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Family Ties - Chapter 2

Darth Vader stood imposingly on the deck of his flagship, The Executor, which was the pride of the Imperial Navy. None of the various facts and figures that he knew about his ship were running through the Dark Lord of the Sith's mind at the moment as they began to orbit over the planet of his birth.

It was only the second time since he first began upon the Dark Path that he'd been back to this dusty ball of existence; Important only for its place in the Hutt Criminal organizations, and its ability to produce excellent pilots.

He did not let the feelings of his younger self, the Slave boy who was
remarkably good at fixing things, influence him. But the feelings that the
destruction of the Sand People after his mother's death... that still
affected how he saw this dust ball. But he was here for neither of those
reasons..

This time he was here to discover more about his son... and
perhaps learn more about what happened to his barely remembered
step-brother.

Admiral Ozzel approached Vader the spoke "My Lord, as you can see we have arrived at our destination" Vader responded "Good, have my personal shuttle readied I'll be going down to the surface personally to handle this matter. Have a small detachment of stormtroopers from the 501st accompany me and inform the Imperial Recruitment for the Academy in Mos Eisley to search for any records or applications with the name Skywalker and that I want the information by the time I arrive." "Yes My Lord" Admiral Ozzel replied then turned to carry out the Dark Lords orders.

Vader in meantime had turned and made his way from the bridge to landing bay hanger in order to board his shuttle. He spoke briefly to the shuttle pilots giving them the exact coordinates to the old Lars homestead first.

If his son had indeed been raised on this miserable planet then he was betting that the boy was raised on that farm and that one Jedi in partcular Obi-Wan had most likely had instigated the plan to steal his and Padme's child to one day use against him.

The more Vader thought about it and Obi-Wan's other acts of betrayal the angrier he became. He spoke calmly and efficiently giving orders to the small detachment of stormtroopers that was with him before taking his seat and giving the pilot the go ahead to take off.

Meanwhile on the other side of the galaxy Luke Skywalker had finished briefing his squadern about their orders to help with the set up of the new rebel base on Hoth. Luke sat at the computer screen and logged into the holo-net. He quckly typed in the name Anakin Skywalker and automatically several hits came up up in his search the first one being from Tatooine about a six year old slave who won a pod race in Mos Espa and gained his freedom. Luke had read the article and looked at the photo that was shown.

He saw a younger version of himself whom he instantly recognized as Anakin Skywalker along with two men in what appeared to be the same type of robes that Ben wore he instantly recognized the robes as well the weapons hanging from belts. They were Jedi Knights and he recognized one of them as possibly being Ben and then a young woman who looked to be with them.

Luke then went on to the next hit that he had gotten with his search which talked about the two Jedi knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker assigned to protect a senator named Amidala from the planet Naboo who had various attempts on her life by the Viceroy of the Trade Federation.

Luke read the account about what had occurred on Coruscant, Genosis, which surmised was the start of how the clone wars had begun. The article had described in great detail the events in which many Jedi knights were killed in battle by a droid army controlled by a Count Dooku who apparently had once been a jedi knight but had fallen to the dark side of the force.

The article went on to describe how Obi-Wan and Anakin had fought Dooku but both were injured in battle and Dooku escaping.

The article went on to explain that both Jedi had sustained lightsaber injuries but the most extensive injury was to Anakin Skywalker who had lost his right forearm and hand during the battle.

The article then went on to state that the jedi counsel would be keeping an eye on the senate per Dooku's warning that the senators were under the influence of a sith lord.

The article had then ended by stating that Chancellor Palpatine had been given emergency powers by the senate to create an army for the republic which consisted of clones. Luke then heard the voices of Han and Leia coming so he saved the search and powered down his computer.

What Luke hadn't been aware of was he tapped into the JedI Council Archive, which was readily available now on the holo-net.

Meanwhile on Tatooine Vader's shuttle had landed at the remains of the Lars farm he had remembered reading in the report that a farmer and his wife had been killed in the stormtroopers search for the droids.

Vader had no doubt that Owen and his wife had been the ones killed. He went inside the remains of the home and began searching for anything that could link them to his son.

It didn't take him long as he found a holograph of his son and a model T-16 Skyhopper and a data chip on the Imperial Navy. He took the model, the holo of his son and the data chip and left the home, before heading back to the shuttle he made one stop to grave of his mother vowing not to fail at finding his son, her grandson.

Vader boarded his shuttle and instructed the pilot to proceed to Mos Esiley. A short time later the shuttle landed the stormtroopers exited first then Vader. The commander in charge at the Recruitment Center had greeted the Dark Lord personally and had pulled the information that was requested ready. Vader took the data chip from him and then departed.