打开新索第一本，原来第一章开头就是lesser evil终章

第一章：野蛮外星人大开杀戒
原来书里他穿的还是自己缝的毛皮，真的野人，，漫画里给他画的衣服比较正常
Eli很喜欢奇斯人传说的样子

哦噢 被揍得两颊流血……统治领三部曲都没怎么受伤来热情好客科洛桑第一个月就被揍了（
The standard Academy curriculum included a unit on unarmed combat. Unfortunately, with Thrawn’s studies focused exclusively on technology and navy protocol, he hadn’t been given any time in the combat dojo.
And it showed. He was doing his best to fend off his attackers, but his defense consisted mainly of trying to push them away, ducking away from their attacks, dodging so that they couldn’t all come at him at once, and trying to protect his face and torso.
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...this will also prove a useful lesson for his future. One can hope he will take it to his core, and become a better person and officer.”
“Not sure I’d go that far,” Deenlark said.
我的笑点。。。

“Could you really tell they would be good starfighter pilots? Or was that just a way to get them kicked out of Royal Imperial?”
“I could really tell,” Thrawn said. “You could not?”
索龙in奇斯领：你看不出来？
索龙in科洛桑：你看不出来？
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“Yeah,” Vanto said. “Lucky for me, I’m on track for a supply officer position. I’ll never have to worry about that.”
唉呀伊莱真就遇上了改变他一生的男人😅

看完第十章
是我错觉吗还是、感觉索龙在帝国经历的事件比之前更加theatric（亡兄的影子哦……

原来天鹅座就是Cygnus，Cygni又给自己取名night swan
（上帝视角一下）老哥你的名字好明显哦……🤭

看阿林达的章节，描述距离都是用xxx levels down from/ xxxth floor/ lower parts … 好有趣的科洛桑地理（想到那座科洛桑最高峰⛰

索龙两年不到就从lieutenant升到了captain，而一般的海军士兵要10到15年
⬆️我知道他很快但不知道比别人快这么多🤭

“Of course,” Vanto said. *His tone is properly respectful, but also holds irony.* “So when you were attacked at Royal Imperial Academy…?”
“I wished to study the attackers’ capabilities,” Thrawn said. “I would have protected you from serious harm, as indeed I protected myself.”
上次被揍是故意放水吼，装逼男 ！

索龙被人叫imp 我脑中：小恶魔，蓝精灵

“What about you, Commander? Why do *you* seek high rank?”
It was a question many had asked over the years. Thrawn had asked it of himself. The answer never seemed to satisfy the questioner. “Because there are problems that must be solved. Some cannot be solved by anyone except me.”

不愧是你

Or had the High Command decided they were tired of Thrawn’s continual focus on the man and wanted him to stop harassing the other commanders just because he thought they weren’t doing their job?
笑死了，都是为了帝国好怎么能叫骚扰呢.. ！

伊莱在索龙身边过的都什么日子，一收到紧急命令就开始担心是不是索龙又要上军事法庭🤣
像家一样熟悉的court-martial

伍基人奴隶船事件真的好福尔摩斯，血字的研究……

关于奴隶的看法，感觉他在开头日记就写了⬇️
But standing by an ally doesn’t necessarily mean one will always agree with that ally. Or with his goals or methods.

不救这些人是为了继续维持在帝国的位置，在长期目标—grysk战争中能救更多的人？很屎的列车难题的感觉
其实如果他就是个纯纯的坏蛋也能解释，把所有人甚至自己都当工具罢了。（但奇斯领把他写太好了

又是“全都给我算到了”！爱看……
怎么有个帝国官叫Yve，和Yiv读起来好像也差不多

去有声书听了一下前面这段，感觉只是音量大了一点，
“I am your commander, stormtrooper,” Thrawn said. “*You will step aside!*”
*Vanto twitches at the sudden volume and vehemence. The stormtrooper likewise reacts with surprise. He hastily steps away from the hatchway.*“Thank you,” Thrawn said.
He and Vanto stepped inside. “You disapprove of my words and tone?”
“I don’t disapprove of either, sir,” Vanto said. “I was just startled. I don’t think I’ve ever heard you shout in anger before.”

“It *has* been rather in his shadow, hasn’t it?”
Eli smiled. Once, he’d indeed felt that way.
But not anymore. Not for a long time.
“I’m not worried about it,” he assured Nightswan. “The future is what you make of it, as my father used to say. I’m a commander, I have a fairly decent list of victories on my ledger, and I’d like to think I’ve picked up one or two friends along the way.”
“Really?” Nightswan said. “Because Thrawn doesn’t seem to have. Not politically astute at all, from what I hear.” He snorted. “As for you, my young idealist commander, do you really think you have any friends on Coruscant? A Wild Space nobody who’s spent his entire career as a house pet to a nonhuman?”

