As robots in a world with no entertainment for humans, Zero Three and BT naturally had little to amuse themselves with. After all, plenty of people treated robots as entertainment.
When the others found them, Wo Long and Feng Chu were, of course, in a repair shop, picking out spare parts they fancied as carefully as Gossip Girl picked out high heels.
But they had no money. Zero Three tried to haggle with the robot salesperson, claiming that the bluing on a transmission part was imperfect and that it must be refurbished.
Since he had done a good job earlier and deserved a reward, Su Ming generously spent five Credit Points to buy each robot a set of parts. He also picked up a few pain-sensing modules to study later.
With Wo Long singing his praises, the group walked toward the Naboo Royal Palace. Along the way, Aphra gave Padmé a decidedly opinionated account of the Rebel Alliance.
To hear her tell it, the Rebel Alliance was practically the same as the decaying Old Republic. Its internal command structure certainly looked that way.
The moment Padmé heard that dozens of delegates she had disliked from the Republic's old Delegation of 2,000 now held senior positions among the Rebels, she frowned.
She had not forgotten how, when the Separatists blockaded Naboo, those very people had blocked the Republic from sending troops. They had insisted that Naboo compromise with the Trade Federation and held endless meetings, giving the Trade Federation every chance to stall.
If she had not realized back then that the Republic could not be relied on and decided to fend for herself, Naboo might now be a rubbish heap covered in factories.
Then Aphra told her that Leia, the Rebel Alliance's nominal leader, was her daughter—and that professional politicians