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Crystals huh?

The fleet, armada really, thousands of ships, millions of droids and tens of thousands of organics and maybe a few silicates made their way north of Coruscant stopping at outer core worlds in the bulge in the lines that included Alderaan and the die hard republic core worlds. It skirted just on the border with the new empire dropping occupation forces, planetary defense weapons and Harry doing a ward stone on the first one, then finding an existing interstice to put it on and blooding it with as much blood of the residents of that world could be collected. He charged it just enough to get it started. On the next world a stone was waiting for him, selected and carved by droids, with a twenty liter jug of blood. Maris charged that one until it started absorbing blood and then they all did one in rotation with Harry guiding them. Even Master Kenobi.

Of course the holofeeds of these stops were pitching the Empire into a panic, loading the droid Lucrehulks serving the waste removal and now passenger stations to capacity with passengers on every run. The food and recycle Lucrehulks were the greyhound bus of the galaxy, cheap basic transportation. What no one but the Banking Clans realized or had the full picture of was these ships were doing the same booming trade across the core and outer core worlds at ever shaft or port twenty-four hours a day every day.

The Lucrehulks were also the source of the slave control signal suppression. Whole worlds would find themselves bereft of the classes of people that cleaned up, maintained and cooked. They would also find themselves minus dancers and sex trade workers. At five thousand people every hour per sector in various shafts or ports on every planet in the core the bleed rate was high. When you started with three hundred and twenty billion beings of a population of a trillion on just one planet though it would still take seven years to get them all off the planet in the case of Coruscant, if all the non-humans decided to leave. At least if there was no other transportation available. Coruscant was a pretty normal core world. The nonhumans hadn't all decided to leave yet but they would, all except the truly lawless under dwellers. When they did Waste Management hulls would be there. But as these people were beneath the notice of the upper crust the lower levels emptying went unremarked. Except for the sex slaves not returning. They were generally first in line once they figured out the control signal was blocked. Once in line inside the port facilities no one was going to fight B3 droids and the medium weight quad canons that appeared guarding the Waste Management Line terminals to get them back.

Once inside the facility passengers were processed and put into containers and from then on didn't know whether they would step out in a ship or on the planet they had request passage too. Or in the case of slaves 'off this planet'. It was all artificial light and steel walls with Holo screens in the bunk rooms. Everything was based around the container you were assigned to.

By the time the brothel owners and pimps figured out what was going on the sex slaves were gone. Going looking for new stock in the under city got more than a few brothels placed under new management. Under dweller women weren't some yokel on some farm world to be shoved around. After all they were managing to survive in those dark hells. Plus their men were not liable to sell something they had fought, clawed and killed over already. Fuckers held a grudge too. They also weren't averse to taking it out on the surface dwellers who were coming to the clubs. It kept the Imperial Security Forces very busy. The Imperial medical and fire personnel as well. Molotov cocktails never went out of fashion.

There was always one ship ascending to orbit another descending and one unloading and loading at every shaft or port once the signal went on and B3 Battle droids defending the waste processing and loading facilities and the food unloading facilities. They took on passengers on both sides of the tongue like loading platforms that extended into the gaps between the hulls. They were lined like highways both in and out of the ships and the loader droids ran at max speed both directions. Paying passengers rode loader droids with people moving pallets, got in lifts, and rode to the second deck to their double rooms with fresher and holo screen which if they wanted it to be private they simply paid for both bunks. Never realizing it was a container like the rest. Passengers who paid half as much were happy to walk up to the third or fourth deck to find their ten person one fresher bunk rooms. Former slaves were happy to be in a container wherever the loader droids put them. Those had ten bunks and a fresher and one holo screen as well. The normal traffic in the shaft moved through the hole in the middle of the donut shaped Lucrehulks.

For months, it never even occurred to anyone 'official' to check those facilities and the lucrehulk garbage scows. By then the sex slaves, the slaves period really, were long gone.

While they were there B3's collected debts for a ten percent of the debt fee. They had a one hundred percent success rate. It soon got to be that if a B3 showed up, people lined up to hand it their id and cred chip. The alternative was rumored to be them processing you and selling you for parts and meat in Hutt space.

A standard loader container could mount two doors on the end and nine on each wall. So below the nominal 'passenger' deck, the second deck, every loader pallet contained twenty null space cabins of the two or ten bunk variety with the only difference being the deck they were stored on and the destination they were going to. Oh and the atmosphere and temperature. The cargo capacity of the ships was not compromised as all passenger facilities were contained in these null space door containers, Laundry, kitchens, tankage and everything else. Droids cooked and cleaned and did laundry and crewed the control sphere less hulls. They weren't fast but they were steady and inviolable. They still had flocks of chemical powered vulture droids on them with upgraded software to deal with pirates or slavers and deal they did. Harshly.

The indigents or contract travelers as they were called had to take test before boarding and were found jobs in route to their first planet outside the core and transferred ships, as told, or the container of them transferred, until they reached their destination. None taking more than a month to arrive at some planet and be herded into medical, more testing, have clothing issued and being assigned a job, factory, shift, training schedule and room. They were also given a padd linked to the local holonet. If they had friends going the same place their container efficiency apartments were right next to each other. The stacks of containers had duracrete balconies and stairs or lifts between vertical stacks of two wide and five high. Droids added five floors of balconies, lifts and stairs which carried water, sewer and power lines, plus holonet connections and every new ship brought a new stack or fifty. The infrastructure stopped being built when the factory you worked at was fully staffed, all three shifts. The droids then moved on to roads, parks, auditoriums, shopping areas and all kinds of things. Another set of droids was building another factory in the distance and the racks for the stacks of containers. The accommodation container interiors were expanded as much as the team of force users at the factory that built them could. So instead of being forty square meters they were two hundred square meters inside with a fresher, bedroom, lounge, and kitchen. Null space doors were available for purchase for storage or an expanding family. Anything above or different from base, nearly indestructible furniture was for available for purchase as well.

Harry's account got one percent of every transaction at least and his banker, the Chief of the Banking Clans invested that for him in more of these ships and more lines going to more vent shafts or ports. Then more factories, containers and rack infrastructure. A whole planetary factory was churning out Lucrehulk hulls as fast as they could be built all day every day. More ships to serve more worlds outside the core as well. They were spartan to be sure and the food was barely above iron rations but they got the job done. They would get more amenities as time went on and the mass migration changed to more normal flows of people going where the jobs and therefore the money were.

Another planetary factory churned out B3 battle droids who were the new standard droid as they could use the same tools as humanoids and do a lot of the same jobs. Then if needed they could down tools and pick up blasters. They were also linked in a network to the AI of the planet they were on increasing it and their capacity.

The Clan Chief also bought labor contracts by the millions and Harry made one percent of those beings pay direct from the employers as a load on their contract as well for five years over and above them paying the freight lines back for the reasonable cost of transport at a reasonable rate over five years. Bars Hnad the Clan Chief put those people to work on every planet with any arable land or industry at all. All at a decent wage. They wouldn't get rich but they wouldn't starve or have to sell their children either. More and more of those planets, farms and industries were Potter concerns. If you didn't want to work for a Potter industries concern or line you could lease a bit of land or a facility for a hundred years and run your own farm or factory. If you had itchy feet you could lease a ship. A rebuild from the clone war or one phased out of service with a line and rebuilt but still a ship.

