Draagh listened and then replied calmly, “Less stratified perhaps but familiar. The Empire is not a place of living agony, no more so than the Republic is a paradise. It is my home though, warts and all.”
“I am sure I will go back one day, better for my time abroad, so to speak. I mean if the roles were reversed, and it was a possibility there are many Imperial worlds and colonies an ambitious person could go to make a life of significance, would you take it?”
He shrugged and added, “It isn’t an easy decision. Well perhaps that is just me, and my patriotism and love of home outweigh the issues I see and experience.”