Hope?Rebellions are built on hope.Hope is what gives us our strength.Hope is what empowers us to rise up and keep hitting the Empire back, harder and harder every time they try to gun us down.Only if we believe that there is hope, will we be able to win this fight!We can’t stay hidden forever!If we don’t prove to them what we’re capable of, they will never believe it.And don’t tell me that they don’t need to believe it for it to be true, because it is true, we are capable of defeating them, they just need to know it.They need to see it. This mission is essential for our survival.If they’ve truly built a weapon with this much power then we have to at least try to destroy it!You’re all rebels aren’t you?Since when did we loose hope so easily?Since when did we shrink from facing insurmountable odds to get something done?!!Now is our time!This is not when we give up!This is when we rise to our call!You can sit here to see an Imperial flag reign across the galaxy, or you can stand up and do something about it. We all have it inside us , that fire, that passion, now is the time to show it. This is a risk that we must take!We are all that’s left to push back the empire.                            We are hope.

Fear is a disease,Hope is its only cure

-Star Wars:The Clone Wars

 

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She used to work behind pipes all day, and now, she was some Rebel hero.Now she really understood how Finn felt.It was strange becoming so popular all of a sudden, even though she hadn’t really done anything…unless you count endangering the fleet.As she lay in her bacta suit, she remembered the little boy they met on Cantonica. He was just like her, but special.He had the heart of a hero, a true rebel, and somehow she knew that he was going to help them some day.Her thoughts were interrupted by someone who called “Rose!”, as they entered the room, and she could only guess who it was. Smiling, she sat up as straight as she could in her clunky suit to get a better look at Finn.She had a 1000 questions.”Where are we?” was her first one, which met the reply,”We’re on the Millennium falcon.How are you feeling?”.”WHAT!!!”,she exclaimed,”The real actual Millennium Falcon?We’re on it?Like flying through space in it?The Correllian ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs!”,she couldn’t believe it, and Finn couldn’t believe how mesmerised she was.Finn said yes, they were indeed on the real, actual Millennium Falcon, that legendary ship that made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, and her expression, was priceless.She wanted to jump out of bed and run across the whole ship that instant and check out every single detail of it.She wanted scream and explore and have some fun, but Finn insisted that she should rest.Irritated but content, she lay back in bed and her thoughts wandered off again.This was how they were going to win.Not fighting what they hated, saving what they loved.

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He entered the Pub on Takodana and was instantly greeted by a loud shout from behind the bar.”Han Solo!”, she said as she came around to get them some seats. Maz was the last person who you’d expect to be Han Solo’s friend.She believed strongly in the force and was old and wise.Exactly what he needed at the time.He had just won a ship, fastest in the galaxy and suddenly a popular target for Hutt bounty hunters.He told Maz about the bounty Jabba had placed on his head and was not satisfied by the reply he received.”Han, why do you run from them.You cannot run forever.Running from the Empire, running from these bounty hunters, at some point you have to stand up and fight.I don’t fight anymore, but I used to.I was a skilled warrior when I was young and am no longer, but you are.I will never understand how a young man like you with so much…potential courage can just run away from his responsibilities.You are the future Han.People like you are the ones who will push back the Empire and bring peace and security back into the Galaxy.”

“Ummm…yeah Maz, I was thinking more like, do you know any places where Chewie and I could, you know, lay low for while, just till we can get them off our scent and then we’ll be right off.Defeating the Empire…totally!This is just, temporary.Safety measures, you know…”

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