啊哦不愧美帝了还有换衣服剧情，衣服差了两个码、、他俩单独出任务玩得挺开心的
夜天鹅怎么也知道索龙和安纳金的事情啊感觉所有人、🏳️‍🌈❓

不过，cygni怎么会认不出奇美拉以为是索龙在指挥呢……

Nightswan turns and begins walking toward the mining complex. “I have read about the nightswan,” Thrawn called after him. “Have you?”
Nightswan turns partially back. His face is obscured by shadow. His body stance again holds weariness, along with a quiet dread. “You refer to the fact that it sings only as night is falling?”
“Yes,” Thrawn said. “You do not expect your stand to succeed, do you?”
“I know that it won’t succeed,” Nightswan said.
“That does not necessarily mean the end. I can give orders for you to be taken unharmed.”
“They’ll be ignored. Half the troops here are Batonn Defense, and Restos is determined to get rid of me.”
“Then come with me now.”
“A man must do what he must, Admiral Thrawn. Even if his stand is against the fall of eternal night.”

Then~come~with~me~now~
下一秒被尤拉伦抓到了显得更加的，🏳️‍🌈❓

啊哦阿林达变得好残忍！比这本书所有人都更像反派啊！
下一本就是义军时期的故事了，我终于catch up了…🥺

最后这几章好多感情，淡淡的伤心……
And so it was over. The path had ended. The pattern was broken.
The song of the Nightswan was silenced. The galaxy would be the worse for its loss.

-
“I wouldn’t hold my breath,” Vanto said. “Doesn’t matter. I’m quite content to be your aide, Admiral. It’s where I’m supposed to be.”
“Perhaps,” Thrawn said. “Perhaps not.”

-
A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path.
If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence.
For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

打开序章，打死伟大一有机会就要羞辱一下索龙，你们素小学生吗

Time for Thrawn to face his future.
Time for Vader to face his past.
感觉ppt是媒人

In his left hand, of course, the flesh-and-blood one. Padmé never seemed bothered by the difference, but Anakin never forgot.
好纯爱

“I’ll miss you, too.” Padmé gave him another smile, more tired than impish this time. “At least you’ll have Obi-Wan to keep you company.”
Anakin made an exaggerated face. “Not exactly the same.”
安纳金表情：🤨
老王：？

But the texture of his mind was unlike anything Anakin had ever touched before. It was neat and well ordered, the patterns of thought flowing smoothly and precisely in ways not unlike those of scientists or mathematicians. But the content of that flow, and the muted emotions accompanying it, were completely opaque. It was like a neat and precise array of unfamiliar numbers.

texture这个词用在这里很、、原来你们力敏接触别人思想的时候是这样的、、好私密好那个 感觉把索龙解剖了，受不了了好色情（）

好好笑法罗内心对维达：你（们力敏）就装吧

“You and I go alone,” Thrawn said. “I have a small freighter that will allow us anonymity. We can land—”
啊哦索龙一直在用和过去相似的对话试探达斯维达……🥴

好抓马，安纳金那可是尸体啊！
我看的上一个操纵尸体的还是奥利奥拿他同事的尸体当车骑

“Are you familiar with a beast known as a reek?”
Anakin snorted. The petranaki arena back on Geonosis, and the horned monster that had tried to eviscerate him, Padmé, and Obi-Wan…“Quite familiar,” he assured the Chiss drily.
>
And with the landspeeder now indeed looking like a Jedi-horned reek, he ignited his lightsaber.
Jedi-horned也太可爱了吧，，🤣🤣

“And not revenge?”
“No.” He felt Thrawn’s eyes on him. “Nor even rescue.”
“Do you hear me?” Thrawn persisted.
“I hear you,” Anakin growled.
然后下一章帕德梅真的被扣为人质😨

这种……通讯永远在关键时刻坏掉的剧情😨
帕德梅说自己家很有钱让叔叔anakin送赎金来有点想笑，你们也叔侄了……

爸爸你别拿Atollon损索龙了，你好像也没抓到几个掘地吖😱

俩人被昆虫石化这个场景好搞笑
The Chiss was still hunched over, little but his face still visible.
-
Thrawn, without Vader’s bioenhancements or the Force, would be hard-pressed to carry the extra load. Not to mention that he looked less like a living being than he did the midway point of some sculptor’s artwork.
Though to be fair, Vader didn’t look any better. Once back aboard ship, Thrawn could simply change clothing, while Vader would need his armor cleaned in more time-consuming detail. Fortunately, he had another full set in his quarters that he could wear while the Chimaera’s techs restored this one.
“Of course,” Thrawn said. With an effort, he squatted beside one of the bodies.
-
“Let us hope we are not too late,” he added as he made his slightly staggering way toward the door.
有点萌我想看会动的。。。啊啊啊。。。。。

Kimmund mouthed a curse. Not standard TIE fighters, but a quartet of those TIE Defenders he’d heard Thrawn was always going to Coruscant to lobby the High Command for.
-
Someone whistled softly. “Damn things can actually fight.”

