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[Han snorts at that]

He would make the whole thing a nightmare.

[He's pretty high up on the list of people Han hasn't missed]

And then when we get it to work he'd try to take the credit and start looking for ways to exploit the link.

[Even she has to roll her eyes at that. The Bothan senator wasn't exactly the biggest help sometimes, that was true.]

I don't tell the Council everything. There has to be some boundaries between what I know and what I tell them.

[Like who her birth parents are. They definitely don't need to know that.]

Not even Winter keeps all of my secrets, Luke.

Yeah, that's exactly why I don't want him knowing.

[He's pretty far down Luke's list of favorite people too.]

Honestly, if we can keep it to just the three of us, and maybe Chewie and Lando, I'd like that. And yes, that means keeping it secret from Threepio too.

Keeping it from Threepio is always the plan if it's going to get kept from anyone else.

[That droid was far too chatty. And worse, he would probably want to help.]

As fond as I am of the protocol droid, he's the last being I'd ever tell a secret to. There is a reason my father had his memory banks wiped, after all.

[And even if they got the droid to help, he'd find a way to mess it up. Unless Artoo was there to keep it from getting too horrible.]

Artoo will have to have this particular part of his memory fiddled with too. You know how talkative he gets with Threepio.

[Those two...]

Chatter, chatter , chatter. You don't think he'll just keep the secret if you ask him?

[Artoo's generally the more reliable of the pair in that regard. But if Luke was actually contemplating doing it... well, he didn't tamper with their little friend lightly.]

Your dad was clearly a smart man.

No, Luke's right. We can keep this secret. Sure, I'll have to keep it the longest, but I've managed harder things than this. R2D2 and C3P0 aren't really... Anyone could get Threepio to talk with enough time, and you know he's compelled to translate anything that Artoo says.

[As much as she doesn't want to do this, it's the right thing for everyone involved.]

My dad was brilliant. But you knew that already.

Well, then I guess we'd best start figuring things out. I'll put together a list of everything, while we're here. Store that in a coded part of Artoo's memorybanks, but it'll still probably take some requisitions. That means...Lando, Ord Mantell, and the Smuggler's Alliance.

When are you going to start?

[It's a bigger question, with the differences in time]

I can talk to them, but I'm ahead of all of you.

And I'm much further behind the two of you. How am I supposed to be much help in this situation?

I'm starting tomorrow morning. And honestly? I think I may have to do this myself. It's just a matter of keeping things quiet. We'll all catch up to one another in time. But I guess in the meantime, we should probably go ahead and give Leia some information on what happens in the near future, huh?

[Meaning? Thrawn.]

[They've told her an awful lot of the future already]

The major campaigns, anyway. There's three that come to mind.

I'm going to assume that these are extremely important events, but if you're going to tell me about them, perhaps you can stop being so vague.

[She's unsure if she really wants to know more of the future, but at this point, there's only so much she can change if she wants the future with her family that awaits her. And she does.]

Thrawn, then. Should we start with Thrawn?

[A pause.]

Or Mara?

Thrawn leads to Mara, really. He was an Imperial Grand Admiral who managed to rally their forces about a year after we got married. Creepy good at finding planetary weaknesses.

A Grand Admiral, I'm impressed. And who's this Mara?

Complicated. But she's a friend. A smuggler, Ex-Imperial Agent who turned to our side in the end. I trust her, with my life if necessary. If that's indication.

[Seriously though, Luke you have an awful sense of self-preservation.]

Also wanted to kill him for a while in there.

[Because of course Luke trusts her]

But she helped us with taking Thrawn and his crazy pet Jedi clone down.

[Leia sighs, knowing all too well how Luke could be. Remembering Senator Gaeriel Captison of Bakura, it seems her brother's tastes in women hardly improves. Well, until Ami.]

Thrawn had a Jedi clone?

[She throws up a hand to stave off the headache that will be there later.]

Start at the beginning.

[Well in his defense Mara is just a friend...]

That...is something of a crazy story.

But that's not really the beginning, is it Han?

[What is the beginning?]

It was five years after Endor. We were making real progress on getting the government properly set up. Some shipping concerns, but I was working on those. But then we started getting reports of hit and run attacks. Brilliantly planned, taking advantage of tiny little vulnerabilities.

[Well, Leia would like to hope that Luke knew how to be friends with someone too. But, oh, that beginning explanation isn't exactly what she was expecting.]

Well, the Empire had to have someone competent in power somewhere. They couldn't all be like Tarkin or Nereus.

Well, Thrawn. He was stationed out on the Rim territories. We know that much. And the Empire did have plenty of competent people. They all died at Endor and Yavin.

[He'll give a few of them that much.]

Thrawn though, he was something else.

There was competent and there was him. It was like he was peering into a planet and finding its exact weak points.

We kept going to the planets that had been attacked and we would run into these little grey aliens. Noghri.

[They're important. They've become somewhat of a fixture in their lives.]

And it started to get pretty obvious that they were after the twins. Barely the size of apples and people already had plans to use them.

[Which still makes him angry. No one takes their babies.]

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