AJ and Connor dueled together in the Rogue Shadow. They'd put down on Iltsetat, another sparsely populated planet on the outer rim. Starkiller had started their training nervously at first and then with confidence as he saw them take the things he was teaching and apply them. Proxy was a big help. The older two boys were quite adept with Saber fighting. Although they currently only used rods on each other. 

Starkiller insisted they make their own light sabers when the time was right.

Each day the older two boys trained with BJ in mind. They were coming into their own now trying to help but his absence was felt by everyone.

"What is it like being a Jedi?" AJ had put to Starkiller one day. They were all in the practice room, the ship was being flown by Proxy and Juno was taking another rare break. She covered the smile that had popped up on her face with her hand when she heard AJ's question.

Starkiller did not smile.

"I've never been a Jedi," he admitted slowly glancing at Juno. Amusement colored her features and she nodded to him in encouragement. Talk about it.

Em who was nearby joined them. "You never got to take the test? Who was your Master?"

"Uh," Starkiller paused knowing how awkward this was going to sound, especially to Em. "Actually I started out as a Sith apprentice...my master was.... Darth Vader."

The words were out quickly and it took a moment for them to sink in. Em drew her light saber and pointed it him. "What is this?"

He didn't bother drawing his own saber... "It's a long story...I'm no longer a slave to Vader. I met Master Yoda and he said- "

"You've actually met Yoda?" Em had withdrawn her green saber but kept it in her hand. Few people did not know of Yoda. He was legendary and he had disappeared soon after Order 66 was given.

"If you are not a Jedi what are you doing training us?" Allana who had edged into the conversation was also very direct with her questions.

Starkiller had paused for a moment. They were keeping a low profile. He didn't know Em or Joran that well. What exactly should he tell? Had he said too much already? He had really wanted to talk to Juno alone about this first. He paused looking at her belly. She was carrying his child, they'd married in secret and there were just quite a few things he wasn't ready to talk about yet...but now he was being forced to.

"I was trained," he finally said. "My parents left the Jedi academy to get married. Jedi don't get married I've been told." He paused giving Em a knowing look. "I was taken by Vader after he killed my father and trained up from a young age but I broke free and I'm serving the Rebellion now..." It was the extreme bare bones to the story but he was not getting into details without speaking with Juno.

"You're him." Joran finally spoke up turning pale.

"Who?" AJ popped in with interest. The boys who had been across the room had drifted over when Em had drawn her lightsaber.

"Galen Marek" Joran stammered, "You founded the rebellion, that's your family crest on their ships."

"Actually it's just Starkiller now." He studied Joran for a moment. Joran's thoughts were open and easy to read.

What if they find my secret commlink? I turned the boy for money, they needed a Force user so I gave them BJ...

Starkiller in an instant had both of his blue sabers crossed across Joran's throat. Em had leapt to Joran's defense but Starkiller swatted her aside with the Force like a fly, his face grim.

"YOU." He snarled... "the commlink, NOW!"

"Comm?" Em rose unsteadily to her feet. Her light saber had flown across the room. She wiped blood away from her nose. "What's going on?"

Joran reached into his pants pocket and produced the wrist device and dropped it into the air where Starkiller seized it with the Force and brought it to himself. It was blinking. A tracking device.

There was dead silence in the room as the discovery sunk in.

"What's going on?" Connor demanded. AJ was next to him shielding Caohdan and Allana behind him.

"You..." Starkiller dropped Joran to the floor. "You sold BJ to that Inquisitor?"

Joran looked around at the shocked faces. He did not bother to deny it. "Aye, I did, and I'd do it again to protect my daughter. He was not mine. He was going to take my daughter but we made a deal, he'd seen BJ before and wanted to take him instead, he promised to leave Allana."

Em jerked as if she'd been slapped. "They were like our own sons!" She began to cry. Starkiller couldn't imagine what she must have felt like at that moment. Joran looked miserable but he still tried justifying himself.

Starkiller looked at him coldly and suddenly Joran felt very small, weak, and insignificant in that stare. This was the Starkiller that had taken on the Empire. "Do you really think," Starkiller spat out at him, "that he would have just walked away and forgotten about her? They lie, they make promises just as easily as they break them. You are a fool."

"They never would have...we're not some rebel trash trying to bring down the Empire!" Joran shouted and then stopped realizing what he'd just said. The room was silent once more.

Em stared at him, shocked. "I don't know you." She whispered loudly into the silence and turned her back on him. She fled the room, reeling from the revelation. She just couldn't look at Joran.

Starkiller was pretty angry and not entirely sure of what he was supposed to do. Chairs began to rise off the floor as his frustration mounted. He shut out everything else and tried to think.

Juno put a hand on Starkiller's shoulder, "Galen stop," she whispered into his ear, something no one else would have dared at that moment. Everything dropped to the floor.

"We'll figure it ou.?" She said evenly. "I cannot fly a ship when things are rising up off my console." She shot Starkiller a look and he inclined his head towards Joran. "Him?"

But it was Connor who beat him toward an explanation. "Joran is the one who sold BJ. He betrayed us. He," his voice broke, "he sold my brother."

"Restraints!" She said. "Proxy can you hear me?"

"Yes, Captain Eclipse."

"I'm not coming back as quickly as I thought, we have a situation."

"Of course." The metallic holodroid stayed on in the cock pit as Juno turned back to Starkiller.

"How can I do this?" He said to her in a harsh whisper.

"WE are supposed to be doing it." She replied calmly.

He stared at her for a moment before nodding. She reached out and took his hand. "Did you see him there?"

"No," he replied to her.

"Then let's drop him and the tracking device on the next world and leave it." Juno absently put her hand on her belly which grown in the past few weeks.

Starkiller wondered how she could speak of ditching a man on an underdeveloped world at the same time as her maternal instincts were kicking in and she was unconsciously making an attempt to feel her baby move.