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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8786029" data-attributes="member: 4937">The flashback sequences were the clunkiest part of the story so far.  If in fact his backstory proves to be unimportant to any further part of the story, then I'm going to strike those as a failure and a waste of time.  What was going on in the backstory sequence is really hard to work out.  Where the kids alive because the adults had given them some sort of antidote that was in limited supply, or where the kids alive because it wasn't a poisonous agent at all but a biological agent that like some diseases causes only weak symptoms in children but is lethal to adults?   There are a variety of possible inspirations in the Legends canon for the empire covering up planetary devastation with claims of a "mining accident".  My best guess is that there was an Imperial bioweapons facility on the planet that suffered an accident.  (The Empire was big into bioweapons development late in the clone wars and in the early rise period before too many "accidents" of this kind persuaded them to give it up.)  The CIS agents were there to get a sample of bioweapon agent in order to develop a countermeasure in the event the Empire deployed it, but were attacked by the Republic/Empire (the phrase "Republic Cruiser" is very ambiguous since it can refer to a family of light warships or to a cruiser in service to the Republic) and exposed to the agent.  Working against this theory is the presence of the adults who kidnap/rescue Cassian, which suggests it was a chemical agent released on a global scale, which then leaves you to wonder how the kids survived.My guess is that Cassian at some point is going to want to quit or will quit, but then will be told what really happened and this will convince him to keep fighting.   Or Cassian will have a mission that relates to Imperial WMD development that ties into what happened in his childhood.  I really hope it's not a throw away sequence.</blockquote>

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