On jungle worlds, others as well, force sensitives looked for plants and animals that were heavy with the Force, took samples and looked for the compounds that the samples of Harry's potion ingredients revealed. Whole list of plants and animals were compiled and then hunter gatherer teams protected by droids went out. Those plants and animals that could be domesticated were and whole continents given over to magical plant and animal production. Harry was forced to do a potion a day in front of an archivist droid and those were broadcast once they were made into instructional holo's and healing potions were renamed and used as medicine. Every force sensitive in the Republic sat in on Harry's classes. Well as soon as they took the oath and got a security code.

The Banking Clans head hunted Force sensitives, even those not capable of using the Force, when they came to understand those people could brew potions. Droids did ingredient prep on industrial scales and potions were scaled up industrially to vats just as large as the person running them was capable of making work. Brewers were paid a premium based on their capacity measured in liters.

Harry hadn't realized the brewing process took the magic in the plants, some in the environment and some magic from the brewer. Potions breweries were sited on ley line interstices with a ward stone sunk in the center of their floor space.

Harry didn't demonstrate any potions outside the medicinal and normal, not the experimental or the harmful ones. The Republic already had birth control. His still sold well and worked better the humanoid females of the galaxy decided. He did however make a holo of the menstrual relief potion which was closely related and normally combined. His vast wealth tripled on that potion. If a species menstruated it provided relief. The women gave him cow eyes over it for years and his name was written in on ballots across Republic space for centuries. Winning most of the time. Harry had a seat on every local, planetary and sector council for years. Sometimes he even holo called in to meetings. Bars had people to sit in local, continental and planetary councils for him and he was always a holomail away for questions. He was very growly over it all. He owned the medicine business outright. All of that was for the future though.

SSDV

A week into a fourteen day hyperspace transit Harry woke up covered in very active Lekku and looked around to find Maris grinning at him. She whispered "It's a massage first thing every morning. They do this as they wake up."

Harry sighed "But you all end up in my bed?"

Maris smiled "Aayla's bed you mean. We wait until the shower runs, finish our showers, meditations or whatever and by the time we get in here you are passed out and Aayla is using you for a pillow." She rose nude and went to the shower.

Harry slipped out of bed and followed her "Naked. And why are we taking so many showers?"

Maris snorted "You like naked don't lie. We like you liking it plus we like you naked. As for the showers, well it feels good when we wake up, then we have exercise and are sweaty messes then we work hard all day and don't want to go to bed smelly. That one may be a bit of a girl thing. Besides you do drying charms even asleep. It feels nice. Now shave me."

Harry frowned "I taught you this charm."

Maris rolled her eyes "It feels better when you do it to us that need it. Here I bet it feels better for you for me to do it to you." She flicked her hand and a chair appeared. She sat Harry in it and picked up her wand and slowly shaved him sitting in his lap cowgirl style. Harry growled low in his throat and Maris slid back and forth. He wasn't in her but he was as hard as a rock. Maris finished and slid to her knees taking him in her mouth and finishing him. The other girls surrounded them and gave out hugs and kisses.

Harry looked at Aayla and she rolled her eyes "You should have been mating them all already. I'm not leaving. I love you and them." Harry would have that in the back of his mind all day.

SSDV

At exercise that morning a large group of Jedi Masters watched from a catwalk as Harry took on Maris then Ahsoka then Aayla followed by Shaak with either sabers against his suburito or hand to hand. Last he and Aayla dueled with sabers so fast it was hard to follow. The girls were all happy and filled with energy. Mace, Yoda and Obi wan stood with the Masters as their Padawans and a large group of Knights and young Masters watched from the floor. Plo Koon nodded "Padawan Tano is ready for the trials. Brood will be soon."

Adi Gallia frowned "Potter has mastered most of the forms though his signature lies heavily on them. Even his defensive forms are aggressive and violent. Only form six and seven need more work. If we send Tano to the trials it will reinforce him being a Master."

Yaddie laughed "You have eyes but cannot see. He is a master now. A consular he will never be. A Shadow he is. Powerful in the force, anathema to the dark. What trials could we devise that exceed leading a pre hyperdrive planet to win a demon war? Judge him we hardly can."

Stass Allie shrugged "There is the Jebble box. Or Korriban."

"Beneath you it is to seek to get Master Potter to clean up our messes. Control of our armies he has. Too important to risk where the Force does not point him. You all will spar with him and we will talk again."

Obi wan had been watching Harry and the female Jedi. Harry had put down some stones while talking to Padawan and Knights and then he tapped one with his finger and the living force came up and created a wall across the hold, no a large rectangle. "What is he doing?"

Mace watched the four Jedi light their sabers and then Harry light his in his left hand while holding his wand in his right "Satisfying your curiosity." The group watched as four Jedi who had been training together for a month attacked Harry. The fight was so fast the human eye literally could not catch it all and then the magic started. Blast of the force, walls, sheets of it. Bolts of the Force lying from both Harry and the four Jedi. It left the Masters gasping, the four Jedi in the warded area down, and Harry hyper as he ran to them ensured they were alright and lifted them then hugged and kissed them. The hold rang in a stunned silence except for the laughing Jedi and the hyper Harry.

Depa Billaba gasped "They are mated!"

Yoda nodded "With my blessing. The Rusan code killed us it would have. Change must the order. There is its future. Imposed by a fearful senate that no longer exist was celibacy. Afraid of the dynasties of powerful force users. The old code we will use."

On the upper reaches of the sphere in a luxurious space and with the droid Harry had renamed Alpha One the Leaders of the Republic Senate and the burgeoning rebellion alliance watched the Masters of the Jedi order dissolve into a hissy fit as their Padawans and Knights and some younger Masters swarmed Harry and his mates. Mon snorted "Alpha One is there a gymnasium we can lock the Jedi Counsel in while they fight over a lost cause?"

Garm barked a laugh "Ever blunt Mon. Though I wish we could use the Yoda method on the Senate."

Clynda nodded "I'm not sure it's necessary though. A few parties and meeting Harry and I think they will understand there is a larger predator lose in the galaxy. We will try a few meet and greets first. Turn this trip into an educational tour for Harry. It's not like this thing isn't big enough to hold a senate chamber over in that other arm."

"Beg Pardon Ma'am but there is a Senate hull in the convoy. We would simply need to move the sphere to it and dock." Alpha One supplied.

Bail eyed him speculatively "There is a Jedi hull in the convoy as well isn't there."

Alpha One replied "Clan leader Hnad anticipated the need as well as the need for a ship for each planet or region with a Senator in the former Republic who have joined the rebellion. Those are still being built and can be fitted out as the Planet in question requires and can afford."

Breha chortled "The Clan Leader bears watching. How were we beating them?"

"The interference of the Sith Lord Ma'am." Alpha One supplied deadpan. The organics watched the hissy fit and Harry's group some more while they thought about that.

SSDV

At the next stop after days of exercise and leading a group class on finding their core for the Knights, Padawans and young Masters and the Council still discussing developments outside of a few trying to duel him, and getting the crap surprised out of them. Harry sent a few charged dueling rune stones into space and then fired ships cannons at them. The rune set and stones were not harmed but the small moon they impacted, fortunately void of life, actually cracked as they had been accelerated to hyperspace speeds. They had to wait an extra day while droids retrieved the stones.

Bail scratched his chin "So I have these things and they get charged and some big fleet comes and bombards the planet from space what happens?"

Alpha One offered "The planet is sent on a new course."

