Chapter 006: The Natives

Wang Bo didn't take Obi-Wan's praise to heart, mainly because he knew his own situation.

He had practiced swordsmanship before; though he had lost his memory, his muscle memory remained, making practice twice as effective with half the effort. He was no genius.

Another reason was his extraordinary brain.

When Wang Bo's brain operated at full speed, it was far more terrifying than a quantum computer. Learning these sword techniques was nothing to him—it was a piece of cake.

That was the real reason for his rapid progress.

Mainly, his cheat was too powerful, and he was far from being a true genius.

Of course, precisely because his cheat was so huge, true geniuses were no match for Wang Bo.

One day, while Wang Bo was practicing swordsmanship, he suddenly saw Obi-Wan returning with a young man and two droids.

One of the droids was humanoid, and the other was spherical.

The latter was even less than a meter tall.

But Wang Bo's attention was entirely on the young man Obi-Wan had brought back.

Because after entering, Obi-Wan introduced the young man's identity: "This is Luke."

When Wang Bo heard the name Luke, he immediately realized who this young man was.

In Star Wars, there were probably many young men named Luke, as it wasn't a rare name.

But there was likely only one Luke who lived on the planet Tatooine and knew a Jedi.

Luke Skywalker!

The protagonist of the Star Wars saga.

After the group returned to Obi-Wan's dwelling, Luke and Obi-Wan began repairing the humanoid droid's arm. Only then did Wang Bo learn that the humanoid droid was called C-3PO, and the spherical one was R2-D2.

Neither was a proper name.

After all, they were droids; having a designation was already good enough.

Luke and Obi-Wan knew each other. After repairing C-3PO's arm, they quickly fell into conversation.

From their words, Wang Bo gathered that the droid called R2-D2 had come looking for Obi-Wan, so Obi-Wan had brought them back.

As for why C-3PO's arm was broken, it seemed they had encountered Sand People while searching for Obi-Wan, and the group was attacked.

Fortunately, they met Obi-Wan, or the young man and the two droids might have died at the hands of the Sand People.

The Sand People were the natives of Tatooine.

Long ago, Tatooine was a vibrant planet covered by vast oceans and jungles. On this planet, there once existed a humanoid intelligent species.

The Kumumgah.

They were the true masters of Tatooine. Before humans immigrated to this planet, the Kumumgah had built a high civilization and technology on Tatooine and developed spaceflight, which attracted the attention and conquest of the Rakata.

Naturally, the Kumumgah were unwilling to be conquered, so they rose up against their oppressors.

But the gap between them was too vast.

One had already begun interstellar conquest, while the other had only developed spaceflight.

The disparity in civilization led to the Kumumgah's uprising being brutally suppressed by the Rakata.

In revenge, the Rakata wantonly destroyed Tatooine's ecosystem. They bombarded Tatooine from orbit, melting and extracting the silicon dioxide in the planet's surface soil, turning the surface into a glassy substance.

Later, the decomposition of these silicon compounds caused the land to turn to desert, eventually leading to the drying up of the oceans.

Thus, the once-glorious civilization was destroyed.

And the beautiful planet became a desert world.

Although the natives of Tatooine did not die out completely, their civilization was destroyed, and without starships, they lost the chance to leave the planet.

The destruction of Tatooine's ecosystem prevented the rebuilding of civilization, and the climate became increasingly extreme.

The extreme climate changes caused the Kumumgah to evolve into two different races: the Ghorfa and the Jawa.

Incidentally, the Ghorfa were the ancestors of the Sand People.

On present-day Tatooine, the Sand People represented bandits.

As for the Jawas, they were a scavenger race.

They searched the deserts of Tatooine for discarded scrap and lost droids. Using cobbled-together weapons, Jawas could disable droids and drag them into their fortress-like tracked homes—giant vehicles called sandcrawlers that left tracks on the desert.

Notorious for selling shoddy goods and wandering everywhere, Jawas were infamous as swindlers among Tatooine's offworld colonists.

All this Wang Bo had heard from Obi-Wan.

After all, as an outsider, he was unfamiliar with the local situation.

While Obi-Wan and Luke talked, Wang Bo listened quietly. After discussing the Sand People, they also talked about Luke Skywalker's father.

Obi-Wan told Luke that his father was an excellent pilot, a great Jedi, and his good friend.

Unfortunately, Obi-Wan had trained an evil apprentice—Darth Vader.

This man had betrayed them, joined the Empire, and killed Luke's father.

When Wang Bo heard this, he was dumbfounded.

Though he hadn't seen the original Star Wars trilogy, he knew the famous "I am your father" meme.

Darth Vader was clearly Luke Skywalker's father.

Why would Obi-Wan tell Luke that his father had been killed by Darth Vader?

If he hadn't known that meme, Wang Bo might have believed Obi-Wan's lies, but seeing Luke's complex expression, he knew Luke believed it.

Kids are easy to fool.

But that wasn't the main point; it was what Obi-Wan had just said—that he had trained an evil apprentice.

The Sith Lord Darth Vader was actually Obi-Wan's apprentice.

This shocked Wang Bo.

Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father, the protagonist of the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

Wang Bo immediately realized that Obi-Wan was no ordinary person; he must play an important role in the Star Wars story.

After all, even the prequel's protagonist was his apprentice, showing how significant this man was.

At the same time, Wang Bo understood why Obi-Wan looked at him with such conflicted eyes—clearly thinking he was gifted, yet unwilling to teach him advanced Force techniques.

He was afraid of training a second Darth Vader.

While Wang Bo was having a brainstorm, Luke was being completely fooled by Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan then took out a lightsaber and handed it to Luke, telling him that this was his father's legacy, the weapon of a Jedi Knight.