That's not an answer.
He gave a helpless sigh, sipping at his tea cup. "Alright, alright, where to begin..." It was bound to be a long tale. Sure, there was a lot that could be contracted, but that didn't help matters much. "Well, not long after you left, with things kicking back into gear for the galaxy in terms of all the fighting, I had to go and get Rhia set up at the Praxeum on Eira Pechal. There was no way that I could justify continuing to ferry her around with all the other duties I had. She's...far too young for it." That hadn't been much of an enjoyable decision to make.
At all.
"The part of Tanomas Graf's empire that had run to the First Order after Kamino fell struck out against the Outer Rim Coalition multiple times with the rest of the FO, though when he and some supports pulled out and ran to the core to set up their Core Imperial Confederation, the First Order crumpled. Not long after, the CIC did, too. The First Order is back now, though from what I've seen their current leadership is more agreeable than the past groups. Cedric Grayson showed up, tried to set up some sort of Jedi Empire in the core, then that fell apart and got replaced by the Galactic Alliance rising back up. No fighting on Coruscant this time, yet. I've been enjoying working with some of the Jedi there, they came together and built back the NJO from scraps. Hopefully I can get some of them to calm down a bit in time, but they're more proactive than the silvers have been."
That was the basic stuff, easy to get up-to-date. The rest of it was a bit more complicated. "I found a guy on Kashyyyk who was a bit of an amnesiac, and strong in the Force. Started training him for a bit, only to find out he was Vaulkhar Zambrano. Fought alongside him on Kashyyyk when Sith and Mandalorians came to attack the Silver Jedi. Eventually, though, his memories came rushing back to him, and he left." More-or-less rushing past everything in that story, for now; it certainly wasn't something he wanted to revisit all that much. "Eventually, he joined a group that split away from the Sith Empire, calling themselves the New Imperial Order. He helped take Bastion away from Sith control, when the New Imperials purged any remaining actual Sith from their ranks; during it all, he was killed by his sister, who is now the Empress, given that Kaine's retreated off to do who-knows-what. And that means that Darth Prazutis is the Dark Lord."
All very easy to follow, on the surface, though the unknown reason behind Carnifex's retreat from public rule left Cotan quite concerned.
"The Silver Jedi, while still based on Kashyyyk, helped install a more centralized civilian rule for their territory, and based it back on Commenor. Tathra Khaeus and his Bryn'adul have been making a big problem of themselves out in that area of space, though, so Caedyn and Thurion, with a few others, went and negotiated an alliance with the Sith and the CIS, without anybody's knowledge. They couldn't keep it from getting leaked, however; in the aftermath, Coren got kicked out of his position of acting Silver Grandmaster, a decent number of their Jedi left to join the NJO, and..."
He stopped for a moment, pursing his lips. Given that he knew Asha was close to Caedyn, and he'd heard a bit about how she knew Thurion, that was probably more than enough about them; all the same, it was important that she knew just what specifically had happened. "I went to join an assault on Dantooine, led by the New Imperial Order, but with aid from the NJO. Thurion was there alongside Carnifex, in the temple that the Sith built over the old enclave. A few other Silver Jedi were there as well, helping the Sith, even though the alliance had already dissolved by that point; I had to cut the hand off of one just to get him to leave the fighting and not get himself killed. Didn't see Caedyn anywhere planetside, though."
Another sip.
"As for me, well, I went on an expedition to Firefist, got trapped in an ancient tomb dating from the Hundred Year Darkness, got rescued by a Jedi Master going along with the group, Dax disappeared, I became the Grand Marshal, and then the Outer Rim Coalition—which by that point had been renamed the Outer Planets Alliance—fell apart. I went looking for you, for a while, but never did manage to find you, so I came back into the swing of things, hoping you might come find me, eventually. And you did! I'm also helping run an enclave for the New Jedi Order out on the station I had made for the Judges, alongside still leading them, and I'm trying to keep some of those New Jedi kids from getting themselves killed."
He set the empty cup down.
"Also, intelligence says the Sith are going to counter-attack Bastion soon, and I'm going to be there. Have to try and make it up to Vaulkhar, y'know? I guess I didn't quite prepare him well enough for when his original personality came flooding back."