[orange, grinning smugly behind a lectern, speaking in a microphone] The operation was successful
[purple, an uneasy smile, replying to orange] Were there any casualties?
[orange] No legitimate human has been hurt, trust me
[purple] Thank you, I have no further questions
If anyone is wondering: at least 80 people died, most of them young soldiers sleeping in the barracks.
EDIT: updating the number of deaths
Were they legitimate humans?
I feel like we are just a few years away from having to have papers to be alive.
I mean if not having them can already get you sent to a prison camp in a foreign country for life, or if being a citizen of the wrong country can get you killed in your sleep and then the empire will act as if you didn’t ever exist, it really isn’t a stretch.
They’re just going to start microchipping people like we do pets, and there’ll be a whole black market industry into rewriting them & bypassing their encryption.
… I feel like I’ve watched this movie & thought the book was better…
