#the leaks say there will be a scene where Ahsoka is running side by side with a male character on top of loth wolves

[raventrigonsdaughter]

Back to Rosario talking about how Ezra and Ahsoka will have a deeper conection and relationship that will be important to the show, we can all agree that this is most likely a Daughter and Son of Mortis thing right? Everyone can agree on that right? Or at very least they will be parallels to Baylan and Shin

[phoenixyfriend]

Rey Gives No F*cks About the Grandfather Paradox

Okay so since nobody’s suggested a fic under these terms, I ended up expanding on this post on discord and things snowballed. We kept to the basics of the entire plot revolving around Rey really hating her grandad and leveraging her blood relation to not be unalived about it.

With contributions by @atagotiak​, @dracothulhu​, @thepallaspalace​, and several others. The title comes from @gelpenss​.

The basic thing I absolutely need is this: Rey gets thrown back to the middle of the clone wars, and the subsequent plot leans in really heavily on her being, genetically-via-clone-dad, the daughter of the guy running the entire galaxy.

Nobody knows what to do with her.

The timing is mid-TCW for the past (because I want Ahsoka there) and vaguely between Episodes 8 and 9 because I... never watched E9 and don’t want to worry about the timeline. The only things that matter is that Luke is dead (he can die as he did in canon) and that Rey knows she’s Palp’s granddaughter (not the way she does in canon).

We'll say Luke found out from Anakin's panicked force-ghost and just went "well, fuck, okay, I should tell her this before she ends up in a situation like mine and finds out mid-battle or something."

Luke, prior to time-travel: Okay, so, now that I'm dead I know some things I didn't before. Like who your parents were. In the interest of full disclosure because I was in a very similar situation and I don't want you learning the way I did, I'm just going to come right out and say that your father was a clone was Sheev Palpatine. Rey: ... Luke: Are you okay? Rey: I don't know who that is.

(She grew up on Jakku, the history education was a little subpar.)

Setting The Scene

Imagine Rey showing up during or immediately before the clone wars. There’s this phenomenally powerful feral teenager from a desert backwater who tells you that if you ran a paternity test, it would probably pop up the Chancellor. She may or may not bring up cloning. She accuses said Chancellor of being a Sith Lord.

Your other phenomenally powerful feral teenager from a desert backwater, who may not be a teenager anymore but only barely, is very offended by this because Palpatine’s a Very Nice Old Grandfather Figure, but also he’s a little full of side-eye because if the blood test comes back as proof, then Palpatine had a kid and didn’t even know about them, or lied to Anakin, and that’s! Bad! Family’s important!!!

Palpatine hears about this daughter he apparently? Has? And is very confused because the timing doesn’t match up with ANYTHING he was doing, so the kid isn’t natural, and he says as much. (There is an explanation! It’s not a correct explanation, but he does come up with one.)

Finn and Poe and BB-8 all get dragged along because why not have the gang there? Nobody that’s already born, because [handwave] conservation of souls or something, IDK, point is the only person dragged along that’s even remotely close to already existing is Luke’s Force Ghost, who mostly hangs around begging Rey to be less impulsive. Finn is good because he is a nice polite boy, but for actual useful information they need Poe. The unfortunate situation is that the three do not land together. They land at the same time, in completely different corners of the galaxy. This means that nobody is there to curb Rey being her most impulsive self.

Time travel Rey knows two things. Luke’s dad ends up evil. Palpatine has always been evil.

She can solve one of these problems by killing the other, yes?

Rey: Ready to Rumble

See, the initial idea was this: Rey tried to break into the senate to kill Palpatine, got arrested, and then used the "he's biologically my father" card to get out of jail free. (Force Ghost Luke follows her like “please take five seconds to think this through.”)

But.

But.

It would be very, very, very funny if The Force just dumps her in a flash of light in the senate building and she just attacks Gramps on sight. Just a shouted "YOU!" and no-hesitation attempted murder.