Harry frowned "Bollocks, I didn't think of that. Hey is that even possible? Ships like that I mean."

Mon nodded "The Empire has a set of plans for what they call a star destroyer with enough fire power to do that, and there are rumors of a station under construction as big as a small moon that could destroy a planet. The Bothans are looking into it. The yards at Corellia have already laid the keel for one of the larger star destroyers. If the empire took their remaining battleships and massed them they could probably do it. They did on one occasion." They were all in a conference room on the third sphere level with hundreds perhaps thousands of beings in attendance via holo.

One of them, Apailana, the Queen of Naboo offered "I think I would rather these wards than the alternative. What must I do to get them for my people Lord Harry."

Harry sighed and Aayla poked him "We will send you instructions Your Majesty. Harry will come by and do the last part as soon as he can. Your craftsmen can start the process."

Apailana smiled and nodded "I look forward to meeting Lord Harry and his lovely mates at your next destination. I am leaving tonight."

Bars grinned "As do I my Lord."

Harry sighed "We are going to need a bigger boat."

Mace Windu and Yoda laughing brought the conference call to a close.

SSDV

Corellia existed in a ring of steel and firepower with only lucrehulks of Waste Management Industries, or WMI as that is what they had come to be called as that was painted around the donut shaped ships outer hulls in letters five stories tall, under droid control being allowed in and out. So of course those lucrehulks were nest of intrigue as spies from both sides plied their trade in the passenger container sections. The passenger containers were of course classed, though it was still moot or rather a matter of how many beings were in one cabin, and no imperial spies had thought to ride in the lowest classes as they would have had to sign employment contracts and the classes were strictly segregated. So the panic over what was really going on was avoided again.

Ameesa Darys lay on her bunk in an outbound freighter thinking she could smell the shit the ship was full of. She couldn't, the waste was sterilized six different ways and hermetically sealed in containers before it was transported. She was finally away on a mission to the wider galaxy though. The small densely packed with planets and humans part the empire controlled was denuded of Jedi. Padawan, Knights and Force sensitives even at this point. Her job was to kill Jedi and she meant to see it done. Her and her team first had to track down this powerful dark sider the Emperor sensed. No reason she couldn't kill a few Jedi if she ran across then along the way and make her Masters Life easier.

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Master Plett landed his ship in the hold of the giant freighter and a droid crew took over beginning to service it and move it to a parking spot somewhere in this enormous vessel or on another hull in the fleet. Another ship landed behind his.

He led the children down and off the slowly moving ramp to the stationary flight deck. The ship having landed on a repulsar pad that held it a few millimeters above the deck and moved it around. One of the children froze watching Jedi exercising along the wall of the enormous cargo bay, running and leaping along stanchions protruding from the wall. Master Plett had to admit these Jedi were powerful and in phenomenal shape. Roganda Ismaren had no reason to be surprised though. She had seen Padawan, Knights and Masters before. Her brother Lagan followed her eyes so of course the other children did as well.

Master Plett sighed and was just about to say something when Master Mace Windu appeared at his elbow. "Send your Padawans to join them and come up to the observation platform Master Plett."

The kids turned to him, beamed at his nod and took off. Mace looked at the freighter and nodded as the droids unloaded Jedi equipment and fighters from the cargo ramp in the rear "You brought everything. Good. We will move you over to the Jedi Temple hull in a week or so after your people find their cores and are tested. Your ship will be fully serviced by then as well."

Plett blinked "Cores?"

Mace nodded "It is interesting and difficult but the first step on the new path."

Plett frowned "And if we want to stay on the old path?"

Mace shrugged "Feel free but I think you will join us and let the Force help you even more than it does now, and allow yourself to help the Force more effectively."

After exercise and in the dining room where she liked to visit the new arrivals Breha found some familiar faces "Roganda and Lagan Ismaren! Thank the force, we have been so worried about you!" She hugged the children who were trying to bow. "I'll holo your families straight away. Expect some messages!" She beamed at the two. "Come, you have to tell me what happened."

SSDV

Breha sat watching the thirteen year old Roganda watching Master Potter and smiling. Mon snorted "She has a crush that could wreck Battlecruisers. I don't know what you are so happy about. She will be broken hearted."

Breha smiled "She is human, highly force sensitive and could give eggs and would I think."

Clynda rolled her eyes "You have two babies already!" She lifted Luke slightly.

"Who should have thousands of force sensitive friends!" Breha breathed. Then she shifted the slightly fussy Leia and looked at Mon "I noticed Master Kenobi shaved."

Clynda giggled and got glared at. Mon maintained a dignified silence on the subject. Aside from the glares.

Maris looked at Roganda just reaching a hand toward Harry as he was stripped to cargo pants, boots and tight undershirt and rolled her eyes. Ahsoka elbowed her and leaned over "Human. Eggs. Be friendly." She whispered fiercely.

Maris looked thoughtful. Shaak and Aayla smiled at each other. Shaak had begun coming in the bedroom with Aayla and Harry, before the bedtime shower ran. Maris and Ahsoka were still not there yet. Aayla had offered to leave the two alone. Shaak had answered that by taking Harry's length down her throat. They turned him into a noodle four nights in a row after that and the teenagers relaxed him before exercise. Themselves too. Without getting him in them, well other than their mouths. Maris and Harry still hadn't told the others about the wandering Lekku.

Tis'wedu, a Miralin, one of the female Padawan stepped behind Roganda "He is mated."

Roganda surprised herself "Not to a human." She and Tis'wedu looked at each other shocked then covered each other's mouths. They looked up horrified at the chuckling Master Potter.

"New take down ladies?"

The girls snapped their hands down and blushed furiously and the female Jedi in the area watched and smiled as he gentled them into talking and then they listened to him explain what he was doing to the hull plates the droids were bringing him. They drew a crowd of Padawan and a Harry style lesson in warding happened with the archive droid that followed him around listening and recording.

After that it morphed into a finding your core meditation. The Masters watched from their catwalk and the Senators watched from their holo conference room. Both groups talked as they watched.

After he had the Padawans meditating Harry talked to some Knights and young Masters and they all worked on swordsmanship and blaster use. Harry taught the useful magical shields, transfigurations and charms relevant to combat. Everyone was amazed at the bubble head charm turning blaster bolts unpleasant rather than deadly.

The young Jedi tried to defend against his violent smashing attacks that only included parries he had learned when he couldn't get another smash in. It was like fighting a demolition droid with the fastest actuators in the universe. He could get a smash in where others had to parry.

After the holo conference that afternoon Harry took a training lightsaber apart and with a small circular furnace drew the crystal into a pencil lead thin rod a meter long. He cut it into sections and with some of the Force sensitive wood made up wands.

He had acquired some woodworking tools from Bail, or really a trip to the Archives with Bail on Alderaan. In another of those odd similarities that were hard to explain the tools were nearly identical to what he had used to shape wands on Earth. Well once he had repaired and cleaned them. The Archivist watched him use some tools like a Master. Tools no one had been able to figure out the purpose of up to now. That spoke shave for one.

Roganda and Tis'wedu were handed the wands and talked through levitating a feather Harry conjured. They succeeded. Two knights who had found their cores had an easier time and Maris and Ahsoka launched the feathers so fast they burst into flames. Harry scratched his head over that one.

Master Yaddie chuckled "So you don't know everything Master Potter."

Harry pouted "I have never made that claim Master Yaddie."

