The Empire Rises: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 1453

A Clue Thirteen Years Late

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Jax Pavan summoned I-5YQ before him and said, "Execute the shutdown command."

"Yes, Master." I-5YQ did not resist. Its electronic eyes flickered once, and it immediately let its arms and head droop limply, falling silent.

Jax Pavan walked over and carefully examined I-5YQ, but found nothing unusual.

In truth, like Anakin Skywalker, he had a great passion for machinery. That was why the two had become good friends. Yet he genuinely could not find any trace that I-5YQ had been modified.

"The memory core?" Jax Pavan frowned. "No... the memory core in this droid my father left me should have been wiped..."

He removed I-5YQ's memory core, connected it to his computer, and examined it closely.

Among the countless files in the memory core were records of everything since he had acquired the droid more than a decade ago... from when he had been a carefree, intelligent, sunny young man, to the outbreak of war and his gradual transformation into someone burdened and somber by it.

There were even countless little moments that made his heart surge with emotion...

Yes, more than a decade ago, when he received the news that his father had suddenly been murdered, it had felt as though the sky were falling. Yet with the encouragement of his master and friends, he had persevered and gradually grown into the person he was today.

But after more than a decade, war had completely changed him.

Jax Pavan sighed and continued examining the memory core, but still found nothing.

"Nothing at all?" Pavan frowned. If that was true, why had Darth Malthael said such a thing? Why had he said he had placed the truth of the war inside it?

But thinking back, it was indeed so... He had only received this droid several months after his father's

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