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“You couldn’t help yourself, couldn’t you?” he finally managed to rasp between short breaths, his voice cracking, “you always have to do the right thing,”
“Not everything has to be a statement, you know?” She mumbled, annoyed at how much the last few minutes had affected her. “Plus, I’m pretty sure that the right thing would have been to let you die.”
The war is over, and, to Hux's surprise, capital punishment is not an option in the newly reborn Republic. His life sentence will be served in a new space station called The Monument, built to monitor and contain the massive asteroid field that once was the Hosnian System. Some might say that there's almost some kind of poetic justice to be found in convicting a man to a lifetime of rebuilding what he has destroyed, but there's nothing poetic in the complex, abrasive relationship he ends up developing with the Chief Developer of the project, Rose Tico.