What's Veers complaining about the New Republic for, is he not proud that his son is an Officer in their military...?
And didn't he die before this, still fighting for the Empire?

Even Janson isn't stupid enough to give a little kid something with *those* on it, nor suicidal enough when the mother is Mara!

Pooja?

I get that Piett likes her idea to go navy, but I'd think he'd take issue with it being the Republic navy...lol.

And yet, the New Republic BEAT the Empire Navy, now didn't they?
Also, I can't see decent people wishing the Empire was still around, when all the atrocities would be known to the public now.

Jacen wouldn't wuss out like that either, they're both as reckless as each other.

Isn't that technically still surrendering the ship, as it will have to be handed over to the New Republic for that use...?

Piett knows about Alderaan and still mourns the death star? How could anyone remain an Imp loyalist and be a good man both if they defend that?! It was CALLED the death star, anyone on it should have known they were the badies!

Leia: ''I inherited that from my mother''
Ooh, Vader needs some serious bacta for that burn!

Did Mara give Luke those codes? If they're hers, what was Vader thinking when he heard that? ''Bleeping bleep, it's Jade''? Or did he know it was Luke and just wonder how he had the codes?

Is it mass murder to kill those who committed mass murder themselves? I'd call it Karma, Piett. And it was in a battle where they held all the advantages, so, hypocritical much?

Oh, so Piett knows exactly 'what went wrong' was Stormtroopers murdering his aunt and uncle.
Can hardly blame him then, surely?
And he'd probably still have defected like Biggs and Hobbie did when they saw what the Empire was really like. Alderaan at the latest, like Tycho.

''slippery son of a Sith''? How...ironic.

Oh, so that's what happened on the Death Star. But then how did Vader have time to reach the Executor, and how was he in a condition to do so? He was dying at that point in the film.

''He was carrying this'' - Deja Vu or what.

Nice sarcasm there. Yes Vader, Luke is well aware. The threats of killing him for her master when they met might just have clued him in. Lol.

Was gonna say it would have been funny if the New Republic sent a fleet to keep an eye on the Executor, led by General Wedge Antilles on the SSD Lusankya. The Imps'd be like ''the rebels have got super star destroyers now too?!'' The Guardian being an SSD works too tho, lol. It'd just have been funnier because Vader would probably recognise the name Lusankya and have been really confused too.

Um, if she's named her kid Anakin then she's come to terms with it. So, surely she'd at least be willing to give him a chance to surrender? Or had she only accepted it cos she thought he was dead?

I have to ask, how did things go down on the Death Star without Vader there to kill Palpatine? Cos there's no way he had time to do that AND get back to the Executor in time to go to Hyperspeed ahead of the blast, even if he was in any condition to do so...and without him there, how did Luke survive?

This remains my favorite fic. I don't know if I've left a comment on this chapter before, but if not, then here's one:

I'm rereading it again. The end of this chapter, the memorial to Padme, had me in tears. The writing is beautiful and the symbolism of it being her window Piett finds himself beneath is so deeply touching. Absolutely magnificent. I hope you know what a wonderful thing you wrote here.

Ten stars out of five. Thanks for this delightful read.

"I am NOT your father!" I'm grinning like a madwoman. And I love your Firmus Piett to bits.

Oh my, this was so sad that I choked up. I know that Vader did terrible things, but I felt tremendously sorry for him. Thank God Piett was there to comfort him. To hell with Palpatine and all the havoc he wreaked! So many ruined lives...

There are so many brilliant lines I can't quote them all. Heck, every line is brilliant. But this had me in stitches: "Unless Old Raisinface plans on popping the casket next." Lol! Poor Admiral Piett...

Hallo, ich hoffe so sehr, dass es eine Fortsetzung geben wird. Selten hab ich eine Geschichte gelesen, die mich gleichzeitig so sehr zum Lachen und zum weinen gerührt hat und mir eine emotionale Achterbahn beschert hat besonders auch in diesem Kapitel

You wanna explain to me how Darth Vader is using his thumb, which is both prosthetic *and* encased in a hermetically sealed suit’s glove, to access a *biometric* lock?

Egregious.

I want more fan fiction like this .