• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    She didn’t need to conquer an entire planet. Qui-gon bought a slave with the earnings from one pod race. She could have pawned one of her dresses for more money than Watto had ever seen. He was literally living in a dump.

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      21 hours ago

      And I’m sure he wasn’t a bitter resentful fuck who’d keep the slave just to spite the person who took his livelihood from him…

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        21 hours ago

        He was a businessman. No one took his livelihood. He’d be getting more money than he’d ever get selling her to Lars.