Palpatine has no idea what's going on.

Rey took maybe two seconds to get identity confirmation and then started swinging.

[Image Description: An individual in a green metal helmet with an eye slit, holding a pistol. In the upper left, upper right, and lower middle are the phrases “I do not know who I am...” “I don’t know why I’m here” and “All I know is that I must kill.” End description.]

Of course, she gets arrested. There are Master Jedi in the Senate. There are Clone Troopers. Palpatine isn’t the weak old man he pretends to be. Of course she’s stopped.

But she isn’t executed in time for Palpatine to stop her from ruining his entire reputation.

Immediately after Rey fails to kill her Shitty Granddad, Luke's ghost shows up and begs her to not talk about the Sith thing because it will completely undermine everything she's trying to do. Pass off the attempted murder as something else!

Rey, panicking: "that fucker left me on a desert planet for 10 years!" "You owe me 19 years of child support you son of a Hutt!"

The Jedi have to do the investigation, because the girl showed up with a laser sword, and the conversation is, uh... interesting. (“Where did you get that lightsaber?” “I got it from a mysterious old pirate lady I never met before. I don't know, I was being shown around by a smuggler and a Wookie.”)

Interviewer: Why did you try to assassinate the Chancellor? Luke: Say it wasn't assassination. Rey: It wasn't assassination. Int: You weren't trying to kill him? Luke: Assassination has to be politically motivated. Rey: This was, um... not political. Assassination is political, right? Int: You mean this was personally motivated? Rey: Yes. Int: I see. What personal motivation? Luke: Jakku! Rey: He's my grandfather. Int: ... Rey: Possibly father. Nobody was very clear on that. Int: ... Luke: Tell them to run a paternity test. Rey: Oh hey, a blood test would tell us which, right? Int: ............ Rey: I spent ten years as an orphaned scrapdealer on Jakku. He's my father. I'm kind of a little angry. Int: ........... Luke: Good job, kid. You bought yourself some time. Int: I'm going to get a medic to see about that parternity test.

Obviously, it comes back positive. Congratulations, Sheev, you’re the father.

Rey comes with a ready-made built-in excuse for hating Palpatine that nobody can question or fault her for!

Rey, pouring Truth into the Force: I didn't even know I was related to the Chancellor until a few months ago, but it's his fault I grew up the way I did, and he should take some responsibility!

The entire thing is mostly kept hush hush but someone leaks it to the press and Palpatine's ratings tank.

"Chancellor, I think we'll need to waive family visitation until she wants you a little less dead." "I would like to find out why she wants me dead, and indeed, where she came from." "...sir, for your own safety--"

Who would win? A master plan years in the making spanning decades of manipulating and work? or One (1) paternity test

"Okay, so, Rey Palpat--" "Ew, no, I don't want his name." "You--okay. Sure, we can understand that. Is there a name you would prefer to put on the paperwork?" Rey, who would have gone by Skywalker in honor of Luke but can't do that when Anakin is right there and all: "Can I think about it?"

Rey: I don't know what I want my last name to be but I know I don't want his, and most of the people I’d want a name from have famous families like you... Luke's ghost, pointing out the Literal Nobody that she cares about a lot: How about Solo? Rey: ...Solo, then.

(A few months later she runs into Poe again and he offers for Finn and Rey to both take his name because honestly they need SOMETHING but at that point she’s already decided on Smuggler Dad.)

Backtrack a bit. We’ve got a bigger cast.

They all arrive separately. Poe, for one, does better than Rey, who is aiming for a murder, but not quite as well as Finn, who is currently being adopted and hidden like a secret cat by a bunch of Alpha Clones on Kamino. He vibes with the names-or-numbers thing. He doesn’t necessarily tell them where and when he’s from, but he’s very sweet and a great liar and they adopt him wholesale anyway.

The Finn situation is just... "Buir Ti, we need you to hide this man, we've decided he's our little brother but if Nala Se finds out she'll make him leave."

Of course, this leads into Shaak Ti teaching Finn how to Jedi.

Maybe consider Finn needing to almost be tricked into learning Jedi things because he willfully forgets it could apply to him. Finn does not like to think of himself as special, which is super valid, but frustrating for Shaak Ti when it comes to, you know, getting him to acquire knowledge. Finn's training at some point is "here, levitate objects with the Force to entertain the tubies." It’s a lot easier to convince him to practice when it involves the babies.

(Everyone on Kamino looked at Finn and went “oh I love him I’m keeping him and teaching him things.”)

(He’s just very lovable.)

Poe, meanwhile, buys the trust of Anakin Skywalker via R2D2 declaring BB-8 the absolute most baby of droids. R2D2 met BB-8 three hours ago but.

"Hey Obi-Wan this is Poe I met him like five days ago but R2D2 says he checks out because his droid is a baby." "That's nice, Anakin, did you know the Chancellor has a daughter who tried to assassinate him in broad daylight yesterday? Because guess who had to stop the Chancellor from getting assassinated by his daughter in broad daylight yesterday."

A summary so far:

Finn, on Kamino: Hey, um, I don't know where this is, but it's not where I was a few minutes ago. Do you think you could get me a comm? What's your name? Poe, on [dice roll] Denon: Oh, hey, you're General Skywalker? Nice to meet you, I'm so sorry about my droid, she's a little excitable and thought your R2 unit looked like a friend of hers-- Rey, on Coruscant: DIE, GRANDFATHER

Finn: [Peacefully vibing on Kamino, unaware of the chaos and bonding with the clones] Poe: [Trying to explain how he knows someone who tried to kill the chancellor and defend Rey] Rey: [Arrested for trying to kill the chancellor]

Just... just...

Anakin: Some guy ended up lost on base yesterday with his droid, how’s your day going? Obi-Wan: I had to stop someone who claims to be the chancellors daughter from murdering the chancellor after she seemingly blinked into existence in the Senate building. Poe: 😐

(Poe: Oh, so that's where Chaos^2 went.)

Poe: In her defense, she is his... well we don't know if she's his daughter or granddaughter, but she's definitely related to him, and she definitely grew up in a shitty situation that was his fault, so...

(Poe is trying very hard to explain this and not get arrested on the military base.)

As you’ve probably guessed, what's especially funny about all of this for me is the fact that Palpatine is fully aware that this girl shouldn't exist, but can't find a single piece of evidence about where she came from. He didn't start any experiments that could result in a female child, and he didn't have sex in that period of time, so where the hell--

Rey spends so much time in jail... BUT they do eventually assign her a Jedi Master. Possibly before she actually proves her evil grandfather is in fact evil. Most votes went to either Plo Koon or Obi-Wan. Plo, because he’s dad-shaped, and Obi...

"Obi-Wan, you already raised one feral desert child with implausible amounts of power, you handle this." Rey in return is very "Sweet, you vaguely remind me of Master Luke," and nobody knows who the hell she's talking about. Obi-Wan is NOT on board with this plan, she'd really be better off with Plo or like........ Mace.

Reunion Tour

What I need out of this is the eventual Finn and Rey reunion scene that is just excited screaming while someone in the background explains to Shaak Ti that yes this is apparently Palpatine's terrifyingly force-sensitive daughter who hates him.

(Finn senses Rey’s approach and just. Gathers the everyone to wait. He’s just :D REY MY FRIEND REY GUYS MY FRIEND REY IS COMING.)

Anakin shows up with Poe--just a guy who signed on to the military, no big deal--and then Poe and Rey are EXCITED and everyone's just like "Cool, how do you know this literal terrorist child?" And Poe has to scramble and "Uhhhhhhhhhhhh she saved my droid from a scrapheap once and BB-8 is basically my child so I owe her one."

