22) “Remember This: Try.”
Cassian returns to Ferrix to attend Maarva’s funeral after all, only to find the tightened Imperial grip—and his former flame Bix in their thrall. Steeling himself to storm the Empire’s base of operations with Maarva’s farewell ceremony as cover, he turns at last to Nemik’s manifesto—the thing he was gifted by Vel after his death, the thing he was so scared to touch after Aldhani—and we hear the young man’s stirring exploration of the weakness of fascism, how individual insurrection chips away at the fearful oppression of the Empire, and that all rebels need to do to break its siege is a simply thing: remember to try.