TIE Defenders怎么你们了✊
Rukh和Kimmund好谐。。。

Grysk人，好突然！先看奇斯领还是挺好的……🤣
我以为Grysk挑了两个地点炸了是有什么说法的，结果只是因为没地方停船了？好8

“Over my years of service to the Empire, I have sometimes offered explanations without proof,” he said quietly. “That has never gone well.”
“What do you mean?”
“Most people don’t believe me,” Thrawn said. “That disbelief then biases them against the proof when it is revealed.”
“I am not most people,” Vader reminded him.
“I know that, my lord.” Thrawn said. “But I would still ask you to trust me.”
Vader eyed him, stretching out to the Force. The Jedi, too, had been distrusted and his opinions casually dismissed, often by the people he was closest to. He, too, had known how it felt to be powerful, yet somehow still an outsider. “Tell me of the prisoners taken from Batuu.”
“I cannot,” Thrawn said. “I can say only that it is vital we recover them.”
“If I demand an answer?”
“I cannot answer,” Thrawn repeated. “I can only ask that you trust me.”
Vader clenched his teeth. “One cannot simply ask for trust, Admiral,” he warned harshly. “Trust must be earned.”
“I agree,” Thrawn said. “I ask one more hour.”
Vader looked out at the flowing hyperspace sky. “One hour,” he agreed. “And then, Admiral, you will answer my questions.”

感觉爸爸到现在也没掐索龙很了不起
卧槽下一页就是小安叫索龙相信他……扎恩老师这么写实在是……😱 感觉索龙你、怎么老是在试探 别太爱了你记忆中的那个人已经死了吖

“She’ll recognize your weapon?”
“She’ll recognize my style,” Anakin said. “And this is the first place she’ll come looking for me.”
“Is falling into enemy hands part of your style?”
“No,” Anakin growled. Thrawn had a real talent for digging under people’s skin when he wanted to.
笑得。。

奇斯人的热视力好逆天，感觉每次小安提到帕德梅的时候索龙都能看到他面部温度上升，他们的关系这不一下就被发现了

“There came a moment when I had completed the task the Chiss Ascendancy had set for me,” Thrawn continued. “At that point I was free to abandon him to his own task.” He turned to face Vader. “You have that same freedom of choice. I am asking that you remain at my side.”
-
He scowled, forcing back the emotion. That couldn’t have been what the Chiss meant by that comment. Vader had simply misread it, that was all. “Anakin Skywalker is dead,” he said.
“So I was informed,” Thrawn said. He bowed his head slightly—acknowledgment or sorrow; Vader couldn’t tell which. “But for his sake, and for the sake of the Republic he served and the Empire that the Republic became, I ask you to return the debt of my service to its proper balance.”
Vader clenched his teeth. Balance to the debt. *Balance to the Force.* Without knowing it, Thrawn was hitting all the trigger words, and in the process pulling up far too many of The Jedi’s unwanted memories. “There is no debt,” he said. “You had a choice. You made it. The Empire does not owe you.”
“No, it does not,” Thrawn said.
For a long moment, they gazed at each other in silence.

失语了。。

The grand admiral was smart and subtle, but never used his brilliance to show up or humiliate anyone. He demanded results, but never perfection, and had amazing stores of patience for those who were truly working to their fullest ability. He cared about his people, to the point of standing up for them even against the disapproval of powerful men like Lord Vader.
-
It was a pity Thrawn’s style of leadership hadn’t spread through the rest of the navy.（你在说打死伟大吗🤣）Still, he was certainly having an influence on the younger officers. If he lasted long enough, maybe those lessons would someday become the military standard.
If that happened, he suspected, the Empire would stand forever.