Rey knows that Anakin ends up evil so she’s maybe not actively hostile but definitely very “I’m watching you.” That said, she vibes with him on a lot of things that he maybe doesn’t actively notice.

Rey picks up a snake, snaps off the head for venom avoidance, and starts biting off chunks. Obi-Wan's reaction: [undisguised horror] Anakin and Ahsoka: Ooh, where'd you find that? (Obi-Wan: And now I’m up to three feral children.)

What Does Palpatine Even Do?

OBVIOUSLY at a certain point, Palpatine is just phoning up every ally he has to figure out who broke protocol to synthesize a daughter for him.

So of course, Palpatine blame Plagueis.

She'd have been born five or so years before Naboo, just a few years younger than Anakin. It's such an EASY theory to build a conspiracy around. It is ENTIRELY WRONG, but it’s plausible! And anyone who might have been involved to say otherwise is probably dead!

A random bio-kid shows up you can’t possibly have contributed genes to? Maybe it’s the evil bio spark that did it.

Palpatine tries to placate her with the ‘my genes were stolen for an experiment and I didn’t know’ thing. It doesn’t work because her actual main complaint is he’s evil in her future but he tries.

It'd be a struggle to even get access to her, because of the aforementioned “maybe don’t try to talk to the daughter(?) that hates you” thing, but you know who Palpatine does have access to? The Chosen One.

Rey kind of decides on her favorites early on (she gravitates to Dad Energy and Sad Old Men so Plo and Obi-Wan are on her list, and that means decent time around Anakin and Ahsoka). It's really easy to talk Anakin into helping to some degree because "he'd like to connect to a daughter he never knew" and "a child of her power on a planet like that, you'd know her struggle, my dear boy" and so on. Anakin tries to connect! He tries to play up Sheev’s kind political work and how it can’t have really been his fault! It doesn’t work. Rey does not believe a word of it. Mostly she doesn’t even seem to hear him.

Rey's just like "...oh right, you're the melted mask that Kylo Ren was always ranting about," which means absolutely NOTHING to Anakin, but he mentions it to Palps, who loses his goddamn mind trying to figure out what she's talking about, because it also means absolutely nothing to him.

Here’s the thing: Rey’s already decided that Obi-Wan is cool, because Luke said so, and Plo Koon is dad-shaped, and she also gravitates towards earnest kindness in general, like she made friends with Finn real quick, so Ahsoka? Already getting along great.

She doesn’t dislike Anakin, really, he isn’t evil yet, he’s just... meh. She’s a little suspicious and she likes him less than the others but... Anakin.

Rey, to Anakin: You are my least favorite. Anakin, to Palpatine: YOUR DAUGHTER HATES ME???

And he goes from “she’s a lil standoffish” to “she doesn’t like me” to “she hates me” as is normal for Anakin.

It’s just an escalation of this one time Palpatine wants Anakin to not have rifts and trust issues with a person, at least not until later, because he needs information.

Meanwhile, that very moment, Rey is just like "huh, nobody here is listening to me about how make a sixth-hand carburetor work, where's Luke's dad?"

Anakin is venting to Palpatine about how hard it is to talk to Rey, and she's over in the Temple just like "Hey, that guy was useful last time, I should ask him," but also she only ever thinks of him as Luke's Dad.

(At one point, Obi-Wan is having a bit of a break down, and then Anakin starts having a breakdown about that, meanwhile the clones are (badly) trying to hide Finn behind their backs, Rey is watching Ahsoka practice and being like "I want two lightsabers," and Poe is trying to keep R2 from stealing BB-8 and Force Ghost Luke is just face palming in the background.)

(Rey deserved a saber staff, maybe one that can detach and turn into a jar’kai set. Possibly a pike. Mostly I just wish she got more chances to whack things with a big stick.)

[arielsojourner]

I love Luke goes back in time and saves everyone and leading a Jedi reform. I love Darth Vader going back and redoing his life. But what if they went back in time together? Now with even more self indulgent crack, filled with plot holes I never plan to fix, and now quoting "Lilo and Stitch" because it FITS, damn it, don't judge me!

“PART 4″ of LUKE AND VADER SAVING THE GALAXY DURING THE CLONE WARS:

-After every mission where Vader takes command and then takes care of Separatist Forces while Luke works with the troopers, Luke makes sure to take some time (usually at least a 10 day) before they move on to the next system, the next part of the front line, to just spend time with his father. Sometimes Vader wants to just move on as fast as he can, to the next battle, the next challenge, but Luke has learned the lesson of patience with the loss of his hand. He doesn't' suggest they mediate or spend time in silent separate contemplation like the Order would (also Luke seems to only meditate while doing handstands for some reason which is not a technique that Vader is familiar with but, to each his own). Luke insists that he and his father explore the planet they are on. They go racing. They explore local space and speeder craft. They spend nights just stargazing out in the wilds of whatever planet they are on. Luke loves to visit any source of water they can find- rivers, lakes, ponds, oceans. He cannot get enough of them. Luke insists his father help him spend some time training Chatterbox, Fives and Hardcase. Luke goes out with some troopers to enjoy the nightlife if there is any (Luke is awesome at Karaoke. Tatooine's music scene was always 20 years behind the rest of the galaxy and heavily Hutt influenced so now Luke is on the cutting edge of the music scene at last).  Sometimes Vader will even share a few stories of places he has seen in the galaxy. Luke isn't sure but he thinks this may be the first time ever Vader has done anything like this.

-Slowing down, taking time, and enjoying the galaxy is a novelty for the troopers. They have had R&R before but usually it is a five day at most bookend with campaigns and massive battles. There is still danger and fire fights but now the troopers are taking care of criminals, stopping slavers and war profiteers and there have been few casualties in the last month. Kix is positively cheerful. Rex is preparing to update reports on their numbers for the month and realizes that between this ten day and the last there has not been a single death. The system has been taken, the Separatist forces routed, Grievous is dead, and not one of his brothers died. Rex isn't sure why but when he realizes that it feels like someone has punched him in the throat, he cannot breath, his eyes burn and he chokes. No one has died. In the quiet of his quarters Rex curls his body over the report and sobs.

-Vader hates being back in time. Vader hates being back on the front line of a war that was a total and complete waste of lives and resources. Vader hates the pointless waste of it and Vader hates having to knowingly be back in this time, reliving it. Vader hates that the Council and the Order making the same stupid mistakes and clinging to the same Code as before. Vader hates knowing that somewhere Anakin Skywalker is out there, living and fighting under orders from the Republic and the Council in a war that only ever benefited one person at the expensive of trillions. Anakin Skywalker who was too weak to stop any of this, too weak to see himself careening to destruction of everyone and everything he holds dear. Anakin Skywalker who is him. Vader hates so much it feels like he is still on fire, flesh cooking, nerves screaming. It fills him and still, still he doesn't know what to DO with all of it. It seems never-ending. It burns and burns and nothing helps! Not the Force, not "letting it go," not using the dark side, not destroying Separatist bases and slaughtering slavers and going after war profiteers, not the dream of killing the Emperor, not knowing Padme is alive, not having his troops at his side, not seeing Ahsoka again alive and still not yet betrayed by the Order. Nothing! 

And then . . . and then his son will suddenly be there, by his side suggesting they go do something or see something or sometimes just to sit with him.  

Vader has not told Luke all the details, all the monstrous things he has done and said and thought but Luke must know, must sense it through the Force, but for some reason Luke is still there. Luke frequently doesn't agree with him, won't obey him, doesn't excuse or justify, doesn't ignore who and what Vader is or  has done, what he may do but Luke just won't leave him.  Vader asked, (well screamed really) at him once when they were arguing. "Why?!" Why stay, why bother? Doesn't Luke know? Vader is not going to change, he is not going to suddenly un-Fall, or be nice, or be good. Anakin or Vader, this is who and what he is! Can't Luke see Vader burning with hate until there is nothing else? Why stay?

