Cassian keeps his own suddenly roiling feelings well behind an impassive face.
On the one hand, he knew now from the sweep of history that they'd… cosmically…
…the only survivable term was "backfired".
Difficult to disentangle: on some atomic level, he found himself profoundly mistrusting this man. Already feeling used. Even before reaching this, the subject he'd been trying to flush out.
On the other hand, they'd been family.
Which would make Dooku a kind of…
No.
Stop.
Cassian's voice reveals nothing in giving the official designations.]
Sullust Team Nebula, 3357 through '61. Sullust Team Fissure, '61 through '62.
[Renamed at Case Officer death. Though drastic overturn of resistance fighters in an insurgent cell was… routine.
And it had felt redundant by then anyway. Already become a different unit, to Cassian, in '60, at Xol Khriou's vanishment.
…Not that "Nebula" or "Fissure" were what they called themselves. Their secret verbal handshake, and nicknames/call signs among the other cells who actually communicated with one another, were whichever variety of Sullustan wildlife served one's current purpose. For team spirit, sense of purpose, or battle rally: "Rockrenders" (fire-colored cave dwelling reptiloids who literally ate Stormtrooper armor). To express (grudging or affectionate) approval: "Ash Angels" (not really that complimentary since those were scavenger birds, but the word had mythic quality regardless of reality, and at least they could fly). And that often as an answer to the more condescending "Ash Rabbit" (which had seemed to be Cassian's personal—and much loathed—nickname for the first few years. He later learned that every child soldier was an Ash Rabbit. In some kind of… self-aware… tragic… snark. Kids should be owning rabbits, of preferably some other planetary variety, as pets. Not living that particular reality.
The name would vanish when some fundamental shift made one stop being thought of as a child.
Cassian had graduated from Ash Rabbit to Rockrender at age…
eight.)
By any name, Cassian wonders if Dooku will have known of them.
Either way is not necessarily indicative of whether Dooku's telling the truth about being the Separatist leader.
The cells were never sure their own leaders knew of them.
They often wondered… if they were truly connected to anyone or anywhere else in the universe at all.]
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Cassian keeps his own suddenly roiling feelings well behind an impassive face.
On the one hand, he knew now from the sweep of history that they'd… cosmically…
…the only survivable term was "backfired".
Difficult to disentangle: on some atomic level, he found himself profoundly mistrusting this man. Already feeling used. Even before reaching this, the subject he'd been trying to flush out.
On the other hand, they'd been family.
Which would make Dooku a kind of…
No.
Stop.
Cassian's voice reveals nothing in giving the official designations.]
Sullust Team Nebula, 3357 through '61. Sullust Team Fissure, '61 through '62.
[Renamed at Case Officer death. Though drastic overturn of resistance fighters in an insurgent cell was… routine.
And it had felt redundant by then anyway. Already become a different unit, to Cassian, in '60, at Xol Khriou's vanishment.
…Not that "Nebula" or "Fissure" were what they called themselves. Their secret verbal handshake, and nicknames/call signs among the other cells who actually communicated with one another, were whichever variety of Sullustan wildlife served one's current purpose. For team spirit, sense of purpose, or battle rally: "Rockrenders" (fire-colored cave dwelling reptiloids who literally ate Stormtrooper armor). To express (grudging or affectionate) approval: "Ash Angels" (not really that complimentary since those were scavenger birds, but the word had mythic quality regardless of reality, and at least they could fly). And that often as an answer to the more condescending "Ash Rabbit" (which had seemed to be Cassian's personal—and much loathed—nickname for the first few years. He later learned that every child soldier was an Ash Rabbit. In some kind of… self-aware… tragic… snark. Kids should be owning rabbits, of preferably some other planetary variety, as pets. Not living that particular reality.
The name would vanish when some fundamental shift made one stop being thought of as a child.
Cassian had graduated from Ash Rabbit to Rockrender at age…
eight.)
By any name, Cassian wonders if Dooku will have known of them.
Either way is not necessarily indicative of whether Dooku's telling the truth about being the Separatist leader.
The cells were never sure their own leaders knew of them.
They often wondered… if they were truly connected to anyone or anywhere else in the universe at all.]