## Chapter 8

1 Admiral would be the normal shipboard form of address (Grand Admiral is awkwardly long for casual conversation), but C’baoth almost invariably uses the entire rank. Not as a form of respect, of course, but as a form of sarcasm.

—TZ

2 The second quality of a good commander: the ability to hear, evaluate, and adopt good ideas even if—perhaps especially if—they come from those who are technically his inferiors.

—TZ

3 At the time I was writing Heir, all we knew about the Old Republic’s political system was that it had included a Senate. Rather than try to guess at any other details, I settled on giving the New Republic a provisional form of government, with the implication that it would be changed at some point in the future.

That way, if I got more details along the way as to how things were supposed to be done, I could have Leia and Mon Mothma revamp the whole thing.

—TZ

4 I generally dislike writing characters who deliberately distort, misinterpret, or ignore facts for their own political ends the way Fey’lya does here. Probably because I dislike seeing that done in real life.

But sometimes the requirements of the story mean you just have to take a deep breath and do it.

—TZ

5 Han Solo: master of tact. You gotta love him.

—TZ