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

I had been away for six days; there had been a week off from colleges. My students spent their hours in other ways than I, but that was not my concern. All the way home I thought about the pretty face back in the corridor to the dining facility in the senate building. If I would remember her name I didn’t know, many things would acquire my attention when I was back, and rank or not, my inheritance gave me access to areas where normal people seldom were allowed so easily. I docked my freighter, took my baggage with me and thought lightly my visit over at Coruscant. In the evening I met my college teachers in the Officers Lounge and dined with them. A few were surprised that I was back and asked me how my week had been. ‘Quiet’ I answered what else could I answer them and switched to their news of last week. Three had been with family, wife and kids, and had much to tell from the home front. The Officers Lounge was a good area to be and relax. My first year as teacher it was now. I was briefed about the latest laws, excepted in the Senate on Bastion. But they held no interest for me, nothing changed for the military. But next week would come a delegation from the Republic, but they didn’t know more about it.
In my own quarters I accessed the terminal and found my way to sensitive information and looked into it. But the visit was just a regular one and the main purpose of the Republic visit was to keep the bond healthy between the Republic and the Empire and the problem of the space pirates attacking Republic systems. The names of the delegate members were not known from me. I left it for what it was, not interesting. If I would be important, they would call on me anyway, but a line captain would not be invited, except something not ordinary appeared. The second semester of teaching went by, the students eager to learn from me. My days went by like they were all the same. It was okay with me, although I was aware about an unrest in myself that was directed to the dull life of teaching. I missed action and excitement.

For any normal person emotions were not a real problem, but for me it needed more attention. My emotions were linked to the power inside me. It deserved attention, because if not done, it could held certain consequences what could bring great shifts for oneself as well the world around. My father Ben Skywalker had taught me to use the Force, control its power and learned a great deal about philosophy and morals. His teaching hours had always been fun; I had been an eager learner. Ben had taught me to follow my heart, as he had done in his life. Never had I had questions about his learning methods, and I saw no reason to do so. I could summon the Force, understood the subtleties of its whispers and I knew how to defend myself with a lightsaber. I possessed a fine attunement to the Force and all its pure power, it was natural for me. So I went in search to bring more excitement to the life of a simple teacher.

On the Holonet I went in search to find a spot what I call home in time, a real home. Not some quarters here at the Academy, or the old freighter of my father. I wanted a real home into a surrounding that I could love and always feel at home. But it was not easy to find. One house-agency, homeworld Duro, had a few spots in the surroundings of the Duro system, but none of the houses I liked. I wanted something with lakes and forests and so I searched on. The Holonet contained much information, and not always it was clear what link would follow too. The Imperial house-agencies gave only habitable spots available in here inside the Empire, everything was offered; from utterly cheap to horrible expensive. I didn’t care about the money, but what I came across I liked not. So I went off to the Republic house-agencies, and they had a lot more to offer. The central page was a good one. I gave up my desires and from it rolled out a couple inhabitable planets. In my free time I visited those planets and the houses they were for sale. But a fully land planet with forests all over and the sky almost always covered in clouds I didn’t like.
One night after a full day of classes and training in the afternoon at the exercitation terrain, I glided tired into my bed, but couldn’t fall asleep. After half an hour I gave up to find sleep and crawled instead behind my terminal and went looking for a nice free standing house. It was astonishing later how little there was on the market. I didn’t find what I liked, but one planet is what I found, that looked to me like a paradise, Naboo. I changed schedule for the next morning, called up flight scheme to assign a quick shuttle to my name, but decided to take my own freighter. Half an hour later I was in the docking bay and went off. It would be a long ride to Naboo. The next three days I traveled in hyperspace, delivered over to my impatience and my excitement and I didn’t know really to do with the emotion running through me. Playing with the Force was not a solution, but it kept me occupied in the boring hours. The Chommell Sector was good approachable, the navigation computer knew the way, but the last part of the journey I flew myself, not on autopilot. From space Naboo was a blue green planet with white clouds in the higher parts of the atmosphere. At the moment of my approach there was no interstellar traffic. Somewhere I liked it, a remote world, out of the picture of everything. I liked to be in the centre and found the capital of the planet, Theed. Everything could be found here and so I decided it would be good to look for a house around here. I docked my freighter at the spaceport and hired a speeder to go looking. There wasn’t an office for a house-agency so it was a search for me. Just out the center I found a nice suburb. The Naboo were much on themselves as the houses illustrated.

The quiet was enormous and had sure a good influence on me. My impatience soothed under it and a smile appeared on my face. At the lakeside I found an empty villa with a great garden around it and a box to dock vehicles. Partly it lay under the surface, but that was not a problem. Next doors I had neighbours and across the street too. It seemed nobody paid any notice, but in the Force I detected some curiosity from the nearby houses. I was indeed watched. The villa looked pretty from the outside in soft sand-coloured stone and middle large windows. The garden lay neat around, if still someone looked after it everyday. Yet there was a sign on the house it had no owners at the moment. The trees stood free and tall with a massive crown that created a shady sphere around. Flowers sprouted around in the grass. I parked the speeder in front and entered the garden. Forgotten I was everything, except this lovely spot, but when I came behind the villa I was sold. Across the lake lay high mountains. The sun reflected on the deep water in the lake. I turned my attention to the house. Entering was another problem, but with my ID and code the door glided open and I could go inside. The lower floor had a living room and dining room in the back, a kitchen and a child’s room in front. Upstairs were five other rooms, what could be sleeping rooms or studies? Bathing facility was there too. From the house was an access entrance toward the garage. In a natural way a complete artificial building was hidden. The front door to it was large enough to let my freighter come and go. On the terminal in the house I filed in my name and that shortly the sum for the villa would be paid and it was quite large. For me it didn’t matter. I stayed and brought my freighter over from the spaceport. The house was empty, so I spent the first night onboard my freighter, only there was a comfortable bed. I was very lucky with my new property. What the neighbourhood thought of it, I didn’t care. I had no doubt they would come by some time. When the money was paid to the house-agency and being cashed at the local bank I did a few things as changing the access code to the front- and back door and to the garage box. Also I placed some sensitive military equipment in the house to keep intruders out. Not there would be here on Naboo, but I didn’t trust to leave a door open. More enhancements would be added later. Two days later I left the system and flew back to the Imperial Remnant on the other side of the galaxy.