He doesn't want a continuation of that line of questioning. The nausea from this morning suddenly returns with a vengeance - sick acid sloshing horribly in his stomach, burning his throat. He wonders if he can kill the Emperor before the guards stun him. Or nerve-disrupt him. No, stun - they'd never risk deadly weapons around their liege. His life is worth so much - they'd die before they'd let anything happen to him.

What do you have to do, to get that sort of loyalty? What do you have to do to not be expendable? Start by being born an original, instead of a copy, I suppose...

"Have you read the report? From my last mission." Please no. Because I have no idea what the details are. Don't catch me in a lie.