"Because you are my father, my family" Luke explains.  "Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

It is an old Tatooine proverb. Half hope, half prayer because it was nothing more than a fantasy, a rage inducing lie people told themselves in the face of ugly reality. Families got left behind and lost all the time, but the poor people of that wretched dust ball still said it. 

His mother used to say it. 

Luke was impossibly trying to prove it was true.

-The 501st likes to speculate and gossip about just how this all came about, Luke and Vader. Rex will sometimes try and shut down rumors because he prides himself on a professional battalion (Don't gossip around Luke and Vader! What if they heard you?) but even he has wondered with his brothers just who and how and why? Lots of theories are bandied about, each more absurd than the last. Bets are laid. Ventress runs a book (and isn't that just as weird, working with Ventress! When Luke had brought her back with him after haring off on some solo mission that had Vader reacting with large explosions and massive Separatist destruction Rex had thought everything was going to blow up in his face but instead she has hung around and helped!) The best odds are on Luke and Vader being royalty from a warrior empire on opposite sides of a civil war, somewhere beyond the reaches of Wild Space and finding out they are father and son, they have fled to their galaxy to make a life together. Fives suggested it and has even put together a spreadsheet showing all the evidence in support of his position and will spend a good hour explaining why it makes sense. Force or no, Fives is still Fives. Chatterbox disagrees. When Ventress pressed him for his bet he laid his credits on the table and said "Time travel from the future."  

-Ahsoka wants to argue. She wants to point out that it is a trap, a trick, a Separatist ploy, a Sith plot but the more she learns the less she feels she knows. Umbara was a nightmare when she had been there and now there is peace, reconstruction. Vader keeps his distance which is a good thing. She has never felt anything like him in the Force, being near an open reactor would be easier to tolerate. She also wants to contact someone, her master, hells even the Council but Luke has asked her not to and suggested she send a written report through a slicer channel, censored and secured for the safety of all.

Not ordered, or told. He asked her.  He showed her what they were doing. He gave her the data files to review, he showed her what they had accomplished and how reconstruction was going. He showed her where and how the communication system was vulnerable. He told her peace was happening and this was the only way to defeat the real Sith Master behind all of this, not Dooku, Dooku was only ever the apprentice.

"You know who he is? Who? Where is he?" Ashoka had demanded.

"Where he has done and can do the most damage to every being in this galaxy," Luke had said sadly. "You can see it if you stop and be still.  That is why he started this war. That's why he wants it to keep going on no matter what. You will only know when you are calm and at peace. All the pieces are in front of you. Stop and think."

"You won't tell me? What kind of Jedi are you? Are you working with him? Is that what this is?" Ahsoka stood, furious. 

"No, never," Luke denied. "But you cannot play his game. None of us can, Jedi, Sith, Clone, Separatist, Republican, civilian or soldier.  You lose a battle and he wins. You win a battle and he wins. Until you stop playing, you cannot defeat him. The war is his game so we are stopping the war and then we will go for him. We are not playing anymore." 

To: Skywalker, Anakin (Knight, General) CC: Jedi High Council Date: XXXX XX XXXXXX Status Report of Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano

Honorable Councilors and Master Skywalker,

I have located the Jedi and Sith that were the subject of Master Fisto's and Senator Amidala's recent report and the subject of Master Kenobi and Master Skywalker's investigation. To ensure peace and reconstruction efforts continue without interruption and to avoid intelligence leaks I am sending this report among the regular data packets subject to standard censors but then transmitted the same via a backdoor slicer hack. Only you should receive this message or be able to trace it.

I am following my last instructions from the Council and I am staying with the 501st Legion until Master Skywalker can join us. Be assured that I and my two squads am in good health as are Captain Rex and the troops.

