"Noticed that resemblance myself... which didn't help much with keeping my temper over some things. But that's in the past now, at least for them." Though Spider has less hope now of doing anything to improve the status of droids in that universe when the authorities there are willing to come up with excuses to get around their own laws against using organics as slaves... and he doubts that would have changed with the shift from Republic to Empire. In fact, he has a bad feeling it's going to get a lot worse.

"You can't carry soup in a pocket," says Elsae... only to have Solus soon explaining to her about dehydrated field rations, and Sev noting that 'not fitting in a pocket' was no reason to ignore hot food.

Spider can't help a chuckle as he watches.