[Maketh shrugs. She agrees, of course. Productivity must come first, always. But people need to unwind as well. Anything coiled too tight for too long eventually breaks.] Of course. Still. It helps, in its own way.
[There's a pause. Maketh just watches him, a little sadly. He's a civilian and she shouldn't be telling him these things. The situation remains what it is, however, and they must survive. They will survive.]
If it comes to that, yes.
[She hopes it won't. Sometimes she has nightmares about the aftermath of the Clone Wars, how her parents had tried so hard to make that damn farm work. She knows what Lothal looks like when it's on fire, what riots sound like, the sorts of things people do when they're starving. And how easy, how very easy it was for the Empire to come in through the chaos and establish a stranglehold.]
Without a strong infrastructure, people turn on each other in desperation. And if we fight each other, we cannot mount a coordinated resistance. Anything less than that will fail.
[Maketh takes a slow drink, trying to see if Chris understands.] Once the gods realize this, they will implement it. It's in their best interest to have us turn on each other.
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Date: 2016-03-04 02:38 am (UTC)[There's a pause. Maketh just watches him, a little sadly. He's a civilian and she shouldn't be telling him these things. The situation remains what it is, however, and they must survive. They will survive.]
If it comes to that, yes.
[She hopes it won't. Sometimes she has nightmares about the aftermath of the Clone Wars, how her parents had tried so hard to make that damn farm work. She knows what Lothal looks like when it's on fire, what riots sound like, the sorts of things people do when they're starving. And how easy, how very easy it was for the Empire to come in through the chaos and establish a stranglehold.]
Without a strong infrastructure, people turn on each other in desperation. And if we fight each other, we cannot mount a coordinated resistance. Anything less than that will fail.
[Maketh takes a slow drink, trying to see if Chris understands.] Once the gods realize this, they will implement it. It's in their best interest to have us turn on each other.