"Strap yourselves in, we are gonna make the jump to lightspeed," Edgerly called out to others as he put the coordinates from the navicomputer into the control panel.

"Lightspeed?" Harry exclaimed surprised as he put on his seat belt, "But then again if there are interplanetary and interstellar space travels, it only makes sense that travel at lightspeed is possible."

"Travel at Lightspeed? Hardly! Lightspeed is a slang for the speed at which a spaceship travels through hyperspace," Edgerly chuckled as he entered the main hold and plopped down in an empty chair. "In reality, though, a class 1.0 hyperdrive motivator could propel a ship through hyperspace over one hundred thousand times faster than light, allowing a ship to cross the galaxy in a matter of days. Hyperspace can be, however, dangerous without the right coordinates. Without precise calculations, we'd fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that would end our trip real quick, wouldn't it?

"Not that we need to worry about precise calculations with Kirra and Kade on board," Edgerly went on, "The oversized heads of Fenelars have large and advanced binary brains able to perform these types of calculations with ease. They are able to calculate a hyperspace jump without the aid of a computer because of their levels of hyperintelligence."

Harry discreetly looked at other two. Kirra and Kade apart from their oversized head were entirely human.

"Kirra and Kade are the best among the entire lot," Edgerly regaled, "They come up with best spaceship designs and modifications. This spaceship too was nothing but a light freighter, a sluggish spacecraft that was used to transport freight or cargo! The duo have heavily modified it. Now, with her heavily modified engines and tweaking of its Class 1.0 hyperdrive into a Class 0.5 drive, it should be amongst the fastest ship in the entire galaxy."

"That's a bold claim to make for someone who had been isolated from the rest of the galaxy for past several millennia," Harry said, the question evident in his voice.

"While it is true that these past millennia we have been isolated," said Kirra for the first time, "But our isolation had not been absolute. We have not visited any outsiders but many outsiders have certainly visited us and often those who prefer manoeuvrability and speed in their vessels. So, the probes of their vessels have helped us stay up to date quite well.

"But the real help in staying up to date have been those vessels which have crash landed on our planet especially those with no survivors and there have been plenty of such vessels. Just recently, a starship from planet Halowan crash landed on Felucia in which the entire crew perished. The starship had a mammoth reservoir of datacrons from the trans-system data storage library, an information repository containing information on various aspects spanning the entire galaxy. I dare say, now, we are fully up to date."

"That does explain aplenty," Harry quietly stated.

A mild beeping started. "We are there." Edgerly went on to join Yaddle back in the cockpit.

The ship was parked near the shipyard and the crew started to disembark.

Kade was in the lead with a scanner in his hand.

"The UV incidence here is still lethal but lesser than back on Felucia as is expected due to its greater distance from the star," Kade's voice drifted back to others as he walked down the ramp, his backpack strapped on "This portion has a natural protection against UV incidence similar to the farmer's villages. There is also the disruption with electronics . . . His voice faded off as he disappeared around the corner, Kirra after him.

"The duo are in their element. Now, that they have a new subject to study, I'm afraid we shall not see them for hours," Edgerly said with a chuckle.

Harry looked around and his eyes fell on the remnants of a colossal building. Most of the walls were standing but almost entirety of the roof had crashed down on the floor. The briars and trailers of plants had snaked around the broken pieces of the columns and had crept up the walls. A thick rugged green blanket of mosses and algae had covered the crashed roof. The doors had fallen and one could see right into the building. Few starships and droids lay buried beneath the fallen roof and the floor was shattered beneath those. It would take a while to repair this. A dull thud interrupted his musings.

Harry turned towards the source of the noise. Few heavy trunks were lying few feet from the ship. A frustrated Edgerly was standing beside Yaddle where they had started unloading the supplies to make the camp.

"Focus, you must," Yaddle instructed calmly as she gently floated the supplies and placed them on ground soundlessly, "Patient you should be."

Edgerly tried again. He raised his hand and concentrated. The trunks lifted off the ground and started floating. He slightly moved his hand and the trunks started moving. They had moved no more than a foot that one lurched a little and then another and suddenly all fell back on the ground with same dull thud.

Edgerly groaned frustratingly.

"Here, let me help you," Harry said as he palmed the Elder wand.

"Without the wand, try you must," Yaddle interrupted him, "Feel the force. Let it guide you."

Harry nodded resolutely and replaced his wand.

Harry closed his eyes and reached out. He opened himself to the Force. The feeling that he was becoming increasingly familiar with rushed back to him. He then tried to feel for the trunks. He could feel them. It was as if he could almost see the trunks even with his eyes closed. Amazing! This was unlike anything he had ever experienced. He raised his hand and slowly lifted it and the trunks started to float in the air. He could feel them rising off the ground. He slowly moved his hand forwards and the trunk followed the motion of his hand and moved forward towards the camp site. He could almost see the camp site, the empty place there and he slowly lowered the trunks onto the ground soundlessly just as Yaddle had done few minutes before.

"That was intense," Harry said as he opened his eyes and looked at his work. The trunks were lying just as he had envisioned them in the force. Amazing! To think that he would learn new tricks at the age of seven hundred and fifty. Huh!

"Strong with the Force, you are," Yaddle said, "Just as Del Gormo said."

"That was one of the most interesting things that I've ever done," Harry said.

"Many more such things learn you shall," Yaddle said, "Teach you we must."

"I will be most grateful for your lessons Yaddle," Harry said.

"Try again young Edgerly," Yaddle urged, "Let go. Feel the force. Let it guide you."

Edgerly nodded and got back to it.

