Tatooine: resting place of the Skywalker Seal

Ree is dismayed when she sees herself and the rest of the crew in the headlines the next day. She also learns that Scuzzy and Wuzz have started up a fan club for the group and are merchandising the heck out of them.

They decide to head back to Tatooine to look through Jabba's palace and see if they can learn anything more about the Skywalker seal. Z is enthusiastic, since he wants to find Jabba's treasure, but he mentions that the place has a reputation of vanishing would-be treasure hunters., and Oola has heard stories about brain-stealing robots that Jabba used to have guarding the place. Z suggests that they take Salek Endek with them to help with the traps Jabba undoubtedly left lying around.

Z also reports that he's heard nothing about bounty hunters who use ARC trooper armor, which means that this guy isn't a bounty hunter.

When Ree gets back to her room, she finds an envelope that's been slid under her door: old data records from the Clone Wars describing a mission where Anakin and Obi Wan went to Thule to destroy a weapon called the Dark Reaper, which converted a planet's energy into a destructive beam. Ree looks up the reference on the old temple computer core, then shows it to Kyp. He's worried about the possibility of Thule having rebuilt that weapon.

On the way back from Kyp's room, she passes some padawans in the hall who start giggling when they see what direction she's coming from. She rolls her eyes at what she assumes is fangirling.

The next morning, she meets with Endek, who says he has heard troubling stories. He tries to dissuade her, but grumpily agrees to come--insists on it, actually--when she won't change her mind.

Kedrihm'Val speaks to the two Jedi again. They tell him the Jedi found the coin there under a marker stone, and left it when they realized it was for the Chosen One. These Jedi are young, and one of them turns out to be quite the Chosen One fanboy. He proudly displays his collection of Chosen One comics and says all sorts of alarmingly naive things about Luke. The other Jedi is more useful: he points out that the coin is said to have information relevant to the Chosen One on it, so if Luke has it, then he probably has learned quite a bit from it by now.

So. The B'omarr monks were the first ones to settle Tatooine, about 700 years ago. It seems likely that they recognized the marker as a holy thing, and built their monastery around it. The monks are apparently gone, but there might be some information on early interactions with them left in the first settlement, which was built around the crashed Dowager Queen starship.
Z thinks it's likely that nobody would've bothered such apparently useless information, so there's a good chance it's still there.

Luke tells them he found the coin in Jabba's treasure store (much to Z's disgust; apparently he and Han just waltzed in and then back out again), where Jabba apparently put it after he found it much deeper in the complex.

Ree finds another note shoved under her door, this one about a Sith named Set Harth. Records in the old computer say that he's a mythical figure, a fallen Jedi who hunted Sith secrets. He was fascinated by the Sith and their mystique, and was allegedly born before the Mandalorian Wars, but the stories indicate that he would still be alive.

Ree wonders, could this be the secret leader of Thule? Or more likely, someone who's masquerading as this man? She checks up on who has been delivering these notes. The guards say they're brought to the temple by a messenger service. She brings this information to Kyp, who's likewise a little disturbed by this anonymous help. He tells her she'll need to attend a Masters' conference.

On the way out, she passes Luke in the hall. "Kyp has some information for you," Ree mentions to him. "Ah," says Luke meaningfully. "Is he in there now?" "Yep!" she replies cheerily. Heh, even Luke thinks there's something up.

The next morning is time to go. Z is drunk. Oola introduces her new droid, INON. He's chipper and sweet. SARR is revolted.

Endek knows of someone with ARC armor. The guy frequents the Rim and loves a challenge. Z, annoyed, says he's putting in better traps on Ree's balcony.
Re: "Don't kill any pigeons."
Z: "Why not?"
Ree: "They're living things."
Z: "So?"
Ree: "Z, don't kill any pigeons."

Ree thinks it might be easier to simply move her quarters. "But don't you like where your room is?" asks Z. "Well, it's convenient," admits Ree. "I figured it was convenient," replies Z, who considers that she's just down the hall from Kyp.

When they enter the old palace, Ree and Kedrihm'Val both sense telepathic chatter in the air. Ree follows it to a secret passage in a wall. Down some old stairs, she encounters a spider-like droid with a bubble holding a brain. It backs away into a room when it sees them. Ree, 'hearing' it talking with others, approaches and asks for directions. They're polite enough about it.

So, they head down more stairs, and Endek disarms several vicious traps. They find a square block with the propechy of the Chosen One written on it. In Galactic Standard. There's a hole where the coin apparently fit. Endek says that no one native to this galaxy built this thing. It's the Architects again. The prophecy was theirs? Why should they even care?

When one of them mentions the name Skywalker during the discussion, the ground suddenly shifts a little. They all look at each other for a moment, then Kedrihm'Val says, "Luke." It shifts again. It's a verbal lock, they realize. Recite the Skywalker family and it opens the floor into another room. Down there, the walls are covered with Architect writing. There are two perfectly rendered life-size statues of Luke and Leia, each of whom hold their own coin. There are no holocrons in them or anything, but the patterns on them seem to be personalized. Ree takes those. Oola knows enough Architect at this point to know that the walls talk about balance and the universe being thrown out of balance--damaged and repaired. Something about the gate on Ree's planet and the Infinity Gate. She can gather that something hasn't been done yet.

Z finds a hidden case in the floor: a box for the two coins, with four more inside. One of these is a variant on the Sent family medallion with circuit-like patterns. Dalt, obviously. One's a variant of Ree's family seal (a fact which Ree does not recognize and denies when they point it out to her). One is kind of roguish, and the other has primitive supernatural symbols on it. Jude and Mora?

Z wonders quietly to the others "what you do with a Jedi in denial of her destiny." And how did the Architects interpret all this? Just because they saw clearly doesn't mean they understood it the same way, after all. They seem to have identified Luke and Leia as some kind of rulers or royalty.

On the way back out, the monks tell Ree they would like to repay her for her tolerance someday by helping her toward enlightenment. There's a vaguely menacing undertone in that...but they don't seem inclined to mess with this group.

On the way home, Ree has a vision of an evil Force user with long white hair. He breaks open the Jedi prison ship to get someone. She passes this on to Luke at the Jedi temple. He says everything's fine there, but they can double security for a while, just in case.

When they land, there are reporters waiting. Ree manages to beg off, and hurries in to give the coins to Luke. He comments that Leia's going to be ticked. She hates getting involved in this stuff. Ree makes it halfway down the hall when she hears Luke's voice in her head calling her back. He hands her her coin, and also suggests she watch the past week's news. She also remembers to ask to have her room changed. When he asks why, she says, "Because people keep breaking in and Z wants to mine the crap out of my balcony." "You know what," says Luke, "I'll have your rooms changed."

And he does. So now she's right next to Kyp.

Ree discovers that Luke was referring to a new comic strip about her. Written by Dyt Urron, it follows her entirely fictional new adventures. Kyp's not in his room when she calls on him. Apparently the Force clued him in on the danger.

Dalt says the walls tell the story of Luke and Leia. Nothing particularly new. Then he gets onto his 'give everyone the Force' jag again. He makes a good argument for it, really.