"It's too bad I haven't sensed his mind before. If I had, I could probably pick up a trail and separate him from the countless people like him out there."
Darkness just felt like darkness when he touched up against all the different minds out there, after all. There were different levels of depravity, but Altair doubted Nuso Esva was the greatest evil this time had to offer. And he knew a thing or two about evil, too, considering how often it had stared him in the face.
And invaded his mind too, for that matter.
So unless it was someone familiar to him, he couldn't differentiate one mind from another in such a way. And there wasn't time for them to systematically follow up on every subtle tug in the Force, either. There was more for Altair to do than sit endlessly in meditation, and better ways for Thrawn to find his foe.
"Acina seemed to find her to be a decent enough tactician and leader to put her on the Dark Council... Though honestly, I think Admiral Ranken was the brains behind most of Krovos's victories. Not that Acina would know that given that she herself was barely fit to be Empress."
Had it not been for the state the Empire had been in. Had he not disappeared, had Marr not died. The only thing Acina had going for her was being in the right place and at the right time, and having just enough charm to win people over. And at least she had been an Empress willing to listen to his input, which had limited the amount of damage that could be done, as Krovos obeyed her Empress for fear of what would happen if she didn't, if nothing else.
"Not that I think you're wrong. I am a Sith, so perhaps I shouldn't speak of monsters, but anyone who's so... Indifferent to the lives of others, to their suffering... I can't understand it. Don't want to, either."
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Darkness just felt like darkness when he touched up against all the different minds out there, after all. There were different levels of depravity, but Altair doubted Nuso Esva was the greatest evil this time had to offer. And he knew a thing or two about evil, too, considering how often it had stared him in the face.
And invaded his mind too, for that matter.
So unless it was someone familiar to him, he couldn't differentiate one mind from another in such a way. And there wasn't time for them to systematically follow up on every subtle tug in the Force, either. There was more for Altair to do than sit endlessly in meditation, and better ways for Thrawn to find his foe.
"Acina seemed to find her to be a decent enough tactician and leader to put her on the Dark Council... Though honestly, I think Admiral Ranken was the brains behind most of Krovos's victories. Not that Acina would know that given that she herself was barely fit to be Empress."
Had it not been for the state the Empire had been in. Had he not disappeared, had Marr not died. The only thing Acina had going for her was being in the right place and at the right time, and having just enough charm to win people over. And at least she had been an Empress willing to listen to his input, which had limited the amount of damage that could be done, as Krovos obeyed her Empress for fear of what would happen if she didn't, if nothing else.
"Not that I think you're wrong. I am a Sith, so perhaps I shouldn't speak of monsters, but anyone who's so... Indifferent to the lives of others, to their suffering... I can't understand it. Don't want to, either."