Mace sat in a chair in front of an eerily glowing holoscreen, his eyes heavy from exhaustion. He had been searching through screens of data for hours. Still, nothing of interest had come up.

He tried to recall what Palpatine had told him earlier that day. Mace remembered he had said, "Zonama Sekot is a planet of legend. I didn't think it really existed. According to the rumors, it is supposed to be alive. It is also said to have hyperdrive engines. It runs from trouble, and only wants peace. But wherever it goes, trouble seems to follow it..." An interesting thought entered Mace's head. A legend... perhaps he had been looking in the wrong place. Mace leaned back in his chair.

"Can I be of any help, Master Windu?" said the librarian as she walked up to where Mace was sitting. He turned his head to look at her. "Yes, actually, I need all the data you have on legendary planets. In particular, one planet called Zonama Sekot." "Hmmm... legendary planets..." said the librarian, her swift eye searching through the glowing blue panels on the walls. "Ah, here we are!" she said, pulling out one of the panels to reveal a small, thin data disk. She slid it into the disk slot below the holoscreen. "That should be it!" The librarian smiled. "Thank you." Mace said, bowing.

He turned his attention back to the screen. He typed "zonama sekot" into the keypad and instantly a match came up. He opened it up and began to read. At once his eyes widened. The file read:





:: DATA LOG :: 717-89-GH6 :: Personal File of Ghras DeLohk ::

( DAY 16): It had seemed all hope was lost yesterday. Than today, something miraculous happened. I was lost in the depths of space, my hyperdrive engine irreplaceably damaged. Suddenly, into my sensors drifted a strange planet. I could not believe what the readings said. This planet had life-form readings ten times larger than any planet I had visited before. In fact, it looked like the only things on the planet that were not alive were two massive, hollow cylinders jutting out from one side of the planet. It took me a minute to figure out what these were. When I had figured it out, I still didn't believe it. These objects were engines! The planet I had discovered was the living, moving system Zonama Sekot! I had heard rumors of its strange powers and mysterious living spaceships from other explorers, but never before had I seen it for myself. Knowing the planet's cautious tendencies, I inched closer. But the moment I entered its atmosphere, its engines fired and it rocketed off into hyperspace. I tried to get a lock on its destination, but because the planet had no navicomputer I could only say that it was headed somewhere in Sector 647-H. There are over a million systems in 647-H. I will probably never see the planet again. Anyway, right after the planet left, I received a signal- from a Republic vessel! It turns out I was near the core after all, floating close to Correlia! The next thing I will do is take an exceptionally hot shower.

:: END TRANSMISSION ::





Mace racked his brains. He recalled hearing of an explorer named DeLohk, and how he made up outlandish tall tales. But something told Mace that this account was no story.

The explorer sure knew his space sectors. And he was right about a crucial point. There in fact are over a million systems in Sector 647-H. Most of these are backwater worlds where the air is not breathable or a small colony exists. But some of these small worlds are colonized. On a few, there are even towns, cities, or maybe even metropolises. One of these large worlds, perhaps the most populated, is a planet... called Belkadan.