Quotes from John Jackson Miller

Kallie entered through from the livery yard, to the right of the group. She carried the bantha prod from the Jabe incident, the latest in a series of items she was returning to the tack room in her ongoing effort to see Ben. She saw her dashing hero, all right—standing uneasily, with Veeka perched lasciviously on the counter with a leg on either side of him.

This ends now, gunslinger. Draw your weapon.

A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly -Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Storie—

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.

May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist.

Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As

For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin

There's no one around to answer all my questions now that Ben's gone. It's a stark fact that continually reasserts itself each time I wonder what I'm supposed to do now. That brown robe he wore might as well have been made of pure mystery; he clothed himself in it and then left nothing else behind on the Death Star. I

The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we acccept that they're doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.--Ben Kenobi

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.

Imperial Navy had been in existence by that name for less than a decade, since Chancellor Palpatine put down the traitorous Jedi and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire.

Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?...And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?...EVERYBODY'S got something like that.

When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely solely on each other, the Force, and their awesome martial skills to prevail.

Debating his directives only wasted time and made her look bad. It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.

All this had happened since Ben's arrival from... where? She still didn't know. Unbelievable.

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.

Starships are fun to fly around in, but they're no place to entertain.

Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.

promoted to admiral after a daring escape from the Citadel prison;

There was life in outer space, but you didn't want to get it on you.

Keep moving! Destroy barriers! See everything!

He's evil in a can.

me something!" Scrambling to his feet in the darkness, Commander Korsin craned his neck to find the hologram. "Thrusters, attitude control—I'll take parking jets!" A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly. An old spacer's line: trite, but weighty enough to lend a little authority. Korsin had used it himself on occasion. But not today. His ship was being deadly all on its own—and his crew was just along for the ride.

Annileen said you were riding in from the east, the other day. I don't guess you've ever heard of the Lars family?" Ben cleared his throat. "The Lars, you say?