Note 1:
Note 1:
First Obi-Wan and Dexter Note after AOTC came out



Dexter,

Hey! I haven’t talked to you in a while. How are you doing? I’m on a mission right now and I’ll need your help. You see, I’m protecting this Senator, and someone tried to assassinate her. While I was going after her would be assassin, I finally caught up with her. She seemed to be a bounty hunter working for another bounty hunter who was after the Senator. As my Padawan and I were questioning her, a person with a rocket and strange looking armor shot a poisonous dart at the other bounty hunter…preventing me from learning who sent her. The dart is a very strange one…I’ve never seen anything like it before. I went to the Jedi Archives to see if the Archives could not identify the object…and the Archives did not help. I know that you are familiar with all kinds of things going on all over the galaxy, so I was wondering if I could bring it to your diner to show you. Would you mind?


Obi-Wan Kenobi
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A Story:
This story of how Obi-Wan and Dexter met was written by J Hall.



Sure, anything for an old friend," I replied over the com link.

"Thanks, I'll be there tomorrow," Obi Wan said and then closed the connection.

I sat back in my office chair, putting one pair of arms behind my head, and used the other pair to scratch my stomach. I found myself thinking about all of the years past, especially the day that I met Obi Wan. I was running guns out of a bar on Ord Sigatt when Obi Wan Kenobi came in investigating my little "enterprise." He walked in alone, dressed in his Jedi robes, casually looking over the room before stepping up to the bar.
"I'd like a Corellian Rum, please," Obi Wan requested.

"Sure, one comin' right up."

"I take it that you are the proprieter of this place, Dexter Jettster?" he asked as I put the drink in front of him.

"Yeah. Who are you? And why do ya ask?"

"Obi Wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight. Do you recognize this?" he said as he pulled out a blaster and put it on the bar.

"Carfant model FE-270. Anyone on the Outer Rim would recognize one of those."

"Ah. I found it when I stopped a freighter heading into the Containment Zone around Gelphim V."

"So what does this have to do with me?" I asked archly backing up towards my blasters behind the bar.

"The gunrunner told me that you were his supplier."

"Heh," as I reached under the bar and grabbed the blasters. Just as I moved to pull them out, the bar doors were blown open, sending plasteel shards all over my patrons. Pulling myself off the floor, I grabbed the blasters and instead of pointing them towards the Jedi, I aimed at the destroyed doorway. As I was standing up, I heard the snap-hiss of Obi Wan's lightsaber. The two of us stood there staring at the doorway.

A bunch of rough looking beings walked in through the door, surverying the damamge caused, and my patrons running through the back door. The leader was looking especially hard, even giving the young Jedi a dismissing glance. When his gaze came to mine, he locked in on me.

"DEXTER!!! Where's that shipment of weapons you were supposed to send to me?"

"So you were the one," Obi Wan commented
"I was goin' to try to kill you, but on second thought it wouldn't have been smart."

"I can imagine four replacement limbs wouldn't be cheap."

"Yeah, and I've heard that they can make you itch like a bugger."

"SHUT UP!!!" the leader yelled, "I want my weapons and I want them now!"

"A bit testy isn't he?"

"Rude too. The last rude patron I had ended up a puddle."

"Shall we teach him some manners?"

"Seems there's nothin' else to do."

The leader's eyes got wide and then screamed, "GET THEM!!!" causing his men to rush pell mell into the room. I took out four as they rushed in, while Obi Wan waded into the mess, lightsaber wving and poking, causing screams as it came into contact with rowdy after rowdy. I stayed behind my bar as long as I could, but as more and more of the intruders swarmed the bar, I was flushed out. First I ened up standing on the bar, then retreating to the back entrance.

As I gave up ground grudgingly, I saw Obi Wan surrounded by five ruffians, with a sixth one preparing a sniper shot from outside the bar. I fired all four blasters, cutting down three of his attackers and the sniper. With deft moves he cut down the other two and ran to stand beside me.

"Dex!" he yelled, and as I ducked, his lightsaber flashed over my ducking head to cut down two more rowdies. As I straightened up, he looked me in the eyes.

"We've got to get out of here. My speeder is around the corner. Let's go."

With a nod, and one last look at my bar, we backed up with blasters firing and lightsaber blocking. One we reached the door, we sprinted to Obi Wan's speeder. He then drove me to one of my gunrunning freighters.

"So ya knew."

"Yes, Dex, I knew. Now get out of here, and try to stay out of trouble."

"Thanks, Obi Wan. I know ya didn't have to stay and defend my bar with me."

"Just try to stay out of trouble. I'd hate to have to try to bust you again, because I don't want to meet your next party crashers."

I just laughed and headed to my freighter. With one last look and a wave to Obi Wan, I boarded and headed to one of my safe houses until things got quiet again.

Ah those were the days.


Edited by: Prince Luke Skywalker 2001 at: 3/2/04 3:08 pm
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Note 2:
“I took a look at the picture you sent me and what do ya know? I hadn’t seen one of those since I was prospecting on Suberrel beyond the Outer Rim. It belongs to them cloners. It’s a Kamino Saber Dart.

“While I was out that way, there was a little disagreement between the mining company that worked the planet and all of us prospectors there. The big man wanted us off the planet while we wouldn’t have none of that.

“So the company brought in the cloners to make them an army to take us out. Them cloners did a good job. Little by little, the clones took over miner camps. I couldn’t tell you the number of times I found friends with one of these little babies sticking out of them. Finally I jumped planet, seeing the writing on the wall.

“Kamino isn’t too far from Suberrel, about twelve parsecs outside the Risi Maze. If you go visit them, though, I have to warn you. You better bring your best manners and a large pocket book.”
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Note 3:
Dexter,

Thank you very much for your help. I have been having some troubles locating that planet, though. The planet does not appear in the computer system in the archives. I do not understand this. I spoke to Master Yoda about the missing planet, and it appears as if someone must have erased all the files on Kamino. It is certain that someone does not want the Jedi to know about that planet.

You said that the people on Kamino are cloners? Do you know how long they have been cloning? Or why they clone? What sort of people are they? You saw the Saber Dart before. In what manner? I know you said that you said you saw one when you were prospecting on Suberrel, but do you know where that dart came from? Is it from the cloners, and do you happen to know of any Bounty Hunters on Kamino, or they involvement with the cloners? These might be clues I need.

Who is the big man that you referred to when you said, “The big man wanted us off the planet while we wouldn’t have none of that.”

Wait…what…the cloners made an army to take your company out. So the clones are part of an army then? So it is apparent that the clone army uses the saber darts. Perhaps, then, one of the clones was the man I saw with the rocket. What do the clones look like…I mean what sort of outfit do they wear?

If there is a clone army, what do you think this army is being used for? And whoever erased that file in the archives must have known what was going on there. The troubling thing is that only a Jedi could have erased those files, because only Jedi have access to those files.

I must go to Kamino. I know where the planet is…because gravity in the surrounding area is pulling all the stars into a certain spot. Thank you for the warning. I will be leaving in just a few minutes.


Obi-Wan Kenobi
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To be continued......




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