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"I, I will meditate on this," R'sonan said, then laughed, ruefully admittedly, but laughed for the first time any of the quartet present had ever heard. "I say that as if the Force has been giving me all that many answers lately that don't deal with my own personal duties. I will try, but if the Force does not tells me that this is wrong, I…I will not gainsay the Council on it. I cannot see this but leading to ruin, but I can also not see the two of you being part of that doom, simply the catalyst for it." With a sigh and a nod of his head the aged Master turned away, heading further into the mansion.
"Well," Harry said brightly after a moment's silence. "That went…well?" This caused several groans from the women still around him and an ethereal smack to the head as Lily moved through the walls she had been standing in to do so.
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Two days later Harry, Aayla, Kass, Mak, Master Fay, and Lily flew up to the Lucrehulk, intent on taking it to Naboo. The Lucrehulk was carrying all of the parts for the planetary shield generator along with several hundred technicians to help emplace it and to continue to work on the Lucrehulk which would remain under Naboo's command with its hyperdrive removed.
In fact, it was carrying parts not for one planetary shield generator, but for two. The parts for the second were hidden in one of the monstrous ship's loading areas which the Jedi had closed off to everyone else, claiming that they had changed it into a training area. They had hidden the purchases behind several cutouts, and even if someone looked into it they would have assumed the parts were simply spares for Naboo rather than for the Jedi in the first place.
That loading bay was the area where Harry and Aayla had begun work on creating the expansion arrays and everything else that they would be needed. It turned out, however, that Lily and Master Fay had underestimated the number of parts they would need once the expanded area was taken into account. One light per five hundred yards was quite bad, after all. So while the expansion aspect was done, they had barely begun the follow on work and had barely a tithe of the equipment they would need to continue. That was quite daunting considering they had only done the charms on one of the eight cargo holds the ship contained.
Admittedly, Harry and Aayla did not have to be part of this mission, though they both did feel an obligation to make sure that Naboo's part of the agreement was paid in full now that the Serenno had been paid. And after that they would be heading to Kashyyyk, where their two friends, Mak and Kass, would be meeting with their prospective masters. Quinlan would also meet them there after being away for several weeks on another undercover mission, once more with Knight Vosa.
But they were also getting out of Dodge, as Lily put it, while R'sonan and the other Jedi Masters at the school talked to Master Dooku and Master Giiett. Shaak Ti was taking over many of Harry's classes, with Giiett taking on the others while Lily and Master Fay were away. While Shaak had come quite far in her runic studies, she was in no way able to experiment without someone else watching, and she knew it.
Master R'sonan had not been the only Master to have noticed the connection between Harry and Aayla, and they were all looking for answers to that, what had happened, how it had happened, and why the high Council was allowing it to remain in place. After getting to know two padawans over the past six months, they didn't have any real concern that these two would fall to the Dark, but they were greatly concerned about the rest of Clan Saa, the fact that they would all be taking the Old Oath, and the idea of other Jedi following in Harry and Aayla's footsteps in trying to create relationships.
But as a council member, Micah could answer their questions on all of those points, and even why Master Yoda had decided on how he chose to integrate the new techniques. He would not tell them about the Dark Side user/users still being out there, but he would hint that the new techniques could offset the Veil of the Dark Side. Micah would not lie, but he would allow the masters to reach their own conclusions on that point.
So it was a good idea for Harry and Aayla to be elsewhere for a time, just so they weren't around to incite things further. And both of them wanted to check in on Padme. While they had been in contact with her at least once every three weeks or so, they did want to make sure that the young queen had not worked herself into an early grave. There was only so much you could tell over the Hypercom, after all.
Besides the technicians, the Lucrehulk also carried Shmi and all of the other slaves that had either been moved to Serenno for repatriation elsewhere or taken from Tatooine. The group of them in part had organized now, thanks to a large donation from Master Dooku. Shmi had slowly become the head of a small but growing group devoted to freeing slaves or easing freed slaves back into normal society. They were already in contact with several other groups and hoped to create an actual network of both aid stations and more proactive groups which would hunt down slavers and actually free slaves. That last would take a long while, but they were also beginning to slowly build up a public awareness campaign on the evils of slavery, which would hopefully grab galactic interest.
Harry was optimistic, Aayla skeptical, and Master Fay resigned when they heard that one. Lily thought it was a fantastic idea, but Master Fay knew that such things were flash in the pan concepts. They would not have any staying power spread out over the entire Republic, if they could even get that level of penetration, which was itself doubtful
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