As the last of the masters on the Council took his seat, it quickly became clear that the strange e event and the new presence in the Galaxy will be the main ting to discuss… for the moment.

"Does any of you have any idea what happened out there?" asked master Windu.

"Know what that was, I do not" replied Yoda " Know I, that the shroud of the Dark Side for a few seconds remove it did."

"Are you sure?" asked Ki-Adi-Mundi.

"Meditating I was, when happen, it did" answered the tiny Master.

Obi-Wan scratched his beard in thought "Well, before we can identify the new presence, we'll likely be unable to discern what happened"

The masters voiced their agreements, save for Mace Windu.

"I believe all this is connected to Palpatine, master Kenobi and jedi Skywalker."

All eyes converged on him, the concern of the masters easily detectable in the Force. All of the masters knew that the search for Darth Sidious had led to the Supreme Chancellor's inner circle.Obi-Wan asked the question in their minds.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, when I met the chancellor after the… landing, I felt strong connection between those I mentioned. When the shift in the Force occurred, the connection grew more complex, entangled. I believe we should question Skywalker."

Alarm rang in the mind of Kenobi.

"Bad idea. I'll answer all questions you have to ask me, but if you attempt to force him to reveal his secrets, especially those he keeps even from me, you'll make things worse." Obi-Wan wandered how much this new development was connected with certain senator. "Anakin, what have you gotten yourself into this time?" he thought.

"Agree with Kenobi, I do" said Yoda "A grave danger I sense, if force young Skywalker, we do."

"That may be so, but we cannot afford to wait too long. If we do, the Dark Lord may find a way to use the situation to his advantage."

Master Windu was clearly not pleased with the ancient jedi's position. At that moment, the discussion was interrupted when a young padawan entered the chamber.

"What is it?" asked Ki-Adi-Mundi "I hope you have very good reason to interrupt us." The padawan merely handed him a datapad and exited.

The jedi master read. His appearance and facial features betrayed confusion and surprise. The cerean jedi looked at his fellow jedi and spoke:

"There has been some very strange event during the battle Apparently, as the separatist forces retreated, five craft appeared at one of their jump points. What attracted attention was the fact that they didn't jump out of hyperspace, but just appeared seemingly out of nowhere, as well as the fact that four of those were of design used neither by the Republic nor the separatists. The one familiar was a heavily modified corellian YT-1300. The group was observed to be very efficient fighting unit – they decimated two wings of vulture droids in ten minutes. Despite that, they offered no resistance when the Republic forces when surrender was ordered. What's truly weird that of ten passengers aboard those craft four are jedi. Of those, none carried a beacon, nor did they know the codes and have authorization to call for aid. Their names also are absent from any database available. It's as if they did not exist until they showed up earlier today. Their names are Jaina Solo, Jacen Solo, Mara Jade, Luke Lars. They are being broth here as we speak, and the incident is being kept secret from the most of the military command until we can sort it out."

A heavy silence followed the jedi Master's words. None of this made sense, no matter how he masters looked at it. It was not possible for the couple with the same families to be married, which meant that they were siblings or otherwise related – something, which was avoided by the Order and could not be done without the agreement of the Council.

"Very well" said master Windu "Hopefully, these jedi will provide us with at least some answers. Until they come here, I'll go to the Senate. The Chancellor asked for a meeting just before the meeting begun.

A/N 10 passengers – Jag, 3 Skywalkers, 4 Solos, 2 noghri. (Yp, they are here too) As for Skywalkers' fake names – in the next chapter.