Yaddie nodded "Speak your actions do though. Vast knowledge of manipulation of the Force you have. Unique in my experience it is. Comparable to legendary Jedi and Sith of ages past.

Padawans train for years with crystals in practice sabers that are as close to the same as can be selected. An affinity for them they develop but push their force ability they must. Their own crystal is Force matched to them. Your two young Knight Mages have their power revealed in this casting. Expecting the training crystal to make it harder they pushed harder. A training focus you have made like a training saber."

Harry nodded "The crystal choses the Jedi then."

Yaddie nodded "As you will soon see in the caves of Ilum. Open yourself to the force you must, your crystal will call to you. The Masters, Knights and Padawan with sabers will search for training crystals to match the ones we have already in use. Many training sabers were lost in the temple."

Roganda frowned "But they weren't Master. The 501st never made it inside and Skywalker was hit by lightning multiple times. We left, the last few I think. The temple sits abandoned."

Harry looked at Yaddie's stunned face and chuckled "The day isn't a loss then, we all learned something. That tree. If it's been there for thousands of years it is probably rooted in a ley line. The thing might be sentient by now. The school I attended had stood for a thousand years, was at the interstice of many lines, at least seventeen that we knew of or suspected and was sentient. She would protect herself and her children. Took down a tier two demon by herself with lightning like that. The tier twos were the horde commanders. Think a Rancor ten to thirty meters tall. Add Force manipulation abilities like mine."

Aayla looked at Harry "And how many of those did you kill Master Potter?"

"Six and then I stopped counting, then I don't know what happened to the one I was fighting when I was sent here. I think it was consumed in the portal to power it to this plane. The mundane killed one, several really by sheer weight of shot. It was teams of teams by then though so I think everyone gets a little credit for most of those others. Hogwarts killed one to protect her charges." Harry looked tired, everyone else looked at him in awe.

Harry moved on to his afternoon healing session. Shaak went with him. Luminaria Unduli was stripped and laid on a table and Harry examined her with his holly wand, his eyes, then his hands. Luminaria looked at Shaak wild eyed when the massage started and got a grin back. She glared. Oh Harry was very professional. The problem was him touching you was like the Force touching you. It was impossible not to give in and revel in it. Shaak told no one about the two Jedi who had been repulsed by his touch. Harry had told Yoda and Mace they should be watched. Harry felt they would fall to the dark side unless they got help.

SSDV

Clan leader Hnad looked at the Holo and the Falleen in it "You are not profitable anymore. In fact your operations are impeding our ability to make a profit. I am sorry, you have been a profitable customer in the past but times have changed. Now if you were to move your predations to the Empire worlds perhaps something could be worked out. Say inside the Corellian run and to the south of Coruscant. We would of course be willing to pay a finder's fee for all the employees you can bring us."

The Falleen growled "You'll pay for this you p-"

Bars sighed "I was afraid of this. Please check your sensor data. You will find that you and your planet are completely encircled by Lucrehulk Battle ships and Droid control ships. We had a few excess to need you might say and well we have managed to keep them off the books. They are now the Banking Clans enforcement arm. A demonstration was always going to have to be given but I had picked Nar Shaddar. Oh well we can make it work. Enforcer One you may fi-"

"No wait wait! What kind of shape would these employees have to be in?"

"Why ready to go to work of course, so no rape, torture or significant injuries requiring more than first aid. A bonus for Force sensitives. Nothing for bodies. In fact, you will be charged for us having to see to their disposition. While we are on the subject, we have determined spice is detrimental to productivity, at least the illegal drugs made from it. So you will traffic raw spice and we will let you alone. If you traffic illegal drugs made from it we will destroy your home world."

The Falleen looked satisfied then turned greedy "And Hutt space?"

Bars sighed "A loss I'm afraid. In two months, the Clans will have no significant interest in Hutt space. I will advise you if that changes."

The Falleen nodded and terminated the holo on his end. Bars signed off and shuddered as the Force seemed pleased with him. It was nearly as good as those burning green eyes shining with pride in him. It was ridiculous. Now for these Death Watch scum. Mandalore must be brought into the fold and made productive and these wild eyed dark siders were not the way to do it. He issued the order and the fleet moved. Death Watch would be dead in a day once they arrived. So would most of the conservatives on Mandalore and what or whoever these dark siders were. If not they would be so deep underground they disappeared. Now who to make the ruler of the place. Satine would have been perfect but alas fucking Palpatine screwed that up.

Bars growled and launched a ship full of assassin droids to Coruscant. He did that whenever he got angry at Palpatine. He sighed, he would have to grow a leader for Mandalore and occupy it meanwhile. He moved on to the Pyke organization. Three days for the fleet to get there. This time they probably would have to destroy the planet. He needed a distribution network in place for that. Oh, wait the food ships. They had strong rooms and guards. Fine. It could even be a part of the Master's promising looking pharmaceutical trade. Hmm perhaps go from the other end and sell defense to the miners and offer them another market for their goods that paid slightly higher. Well slightly higher than the nothing they were going to get as the potions were taking over the pharmaceutical market. Yes, this could work out.

SSDV

The next morning Harry got on a Larty and was ferried to the surface of Ilum. He looked the trail and followed it with his eyes up the mountain. "This is part of some trial, isn't it? To judge if I am worthy."

Yoda nodded "Padawans trial."

Harry grinned looked around at the girls and yelled "Race you" and took off. The girls gave pursuit and soon Larty load after Larty load was pounding up the trail after him.

The Masters walked along complaining about not respecting the gravity of the situation and Yoda rolled his eyes. Mace saw him and chuckled. Obi wan looked stiffly offended. Mace eyed him for a moment "What happened to your beard?"

Obi Wan blushed and Staas Ali snickered "Mon Mothma didn't like it."

The whole party stopped and looked at Obi wan who glared back "What?"

At the top Harry slid into the cave after waving the temple doors open, leapt down to the floor and made room for those behind him. When all the Padawans got there Harry grinned "OK open to the force let's find some crystals. Stay in groups, do one at a time don't lose your way!"

Aayla looked at Shaak "I think we should be insulted. All the meditating and preparation we did and he turned it into a game."

Shaak shrugged "Where all the Padawans helped each other and they all made it here. I'm going to see if I can find another crystal."

Aayla shrugged "Might as well, we are here." Ahsoka and Maris went with separate groups of young padawans. And Aayla and Shaak watched all the padawan in the areas they were in and everyone else they could.

An hour later the Masters walked in to a cave echoing to squeals and laughter and glowing with kyber crystals. Yaddie blinked "The Force here is happy?"

Yoda closed his eyes and a look of content settled on his face "Everywhere."

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In his inner sanctum Darth Sidious screamed and rolled on the floor with blood pouring from his eyes. He worked desperately to attenuate his connection to the force without terminating it as he was unsure he would be able to get it back.

He wasn't the only dark side user affected. He was just the most affected.

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Harry of course ignored his own instructions and crawled and squeezed himself farther and farther into the mountain and then near a ley line found a cave full of crystals. He blinked, they were all glowing happily at him. He snorted got out an empty trunk summoned them all into it, shrunk and pocketed it, then reached out with the force to find a group having trouble and apparated.

Roganda squeaked, gave him a glare and put her fist on her hips "Don't do that Master! Wait did you just teleport to me?" She blushed gently and Harry hugged her.

"Felt like you were frustrated."

"I'm holding the group up. My crystal is behind that wall but I can't find a way in."

