"Lieutenant Drellick. Will you be joining us, then?"

"Yes, my lord."

"Excellent."

He did a good.

"Many Sith disdain the practice of delegation. Being able to recognize when you lack relevant expertise and at least listen to those with more knowledge is an important skill. Doing so without admitting the appearance of weakness even more so."

"The appearance of weakness?"

"Knowledge is power. The converse is also true."

"Sure and knowing how to prioritise what you're going to learn and rely on others to shore up the necessary gaps sounds just smart."

"And potentially exploitable."

"Hmm, I suppose, yeah."

"Let us be off."

"Where are we going, my lord?"

"The tomb of Ludo Kressh."

"Oh, how exciting! I've been wanting a look at the second reliquary."

"What's in the second reliquary?"

"Supposedly, accounts of his dealings with the Massassi primitives. We've never been able to find their homeworld, but there might be clues."

"That sounds really interesting!"

"Yes, it's one of the enduring mysteries of the time before the Great Hyperspace War. Where did the Massassi come from? And possibly relatedly, where did they go?"

"I'll want to hear about everything you find out."

"It's likely they are extinct. They were mostly used as shock troops, and battlefield survival rates during that war were not overly high."

Drellick waves a hand. "Well, yes, but there's still a chance. And that's what's exciting!"

"And even if not, figuring how they came to be is still worth it."

"The thrill of discovery! I adore it."

They're getting close to the tomb. Two massive stone pillars carved in the shape of kneeling humanoids with bowed heads flank the cliffside entrance.

"How very thematically appropriate."

"Note the stylization of the facial features, the limb-to-torso ratio. Typical of the time period. The banding on the stone and the pattern of abrasion implies the stone was quarried and carved locally."