- Ahsoka Tano: On second thought, tell me one of those stories. Your choice.
- Huyang: Very well. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way... .
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: What was first just a dream has become a frightening reality for those who may oppose us.
- Huyang: Intergalactic travel within a star whale. Now I really have done it all.
- Ahsoka Tano: I remember them from the stories you would tell us when we were younglings back at the temple.
- Huyang: Ah, yes. History of the Galaxy, Parts One, Two, and Three.
- Ahsoka Tano: One being the best, of course.
- Huyang: I still have those stories in my archive memory. Would you like to hear one?
- Ahsoka Tano: Oh. Not right now.
- Huyang: Perhaps you have a story for me.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: Well, that is unwelcomed news. Could it be the recently deceased Ahsoka Tano?
- Morgan Elsbeth: Impossible.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: I thought it was beyond you to underestimate a Jedi. After all, death and resurrection are common deceptions played out by both Nightsister and Jedi.
- Morgan Elsbeth: Baylan assured me of her death.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: And yet he was once a Jedi. So, we must regard him as flawed. No, we shall consider Ahsoka Tano alive until we know otherwise. And we shall prepare accordingly. I want to know her background, history, homeworld, her Master, everything.
- Morgan Elsbeth: Yes, Grand Admiral.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: If a star whale approaches Peridea, destroy it with prejudice.
- Shin Hati: What is it, Master?
- Baylan Skoll: This is a land of dreams and madness. Children's stories come to life.
- Shin Hati: I know no such stories.
- Baylan Skoll: You weren't raised at the Temple. Stories of this galaxy are considered folktales. Some ancient past, long forgotten.
- Shin Hati: With good reason. Sometime stories are just stories.
- Baylan Skoll: When I was a bit older than you are now, I watched everything I knew burn.
- Shin Hati: The Jedi Temple?
- Baylan Skoll: I couldn't make sense of it at the time. As you get older, look at history, you realize it's all inevitable. The fall of the Jedi, rise of the Empire. It repeats again and again and again.
- Shin Hati: Then, isn't it our turn now? Won't our alliance with Thrawn finally bring us into power?
- Baylan Skoll: That sort of power is fleeting. What I seek is the beginning, so I may finally bring this cycle to an end.
- Shin Hati: And that beginning is here?
- Baylan Skoll: If the old stories are true.
- Baylan Skoll: I brought the prisoner. I felt she could be of some use to us.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: And you are?
- Morgan Elsbeth: Mercenaries. Baylan Skoll and his apprentice, Shin Hati.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: Then you must be General Baylan Skoll of the Jedi Order.
- Baylan Skoll: I parted ways with the Jedi long ago.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: You would not be the first.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: Great Mothers, I shall once again require the aid of your dark magick.
- Aktropaw, Klothow, Lakesis: The thread of destiny demands it, Grand Admiral.
- Ezra Bridger: I knew I could count on you. Though, it sure took you long enough.
- Sabine Wren: Well, you didn't exactly tell any of us where you were going.
- Ezra Bridger: That's because I didn't know where I was going.
- Sabine Wren: Typical. Always a plan, never a good one.
- Ezra Bridger: Hey. It worked, didn't it? Didn't it?
- Sabine Wren: It worked.
- Shin Hati: She's on a fool's errand.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: Indeed. You may follow her at your own pace.
- Baylan Skoll: Yes, Grand Admiral.
- Shin Hati: I thought you were to honor your agreement.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: But he shall. Sabine Wren will have the opportunity of finding Ezra Bridger, just a promised. And if she does, you and your Master will destroy them both.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: Sabine Wren.
- Sabine Wren: Thrawn.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: What a delightful it is after so long to see a familiar face. I understand it is you I have to thank for my escape from exile.
- Sabine Wren: Where's Ezra?
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: Ah, yes. The desire to be reunited with your long-lost friend. How that singular focus will reshape our galaxy.
- Sabine Wren: Just answer the question.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: No need for hostility. I'm aware with your agreement with Baylan Skoll, and I intend to honor it. You shall have provisions, a mount, and our latest intel on Bridger's whereabouts.
- Sabine Wren: So, that's it? You're just gonna let me walk out of here?
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: You helped my cause. Now, I shall help yours. You should know, though, that once my starship departs, you'll be stranded here forever. It's also quite possible that your friend is dead.
- Sabine Wren: If you survived, I'm sure he's doing just fine.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: You have gambled the fate of your galaxy on that belief.
- Sabine Wren: You wouldn't understand.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn: Perhaps not.
- Sabine Wren: I'd rather not waste any more time. What kind of ride you got around here?