I have also assigned to Chalk a posthumous commission. Her real name, I have learned only now, was Liane Trevval, and that name will appear in the Senate record. I gave her the commission to render her eligible for the same medal.

I have no other way to express my respect for who she was.

Her great akk, Galthra, has vanished. If an akk’s Force-bonded partner dies, it is customary to put the beast down, for it is not uncommon for akks who have lost their person to go insane, and vicious.

Galthra went into the jungle. I can only hope she stays there. Pelek Baw will be rebuilt. There is too much money in the thyssel trade for its epicenter to lie in ruins for long. The casualties—


- Shatterpoint, Afterword