight.
"He was a cruel man. Petty and spiteful in the most ordinary of ways; and spiteful men do spiteful things. Whatever else he intended, that is the root of it all.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“The Empire was crumbling every day. Trillions of people were free because of the Rebellion. Because she was a general running a battle group instead of a cell leader flying the Ghost on one mad assignment or another.
Still, she missed her old crew. Her family.
She wished they all could have been with her aboard the Lodestar.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“You know Jyn Erso?” she began, because if they didn’t the rest of the story would be meaningless. “The woman who started it all and destroyed the Death Star? The first one, the real one, I mean.”

“General Skywalker and Red Squadron destroyed the Death Star,” Nath said.

“Skywalker fired the last shot, was all. Jyn did everything that mattered.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“Justice was the vice of bold, honorable men who died swift, stupid deaths, and vengeance was justice without the sheen of respectability.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“The answer,” the torture droid said, “is simple: The Emperor who ordered Operation Cinder, who built two Death Stars, who oversaw countless genocides and massacres and created an Empire where torture droids were in common use, was not a man of secret brilliance and foresight. “He was a cruel man. Petty and spiteful in the most ordinary of ways; and spiteful men do spiteful things. Whatever else he intended, that is at the root of it all.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“Several minutes later she sat with her back against a cavern wall eating a spicy ocher meat patty. Grease dripped onto her sling as she fantasized about running, finding a ship in need of a half-competent mechanic, and signing on in return for passage.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“Red lights, dead state, we’re gonna win too late…”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“Cinder had been a turning point. Loyal soldiers who had executed whole planets at the Emperor’s behest had seen billions of lives snuffed out for no strategic gain and known that the moral calculus had changed.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“They’d understood that the Emperor who’d built an interstellar civilization and governed for two decades was dead, and that his Empire wouldn’t endure without him. That without an heir, the Empire’s sins (and they were many—the most zealous loyalty”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron