Star Wars secrets of the Jedi by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson [Watson, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Skywalker; Anakin (Fictitious character), Kenobi; Obi-Wan (Fictitious character), Action & Adventure, Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic, Juvenile fiction, Star Wars fiction, General, Science fiction, Vader; Darth (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780439536677
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2005-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 21

“The problem is,” Mace Windu told the Jedi Council, “that Count Dooku has had years to plan the Separatist uprising. We are still catching up. We gain small victories, but they grow stronger. What we need is to strike a big blow. Something that will turn the tide and get undecided worlds to join us.”

“A battle?” Anakin Skywalker asked.

“No.” Mace steepled his long fingers. “Something else.” He turned to Obi-Wan. “Do you remember the name Talesan Fry?”

The truth was, the name was buried. He had piled mission upon mission on top of it. When the thought of the boy crossed his mind, he thought of something else. He forgot the name of the planet Taly was from, erased the memory of the ship rigged to explode, never thought of the cave he'd slept in for close to a week.

Yet even before the full name had left Mace's lips, he had remembered every detail.

“Of course.”

“Kept track of young Taly, we have,” Yoda said. "Responsibility, we had, to protect him better than we had his

parents."

Obi-Wan turned to his Padawan. “Taly had agreed to testify against some bounty hunters out to attack a meeting of planetary leaders. We foiled the attack, Taly testified, but one of the bounty hunters killed his parents in revenge.”

“Who was behind the attack?” Anakin asked.

“Suspect we did that it was Passel Argente,” Yoda said. “Prove it, we could not.”

“Taly went underground,” said Ki-Adi Mundi. “Took an assumed name. But then he popped up, under his own name again. He's an adult now, of course. He spent his years underground developing his knowledge of surveillance. He's fulfilled his early promise and become the foremost expert in the galaxy. He's a leading innovator of surveillance tactics and equipment. He built an empire. He's also a recluse.”

“Who can blame him for that?” Obi-Wan muttered.

“He barricades himself behind the security he developed. All his workers have to agree to live in the complex. He has several trusted associates who deal with the necessary details of his business, visiting clients and such. He has no contact with the outside. He has no friends, no family, no allegiances. His only uncle died some time ago. He's managed to stay neutral in the Clone Wars.”

That sounds like Taly, Obi-Wan thought.

“Now he has contacted us. While developing new surveillance- blocking technology, he stumbled on a startling invention.” Mace leaned forward. “A foolproof codebreaker.”

“Nothing is foolproof,” Anakin said.

“We've seen the tests,” Mace continued. “This technology could allow the Republic to break the code of the Separatists. And continue to break it no matter how many times they change it.”

“Is Taly giving the codebreaker to us?” Obi-Wan asked.

Ki-Adi grimaced. “I wish it were that simple. Taly feels he owes the Jedi, because we saved his life. He's willing to offer us the technology first - if we come up with the right price. Taly has made it clear he's perfectly willing to turn around and offer it to the Separatists. What the Jedi must do is go to his compound and obtain the codebreaker, then bring it to the Azure spaceport.

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