Luke soon returned with his R2 unit, which when Zeb saw him he said "You look familiar for some reason… oh well." At that moment Chopper entered the room and both he and R2 started whistling and beeping at each other. Both Hera and Luke looked at the droids then looked at each other. "Well what are they saying?" asked Zeb. "Apparently R2 was picked up by you guys long ago, along with my other droid 3PO. It sounds like Chopper and R2 had a rocky start upon meeting each other."
"3PO… wasn't he that annoying golden droid we gave back to his master?" Zeb wondered out loud. Luke chuckled then said "Sounds like the right droid. He is still as annoying these days." Kanan joined them just then and Luke turned to him eagerly and asked "So where should we start?" "I was going to ask you the same thing, after all you found me."
Luke shook his head sadly and said "You were the only one I could even find the word Jedi attached to. The Empire went through a lot of trouble to make sure any time a Jedi was mentioned that it was covered up. I had to do some serious digging just to find you." Kanan frowned as he reached up to hold his chin with one hand.
"Hmm, I know what you mean. And you have to be prepared Luke, not all the Jedi's we find information about are going to be alive when we get to them, there might even be false leads that will get us caught if we aren't careful." "Speaking from personal experience I take it?" Kanan nodded.
"Maybe we should start with Jedi who left the order or disappeared before the end of the Clone Wars? Before the order to kill the Jedi came through?" Luke suggested. "That's not a bad idea. Too bad we don't have access to the Jedi records on Coruscant, those would be really helpful." Kanan sad. "Maybe we can get access though. I mean yeah the Empire is still out there, and of course they will be powerful on their home turf, but they have also been dealt a crippling blow. They won't be checking every ship as closely as they should, so maybe we can get the Ghost through their lines." Hera said.
"But wouldn't all the records have been destroyed by the Empire?" Zeb asked. "I don't think so." said Luke, "The Emperor struck me as the type of guy who was pretty darn cocky about himself. He might have kept those kinds of records in order to hunt them down in order to turn them to the dark side." "That may be true, but he had what 20 plus years to do it right?" Kanan said, "So either he killed them because they wouldn't or they turned."
"There could still be survivors out there, look at you. Your still here. Ben and Yoda stayed alive and unturned. There could be others who managed to stay in the shadows, to avoid any contact with the Empire that could be alive and well." Luke said.
Kanan sighed and said "Your right, we need to at least try." "No we need to do." Luke said, his eyes sparkling with merriment. Kanan cracked a small smile at that and said "Okay one more question though. Are we sure the Jedi records are still there? The Emperor had plenty of time to move them." The others paused in consideration of this, silent for quite a few minutes before Luke said "We don't know, but it's our best lead. All we can do is hope they are there and if not that there is at least a lead to where they are."
Everyone else nodded in agreement and Hera asked "So boys, when should we take off?" "Whenever you're ready Hera, whenever you're ready." Kanan replied.