[At the Partisans hideout, Luthen asks Saw Gerrera not to provide air support for Anto Kreegyr's Spellhaus power station raid, knowing the Empire is waiting for them. He tricks Saw into believing Tubes is his mole]
Saw GerreraWhat is this? What kind of game is this? [sees Luthen point Tubes' pistol at him] Oh. There's no way out alive. Of that you must be sure.
I'm doing this so you'll listen. So, listen. Kreegyr goes down, the ISB will feel invincible. They'll feel untouchable. We'll have a clear field to play. The alternative... Kreegyr pulls out, we wave him off. They'll know they'll have to wonder. They'll trust nothing. If I were ISB, Saw, why wouldn't I just send you out there with him? I didn't want you to have to make this choice.
Gerrera
Thirty men.
Gerrera
For the greater good.
Gerrera
Let's call it war.
Saw Gerrera
Look at you. Look at all your loveliness. How I have dreamt of this. Is she healthy?
Saw
Everything's here? All the tools? Full kit?
WWilmon
Eight variations. Six gauges.
Saw
[to his group] Think of it, comrades. Fuel on demand. All the rhydo that you can steal. A galaxy of opportunities! Work up a thirst. Find a vein. Take what you want, when you want it. [to Wilmon] Has it been tested?
Saw
Who taught you this?
WWilmon
Why is that important?
Saw
Why? [chuckles] What's more dangerous than rhydonium? Not many old pipe-poachers out there. Not many who've lived to tell the tale. Who taught you this?
WWilmon
I'm here to teach the variations. More than that, I'm not allowed to say.
Saw
Look at this. A brave one! [crowd laughing]But how brave? Have you ever seen a man die from rhydonium? Maybe you're like me, maybe you, you love...[sniffs] the smell of it. And maybe you breathe just a little too deeply. Burned from the inside. You watch your skin blister as it melts away. Or, you die loud. Cut a line? Drop a wrench? Let it spill? Don't even need a spark, do you, boy? Do you? Boom! Burn from the outside.
[Saw Gerrera is standing next to Wilmon Paak, who is setting up the temperamental rhydonium siphoning valves.]
Saw
I was younger than you are, now. I was a prisoner. They made a work camp in the jungle. No droids, no beasts, just men and cargo. Onderon jungle. Real jungle. Hot, wet, blistering jungle. Oh, men died fast. Just dropped where they stood. When we came back the next day, there'd be nothing left but a bone or two where they went down. Our clothes just melted away! So they worked us naked. Two, three hundred men. Boys really. Back and forth, until the only thing they could remember was back and forth. Then one day, everyone started to itch. Everyone, all at once, even the guards. You could feel your skin coming alive. It was the Rydo. They had a leak. You could feel it before you could smell it. So they all panicked and ran away, but... it was new to me!
WPWilmon Paak
It's done. I'm gonna open the valve now.
[The valve opens, causing rydonium fumes to spew. Saw rushes towards them.]
Saw
I have always loved you.
WWilmon
What are you doing!?
Saw
There it is.
WWilmon
How can you do that!?
Saw
Because I understand it! Because she's my sister, Rydo, and she loves me! That... itch, that burn... You feel how badly she wants to explode? Remember this, remember this moment! This perfect night. You think I'm crazy? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the sane. Look at us. Unloved, hunted, cannon fodder, we'll all be dead before the Republic is back, and yet... here we are. Where are you, boy? You're here! You're not with Luthen, you're here! You're right here, and you're ready to fight!
[Wilmon takes off his protective mask and begins to cough and sputter as he inhales the rydonium fumes]
Saw
We're the Rydo, kid! We're the fuel, we're the thing that explodes when there's too much friction in the air! Let it in, boy! That's freedom calling! Let it in. Let it run! Let it run wild!
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