Philippe’s search for Atticus

The death of the young prince sends shockwaves all over the land. While the people mourn, Philippe sets off to find the bastard. Finding the Bastard would prove to be a herculean task, much harder than Philippe had originally thought.
One fine morning, very early Philippe gets on his horse and sets off on a path unchartered. The only information that he has is that the Bastard resides in one of the highly populated working districts. And there were a dozen working districts. These districts were largely outside the control of the Empire. As the empire was not interested in technological developments, corporations broke out from the empire and started these districts.
Fragments and Bigger pieces
Andora was a much more complex planet than the other planets in the Galaxy. Small fragments existed here and there all over the lands. But there 3 major empires - The one true king, the second was Darticus - the king of the forests, and lastly the corporations. One vastly different from the other. The most powerful right now were the corporations adhering to the times, followed closely by the king. Who was slowly losing his power and Darticus remains as he was, limiting himself to the forests.
While the king does not try to conquer the lands here or in outer space, the corporations continuously send their fleets to collect resources and also do a variety of trading. The king has a treaty all over the galaxy and also a lot of powerful enemies. The corporations do not enjoy such attention and this greatly upsets them. Their allies and enemies are not as powerful, and they largely go unnoticed all over the galaxy.
Darticus remains in the forests and no one in the galaxy except the people of Andora knows his name.
The Bastard in the Districts
The Bastard whose name is yet to be known to Philippe, lives in one of the working districts. Philippe first charts his course to the public library of records that is 50 miles from the kingdom. In the library, they have records of birth and marriage for the last 500 years. So Philippe for sure thought that the bastard will be found under the marriage of the king and Camila. But under further inspection, he understood that the king's marriage will not be recorded, as a precaution. Around noon Philippe finally reaches the Library of Records. A huge structure that stands over 100 feet in height. You would expect such a formidable building to be heavily guarded. But to his surprise, there were no guards, just an old librarian waiting at the entrance, as though expecting the arrival of Philippe.
"Hello, sir" welcomed the librarian. He must be 100 years old thought Philippe to himself.
"Hello sir" replied Philippe to the old man.
"You must be here for the bastard, well come in." "We have a lot to discuss," said the librarian to Philippe. "Please have a seat, let me bring the records you need to pay attention to. But you must know young sir, said the librarian - I have already prepared the details to make your job easier" the librarian continued.
The librarian puts a bunch of books on the table. "Young sir, you do not need to open them. I have all the information you need. But I must say the records for the last 10 years I do not have nor does this library. So you must presume that nobody in the lands will have the information" said the librarian. "So let me tell you, his last known location was in District 8. He was 8 years old, along with his mother. They escaped the great floods you must have surely heard of and they seemed to have settled elsewhere. The rest is something you must figure out from someone else or someplace else. I have the location for District 8 and how you can access it. I suggest you start from there sir" said the librarian.
Philippe looked up at the librarian, dusted the books, and opened them up.
"There are some pages that are missing sir" said Philippe to the librarian .
"Yes of course Philippe, I'm aware of that. There may have been someone else with them. I suspect they went missing after the floods. Their identity I do not know" the librarian replied.
Philippe looked up at the librarian. "Sir, if I may can i have the book for myself for this journey?" asked the young counsel.
The librarian hesitated for a quick minute and eventually parted away with the book . Philippe was almost about to leave.
"Young sir, do not trust anyone. No one is your ally" said the librarian.
Philippe nodded and left the building.