怎么维达的手下也有点羡慕的样子，

“Still, even a partial success can bring long-reaching results,” Thrawn said into the awkward silence. “As it is, we have now learned a great deal about our new enemies.”
“Such as the fact they have no teeth?” Vader said with an edge of bitterness.
“That, as well,” Thrawn agreed.
有点办公室小品
但是Grysk人把牙齿都拔了装上武器和通讯器好可怕。。

“Indeed, my lord,” Thrawn said. “More specifically, the Separatist factory on Mokivj that we once assaulted.”
Vader straightened to his full height. “That you once assaulted,” he corrected. “No one else aboard the Chimaera was ever there.”
“Of course,” Thrawn said, inclining his head. “I misspoke.”
For a long moment, they gazed at each other in silence.
你们要整本书都这样吗

索龙把自己衣服撕了编成一条两米长的粗绳子？？大哥你身上衣服还剩多少

It was all he could do to keep from taking her in his arms…but Thrawn was here, and the Chiss already was suspicious of their relationship.
Though why Anakin should even care about that he didn’t know. It wasn’t like Thrawn would ever go to Coruscant and tell anyone.
有点好笑，在科洛桑搞地下恋情搞的，习惯性警觉

索龙那个共和国护盾原来从这工厂偷的，还用了光剑呢！怎么无师自通的！不过都索龙了，看过阿鸡用也就学会了。。

很喜欢看法罗瑞平维达
Or at least, Faro assumed he was staring out the viewport. For all she could tell from his helmet faceplate, he could be taking a quick nap in there.

表面上看索和维达一起工作有点憋屈，表现得很deference但其实又索取很多
有点好笑，反正就是永远不正面回答问题，搬帝国利益、搬皇帝、搬绝地安，这这那那，搬不出理由了就请trust me，最后想要的全拿到了，还在维达心中掀起巨大波澜

下一页他还让维达当奇美拉导航员啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊爸爸这一刻是否感觉和奇斯小女孩做同事了

Vader looked up, to see a small smile on his face. “Do you find this amusing, Admiral?” he challenged.
“No, not at all, my lord,” Thrawn hastened to assure him. “I was simply recalling a memory. I told you the Chiss call this talent Third Sight. What I hadn’t yet spoken of is the title these navigators are given once they take their posts.”
“Which is?”
“The Cheunh word is ozyly-esehembo,” Thrawn said. “In Basic, it translates to ‘sky-walker.’ ” Another small smile. “You can imagine my momentary confusion when I first encountered General Anakin Skywalker.”
Vader nodded.
都说了不熟了人都鼠了你怎么又提，真的感觉爸爸脾气挺好的或者已经懒得纠正了，管不了奇斯人的嘴

He stopped in midstride as Thrawn grabbed his arm. “No.”
“Let go,” Anakin said, snapping his arm free of the Chiss’s grip. Thrawn countered by half turning and getting a fresh grip on Anakin’s collar with the other hand.

Anakin said, snapping up his arm, aiming his forearm at Thrawn’s wrist to try to break the other’s grasp. Thrawn countered by letting go just as Anakin’s arm swung harmlessly past, then reacquiring his grip. “Stop it, damn you—she’s going to die.”
这段拉拉扯扯的好好笑。。。

“The future of my people also matters.”
“No,” Vader said flatly. “Victory is the goal.”
“And not revenge?”
“Not revenge,” Vader said. “Not even rescue.”
For a moment Thrawn was silent. “I understand,” he said. “But I believe we can do both.”
你们...

索：It is he.
维：He knew.

“Anakin Skywalker is dead,” he said.
Thrawn lowered his head. “I know.”
Vader nodded slowly. *I know. Not So I have heard. Not So I was informed. But I know.* “We will not speak of him again,” he said. “You will not speak of him again.”
“I understand, my lord,” Thrawn said. “But I will always honor his legacy.”

星战里I know这一句话真的包含了好多……………………

不过最后为了缓解尴尬维达还说支持一下索的防御者计划🤣🤣TIE defenders Dark Lord开了都说好！

还有奇斯宝宝指哪打哪好好用啊……一想到过去这条支线里che'ri其实一直都一个人在开飞船，宝宝好……🥺

奇美拉上的沉默震耳欲聋

哦噢阿拉妮和Lieutenant Eli’van’to! 伊莱也从Lieutenant做起了

感觉法罗吐槽斯达沃斯剧情🤣↓
Prisoners could be useful in a number of ways, but they also created headaches and focal points for new enemy operations.

这群人开会争论好小学生呀。。。。
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.
太搞笑了，Savit前一刻还说索龙visually impressive下一秒觉得克伦尼克及其手下浮夸

又说索是政治白痴了，梅开n度
好喜欢法罗呀555动画片里没有她伤心

我去这两章怎么这么多办公室抱怨
法罗brag about索龙好萌嘻嘻…………罗南不许再抱怨索龙和法罗和奇美拉了✊

From what I’ve heard, much of his so-called success was due to a single man, someone he kept hidden in his shadow: unnoticed, uncredited, and unpromoted.
啊啊啊啊啊一个外星人能在帝国当上元帅肯定是靠别的男人……………………
于此同时索龙背后的男人在庆幸自己没被奇斯人叫成Lieutenant Infant