Through transparisteel

Wow.

I didn’t know we had quite so many secrets in our family. In light of recent events (*cough*beating*cough*people*cough*up*cough* – Shut up, Will!), Grandma decided to talk to me.

And, uh… tell me the truth about who and what we are.

So yeah, I’m writing this down because I want to be able to remember and tell my own children one day. Not that I’ll have any, unless they allow clones again because yeuch! where am I going to find someone I like enough to have kids with?

But I digress. You have the attention span of a sandkreet. Shut up, Will and get out of my diary. Sheesh, talk about PMS. I don’t have those. You so do. Shut UP!

Erm… where was I?

My family.

My great-grandfather was a bad man named Crevein Midanyl, who apparently did much evil and ended up killing Grandma Ellia’s mother. He then killed himself and left much of his stuff to my grandma. She didn’t say anything more but I sensed there was something.

So my grandmother’s name is Ellia Midanyl and she was married to Kieran Ardellian. With him, she had two children, Jacen and Drea.
When Drea was three, she was found to be Force-sensitive and was taken by the Jedi in Coruscant, with the firm promise that she’d be returned to her family when she was old enough and had found a master of Corellian descent who was willing to train her.

Drea returned to Corellia when she was 17 and started training with a Jedi master whose name my grandmother didn’t remember (or didn’t want to tell me).
Things went well for a time.

Then the Clone Wars happened.

My aunt (it’s weird to think I have another aunt than vacuum-for-brains Aunt Luvi) was called back to Coruscant to join the Grand Army of the Republic and fight alongside such legends as Mace Windu, Master Yoda, etc. (I’ve never heard of any of them… except as being traitors to the Empire).
There were many battles and Grandma says many Jedi were killed but not Drea. After that, something went wrong and the then-Senator Palpatine took power, claiming that the Jedi were crazy and trying to take power.

All Jedi were purged, even the youngest ones (younger than me!!) in an effort to stamp out the Jedi.

Drea dissapeared shortly before the Jedi Purge, in something my grandmother refused to explain. When I asked her questions, she shushed me and told me she would tell me when it was time.

So it stands to reason that I’m Force-sensitive too and as such, Grandma thinks that I should not being using those powers because they have brought only darkness and death to the family since the Empire came to power.

She says that there is hope for the Jedi because of a guy called Luke Skywalker. I kinda remember hearing about him when I was 11 or 12 because he was rumoured to be the one who contributed to the destruction of the Death Stars and the death of millions of troops.
And to conclude all this, she said that as soon as the war was over, she would personally petition for me to be tested by this new Jedi guy so that I could be trained.

Apparently, both Dad and Uncle Pter knew about this.

Wow, I can’t believe the news. The Emperor died at Endor. In fact, the entire fleet almost died at Endor. Will’s been watching the Holonet all night. He is worried about Uncle Pter. I can understand that. I’m worried too but I think he is alright. I can feel it and when I said that, Granma didn’t yell at me for once. She said it was alright to trust my feelings now.

I’ve been sick in bed all day since yesterday. Granma says I had heat exhaustion because the speeder bike overheated and I was too small to really control it when I went to see Dad last night. Will came by to stay with us and we’ve been watching the holonet and playing games all day. I can tell he’s really worried but he’s trying not to let on. But his voice in my head is all panicky.
Mom says he can stay in the guest room for tonight.

People are being weird. There were some fireworks during the day but then the soldiers were called out of the garrison and CorSec forces were out and about a lot. They arrested loads of people on account of them being terrorists and Rebels.

I’m having bad nightmares right now. Doctor Jenker came over earlier today and gave me some medication to take. He says it should go away in a few days but I’m not so sure. Mom thinks I’m making it all up to skip out of school. I do admit that the no-school thing is an added bonus. Can’t even imagine what Kyle is going on about right now. He is always one to talk about the right and wrong of this, that and how the ground troops are the best. Right now, he’s ranting on about how anyone worth the carbon they’re made of should be enlisting in the Empire and defending liberty and anyone else is just a dirty terrorist. I’d rather have the Empire than the Rebels, they have better ships but from what I heard of politics, the Emperor and Vader were dangerous. Maybe now they’re dead we could all build a better Empire.
He’s wrong. Pilots are the best and nothing can touch a pilot if they’re truly ace. Just like Baron Fel and that Rebel guy, Wedge what’s his name. I think I heard somewhere that he was the son of the Gus Treta guys. I wonder what happened to his sister…

The Empire sounds like a really bad government. They don’t show it often on the holonet but sometimes, we get stories like Toprawa hacked into the network by the Rebels. It’s infinitely wrong, what they did there.
I was too small to really remember visiting Alderaan but I do remember it was a place of great beauty.

I can see why Rebel supporters are happy but who is going to protect the people if there are no laws until they build a government? Already, there have been reports of lightfights and pillage in the lower sections of town.

Anyways, tonight, we’re going to see a Holo with Wynessa Starflare.