Star Wars: The Rise of New Order

(Jayden's PoV)

We all turned into mercenaries for the time. Even I have to give up my clothes, as they appear too rich and we don't have much credits in our hands to act like one.

He was right. My clothes may not scream Jedi, unless they see my Lightsaber, they are not exactly the best clothes for places like the black market, unless I have enough credits to spend them.

Though my family would send some credits every year since I arrived at the temple, and the recent infusion of a few more from my father, most of them were used to establish the companies and to buy a property, which was used to show as the company's physical address.

Every industry needs a physical address, no matter how it works.

Also, I used most of what remained on advertisements. Only when they reach a lot of people would there be any profits for me.

It has been weeks, but it's still in the newbie phase. Sure, there are a few readers, but remember that the first few chapters are shown as a preview of what they are going to read, and they are free.

The gains were very little, which I reinvested in advertisements. This would be the routine for the first few months. The faster it can reach more ears, the more I can earn later on.

Imagine what one can earn from trillions of readers, though I suppose the readers may not reach such a high number, but a few billion would definitely read the webnovels in a few years.

Even if they don't like my novels, there will be other authors. From last night's statistics, there are three hundred authors registered and have started publishing their novels, though they are still in the free reading phase for now.

That number would eventually increase, and the amount of credits I would earn because I own the company, that would definitely reach billions, trillions, even more, but for now, I am considered dirt poor.

So, I can't exactly wear pristine robes, which would scream rich, at least that's what Vos told me, and I know that he was right. So, I had to change, too.

I thought I would be the one who was least likely to change, but I was wrong and had to change my attire entirely.

Luckily, Secura had some extra clothes, and she wore like a man, not a girl, as it would be troublesome to fight in normal girl clothes.

Vos has some spare clothes too, but he is taller and bigger than I am at this point. I am just ten, and he is like double my age. So, his clothes would be too loose for me to wear and have to accept the Secura's.

Once everyone was ready, we left the aircraft and entered the black market.

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Getting information regarding anything in the black market is not so easy.

One may think that a lot of classified information or information that can collapse an empire or economy passes through the black market, but that was for verified patrons only.

Newcomers can't access even information on simple matters, much less information like that. Even the information gathering on the auction regarding the sale of the Egg proved a little bit troublesome, but as usual, Vos gathered information easily using his rare trait of Psycometry.

He experienced the memories of items around one by one, and soon we got what we needed.

Though the wookie prisoner gave us the details of the buyer, we can't just believe the poacher, someone who brought the fury of a mother on his tribe. He could be lying, and if we blindly believe the information that he gave, we could perish or get caught, which would be worse than perishing.

If we get caught, the Jedi Order and the Republic would be dragged into the chaos, and that would be quite troublesome.

I am afraid of the punishment that the council would dole out for the four of us, but I fear how much progress that could kill effectively both in the order and the senate.

Though the Order has become arrogant and ignorant of the galaxy, and the senate corrupt and abusive of its powers, not every member is so. There are a few who see the mistakes and are trying to correct them.

The problem was that the majority of them are not courageous, they are cowards who fear repercussions of their actions, and if they see it on live, what happens to ones who want to do what is right, then that would kill their sense of justice and righteousness.

The ones who are courageous enough might turn to the dark side, seeking to create their own twist of justice, just like how Dooku did.

Many may have seen him as a villain, but as no one listened to him in the council, even his own master, Master Yoda, he left the order and sought another way to bring down the corruption and evil from the galaxy, no matter how twisted that appeared to be.

It corrupted him so much that he became the same thing that he wanted to extinguish in the end.

Dooku thought sacrificing a few million to save trillions was the right thing. He became so corrupt that he even sent assassins to kill the allies who spoke against him. He forgot that he once left the order because they didn't listen to him, and even started a war so that the Jedi would see the wrongs that were happening in the galaxy.

I fear that the ones with consciousness to do the right would pull back or become the evil that they were supposed to extinguish.

Neither is good if I want to save the galaxy.

So, this heist has to go without any hitch, no matter what.