During the trip to
Mnemosyne's lunar
shipyards, Balun had spent a good deal of his time in the lounge of his father's luxury yacht, huddled over his datapad and seeking any sort of information he could find about the Arenais family. Much to his surprise, it hadn't been all that difficult to find historic news articles and Jedi documentation that had been declassified regarding the heads of the Family, Kay and Veiere Arenais.
Judah Dashiell
had been right in that they had connections to Commenor. Not only had Veiere been a Jedi Master, but the Lady Kay had been elected president of the world, and later they had enacted a Monarchy as their reach had extended across other planets and territories. This collaboration of governments became known as the Commenor Systems Alliance, and Veiere and Kay were its King and Queen, all the while Veiere had been aiding the Order of the Silver Jedi at the time.
Kristyl Arenais
was the granddaughter of Veiere Arenais, daughter of
Asaraa Vaashe
and Caedyn Arenais. Balun's Mother had started with the Silver Jedi, but for reasons he couldn't discern, she had quickly moved to live with her Mother on Naboo during the height of the Confederacy. Back then, the CIS seemed to be different from the Confederation that the Galaxy knew of today. They had an Order of their own, the Knights Obsidian, and Kristyl had been a member of that group. A Force User, like the majority of the other members of House Arenais.
Many of the documents Balun read over seemed to involve Political and diplomatic movements of the Family. They seemed to all have sided with the democratic Governments and the Jedi, much to Balun's relief. However, he also read several holonews and debunked military reports concerning both Veiere and Caedyn Arenais participating in the war effort of that era against Sith-Imperial Forces. Veiere himself had reportedly been killed in battle by a Sith-Lord
Darth Prazutis
, while Caedyn Arenais had even stood face to face with
Darth Carnifex
at one point.
It was difficult to piece things together, what with numerous articles varying in date, length and detail, but it occurred to Balun that perhaps this was part of the reason why the Imperial Security Bureau had been interested in Kristyl Arenais. An attempt to eliminate the line of House Arenais, lest it pose further threat to the Imperial War Machine that was the Empire and Sith Order.
Standing on the bridge alongside his father, Balun watched as they neared the still-distant verdant green world, closer to the moon of Mnemosyne than the world itself. It seemed busied with planetary traffic coming and going, yet Mahina Shipyards appeared to be dead by comparison. The young man's eyes glanced from the distant planet to the manufacturing facility itself, and his brows raised as he took in its scope and layout embedded within the moon's surface.
"Grist, look at the size of the place. It looks fit to build battlecruisers..." Balun exclaimed under a quiet breath, as if speaking too loud might suddenly risk his chances of securing the rights to the place.
His father had a point about potential activity within, though Balun never left home without his
Lightsaber and
K-16 Bryar Pistol. He had learned from a young age not to be caught unprepared. Arguably, younger than most for such a heavy lesson.
'I should have brought Chip with me', he thought to himself, though he knew his father's fear and distrust of droids, and had wanted to respect that.
"Pop, Dashiell Retrofit could make a killing with this place", Balun pointed out the obvious. Mahina Shipyards could considerably expand upon the current manufacturing line that the
Retrofit Orbital Foundry was presently capable of. The shocking thing, though, was that this was but one of the assets Balun was potentially looking to inherit, and the possibility of others made his head spin.
