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[ Here's a new face for all of you. Just this young man, sitting cross-legged on a wall with his hands tugged into the large sleeves of his dark cloak that is generously pooling around him. His phone? Is either propped up somewhere or plain floating in mid-air, but details.

At least he looks cheerful enough. ]

Hey.

[ He nods once. ]

My name's Anakin Skywalker. I'm a Jedi Knight and General in the Grand Army of the Republic. And while I guess that this doesn't mean anything here, the latter may be explanation enough for why I'm not too happy with being here.

You see, there's a war going on back in my galaxy and I'd rather be with my men than sitting around on some forced vacation.

I'm not getting much of a say in this as it seems, however.

[ Anakin's expression relaxes and he looks down to where his hands come free from where they have been tugged away. The money he has been given rests within his fingers and he gives it a contemplative look. ]

I was told I'd need a job and a place to stay, but being a Jedi I'm not allowed possession. Including money. I don't mind working. I'm good with droids, building and fixing things. But I wonder if it's possible to just work in exchange for a place to stay rather than material pay.

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If there's a record, it's in the archives. But I've never been too interested in ancient history myself.

[ It's boring. ]

And yes. It's our duty to destroy the Sith.

[ And it's sort of expected of him to get rid of them for good. ]

IN the end they're just other Force users. I can take them.

Oh, but it's fascinating. Just - all of what's been before, and how - it keeps repeating itself, because people don't learn - and just discovering how people had lived before, what they believed, how they solved their problems ....

[ It's not boring, Anakin, if you're a giant nerd. Takumi allows himself to gush a little bit, genuine in his excitement if not in his desire to share it with a judgmental close-minded Jedi, but. He trails off with an embarrassed smile. ]

Sorry. I got a little carried away.

[ He's more somber at Skywalker's vow, and he bites his lip, before nodding. ]

Yeah ... you're right. From everything I've seen and heard ... while some of them are like night and day ... seems like some of them aren't very different.

[ Shrugs ]

Even if you don't see many running around the alleys of Nar Shaddaa.

I prefer to focus on the future.

[ The past is boring. And often painful. But if he keeps looking ahead, he doesn't have to see it. ]

As a matter of fact, there don't appear to be many Force users here. There are disturbances, that I can tell, but I can't fully make sense of them now.

[ It's a different world with many different life forms. It will take him some time to fully get used to it. ]

That's not a bad outlook, I admit.

[ He's going to be focusing a lot more on the future from now on, certainly.

Scratches the back of his neck again, the same earlier, nervous movement that he used before. ]

I'm ... not sure what you're feeling.

But ... I'd prefer to know ... I mean. I - I don't want to run into any Sith here.

[ After all, it'd complicate things, especially if they followed that Rule of Two nonsense.

He drops his head down, looking worried and a little afraid, and allows his hand to accidently shift his neckline enough, to show the slave-brand tattoo, just barely. Just a hint. ]

[ It's a hint Anakin doesn't understand, however. Tattoos are common to him. Most of the Clones have them in all forms and places as their own means of individuality. In his time, slaves had chips implanted in their bodies, so the connection isn't being made at all. ]

As I said before: Just send them my way. I'm certain they'd like to see me dead.

[ BEING A JEDI IS FUN, OKAY?! ]

[ Some slaves went unmarked, bought and sold too often, or seen as too disposable. Plenty of criminals and those in cartels had tattoos as well - he was prepared for that of mistake. He wasn’t expecting no reaction. Because, even with similar tracking technology - in Takumi’s time, there were too many who owned slaves and wanted to see proof of that ownership there. A way to mark them as inferior, non-persons. Cruel, egoistic, possessive. Sith.

But Anakin’s Sith were less numerous - less *idle* in many ways. Takumi couldn’t bring up his miscalculation - he just looked up, and gave a small nod to Skywalker. ]

... I suppose most would.

Take care, here, General. Good luck.

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