"So get some real training." Caine shrugged his shoulders, almost in dismissal of Liriael's concerns. It wasn't that her worries weren't vaild; he simply felt they shouldn't bar her from doing something with her talents. "There are Jedi here, now. Aren't they supposed to be teachers?" If he had to give Liriael a push, he would.
"You've asked about my galaxy before. My allegiances. The commonwealth may not be an empire in name, but there are families within it who maintain empires in practice. Economic empires. And the most important commodity is everlasting life. Wars are fought over who can promise the elite of the galaxy more time. Trouble is, the only way you can extend a life like that, to stop aging in its tracks, is to harvest other lives. The nobility seed habitable planets, allow the civilizations to grow until the planet can no longer sustain population increases, and then collect the crop."