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He would’ve been protective of the traditions that had come before him.

So I figured that would have come from a similar time. And there’s that tension between the people who want the navy to provide protection, to be a defensive shield, and the people that really just see it as a mechanism for expanding Republic commerce. They’re out there basically doing security, and one of the plot points in the comics was that the Republic had actually extended its responsibilities way too far in order to protect the planet Taris, and you had guys like Admiral Karath who thought it was a bad idea. The navy very much serves as a bodyguard for the commercial transit lanes, for the hyperspace lanes. I wanted to show somebody who could very honestly reflect an earlier time, and a time where the Republic was really not in the business of knocking over other planets or invading places or starting wars. We might ask ourselves whether Palpatine had some involvement in that or not. This is a guy who has been running this institute, this flight school, even back before the Clone Wars started, and it’s revealed in the story that it did become part of the Republic navy during the wars. I wanted him to even predate the Clone Wars. What kind of ideas lead to the development of Baylo? So it should feel similar to other stories in that regard. It struck me that this would be a really good place to show the clash of cultures between the old way of doing things the Republic would have done, and how things are done under the Empire. We have somewhat of an equivalent here in America where you have the Virginia Military Institute, which is not technically part of the armed forces, but everybody who goes there has a commission. There were various sailing schools and technical, navigation schools in British naval history. I wanted to explore this particular flight school that was not really officially part of the Republic navy for a very long time. Of course, it is a special time for the Imperial Navy because this is a very early story after the rise of the Empire, so the Empire is still bringing together various parts of the Republic’s armed forces. It takes place at the equivalent of an Annapolis or West Point for the Imperial Navy. Does “Orientation” also refer to a genre outside of space opera? The novel Kenobi was essentially a Western, and you have described your first Star Wars story (the 2005 “A Model Officer” in the Star Wars: Empire comics) as Vader doing detective work.