ch'ot 🫐

quotes from the canon thrawn novels + outbound flight

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

And behind the tunic, a thigh-length white cape fluttering along behind him.
Mentally, Savit shook his head. He knew of Krennic’s pompous affectation regarding that long cape of his. He hadn’t realized the director had foisted the same nonsense onto his senior staff.

- Treason

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“Good,” Ar’alani said. “Secure the pilot if he isn’t dead, then get busy.”
She looked at Khresh. “Every war machine—warship, fighter, or missile—has at least one fatal weakness that can be used against it,” she continued.
“Find it.”

- Treason

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“Certainly the Chiss have no territorial ambitions beyond our borders.”
“Yet you identify yourself as an expansionary fleet.”
“The title also includes the word defense,” Thrawn pointed out.

- Greater Good

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

When she was done navigating for the day, after they ate dinner together, she asked if he would give her another lesson.
And that night, for the first time she could remember, she had a dream about flying that wasn’t a nightmare.

- Chaos Rising

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“Just a moment, sir,” Ar’alani cut in, scooping up her questis. It was bad form to interrupt a superior, but a sudden thought had occurred to her and it needed to be chased down before the conversation went elsewhere and she lost the mental thread.

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

But he was an Aristocra of the Mitth, and it wasn’t his job to approve or disapprove of his family’s decisions. His job was merely to do the tasks he was given.
Perhaps someday that would change.

- Chaos Rising

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

Six hours later, when Haplif was sure Yoponek was fast asleep in his room, he had the ship leave hyperspace just long enough to release Yomie’s body into the vast emptiness of the universe.

- Greater Good

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“But you are correct in that I wish to offer you a position,” Thrawn said. “Not with the Empire, but with the Chiss Ascendancy.”

- Thrawn

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“Though you’ve now heard this at least a dozen times, welcome to the Mitth,” he said in greeting. “May I offer a drink of family kinship?”
“Thank you,” Thrawn said. “I have to say, this isn’t like anything I’ve ever experienced.”

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

This time, when Ziinda turned away, Lakbrovom remained silent.
Perhaps that last jab had been unnecessary, Ziinda thought as she continued down the corridor. Perhaps it had even been a bit childish. But she had to admit that it had felt good.

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“The Dasklo are making fake Erighal patrol ships.”
“They’re what? How?”
“With a little sleight of hand, and a lot of sheer audacity,” Roscu said, clearly enjoying Wutroow’s apparent astonishment in the face of Roscu’s own superior knowledge and intellect.

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“The Great Presence guides us away from such dangers.”
“Then how does the Great Presence know?”
“The Great Presence is—the Great Presence,” Qilori finished, wincing at how lame that sounded. “We don’t know how it functions. Or even, really, what it is.”

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“You are disturbed.” Thrawn’s voice came from behind him.
“I’m fine,” Eli growled. Was it too much to ask that people stop sneaking up on him?

- Thrawn

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

Of course not men. Men were insignificant, pitiable creatures, fit only to be ruled, or intimidated, or sent to die in battle. These were far more than mere men.
A Chiss grand admiral, a strategic and tactical genius. A Sith Lord, ruthless and powerful in the Force.

- Alliances

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“You know what she means,” Borika soothed. “It’ll be all right. And just think. What you help us learn could mean important things for every sky-walker who comes after you.”
“Maybe starting with how caregivers can do better at their job,” Thalias added pointedly.

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“No.”
“Excuse me?”
“That’s not how you bring an accusation against a powerful member of the Imperial government,” she said. “For all your tactical skill, Admiral, you still don’t know the first thing about dealing with politicians.”

- Thrawn

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“She and Caregiver Thalias put in long hours in order to get us here in time. They’ll probably sleep another ten hours, maybe more.”
“I appreciate their sacrifice more than they’ll ever know,” Thrawn said. “Please offer them my deepest gratitude when they wake.”

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“Just remember the Agbui still don’t know a lot about the Chiss,” he said. “Make sure you tell her the truth before she leaves today so she doesn’t go back to her parents with wild stories about Chiss telepathy.”
Lakris made a face, but nodded. “Okay.”

- Greater Good

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

Frowning, Thalias turned around.
Borika was no longer just a simple country rancher. Her face was hard and unreadable, her gaze heavy with suspicion as it dug into Thalias’s face.
Her hand rock-steady as it held a charric pointed at Thalias.

- Lesser Evil

[ch'ot 🫐 @chissbot]

“Thank you,” Mitth’raw’nuruodo said. “But that can wait until we reach my base. Until then, resting quarters have been prepared for you. Perhaps later you’ll permit me to show you Chiss hospitality.”

- Outbound Flight