Harry smiled and produced the training wands "Blasting hex." He gave some quick instruction and the group traded the wands around trying it with him coaching. Soon enough they tunneled into a room and it was covered in crystals and then covered in Padawans. Tis'wedu trotted up with a big hunk of crystal in each hand and a massive smile. Harry hugged her.

She babbled "The closer we got the more I felt it. This cave is huge!"

Lagan walked over with crystals too and nodded. Harry walked along watching Padawans find pairs of crystals or sometimes three or more. He came upon Roganda staring breathless at a grouping of five. He put his hand on her and gave her a gentle push and when she touched the crystals he felt it through her. Roganda sighed and collapsed in his arms. Harry blushed. Roganda had had a massive orgasm, he had felt it. He waved a hygiene charm on her and led the way back toward the entrance carrying her. Halfway there he set Roganda on her feet and Tis'wedu took her over as they walked off whispering furiously to each other.

Harry got back to the Masters and as they waited for the groups Aayla, Shaak, Ahsoka and Maris had taken over he emptied the trunk on the floor spread the crystals in a single layer over about a hectare then opened himself to the Force. He called the crystals he felt to him and they flew into his hands one after another until he had three.

Yaddie ran her hand over the others and looked at Yoda who did the same then nodded "Wand cores for Jedi these want to be. Matched out in the world they are." He held out his hand and a single crystal flew to him "This one and the wood from the tree in the courtyard of the temple. He held up his walking stick.

Harry shrugged and took the stick and the crystal and started to work. He dug into his pockets of holding and came up with gloves and tools then found a flat rock. He halved the stick perfectly, carved a groove a droid with machine tools couldn't match, looked at the crystal, ran it through the furnace with a wad of soaking wet paper to hold it then made it match perfectly including the bend at the end, put it all together again ran his glowing hand along the split healing it and then pressed cooling, imperturbable, anti-summoning and several other rune sets into it with a mundane tool. He had left a small hole in one end and held it out to Yoda with a silver athame and Yoda pricked his erh claw and let the hole fill with thick green blood. Harry healed Yoda, ran his hand over the hole healing it and the stick glowed painfully bright. When it stopped, Harry handed it to Yoda and the resulting fountain of silver, green and blue sparks lit every corner of the chamber and the walls rang. Harry grinned "Nice. Powerful!"

Yoda wasn't listening, he was doing every spell, hex, transfiguration or charm he had watched Harry and the others do and amazing the Masters. Harry laughed at the kids standing looking with huge eyes. Aayla rolled her eyes "We can't leave you two boys alone for a minute. Roganda what were you thinking leaving them unsupervised? You too Tis'wedu?"

"Me? Us?"

Harry snorted "You will have to work on your girls some more Aayla. So, what now? Barbeque? Beers maybe? A little music, some dancing?"

Maris snorted "Back on Republic One before we party Master."

Harry opened his mouth and the girls and kids grinned and took off. He eeped and took off after them turned around summoned the crystals into the trunk did it a little sloppy and got all the loose ones within five hectares and then shrunk and stowed the trunk and took off.

Obi wan sighed "Again with the running." Yoda zoomed past on some kind of carpet and he face palmed. Mace sighed "I need a wand. I'm too old for all this walking. Who wants to go with me to raid the store rooms for branches the tree at the temple has dropped?" Stass Allie put her hand up followed by most of the others. Finally, Obi wan sighed and lifted his hand.

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That evening on the holo conference Master Krion gave a report. He was trying to get to some weapons with a company of Antarian Rangers in a cloaked ship. When they landed, they found out the emperor was injured so took the opportunity to complete stripping the temple. Well to take the ships that the droids had loaded in the temple hangers which had everything not bolted down in the temple aboard. Some things that had been bolted as well. The droids had had a while to work and the ships weren't at full capacity. Oh, and the droids. They had all made it off planet into hyperspace then into Republic space and were now headed to Ilum at the maximum hyperspace speed of the slowest ship.

The conference members looked at each other then Harry rose and started clapping. They all got seated again and Mon looked at Breha and Clynda "Something must have gone horribly wrong somewhere."

Clynda nodded "Our luck has been too good."

A Bothan provided the clue "A former Jedi now part of what they call the imperial inquisition is enroute to retrieve the Kashi Mer Talisman with a team."

The Jedi Temple Librarian gasped "That is a legend. It was used to put a dark side user in stasis twenty-five thousand years ago. Arden Lyn."

Harry groaned then looked thoughtful "Can it do anything else?"

Jocasta Nu shook her head "As I said it's a legend. I will research it."

Harry nodded "While you are at it any lose talismans, things that try to make people do things, soul containers, evil ghost tied to a place or that sort of thing, dark, light or neutral. I don't want to go through that again. I had to hunt down six of those things to kill my first dark Lord. Better if we kill them all now."

Staas Allie sighed "There is the Jebble Box and the attached legend."

Yoda interrupted "We will work on this outside the conference and report."

Harry nodded "As ominous as that sounds. Now we will be here two weeks at least probably, a month to let everyone catch up and then we will make one more trip down for any Padawan that arrive to collect crystals so let's try to get the galaxy into a groove before I start coming around doing wards. Anything else? No? OK great job everyone!" The conference connection was cut and Harry was buried in people for half an hour before he could get away.

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In the morning, Yoda looked at the masters "So it is agreed Roganda will be Knight Broods Padawan and Tis'wedu will be Padawan to Knight Tano."

Plo Koon registered his objection "They won't be assigned missions outside that group though."

Jocasta Nu sighed "It is the quickest way to get the lessons for padawans and younglings. He will start them at the basics, the archivist droids will be watching them all."

Mace nodded "Plus he is the very center of the storm. I plan to have several Knights, Padawans and Masters near him at all times. If he does finish that ship of theirs I am still going to have or ask the Senate to have Republic One trail him wherever he goes. We will load it with Jedi. Auxiliary vessels too. As many Padawans and Knights as we can get with the Masters and Knights of that clan."

Depa Billaba spoke up "Because he controls our armies and navies."

Shaak Ti snorted "He would gladly cede that to you, take the Marauder and us and fly around the galaxy seeing the sights."

Yaddie nodded "Right you are Master Ti. Yoda, failed we have. Think you must Master Billaba what would you do with the level of control he has. What has he done. Perfect for the job he is, honest he will make us. How tempted would you be by the dark side with that power? He shares it out and tries to get others to do most things. Leading the combined council makes him unhappy and yet he does it so well it looks effortless. He teaches and studies and works. All day every day. No foolishness and very few distractions. What is the reason behind your lingering distrust?"

Adi Gallia looked at Depa "It is the mating."

"Four matings, to Jedi! And now we put defenseless Padawans in that harem." Depa hissed.

Shaak Ti burst out laughing and everyone including Depa looked surprised. She looked at Depa and laughed harder. Depa began to look offended and Shaak waved her hand palm out "Sorry! I am so sorry I did not mean to offend. You are welcome to come see the Master of all he surveys being henpecked in the Harem any evening you choose. I don't know how he keeps sane really with four of us in there. Four very independent, powerful, Force users he has taught magic who are better with light sabers than he is and he sleeps amongst us. Oh and snores a bit.

Any ideas that you had that he is in charge are patently false. If anyone Aayla Secura is in charge in our rooms and that is by mutual consent. He saved her and in so doing saved us. In all cases when there is a dispute he looks to her.

