A Resolute Gamble
"This thing... it has to be THOR!" Lux Bontri rapidly flipped through the data on his mother Mina Bontri's computer. But Mina was, after all, Onderon's Council Representative, and the data stored in her terminal covered virtually every aspect imaginable. There was an enormous amount of it.
But Lux did not give up because of that. Although he had not spent much time with the Rebel Alliance, the computer experts there had taught him a great deal in that limited time. Sometimes, the Jedi Knight named Anakin Skywalker had even taught him personally.
Come to think of it, those two Jedi had made Lux Bontri see Jedi Knights in a new light. According to Confederacy of Independent Systems propaganda, Jedi Knights were bloodthirsty killers who abused their formidable power to bully the weak, lackeys of the Galactic Republic's exploiting class.
Lux was eighteen years old. When Separatism had first begun gaining momentum twelve or thirteen years ago, he had only been six. Naturally, that impression had taken root in his mind.
But through several encounters with Ahsoka Tano, Lux had seen many different things in this Jedi apprentice who was about his age. Later, his contact with Anakin Skywalker had also left him with a very favorable impression of the incomparably powerful Jedi Knight.
In Lux's mind, there was almost nothing Anakin Skywalker could not accomplish. He could always create miracles. Even more impressively, he was an outstanding mechanical and computer expert. Lux had always thought Jedi Knights were merely a bunch of mystics waving Lightsabers around.
He began applying the knowledge he had learned, sorting and searching through the data in his mother's computer, looking for clues among information that seemed unrelated.
Sure enough, he found another message!
A week earlier, Onderon had attempted to purchase