Beilert Valance's grandfather

The grandfather of the human bounty hunter Beilert Valance was a male individual who was enslaved as a miner on his homeworld Chorin for his whole life, like generations of the Valance family and the population of the world before him had been for centuries, until they were liberated by the Galactic Empire and became a free people who mined for profit. Sometime after Chorin's liberation, a young Valance asked his father, who was also a human miner, if he would remain a miner his whole life like his ancestors. The boy's father stated that he believed Valance himself was different and was born free, and that he belonged to the stars.

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