Reinforce completely missed their reactions to her phrasing and responded with a simple "Ah." She didn't intend to be rude, of course, but she didn't see why a valid question should be couched in unnecessary evasive phrasing.

She was a bit disappointed that her little thought hadn't borne any fruit. A week was longer than she'd been here, but hardly a generation. It seemed he was either an honest exception or a product of the same twisted Landelian reasoning she'd already given up on trying to analyze. Either way she wouldn't gain insight into the place from him.

Of course, people could be interesting in their own rights. As far as she knew there was no 'Republic' that named itself so simply on Earth. Could he be... "Coruscant is?"