"We were a handful of worlds willing to take a stand against a galactic empire with a tyrant's grip. The odds were against us openly, but I knew no one wanted to live under that yoke. So I stepped up to lead, hope was our call to arms. It remains so. The last thing I can cling to when everything else is gone." The last thing she had when her own home was destroyed. Hope that they had not died in vain, that others might be spared the same fate if she succeeded.