As they rejoined the main group, everyone minus the youngest of the Padawans and Acolytes (Manso, Janika and Takree, essentially) was gathered around the holoprojector which was displaying their latest findings on their excursion. As Voldon invited him to speak again, Roan eagerly stepped forward, a grin plastered over his face as he began: “I daresay it’s all terribly clever. I’ve immensely enjoyed combing through this Renso fellow’s handiwork, he’s an absolute GENIUS.” Aria snickered quietly at her father’s gushing over the information before them as she tried to examine it. Endless pillars of information, tangled lines pointing this way and that from one bloodline to the next...it was all WAY over her head, and the look on her face said it all. She opened her mouth to try and prompt a proper explanation out of Roan though the Sith Lord quickly waved her off with an exhortation of. “Shush, shush, so impatient! Just like your mother!” he was so animated about presenting his findings that he apparently hadn’t considered the insensitivity in the comment, quickly moving on before anything else could be said. With a flick of his wrist, Roan scrolled the left hand screen back up to the top of the chart and explained: “What we’ve managed to uncover is in fact the ENTIRE genealogy of these Sith, RIGHT back to Renso himself. Now this is where it gets VERY interesting, my friends.” a pause for dramatic effect as he allowed that fact to sink in, “Not all of the starting lines come from Renso himself. There are other names, who I assume must be trusted disciples of his that followed his ideologies more like a religion than a guideline….these bloodlines trace all the way through the generations,” the screen was scrolled through again, Roan’s grin broadening as several familiar names became clearly visible, “where both Bracknell and Soto’s name comes up down here and traces all the way back down to him, as expected, but look at this! ” he cackled gleefully as he zoomed in on another portion of the tree near the bottom. “Right here, it gets a bit messy around here because this is when the Jedi and Sith Orders as we know it began to intermingle and ‘cross-contaminate’ as they’ve called it. Cheriss’ ancestors are here, as are Jungze’s, and my great-grandmother’s maiden name here, (so we can all in some way be traced back to either Renso himself or to these followers of his, Aria, stop frowning like that it’s all VERY exciting!). Soto’s and Voldon’s names appear, too, among the lines that branch off towards the Jedi’s bloodlines. Even possible connections to the boy’s name down here.” Roan turned away from the screen to grin broadly at the assembly before him, clapping his hands together for effect. “THIS my friends, explains exactly why the other Council members on both sides were hunted down before we were. Their names DON’T come up. Ours do. They left us until last because we carry enough of the original bloodline between us, however diluted, that they feel it would be detrimental to just wipe us off the face of the galaxy like the other Force users!” Aria groaned softly, cradling her head in her hands. “My head hurts already...so what, we’re all related?” “No no, silly girl!” Roan chided, waving her off with another laugh. “Not to one another, but all of our bloodlines can be traced back to one of these original founders whom Renso entrusted to continue his teachings. This also explains why Bracknell wants you two,” he gestured to Aria and Yerbol, “dead so badly. I can assume they are arranged so that those who were more cooperative and closely linked to Renso were closer to his own line in the middle, the places where our names come up are nearer to his than the place where Bracknell’s comes up. So Bracknell feels threatened that there’s a chance this person could seek you out as an alternative to himself and Soto because you’d be more likely to follow along with their agenda and then HE wouldn’t get what he wanted out of the deal.” “Well isn’t this fantastic.” Cheriss snorted. “All very insightful Roan, but what exactly do you propose we DO with this newfound information?” The Sith Lord gestured enthusiastically towards the Dathomirian, finishing up with: “If we can leak this information slowly back onto channels in the known galaxy, combine the stuff about the governmental structure and keeping the galaxy and the Force pure and ‘in harmony’ with the genealogies to show that Bracknell isn’t quite following the plan exactly as he SHOULD be, we could shut the whole thing down. Possibly disperse any remaining supporters the movement may have within the Senate when they discover that Bracknell’s actually trying to kill people Renso would have wanted to keep alive because their bloodline is better than his and he can’t deal with the competition.”