I met with the 501st on XXXXXXX at XXXX hours on the X day of XXXXX.  Reports of a Separatist blockade in the system are no longer accurate. I found substantial debris found in orbit upon arrival. Smaller Separatist transports were in the possession of the planetary government.  Republic ships were planet side. Upon my arrival Prefect XXXXXXXXXX informed me that further GAR troops were not expected nor necessary. 

I found the 501st Legion under the command of a human male known as Luke matching the description and name provided by Senator Amidala's report to the Senate.  I do not recognize Luke from any of the Order records but he has all appropriate access and Jedi and Republic security codes to take command of the 501st. He also has all current battle and wartime codes for a Jedi General. He identified himself as a Jedi but refuses all titles of Knight or Master. He has been in command of the 501st and the other troops working in tangent with the 501st. Luke has been in command since XXXX, taking over during the Umbara campaign from Jedi Master Pong Krell. Luke has been working with a Sith since at least Umbara identified by the name of Vader.  

Luke confirmed that Vader has killed Master Krell and provided the attached data files (XXXX-XX-XXXXXX) as proof that Master Krell had Fallen prior to his death and was deliberately causing the deaths of his clone troops. The 501st confirm these events. They were made to fire on troopers from the 212th on Krell's knowing command. The casualty reports before Master Krell died are extreme. We lost a lot of good troops.  

I still have no idea why or how a Jedi came to be working with a Sith except Luke refers to Vader as "father." I told him this is violation of Order doctrine and the Code and he told me that he doesn't care about doctrine or Code. Vader refers to Luke as "son."  I don't know what the Sith Code is or if it is being violated by such a claim. The Sith Asajj Ventress claims it is against the Sith Code. 

Ventress is here too working with Vader and Luke. I don't know if they really are father and son or if it is some sort of Sith trick. I tried to talk to the troops about it but they just laughed.   

Vader and Ventress claim they have destroyed or surrendered most of the Separatist fleet on planet to the local government and Luke and Captain Rex on behalf of the Jedi and the Republic have accepted the surrender and declared the system at peace. The 501st and Ventress arranged the remaining reprogrammed battle droids and Separatist supplies to aid in reconstruction under Vader and Luke's supervision. 

The Force tells me that Luke is rooted in the Light. Further evidence of his use of the Light side of the Force I saw first hand as I watched him  kill General Grievous in a lightsaber duel. 

General Grievous is visually confirmed as dead and in many pieces. Luke has taken three (3) Force sensitive adult clone troopers as apprentices in violation of Order doctrine and the Code (apprentices identified as XX-XXXX/XXXXX, XX-XXXX/XXXXXXXX, and XX-XXXX/XXXXXXXXXX) and all have been confirmed as Force sensitive and are now armed with re purposed lightsabers.  I told him it was not the Jedi way and he just laughed at me and asked me if I wanted to train with them.

Luke and Vader further confirm all troopers have been implanted with behavior modification chips with encrypted coded orders requiring oral triggers which cannot be overridden, including kill orders against Senators, Republic and Separatist governmental officials, and the Jedi. See attached data files (XX-XXXX-XX-XXXXXXXXXX.). Confirmation also given that all clones were deliberately left in a genetically modified state of hyper growth and aging. Luke with the assistance of clone medics and Vader removed the chips and have through use of unknown Force manipulation corrected the genetic error. I don't quite know how he uses the Force to do it. All he says when I ask is "Size matters not" which is what Master Yoda says but how would he know Master Yoda? 

Luke, Vader and Captain Rex insisted both XXXX Squad and XXXXXXX Squad traveling with me be treated and those clone troopers that wish to stay on the planet to become citizens and leave the GAR have permission to muster out for civilian positions so long as citizenship and full sentient rights are granted on them by the local government and recognized with the Republic. When I tried to argue, the Sith got very very angry. Luke asked me if I intended to treat the troopers as slaves and property of the Republic or as living breathing citizens. Masters, I know slavery is wrong but I didn't know what to say.  We need the clones to win the war but then again there doesn't appear to be a need anymore, at least not on XXXXXX where there is peace.