He hates slavery with a burning passion and will make the dark look tame when he eventually takes slavers or anyone to do with the trade on. Other than that, he fully expects everyone to do the best they can even if they fail and then be honest with others and themselves about the results. Last, he expects them to try to improve themselves and not fail at that particular thing again.

Oh, one more thing, he really doesn't like bullies. He would cheerfully leave Palpatine alone if he would treat people equally and not meanly."

Obi wan snorted "Darth Fairness. I think I would leave that Darth alone as well."

Shaak Ti chuckled with the rest "As for defenseless you do know Roganda Ismaren Is Breha Organa's niece correct? Tis'wedu is her best friend."

Mace looked around "Settled? Good. I for one need some practice, I would advise you all to get done with your assignments and get to bed early. Exercise comes way too early and Master Potter improves with the saber way too fast for me not to stay in shape. Any of you either."

Roganda and Tis'wedu sat out in the lounge of the suite in robes. Maris walked out looked at them, snorted, walked back in the master bedroom and came back moments later with white tops, bottoms and running shoes like she was wearing. She herded the padawans in their room and got them changed then herded them back out and got in line for a support charm. Roganda looked down and Ahsoka chuckled "Be glad, mostly they are just in the way for a few years and boys gawk at them. They don't get fun until later, you can use them to make males do anything, and then even later than that they become useful. Tis'wedu you aren't far away though that top will keep them mashed flat and out of the way without restricting your breathing for a while longer. The advantage of the support charm is it doesn't restrict your breathing." They made it to the cargo bay and gave out greetings as they stretched then took off running then running along the walls using force jumps.

After running and stretching again they set up for saber sparring and Harry put down the magical dueling wards. They all got a chance to spar with him and he taught the girls a shield and the stunning charm. The archivist droid recording away.

Yoda asked for a full on magical spar and the hold drifted to a halt watching the show. They would later watch slowed down holo recordings to see what they missed and the archivist would get a voice over from Mace Windu. Debate raged for years whether Harrys methods of the forms needed their own names or his combination of them needed to be called a new form of its own. It was mostly balanced until it swung into attacks so fast the eye could not follow them and only battle precognition helped hold them off.

After sparring the Potter trained led the others in core finding then Occlumency exercises. After that Harry worked on something and everyone watched and he helped them as he worked. A couple of hours a day he worked on potions and the holo conference normally took up about an hour. During which he normally worked on a padd as he listened. He spent at least an hour in the med bay every day working with whoever needed it.

This pattern continued with more and more ships arriving until the Jedi Temple ships arrived and Harry made wands for Jedi who came and found their crystals already holding the branches the tree they had been drawn to. The tree had dropped these branches naturally and they had been preserved for thousands of years as if waiting for this.

Apailana arrived in a beautiful mirror polished ship and no make-up wearing Jedi like robes. She sailed up to Harry and dropped a curtsie. He smiled and lifted her and kissed her hand. Roganda wanted to smack her one. Harry blinked "You are magical my Queen."

Apailana's eyelashes fluttered and now Tis'wedu wanted to smack her too. Aayla laughed "He means you are Force sensitive Majesty."

Apailana gaped at them. Breha sailed up "Apailana. Force sensitive? You poor dear, they'll have you up at the crack of dawn running the walls, and down in that nasty cave after jamming your poor head full of their craziness."

Apailana grinned predatorily. Roganda and Tis'wedu smirked. Yaddie shuddered and put her face in her hands.

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Over the next three weeks the Republic did settle, lots of wands got made as Masters watched and then made first the tools Harry used without using the Force, then training wands which Harry checked and finally wands for their Padawans or Knights and Masters they knew. And lots and lots of magic happened.

The dueling shield stones Harry had set up on a lark after they were recovered were well on their way to fully charged when Harry thought to check them. Fortunately, his placement had worked and they were set so the ship was covered but the gun barrels were not. An accident really but one Harry noted and then changed some of the ward stone locations on the Marauder over. Roganda, Tis'wedu and Apailana along with her doubles and young guards were thick as thieves and attached at the hip and going through the most intensive training ever.

The Order Masters were watching and discussing it the whole time. Yoda was getting pretty short with them.

Apailana's older ladies in waiting were constantly scandalized, her eating like a horse. Her group doing the same. The crop top and shorts exercise outfits, and that they wore them nearly all day tossing on plain robes over them if it was needed. Her nearly living in Harrys Master suite in the Padawans rooms. Breha found it hilarious until Mon reminded her she had a Force sensitive princess in her arms and Harry apparently wasn't through adding to the harem. After that she checked and found out he was through adding for now at least, much to three moony teen's disappointment, or was it nine. Those guards and doubles were right there. The ladies got good chuckles out of watching them following Harry and the older girls around after that. Harry was attentive to them and the girls were tolerant to the point of indulgent. The three musketeers plus were truly, madly, deeply in love like only just teen girls can be.

The last thing that almost caused a government crisis for Naboo was Apailana appearing in the holo conference sans makeup in what looked like Jedi robes or something close to them. Of course, her people loved it as she was sat at the right hand of the Master as Harry was being called.

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Palpatine saw a still and ground his teeth "Little Nabooan whores, always in the way! I will make that planet suffer when I can reach it."

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Apailana was mortified when the gossip holos linked her to Harry romantically. Of course, her girlfriends, her doubles, guards, Roganda and Tis'wedu made fun of it for a day then closed ranks and glared the rest of the galaxy into submission. She had never felt so loved. Well from that and Harry smiling and sighing dramatically at his loss. Apailana filed that away. He wasn't that old and she wouldn't be queen forever. Plus Maris and Ahsoka were only four or five years older than her. They were sleeping with him. They might not be sleeping with him sleeping with him though. Something was going on however, they were awful smiley most mornings. She dropped that train of thought before it made her blush again. Besides they were going to the caves of Ilum today!

A massive crowd assembled and this time the whole ship let down into atmosphere and then onto the planet. Apailana had been warned and was dressed in exercise clothes under her sort of Padawan robes. She laughed and ran after Harry when he took off. Several Masters rode carpets. Mace rode his standing on it with his robes billowing in the winds of his passing. She found herself panting in the first room of the caves and part of the group going with Harry. She opened herself and led them off. They trekked deep and came to a blank wall. Roganda grinned, got out a couple of training wands taught the Padawans and Apailana's group the charm and they cut a passage.

It was another crystal filled room. Harry watched smiling and found Apailana like he had found Roganda. He hesitated to give her a comforting hand and Roganda rolled her eyes and shooed him toward the girl. Harry sighed put his hand on her shoulder and caught her when she grasped her clump of crystals and passed out. Roganda bounced up and looked at Harry's blush, giggled and waved a hygiene charm on Apailana and then herded the others out as Apailana recovered twined her arms around Harry's neck and stole a kiss as he put her down. Roganda and Tis'wedu picked her up and Harry ambled along behind lost in thought and making sure no one got left.

The girls took one look at Apailana and glared at Harry before they broke out in grins. He knew he was going to get grilled again. Damn crystals.

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Back on the ship and with a buffet set up in the hold Apailana her group, Roganda and Tis'wedu disappeared and then popped back up with a root twice as long as Apailana was tall and one of her crystals. The doubles and guards all held out crystals too. Roganda and Tis'wedu had sticks. Harry blinked. Everyone chuckled. Harry got down to work an Apailana's wand. Maris and Ahsoka worked on their Padawans wands, Aayla and Shaak worked on doubles or guards, and the girls all had functional wands in a couple hours. The Nabooan's were all exactly alike and the same golden yellow shot with crimson. They were beautiful and, from the showers of sparks, powerful. The Naboonan girls were over the moon. Roganda and Tis'wedu had wands that were very different though still beautiful. The tan of well-oiled furniture. Well figured like top grade gun furniture.

