Though, some of that funding has been cut in order to be diverted into Project Stardust. He's been told that there's always next year, when the Death Star will be finished, and there will be room in the budget for the TIE Defender.
How she found out about that, he has a few ideas. She clearly likes to keep herself in the loop, even in matters that do not concern her. Thrawn can't help but find that an admirable trait. After all, he himself found out about the Death Star when he should not have. Perhaps Palpatine would have told him eventually, since he has certain privileges that others do not.
"If I may present you with a hypothetical, Director? You are presented with a man with a very bad infection on his leg, and it is beginning to go necrotic. You are also presented with a pair of tools. One is a fine blade, apt for cutting away the festering flesh. The other is a heavy, blunt weapon, so that you may merely kill the man."
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Though, some of that funding has been cut in order to be diverted into Project Stardust. He's been told that there's always next year, when the Death Star will be finished, and there will be room in the budget for the TIE Defender.
How she found out about that, he has a few ideas. She clearly likes to keep herself in the loop, even in matters that do not concern her. Thrawn can't help but find that an admirable trait. After all, he himself found out about the Death Star when he should not have. Perhaps Palpatine would have told him eventually, since he has certain privileges that others do not.
"If I may present you with a hypothetical, Director? You are presented with a man with a very bad infection on his leg, and it is beginning to go necrotic. You are also presented with a pair of tools. One is a fine blade, apt for cutting away the festering flesh. The other is a heavy, blunt weapon, so that you may merely kill the man."