Today was the third day since Padmé had left Naboo with Obi-Wan and the others.
"..."
It was obvious that Anakin had no idea what Padmé and Obi-Wan were currently going through. He was still on Naboo, fretting over the Jedi Council elders' order that he return to Coruscant and report in as soon as possible—a command that meant he couldn't wait for Padmé to come back.
Of course, perhaps some issues with the swarm were troubling him, too.
After all, the speed at which Swarm Two on Naboo had developed, and the sheer scale it had reached, were truly frightening. At the very least, he was now worrying himself sick over its size and how well it could stay hidden.
Inside Naboo—a planet with no core, but instead a very unusual structure formed from enormous masses of rock—lay an underground ocean filled with countless caves and tunnels, and rich in resources. There, Anakin's Swarm Two had already claimed more than half of the subterranean ocean at a breakneck pace, spreading in the form of one base after another. Its structures included countless hatcheries, spawning pools, hives, Infested Abysses, Hydralisk dens, main hives, Ultralisk caverns, and Greater Spires. And with the Zerg armies it had hatched already far exceeding the size of Swarm Zero, surely it wouldn't be long before they became impossible to conceal?
At least, according to the information he had so far, Swarm Two had already been spotted several times by Naboo's natives—the Gungans, who had specialized "biological cultivation technology" and could operate underwater. If Naboo's undersea life weren't already so diverse that the occasional Zerg wouldn't seem out of place, and if the Gungans' territory weren't so limited and conservative, with the Gungans themselves a little dim and lacking much sense of danger, they would have