It was noon when Kirra and Kade returned. The trio had set up the camp and unpacked the supplies. They were discussing the plan for the repairs when the duo had turned up. With the thorough analysis of the scans of the building and the surrounding areas from the probes of Kirra and Kade to make sure there were no surprises, the plans were completed for the repair. The discussions had lasted past sunset and it was decided to begin the work on the morrow.

It had been couple of weeks since their arrival and the repairs were complete. The shipyard had been restored completely. Kirra and Kade had repaired dozens of droids and were repairing a couple of starships that had been buried in the ruins.

After the shipyard had been restored completely, they had moved in the living facilities of the shipyard. The living facilities were richly furbished. All had insisted that Harry should stay in the largest of the apartments as it was clearly meant for the owner of the facility which he was now. Harry had reluctantly conceded. Rest had had their picks from the rest. Yaddle had appropriated the most modest apartment and Kirra and Kade had dumped their belongings in the nearest apartments and vanished into the research facilities.

It was now night time. Harry was lying on his bed in his apartment after a day's of hard work to get some much deserved rest before the supper. His mind drifted off to the past couple of weeks.

The repairs had been an enlightening experience for Harry. It had helped him understand the intricacies of the Force better. Yaddle had of course been most helpful and Edgerly too. While the Magic was within and only part of few living beings, the force was all over. Life created and made it grow. Its energy surrounded and penetrated everything. It was everywhere - between the living, living and non-living and between the non-living - everywhere. Also, the Force did not interfere with the electricity or other modern techs unlike Magic.

He had concluded from whatever he had so far learnt of the Force that it was now the Force that he used and not Magic. He even had the midi-chlorians count similar to the most powerful of the Jedi. He would now be what they called a Force-sensitive, or a Force-user.

A Force-sensitive referred to any living organism that was keenly attuned to the flow of the Force. An indication of Force-sensitivity was the quantity of midi-chlorians in a subject's cells, with Force-sensitives possessing an above average number of these microscopic life-forms in comparison to the general population of the galaxy.

Among their natural gifts, Force-sensitives possessed a precognitive ability, making their reflexes faster than others. This too was true with him. Dodging spells for several life-times had made his reflexes faster than almost all back home but now he could feel his reflexes growing faster and sharper.

Further, the Force was more of a subtle art and compared to it Magic had been more of a blunt force. It was very difficult to modulate the effects of the spells through Magic but through Force one could easily modulate its effects.

He was also finding it easy to perform the spells even without the wand. He didn't know exactly why but he guessed that the ease was because the Force was so abundant whereas the Magic had been so meagre. Working with a more abundant energy field would certainly be easier. He for similar reasons was also able to use the Force with much less concentration than Yaddle.

The learning had been a mutual process. Yaddle too had learnt few new things. She had learnt new ways to use the Force. She could move the ruins but repair was not something that she had ever attempted before with the Force. Harry had also never attempted it before without a wand but now he very much wanted to. He discussed the Mending Charm with her and afterwards they together decided to open themselves to the Force and slowly manipulate it to repair the shipyard. It had been a singularly unique experience for both of them. Edgerly too had learnt to do repairs but on a much smaller scale.

The Mending Charm had been the first of many spells that the duo had tried with the Force. In the nights after the repairs, the duo would discuss and try various spells. Edgerly eagerly joined in the sessions.

Harry had also started on the basics of flying a starship and learning of the droids and the machines. Kirra and Kade had been more than happy to teach him.

Harry looked at the clock by his bedside. It was time for supper. He put on his robe and started for the dinning lounge. He walked past scores of droids - all shapes and varieties - diligently going about their work in the corridors.

Kirra and Kade had repaired the computers in the facilities and accessed the data therein. The data in the computers indicated that this had been a fully droid operated facility. The owner, though, was not mentioned anywhere. The last logs were more than two thousand year olds. So, these facilities were more recently abandoned than those on the planet Felucia. The last few logs revealed that the owner due to reasons unknown had ceased all manufacturing activities and shut down most of the droids of the facility and put them in an underground vacuous storage facility where they were still intact. Harry and others had let them be for now. Kirra and Kade meanwhile were working to update their programmes.

While the shipyard had fallen in disrepair only few droids had been operational which had been tasked by the owner to maintain the facility. They had done good work with the interior but had been able to do precious little about the exterior and the facility had collapsed under the assault of the forces of nature.

When Harry reached the dinning lounge, Yaddle and Edgerly were already there. The droids had started to serve the supper.

"Good evening, Master Potter," a droid greeted Harry.

"Good Evening, W1-Y1," Harry greeted back as he sat down beside Yaddle.

W1-Y1 was the droid in charge of the entire facility. She had been programmed as a female. Kirra and Kade had reprogrammed her to acknowledge Harry as the new owner of the facility.

"Where are Kirra and Kade?," Harry asked others, "I hope they are still not in the research facilities."

"I'm afraid they are Master Potter." W1-Y1 replied. "Ah! They were. Now, they are heading this way as we speak. They appear excited."

Few moments later the duo burst through the doors. They indeed were excited.

"W1-Y1 pull the shades," Kirra said, her voice vibrating with excitement.

The droid dulled the lights.

Kade put a small circle in the halo-projector and a hologram of star-systems popped up.

"This is no ordinary hologram of the star systems," Kade said, barely able to stand still with excitement, "This hologram charts star systems not known to the rest of the galaxy. We have checked and double-checked. No charts or maps show these systems.

About a dozen star systems became highlighted. Yaddle and Edgerly leaned forward for a closer look.

"And what's more! According to the logs each of these star systems are rich in minerals."

"Oh! My!" W1-Y1 summed it up best.