I'm wearing it, aren't I?

[That is all the gratitude he will find himself capable of showing. He is not one for gratitude by any stretch of the imagination. Even after spending many years being cast aside, disregarded, ignored, the only thing that had ever gotten him anywhere was being as ruthless and ruthlessly clever as humanly possible.

He hadn't been so strong on that second point as of late, but he could stick to his plain old ruthless guns just fine.]

Regardless, I cannot agree that there is any success involved here if there is still an ineffective government in power.

[Rebels or not, the First Order had also been in the business of removing ineffective government. The only difference was that the First Order was merely putting back the system which had already been established. They were the true power, not the New Republic.

He could not begin to guess the situation here without the history of the planet. And he does not imagine a scavenger has that information on hand.]

I do not suppose you have seen any other efforts first hand -- besides our retrieval.