Anakin leans back against the wall, sitting up on the cot, and casting his eyes up to the ceiling before he starts ticking things they know off on his fingers.

"They've either got help from someone on the inside or they're already inside the checkpoints themselves in order to stop traders the way they've been doing. Or both, probably." Since, according to reports, their victims didn't always go missing from the same place. That would've made them easier to track, of course.

"While they were shooting at us, they weren't shooting to kill. While they obviously wanted our cargo, they could've boarded the ship with lethal force but...they didn't." It would have been cleaner on their parts, he thinks, if they just killed their victims and then sent their bodies on a collision course to the nearest star. But instead they captured the whole package and brought their captives...here? Where they weren't exactly prisoners. "Or is that special just for us?"

It might take him a moment realize Obi-Wan hadn't been privy to the line of thought between those two comments, but he probably gets the gist anyway.