Episode II: Mark of the Jedi
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WAR!!

So, I mean… wow! It's been a couple standard weeks Coruscant time since the war began. WAR! I can't believe it! Master Kire says that there hasn't been a real war since the Republic was formed and the Jedi Order began to look over the galaxy. What the frag is going on?! (Master Kire wouldn't like that I just swore, but hey, it's MY Holocron!) I mean… how can the galaxy really be at war? That seems so impossible!

Word is that Anakin Skywalker and his Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi were at the Battle of Geonosis. How it happens that Anakin gets to be involved in everything that's important is beyond me. I mean, isn't it enough that the Chancellor pays attention to him, and the Council is always watching Anakin's progress? Somehow, he ends up being at the first battle of the war! Okay. Okay, I know. I shouldn't be saying this like I'm jealous. I'm not. Or at least, I don't think I am (yeah, Siri would say that I am jealous). Okay, I am jealous. It's just that I'm always stuck around the Temple, except for when Master Kire and I went on that one mission and it seems like Anakin gets to do everything!

I won't whine anymore about him. (Or at least, I'll try not to.)

So we did go to Kamino to see the facility where the Clone Army was… produced? …born? We went to see where they had come from, at least. Master Kire thought that with my ability with technology, it would be a good journey for us. The Kaminoan scientists weren't exactly friendly. Very formal and that made me nervous and they were very matter-of-fact when I asked about who had made the order. Of course, we'd already heard the story that Master Sifo-Dyas placed the order for the clones, but he died when I was just a youngling! I know that some Jedi have really powerful visions, but… like… I can't even predict when I'm going to trip over my own boots, so could a Master really see the need for "The Grand Army of the Republic" before there was even the hint of a conflict?

The Kamino cloners didn't have a lot to say to us, otherwise, and working out the mystery of Master Sifo-Dyas was beyond what we were capable of. We came back to Coruscant and here we've remained ever since.

Master Kire is great but I really wish I could talk to Master Yoda. I mean… I'll bet he knows what is going on.