A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Away

Chapter 135

Luna was already in the danger zone. What was one more spoiler to Sidious's plan?

Apparently enough to warrant an Inquisitor trying to prevent her from speaking. Luna made a mental note to never start serious conversations within the halls of the Temple ever again. She thought it was the Force at first, she really did, but when it didn't let up and only got tighter after a few moments, and she sensed the darker tone to it, Luna realized that it wasn't the Force's will to not speak, it was someone else's.

Which, in her book, was even more reason to continue talking.

Hopefully what had happened wouldn't get reported to Sidious, Luna didn't want him to know that she knew way more then he probably thought. In all honesty, the only reason that she hadn't mentioned 66 before was because any action against it would have been a huge tell and may have caused quicker action on Sidious's part, which would have been very, very bad. Now everything was so close that there was a pretty good chance Sidious would wait, even if someone started snooping around Executive Order 66.

Anakin had actually left to do just that, deciding to cut short her training, which Luna was perfectly fine with, the survival of the Order was a billion times more important than her training with a lightsaber. He had dropped her off at the Archives, which is where she was currently. With the help of Jocasta, Luna had begun to make lots of progress with the translator that the two of them had been working on. It was a long ways from completion, but all things considered it was going relatively smoothly with what little time the two have them had managed to put into it. With everything else going on, Luna's time spent at the Archives had been getting steadily shorter.

Jocasta wasn't too happy with that fact, but she always seemed rather glad to see Luna when the girl managed to make it to the Archives.

"Let's see if this works," Jocasta said as she pressed something on a data pad before handing it to Luna. "Does that make sense?"

Luna frowned as she read over it. "It's better, but the sentence structure is still weird. If the translator is going to be good we'll need to figure out how to get the words in the right order."

"Of course, why bother making a translator if it doesn't do its job correctly?"

"At least we got a lot of words in there though."

"True, but words aren't that helpful if one cannot understand them," Jocasta replied, glancing up and noticing a rather lost looking padawan. "I'll be right back."

"Okay," Luna replied as the librarian left to assist the young Jedi, moving the words around to get the short paragraph to make more sense. Perhaps if Jocasta retranslated it and saw the weirdness of correct English sentence structure, she might have an idea of a code or something that could help. Like wouldn't there be an if then code somewhere that could be used with what verbs they had managed to translate? Given it could become rather long and complicated with the more words and vocabulary they managed to get, but it would work.

Distractedly, Luna wondered if perhaps Anakin could come up with something, he was pretty good at coding among other things.

That thought in turn brought the Jedi to the forefront of Luna's mind. She'd been at the Archives for awhile and she hoped that Anakin hadn't run into any trouble.

She also hoped he wasn't over thinking about the whole Vader thing. There was only so much Luna could do when it came to convincing people to change their opinions and in the end it was up to Anakin to figure out whether he should stop hating himself for actions he hadn't even had the chance to complete or start thinking of ways to prevent and stop them from happening. He would never do what Vader had done, but the fear that he may cause it, that he may do it anyway....