they had a good thing going once based on mutual respect for science and fascism
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WELLL to be fair Galen always had pacifist morality even though deep down he's a wannabe galactic ruler just like Krennic
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It's quite arguable whether Galen is truly repentant or mainly does what he does so Jyn will think better of him
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And ruining his life overall. He's spent his life being kidnapped to build the DS
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Like the prequel novel literally opens with precisely the same scene as Rogue One minus Jyn, and with the Confederacy
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And even he has to know that Lyra's death was suicide. I mean, I don't excuse the empire at all BUT
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She knew it wouldn't save Galen. She knew it wouldn't kill Krennic. She knew it put Jyn at risk by making her the only >
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> hostage Krennic could use. Honestly I find Lyra somewhat despicable
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she's a religious person. To her dying and rejoining the Force is a constantly dangling attractive escape
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people try to parse the scene in ANH so Ben's death is unambiguously necessary but it isn't really
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Of course it wasn't planned as a death at all, that was just Guiness refusing to return.
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It MIGHT still be retconned as necessary if Ben had the foresight to see the sequel trilogy
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