Aboard the Ghost, in a Galaxy Far, Far, Away, Wednesday

[uncertain_dume]

"Okay," Kanan said, parked in the copilot's seat in the cockpit of the Ghost. "We'll be dropping out of hyperspace in just a few minutes. The planet we're stopping at is a fairly agrarian world, mostly grasslands with a few scattered mountains, and the presence of the Empire has been stepping up across the planet ever since they opened their industries to the Empire in an attempt to bail themselves out from economic disaster. Farmers are being run off their land and sent to a re-settlement camp with nothing to their names so that the Empire can dig up their homes for mineral deposits underneath."

The ship came out of hyperspace over a world that seemed to be about equal part ocean, stony mountain range, and grassland.

"We're going to be heading into that re-settlement camp," he pointed to the current night-side of the planet, "to deliver our cargo of supplies. We go in, we unload, and we leave. The faster we are about it, the better. We want to avoid too many suspicious eyes. Any questions?"

[OOC: For they who know who they are (and possibly only wanted to sample caf, dammit), and almost certain SP!]

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[thatwaslucky]

"How many places like this are there?" she wondered. There had to be a lot. But she was also just getting an education into this stuff outside her own world.

[uncertain_dume]

"On Lothal, or across the galaxy?" Kanan grimaced faintly, looking out at the planet below. "There are probably a few on Lothal alone, and there are more on almost any world the Empire's been to. In cases like this, they come in under the pretense of offering security. And then, once they're established, they start registering a planet's citizens. Monitoring them. Taking the resources that will benefit them the most. Those who are lucky enough to not simply be executed out of convenience," which he knew a thing or two about, not just because of Order 66, "are left with nothing at all. I wish it was just Lothal, but it's becoming more and more common. Hundreds? Thousands? It's impossible to know for sure."

It wasn't as though the Empire let the people it displaced speak up about it, exactly.

[thatwaslucky]

"That's actually the worst thing I've ever heard in my life," Rey blurted out. Sure, life on Jakku sucked because no one took notice of them but it was better than that.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan nodded faintly. It wasn't the worst he'd heard, it wasn't even the worst he'd lived, but... it was up there.

"And that's why we're doing this," he said, gently. "Because somebody has to. Because I could spend the rest of my life running, but what good would that do? Because maybe someday, even the small things we do here will matter."