Miraluka

On the way back to Coruscant, the crew makes some more discoveries about Dalt. They find his hidden base, tucked along the vector that Dalt had attempted to plot the Jedi ship onto. They speculate on how many more forgotten Jedi stashes Dalt might've dug up, since he seemed to be looking for them. And they learn from Erin and Master Roon that Dalt did indeed have a 'keeper': A Miraluka named Senal, who most likely worked as one of the Emperor's Hands. Dalt went missing for six years, vanishing right after the Battle of Endor, and then appeared on Coruscant in a Miraluka entourage shortly after the whole to-do with Thrawn's first reappearance. Chances are, they think, Senal ran with Dalt to Miraluka after the Emperor's fall.

Ree gets cheese for Kyp and Dalt, and after some nattering around, realizes that her crest might just have a holocron in it too. And indeed, it does (according to Jenn, they all did, for the purpose of teaching and preserving family lore), but it needs a password, and she doesn't know how to get into it. Turns out, it's the words from her family crest: "honor, compassion, humility." The holocron is a little grouchy, presumably from being closed up for centuries, but is willing enough to talk. She (the holocron) tells them that "everybody knows" where the Skywalker crest was hidden: on Tatooine, where the family was eventually going to show up. When they tell Luke, he snags Han and heads out to dig it up from the foundations of Jabba's palace.

Armed with this bit of knowledge, the crew decides to revisit Dalt's crest and the Obi Wan holocron. Turns out, it's burned over top of an older holocron. Obi Wan wards the way in sarcastic style. Dalt's family motto is "Persistence, Diligence, Justice" which is also the password. Dalt's holocron, which gives its name as Tal Sent, having been worn by Dalt at the time, is aware of quite a bit of the fellow's doings and is willing to help out the crew in hopes of rescuing his family.

So, it's onward to Miraluka. They start there with the housing records. The Miraluka are somewhat obsessed by the whole eyelessness thing, considering it a curse brought on them by the Founders (the Rakata?). They keep meticulous records, especially of matches between Miraluka and off-worlders. Thus, it's easy enough to track down Senal and...Dalt?

Apparently, Dalt left behind a friendly, sane clone of himself who seemingly remembers nothing of the more sordid parts of Dalt's past. He's happily married to Senal and works in the local library. He's quite congenial, but can't help them. He doesn't even seem to realize he's Force-sensitive. So they go visit his wife, who's at home. She's resigned to telling them the story, but from her perspective, there's little enough to tell. Dalt was Dalt, and when they ran away and came to Miraluka, he settled down and left all the bad stuff behind him. She's able to give them the locations of several of Dalt's hidden bases. While they talk, Kedrihm'Val realizes there's another Force-sensitive upstairs. Senal won't say anything about it, but they surmise that she and Dalt might just have a kid.

Holy crap!

Learning from her that Dalt tends to spend time at the park and at the local school, where's he's heavily involved in parent-teacher stuff, they decide to go scope these places out. Maybe there are some clues. The kid, Lexi, follows them...and they learn that her mom has apparently been teaching her some things when Z tries to stun-grenade her. She's excited about meeting Jedi, and wants to follow them, so Zann finally mind-whammies her to go back to her house.

At the school, they find a hidden cloning facility. Putting things together, they can guess about the story here. They believe that along with locking down the Rakata souls, Vader might well have put a suggestion on Dalt to run, hide, and stay off the radar to keep him out of trouble. Senal, following identical orders and wanting to stay safe during the Empire's fall, brought him to Miraluka, where they simply settled down and left all that behind them. Eight years ago, a powerful flux of Dark Side energy (Kyp Durron and Exar Kun) stirred up whatever was lurking in Dalt's brain, and he decided to leave...but he didn't want to leave his family alone, so he created an innocuous clone of himself. In fact, he may well have taken all his memories of his family, removed them from himself, and placed them in the clone to protect them even from himself, because Real Dalt doesn't seem to be at all aware of them, while this clone doesn't seem to be aware of anything else.

They decide there's no reason to upset Dalt's family with this stuff, but they need to go talk to Lexi's parents about her little adventure. Lexi announces that she wants to be a Jedi. Senal doesn't like that at all, while Dalt thinks that it's perfectly wonderful...if a bit dangerous. After a great deal of familial debate, the verdict is that Lexi will go back to Corcuscant with them for training.

Ree makes sure that Dalt gets moved to a different cell, to make sure that he and Lexi never cross paths.