Ben shook his head. "Telepathy, Force-sensitivity, whatever anyone has -- it's not perfect. If you've got a powerful ability to pick up on someone's emotions, someone else knows enough to block you or confuse you. I don't know how much you've talked to my dad, but our history is packed with powerful Dark Siders who slipped under the radar. Before he was born, there was a politician -- the leader of the Old Republic -- who met with powerful Jedi Masters all the time. He made himself Emperor of the Galaxy before anyone realized he was a Sith Lord, and then he wiped out the Jedi Order. And two years ago... Two years ago, it happened again, and I was there. There was another hidden Sith, and she corrupted one of the greatest heroes the Order had. He hid what he'd become from everyone, and it tore the galaxy apart before anyone understood that we had to stop him." What he couldn't say, not yet, was and he's here, now, and only dad remembers what he did. "So maybe the ship wants everyone to train hard work together. That doesn't mean it wants to work in our interest. And it doesn't mean that the best way to stop the Ohm from killing us is to kill all of them. That has a nasty record of just making an opponent angrier," he noted, thinking back to his own experience as a member of the Killik hive mind, "especially with a hive."
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