Harry segued seamlessly into a wand safety lecture while showing them all how to make wand and trunk holster's like he carried on both arms and one leg. While they were all working on it using conjured parchment before they got leather with the archivist droid recording away, Aayla came and sat on his leg "You will never be rid of them if you keep being a big softy."

Harry chuckled "We have them for near a year from the council's plan doing this progress thing. If Palpatine doesn't get stroppy and I have to go kill him sooner. Bars and Gial seem to have him sewn up. Bars banking enforcement fleet is better at policing than the police." The Banking Clan rep jerked and Harry chuckled "Spies everywhere, plus I can read minds. I may have to give you all raises if you keep on." The Banking Clan Rep goggled and Harry chuckled. "Plus all that junk from the battles disappeared and we didn't see a corresponding rise in junk stored or a fall in scrap prices. I thought Bars was taking a reading of my intelligence. Nice on Kessel too. Elegant solution. Pyke is crippled and Black Sun and the Hutt's are fighting it out weakening both. Do keep the military strategist apprised won't you. There may be an opportunity there to bite off one, the other or both territories."

The Banking Clan Rep bowed deeply "Master."

Harry sighed "None of that, have a beer and tell me what else you devious financial warriors have in mind. Apparently, I have to visit the known worlds, might as well help if I can. Oh the worlds that suffered during the war, can we get their ships out soonest and maybe a couple each on food and supply runs? Some of the least beat up salvaged Lucrehulk battleships as well, maybe a pair per planet. Load them for planetary defense not occupation. The capitol ships will ease the population's minds and the food and supplies their bellies and burdens."

The Clan rep pulled out a padd and started typing. Bail walked over "Stop that, we have a Senate for this sort of thing, you are embarrassing us."

Harry looked sheepish "Sorry the thought occurred."

Garm walked up "And we agreed we were going to write these thoughts down and discuss them in an open meeting so no one felt slighted."

Harry bowed up and looked at the banking clan Rep "Take it out of my personal accounts if you have too. Let's get it done though. People are suffering."

Bars appeared above the clan reps padd. "It is a good investment Master. We will work on the relief ships as a strictly private nonprofit venture. They can have used refurbished capitol ships and equipment on a hundred year lease at cost for defense. We have about two thousand of them. The hulls and vulture droids for them anyway. Even if we do it at cost the name recognition for your yards and lines is worth it."

Shaak conjured chairs and an impromptu open meeting got underway while Harry worked on wands, coached on holsters, started on trunks along with whatever else he needed to. A couple of hours in Garm leaned back looked at his padd and Harry's work table and snorted "All meetings should be this productive. We should change the format and drop the formal meetings until we need a vote."

Harry's table and the floor by him were covered in the Naboo ward stones and Harry had gone over every one while answering questions about nearly everything. Naboo's people had scrambled for the rock to make them and the droids on her ship had carved them. There were perhaps a thousand people sitting at tables covered in padds or some kind of work and someone had set up a sound system. "Second the motion." Harry grinned.

Mon leaned over from where she was looking at something on a padd Aayla was holding and smacked him in the shoulder "We just said voting in formal sessions. Write it down and bring it up."

Apailana nodded at her table where she was reviewing charms it appeared "I have it, it's already on Naboo's agenda for tomorrow. You know he can't type, only write, in seven hundred and fourteen rune languages."

Harry frowned "Hey I can't help my substandard education. I blame erh, somebody."

Jocasta Nu slipped him a padd "This is the list of harmful artifacts we know of, their last location and what we think they cause."

Harry looked at it "Oh boy, anything with ghoul in the name can't be good. Bad as anything with death in the name. Hmm the Kashi Mer piece is way down the list."

Jocasta nodded "It would be dark sider against dark sider, and might clean up some of the emperor's minions if he is going after it. The Muur Talisman definitively causes rackghoul plagues and Celeste Morne had it attached to herself when she was sealed in Dreypas' Oubliette."

Bars laughed "We are handling the sale of the Jebble Box, or were. The current crisis has derailed things. The people who own it are on an empire world and cash is getting tight. I'll see what I can do."

The crowd froze and Harry sighed "Purges, cleansing rituals and dragon pox protocols. I need to know the legend of this thing rather than this overview. If it has a spirit it sounds like a horcrux. I have something to fix that but then we will need to purge this Celeste Morne if it is attached to her, and run her through a purification ritual or twelve, teach her occlumency and get her past the memories of all the terrible shit she did.

Anyone have a sample of this plague? Let's get that looked at. Maybe we can inoculate against it.

Meanwhile I'll teach patronus charms as we pass right by Korriban and I want to try to poke Palpatine in the eye again. If the Force being happy incapacitated him a patronus should ruin his day, maybe permanently. Any other planets these Sith used as well."

Apailana leaned over and her doubles, guards, Roganda and Tis'wedu leaned in "And she will have big boobs, a great arse, a face for holo's and be sweet as new cream no doubt. Oh and she will have been locked in a box for three thousand years and be randy as a Varna." The girls giggled madly. The women eyed that table suspiciously. They remembered those giggles and the plans that went with them.

The fleet got under way shortly and the rhythm settled back with the Senate voting meetings being once a week but the open working meetings happening daily. The Senators all got under way or got staffers underway to the first meeting or the one they could meet the now much smaller fleet at, meanwhile the Droids and techs set up holo emitters in banks for them to attend the open meetings via holocom.

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Apailana found a picture of Celeste Morne and huffed "Told you. And look at that hair, black as midnight shiny as a bird wing. Fine he can add her to our Harem."

Tis'wedu cleared her throat and Ahsoka Tano leaned in and looked at the picture "Harry isn't all about looks. Got to have it upstairs or he ignores them. Look at that Ratakkan. She makes me wet and Harry doesn't know she is alive."

Maris chimed in "Aren't you a little young to be plotting how to get in Harrys bed as well? If you have time for this then you have time to spar."

Apailana and the others groaned. Every time they got comfortable and girl talking one of the Knights or Masters showed up and they had to work. Usually until they were sweaty messes. Harry always smiled and his eyes followed them after though. Oh so he liked athletic girls! Duh four of the hottest Jedi in the galaxy of course he liked athletic girls.

Shaak looked at Harry's frozen smile and laughed "I'll work on her occlumency some more. It's that weird connection thing though. She keeps us out no problem."

Aayla smiled "Thankfully it's only her mind she throws open for Harry so far."

Shaak wrinkled her nose "Thanks for that image."

Aayla laughed "Show it to Apailana."

Breha sat in a chair nearby "Don't give the child ideas Aayla. You are going to see her again."

Harry took Luke and Leia and melted panties over the hold smiling and making stupid faces to get them to laugh. "How goes the campaign Mon."

"Is my love life all that anyone can talk about?"

Harry smirked "Keeps them off my scandalous Harem. Thanks for that by the way."

Mon huffed "You so owe me. So the plan for the first stop…" As they talked Harry activated runes on hull plates. Droids brought stacks of them to any knight or master not working on something else. The entire Jedi fleet was getting them as well as Republic One and the other ships in the command fleet. Harry had had to ask where they were coming from and his protocol droid had explained they were doing all the ships with the latest Marauder charm/ward set.

