Second: I would like to say Thank You once again to my best friend Kym who is most definitely the "Idea Girl", for giving me the ideas for this chapter. The idea of Luke using the holo-net to find out information on Anakin Skywalker came from her. I took the idea she gave me and ran with it. What developed has turned out to be quite fun writing. I figured the best way for Luke to discover any information about his father would be to search the past.
Third: The articles in Luke's holo-net search in this chapter pretty much holds the imperial view of many of the events that happened in Star Wars Episode III Revenge Of The Sith.
Family Ties Chapter 3
Luke Skywalker had finished his dinner with Han and Leia. He headed back to his quarters and powered up his computer. He retrieved the search that he had saved earlier and clicked on the next link
The article that came up described how Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker had been sent on daring rescue attempt of Chancellor Palpatine who had been kidnapped by Count Dooku and General Grievious.
The article went on to say that the rescue was successful and that Chancellor Palpatine was indeed saved. The article then stated that Count Dooku had been killed by Anakin Skywalker and the General Grievious had escaped.
The article had a holograph of two Jedi Knights; Luke recognized one of the men as being a young Obi-Wan Kenobi or "Ben" as he had known him on Tatooine. The next man was tall with dark hair and wore a deeper brown color robe similar to Ben's. Luke knew instantly that he was looking at his father Anakin Skywalker. Luke studied the holograph a moment longer as if trying to commit to memory his father features.
Luke then clicked on the next link which was a short blurb stating that Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi had been sent along with a small legion of clone troopers to track down General Grievious. The article went on to say that Chancellor Palpatine had named Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker his personal representative on the Jedi Counsel. The article then stated that the counsel had accepted this appointment by Chancellor Palpatine but would not grant Anakin Skywalker the rank of Jedi Master.
The next article that Luke clicked on had stated that the Jedi Counsel who was seemingly mistrustful of Chancellor Palpatine had ordered Anakin Skywalker to spy on the Chancellor. The article continued on with a link to another article about Anakin and Palpatine. Luke clicked it on and waited for it to come up. This article had stated that the Jedi Counsel had decided to seize control of the senate and the republic by sending a group of Jedi Masters led by Master Mace Windu to confront Chancellor Palpatine. The article went on to say that Master Windu had attempted to kill Chancellor Palpatine and that Anakin Skywalker had walked in on the attempt and killed Jedi Master Windu. The article continued on saying that Anakin Skywalker told Chancellor Palpatine what counsel had ordered him to do and that he felt the counsel had committed treason against the republic.
Luke then clicked the back button and had gotten back to his saved search links then clicked on the next link. This time another article came up stating that Chancellor Palpatine had announced that with the exception of Anakin Skywalker every single Jedi Knight was decreed as enemies of the republic and that they had to be eliminated. The article went on to state that Order 66 went into effect throughout the Core Planets and the Outer Rim of the republic and the Jedi Knights were killed by clone troopers. The article continued on stating that two Jedi Masters had escaped the purge. Luke had no doubt that one of the escaped Jedi was Obi-Wan Kenobi or "Ben."
Luke then clicked on the next link and again another article had come up. This time the article stated that Anakin had been sent by Chancellor Palpatine to a lava planet called Mufastar to deal with the Viceroy of the Trade Federation.
The article had gone on to state that a young senator from Naboo named Padme Amidala had followed Anakin to Mufastar and that unknown to her the rogue Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi had stowed away on her ship believing that she would be able to lead him to Anakin Skywalker.
The article continued on by stating that a very deadly and dangerous light saber duel between the Kenobi and Skywalker had ensued and that it had ended by Kenobi leaving a gravely injured Anakin Skywalker to die. The article went on to state that Chancellor Palpatine had rescued Anakin Skywalker and sought medical treatment for the hero of the republic but that no traces of Kenobi and Senator Amidala were found.
Luke then clicked on the last link in his saved search. The article that came up stated that Chancellor Palpatine had declared himself Emperor and that the republic was now called The Empire and that Coruscant was now the home of Imperial City. The article went on to say that Anakin Skywalker had survived the injuries that he had sustained on Mufastar but that he was forever changed and that with help of medical technology and many surgical procedures he was recovered but now living a private and secluded life out of the public eye and that he still continued to serve The Empire. The article went on to say that Emperor Palpatine had declared Anakin Skywalker a hero of The Empire and that his reward would be to live a secluded life and continue to serve the empire.
Luke sat there dumfounded. He thought back to Tatooine and the conversation he had with Ben in his hut. "How did my father die?" he had asked. Ben had replied "A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct. Vader was seduced by the dark side of the force."
Luke brought his mind back to the present began to get angry. He had been lied to repeatedly by those he trusted and now to find out that his father wasn't dead at all but still alive somewhere. He reached out with senses to at least try to feel his father but his lacking of training hindered his ability. Luke then typed in Darth Vader in the search engine and waited for the links to come up once they did he saved the search and powered down his computer and headed for bed. His squad along with Han, Chewie, Leia, and the droids C3PO and R2D2 were heading for Hoth in the morning.
Meanwhile on the other side of the galaxy Darth Vader had been sitting in his meditation pod studying the intelligence reports on his son, when he felt a weak but untrained call that he believed was his son Luke.