"It was dangerous," she answers. "the way an occupation is dangerous."

Her eyes stay ahead now, her voice quieter than before, but no less steady. A kind of built-in ease that comes with having heard this story many, many times, until like blasterfire and Huttese and the feel of a ship's controls under her fingers, it was drilled into her.

"The Syndulla clan became known for resisting the Hutts. They'd attack slaver ships and caravans, disrupt their rule however they could. It probably wasn't that many, but enough that the name became known. And then the Hutts came down on all of them."