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[He is like a caged beast, moving restlessly indoors while the wind howls at his doors and windows. Anakin has never done well alone, but he's afraid to live with anyone.]

How can anyone stand this planet? [Gripping his mechno-hand into a tight fist, he breathes deeply, trying to calm the anger he feels almost constantly.] What needs to be done? I'm strong; I'm powerful - I can help.

[Anything is better than being stuck with his memories.]

I'm Anakin Skywalker, by the way, and I think I've been here before.

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I believe you! Age doesn't really tell me anything. It's not like you're a little kid. [Anakin, would you take a tiny child on guard duty? Sure why not!]

The power or energy that surrounds everything; that creates everything. Once we pass from this life, our spirits will enter the Force to complete the cycle.

[He loses all of his amusement.] They failed. Wretchedly. I couldn't let them continue.

[Anakin is quiet for a moment.]

We have communicators and holos, but nothing quite like these phones.

Thank you. I'm not a little kid and I have powers of my own, powers I was using back home for the past six months to help protect the United Planets.

Ohhh. I've never heard of that before.

[oooops?] ...that's too bad. I'm sorry it happened.

[and she doesn't break the silence]

Same here. The phones work well enough for what we have here, but I do miss 30th century technology.

We all have different experiences. I wasn't exactly a sheltered child either.

[Though poor Shmi tried.]

Me too. [His expression is tight and his lips are pale.] They could have done so much more, but they were controlled and blinded by their own biases.

Huh. Thirtieth century? What planet do you call home anyway?

[as did Winema Wazzo, but her idea of sheltering was more like smothering in practice.

and she grimaces] Sounds like the United Planets as a whole. They didn't take the White Triangle threat seriously until Earth was attacked directly. Not even the destruction of Trom--seven billion lives lost--was enough to get them to accept that there was a problem.

I'm originally from Bgztl, a planet in perfect orbital and rotational sync with Earth, but it's in another dimension. How about you?

[Shmi never smothered, bless her. She probably wanted to, but she refrained.

Anakin pales, angered that there are others like the Jedi out there.]

Seven billion? How can they live with themselves? They might as well have killed all of those people.

[He grits his teeth and forces himself to calm.]

Tatooine. It's a desert planet and I hated it. The best part of it was my mother.

[Winema Wazzo would have run every aspect of Tinya's life if she could. trying to get her royal-blooded daughter out of the stigma of having a Terran father.

she sighs] They kept telling themselves that there was inconclusive proof of who was involved, but there's only one race that's capable of frying a planet from space without using weapons and that's Daxamites.

[and she closes her eyes briefly to regain her composure]

I'm glad you at least had your mother.

Are you sure they don't have some...deal...with the Daxamites? [Anakin smells something fishy and underhanded. Why let so many die if it could be stopped?]

We were slaves, so it wasn't easy, but we had each other and a warm home. I built a droid and a podracer from parts I salvaged in my free time.

Daxam is a part of the United Planets. We were told that the Daxamite faction behind the attack, the White Triangle, was a fringe group, but I don't buy it. [and in all fairness, few people are willing to openly challenge a race that has super-strength, speed, flight, and heat vision while they're under a yellow sun.

she also delicately sidesteps the slavery thing] What's a droid? I can guess what a podracer does, but not a droid.

I don't either. If they're so powerful and important, they should know about what all of their people do. [But someone has to eventually. Anakin is crazy enough to set himself against them, too.]

A droid is like...a robot. But more intelligent. They can serve a wide variety of purposes and speak multiple languages.

They should at least know that some of their people are racist nassheads. You'd think that would stand out a little. [he could . . . try?]

Wow, really? We don't have anything like them back home. And you made it yourself?

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