[At her tone, Luke blinks, glancing down at her before he looks away, smothering a smile. In some way it feels very nice to hear her upset about it, no matter how understandable the measure had been.

If not for his... father, for the Emperor.]

That's the part I understand the most. [He says with a shake of his head, then falls silent, frowning as he listens.]

Wait, I think... I read about that at least once when Aunt Beru taught me history, that's when you met?

[Not that the Hutt-slanted sources she'd had to work with had been kind to either the Republic or the Trade Federation, but that wasn't really the point. It was suddenly rather strange and amazing to realise that some parts of galactic history actually was relevant to him personally.]

... so it was before he became a Jedi, then.

[He'd wondered, after Ben had told him, when his father might have ended up with the Jedi, and this gave a pretty obvious possibility.]