"Man, you must have had some life before Thrawn found you." Which might have gone without saying, since Altair was Sith and all. Thrawn had implied that Altair wasn't one of Darth Vader's Inquisitors, which was Eli's first thought. But it didn't appear that he was just some stray Sith either, or had just been hiding out in the Unknown Regions all this time.

Once they were back on the ship, Eli keyed in the coordinates and waited for a bit before jumping to lightspeed.

"Did Thrawn ever tell you about the circumstances in which we found him?"