Luke insists this and the entire war, both sides, start to finish, is the work of the Sith Master and that he and Vader intend to stop the war (not win it, Luke says that it is not possible to fight and win this war because of the Sith Master, only stop it) and then defeat him. Luke has  refused to tell me who the Sith Master is, saying if I slow down, if I stop fighting I will see it. Vader won't talk to me at all and frankly I am not sure I want to talk to him. It is difficult to be around him. I don't want to believe it but I can feel it through the Force. I have searched my feelings. They know who he is and they are right about the war and the clones and Master Krell, all of it.

Master, I have tried to report as best I can what I have seen. I do not have any explanation for what is going on or why. I do not know how much longer I will be here before the Legion moves to the next system out on the front lines or into Separatist space or wherever we are going next. I am not sure when I will be able to message again. It seems unreal but it is true. We need to stop the war. Luke and Vader and Ventress and the clones, they are stopping the war. Master Anakin after everything you have taught me I feel that it is the right thing to do to help them do this, that my purpose, that every Jedi's purpose should be the same.

May the Force be with you. Ahsoka Tano, Jedi Padawan

-Master Plo Koon receives the message first and immediately calls his clone medic and Commander Wolffe  and tells them to start scanning everyone for where their chips are and removing and/or shutting them down. He then asks if one of the clones will volunteer for him to try and figure out how to fix the aging process via the Force. Commander Wolffe immediately volunteers. Plo meditates but cannot find or figure out quite how to do it. Even though the message is censored he knows he must find this Jedi Luke and find out what is going on and see the truth for himself. His troops lives are at risk. Plo is supposed to be patrolling previously liberated Separatist planets to keep the Separatists from returning but things have been quite for days. He orders his medics to keep working and takes his squad to trace the message and find Ahsoka and find Luke and Vader.

-Master Yoda cannot catch his breath. His whole chest aches. He fumbles for his cane. He needs to meditate. He needs to call his fellow councilors. He needs to-- He needs to-- he can't breath-- "General? General? Are you all right? Fry, call the medic, get the medic now!"

-When Anakin reads the message he, to put it mildly, freaks. Obi-Wan and Anakin were supposed to find this mysterious Sith and Jedi pairing with Padme's help, not Ahsoka. Anakin vacillates between terror/anger and glee. He is very nearly manic and out of control. His whole world has been turned upside down. Grievous is dead! Krell was killing troopers. A Jedi let a Sith kill Master Krell. This Vader and now Ventress are working with a Jedi! The Jedi is a heretic! A Sith as a father? The 501st are safe! The 501st had slave chips in them! There are Force sensitive clones! Peace is happening! The war is just a Sith ploy? All of it? All those lives, all the work and energy, and blood and sweat and tears was for nothing? Nothing? They know who the Sith Master is. This could finally be ending, the war could end. 

Anakin turns to Obi-Wan. "What do we do? Can we figure out where the message is from? We need to get to Ashoka!" She is surrounded by Sith and heretical Jedi but Grievous is dead but they know who the Sith Master is and he needs to check on his men and, and, and--!

Obi-Wan needs to sit down. He also needs some tea spiked liberally with Correlian brandy. Hells, he just needs some brandy. Grievous is dead. Someone is teaching Force sensitive clones, Krell Fell to the dark side, a Sith has a Jedi son, the war really really is a Sith plot, the Sith Master is known, it is too much. He can hear the notifications from his comm from various Council members wanting to talk to him. He is not going to answer. The channel is probably not secure anyway. Anakin is leaking emotion all over the place. Obi-Wan is not very far behind him. He needs brandy and then he needs  to apparently sit on Anakin until he calms down. Maybe he should wake up Padme in her cabin and have her help? No, no, first, brandy.