Life is a journey, a path on itself...

My age changed to twenty-four and my birthday went over as always, not celebrated. How different that was on the planet of Naboo. Age was there important, because it told about wisdom and experience. Inside the Empire a birthday was usual a family happening, but no more. In public it was never celebrated, nor mentioned. I followed just the customs. The study year went over and at the summer holidays I flew straight for Naboo and the quiet there. Macey was history again, hadn’t heard from her in half a year and despite she was good-looking I changed my attention to other female presences. Except looking around I made no approaches. I would rather have them come to me, instead myself to them. On a level it was flattering if the girl came to me. During the summer with the Empire, it was winter time on Naboo. Not many feasts were there, but enough to join and enjoy myself, and this time I actually did.

Also I fitted myself with a new companion, another astromech droid. This was an R15 class droid, a new design. I bought it in another shop from than where I had found Nerny. I missed him still. The R15 had an own speaker modulator and was so more equipped with a better understanding of languages. This way he could be used for translator. It was a clean droid, no memory yet in it than from the only moment it had been tested in the fabric of Industrial Automaton on Nubia, a planet in the Nubus system, located in the Corellian Sector. Even now they made droids for the galaxy and anyone who ordered and paid, got his product is good state anywhere in the galaxy. The IA was famous for its manufacturing of droids. The R15 had a blue green dome, something the Naboo would be fond off. I bought the droid and took it home with me. I upgraded the civilian model heavily with stuff that was really forbidden. But I didn’t care; I needed a military graded astromech for my travels. A part of Nerny’s old data chips I copied to this model and from the Holonet I let him download more important knowledge he might needed. With my clearance I override the security codes and removed them. From there I adjusted sections in R15 and placed my own clearance code over it. If IA got him back in their hands, they couldn’t access the core of the droid anymore. What kind of name R15 would get I had no idea yet.

From the Republic came banishment over me that the system had to rule me out everywhere I came. But using the old high level clearance of my great grandfather I was allowed everywhere I went. Those clearance codes were still embedded in every core system manufactured. Lord Vader’s footsteps wandered around again for nearly two years now, but until now none noticed really. The banishment was announced on the Holonews, throughout the Republic, together with my vague picture and my name. The Naboo didn’t pay much attention to it, and even then no police officer dropped by my house to ask what I was doing here. That was fine with me.

The galaxy remained a place of disturbances. Sometimes they were as great waves and I sensed it in the Force then, other times they were as ripples on a quiet sea and those I registered barely. I had to rely mostly on the Holonews to know what happened in the galaxy. But my secret high clearance level gave me also access to the databases of news agencies. Sometimes I sneaked secretly around there, learning the news earlier than it was broadcasted on the Holonet. So I could act upon the news, before it even got out. Those way further amendments weren’t made to my banishment from the Republic. Even on senatorial level I kept an eye what was decided. And I had to admit most of the time it was interesting what kind of decisions were taken on senate level for the galaxy. Somewhere between all those senate meetings I found Macey’s name often enough as attendant to them. She functioned there as some kind of liaison, but what kind I couldn’t find out. One thing was clear; she was fully active for the Jedi Order. And I had the distinctive feeling she was busy with something, that would involve me in the end.