To: Corazona von Ascania
Subject: Revenge
I don't recall when this started exactly, but before difficult moments, I always end up writing to you first. It helps me find my footing, I think. In any case, it's a habit I'd like to keep.
I won't pretend my concern has been with what this may cost anyone else. I accounted for my family alone.
Earlier, I told one of our acolytes that unsaid things can't stay quiet forever. That thought stayed with me. Then I remembered something else..
Debts don't disappear either.
The Covenant's strike is near, much like it was in the Tapani Sector. Wherever we land, it burns. That part doesn't change.
Given our difference in views, I understand you may not receive this as good news. I just figured you should hear it from me first.
I couldn't help you then.. just as I can't let this pass unanswered now.
Tomorrow, the Galactic Empire's heart will bleed.
And should Coruscant become ash, I won't deny my hand in it.
I know there's something selfish in this. I'm sure of it. I recognize how easily I step into this now.
At the same time, I hope you can still see why I'm doing it.. just as I hope you can still see me in it.
Your younger brother.
Maybe it's the wrong moment to say any of this, on the eve of whatever tomorrow becomes, but when it's all said and done.. I'd really like to come home. I want there to be something left of me that isn't this. Something more than war.
I want Luciana to be more than a story passed along to me. I want her to be someone I've met.. while I still can.
As her uncle.
-Lysander von Ascania