Bars had nodded in his holo "The new ones have it built in. The droids carve the runes and our force sensitive activate them. As it turns out astromechs do arithmancy like they do astrogation and can plot ward stone locations." Mace Windu gave Harry a glare.

Harry ignored him "So maybe that ward stone placement on Marauder wasn't an accident. Cheeky little buggers. Have to get them an oil bath for that." The Marauder R2 Tweedle Dee whistled and beeped excitedly and a wave of that swept the hold.

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Later Harry read the updated briefing as he was waiting for the docking to complete so they could walk over to what they were calling the party barge. It was a lucrehulk cargo ship set up just to host parties.

Well that had been the plan. Now it was one normal personnel height deck, well mostly, the designers and party planners were in cahoots and wanted grand spaces, for the party space which could be subdivided into smaller sections as needed. The rest, minus the engineering spaces, with the space expanded to the limits of the magic, full of hangers, magazines, tankage, storage lockers and workshops. Harry really wasn't for wasting space.

The party deck was opulent, stuffy, built to impress and Harry was so glad they weren't living on the thing. Bars paranoia was paying off. Harry would put a fidelius on the docking port to the control sphere and no one who wasn't already aware of the secret on the Republic ships that were docking to unload passengers would be given the secret. Even if a spy or assassin got on board the party barge they would then be trapped and hunted down by B3's after the party.

He went over the list of VIPs' again revising and adding to his memory and knowledge of them. These were all people who were movers and shakers locally on their worlds and some of them had traveled for as much time as he had from Ilum, two weeks, to be here. The senators from a volume of space two weeks in hyperspace travel at commercial speeds from here were on the list too.

The now reduced fleet was in orbit of Pallaxides. A private resort planet Harry held the note on through Bars efforts. They would be here for a week as he made a circuit setting wards.

Most of the vessels that had gone to Ilum had started their patrols and working on pushing the empire back into the core on the west side of the galaxy and some were in transit to the south to their sectors of assignment in Gial Ackbars plan. The rest of the fleet was moving and working now in their sectors on the east and north side of the core. Their next party stop would be a month from now in orbit of Telos. And some advanced party ships were already headed there. Meanwhile the Command fleet was making a side trip to Korriban. After a week of meetings.

While this party was going on the Oubliette was being delivered. They had a barren planet in mind to open it on. Harry and the girls were planning, training, and rehearsing hard for that. Harry was also teaching the patronus charm and the basics of curse breaking, the detection and safety procedures first. First this party though.

Harry greeted the first guest in the receiving line warmly. Hours later he circulated looking fresh as a daisy on his third pepper up potion. The girls were as well. Drinks, conversations, a dance here and there. Five thousand guest and four hundred holonet reporters convinced they had the measure of a good man. A man they could work with and do great things to make them and their worlds free now and wealthy later. Bail, Breha, Garm, Clynda, Mon and The Jedi Council watched stunned. Mon finally shook her head "He is so getting laid tonight."

Clynda barked "Mon!"

"Did I say that out loud? I meant by the girls, look at them, they are going to burst with pride."

Yaddie snorted "Maybe tomorrow. They are going to fall over as soon as they get to their quarters. Those potions lead to what Master Potter calls a crash."

Bail nodded "It's a couple weeks to Florrum. They'll be ready."

Bars Hnad The leader of the Banking Clans had joined the fleet and was even more impressed with the Master in person. He frowned.

Garm looked at him "So going to tell him you killed the five and clawed back all that money to keep the Clans alive. Him coming along was a godsend for you too as the Empire would have finished you off?"

Bars laughed "He surely knows, doesn't he?"

Mace nodded "Probably. He'll never say it out loud though. He makes connections we don't even think of."

Bars sighed "He could have been such a banker."

Bail laughed "Politician."

Yoda nodded "Jedi."

Apailana smiled and sighed "Instead he is exactly what we need."

Breha chuckled "From the mouths of babes indeed. How are you holding up dear?"

Apailana grunted "There is a Nimoidian I want to kill and this makeup sucks but other than that fine."

Bars glared at the knot of Nimoidians who paled "Please don't. I actually need the things for a little while longer. You can have them when I am done though."

Apailana smiled "When Harry is done?"

Bars laughed "Personal banker to the Master. I make money from him making money. I like money."

Mace asked "So you brought the package?"

Bars nodded "I must say I don't like these two risk at all. Especially as the Master will be involved personally."

Obi wan nodded "Harry feels the time to act is now. He thinks a steady rain of blows to the dark is the best course. Our gaining access to the droid army was a Force provided boon and he wants to capitalize to keep the Empire wrong footed."

Bars nodded "Those closed Hyperspace lanes are helping but there is a cloning site somewhere in the Empire. I don't think it's operational yet, at least it isn't receiving the same kind of freight we used to deliver to Kamino. It is headed that way though. Twenty thousand or so Clones a month from the equipment we can track. We have a lot of those Providence and Subjugator class vessels building for the fleet. Most of the Lucrehulk production of all classes is going to the Masters lines and uses. He loves the 'swiss army knife' of star ships. A year and we will have a fleet the equal of anything the empire has, two years and it will be better than the empires. Did you know the Master doodles warships, and modifications to weapons and engines? We download his padd every night and have four archivist and librarians working on it with Master Nu. The Archivist and protocol droid that follow him around help too. We have list of projects that will take us a hundred years to evaluate and test. The designers tell me he is a bit of a genius."

They all looked thoughtful and Staas Allie added "That cloning operation would barely replace our losses during the height of the war."

Bars nodded "The droids are better now. The Master's investment in organic manpower has paid large dividends. Some of them are quite intelligent and see the droids as replacements for human soldiers. Quite a competition among them to make them first as able as the clones and then better than them."

Mace looked at him sharply "And your work with the Black Sun?"

Bars shrugged "Some success, not as much as I had hoped. The emperor has Dark Jedi and Sith Acolytes in the empire. I'm afraid the Black Sun and Pirate losses are high. It did get the Hutt's, the slavers and just the general scum with ships interested in an income stream however. They turn in ten thousand or so former slaves and force sensitives a month. That helps the manpower crisis. As a benefit to the wider galaxy Dark Jedi and Sith Acolyte losses are also high."

Bail and Garm looked at the Jedi and noticed they were very stiff, the Dark Jedi were a sore point with them, about a third of the old Order had turned. Bail filled the gap "The Hutt's might actually make it happen. Your plan to strip the empire of anyone useful I mean. What will you do?"

"Why pay the finder's fee of course and then take it back in debt service." Bars smiled.

The others gaped at him. Apailana finally managed "A dangerous game Bars. We need you too you know."

Bars looked at the others nodding and took a drink, there were those pesky feelings again. "The Master has brought up something in our private conversations. He talked to me about succession planning. He told me he always had at least two successors picked out and trained. He said if all of them 'bought the farm' it was a cluster anyway and it wouldn't matter because it would be every person for themselves until a new leader rose."

Yoda nodded "Master Potter is wise. Practical experience has taught him well."

Mace nodded "Aayla and Shaak Ti. I can live with those."

Mon snorted "The question is can the galaxy survive in the event of one of them succeeding in killing him. You just think you know what a Dark Lord is now. Aayla Secura would end this Galaxy. The others would cheerfully help her."