#ask jesse

Obi-Wan is, in fact, still alive (yay!) but he is unfortunately locked in Jango's torture basement and has been for the last eleven years (boo...). As you might expect, he's not doing super good. Besides the being tortured thing and the being locked up in Jango's basement thing and the solitary confinement thing, he's also had one of his feet chopped off so he can't escape so that also sucks.

By the time the story starts (and honestly for a lot of years before that) Obi-Wan basically spends most of the day in a sort of Force coma hanging out with the obi-collective hive mind. He's not exactly part of the hive mind the way the obi-clones are--all the obi-clones are telepathically linked and can freely access each other's thoughts and memories, while Obi-Wan's connection to all of them is one-way, as in he can access their minds and share their senses and even possess them while the obi-clones can't access anything from Obi-Wan that he doesn't explicitly share. Because of this, the obi-clones actually don't find out until the events of parex (so like. eleven whole years) that Obi-Wan is a real alive person who's being held prisoner in Jango's basement. Obi-Wan basically uses his obi-clones scattered throughout the empire to get a grasp of all the things going on out there and make plans to destroy the empire and try to coordinate his obi-clones to do what they need to, but...the obi-clones don't actually have to listen to him if they don't want to. Despite being the reason the obi-clone hive mind exists, Obi-Wan can't actually control his clone sons (besides possessing them) or command them, except by the fact that they respect him for raising them via psychic skype.

(even trapped in a torture dungeon for eleven years obi-wan is a better clone dad than jango)

Hello there, piggy~

I'm glad you're enjoying Race Condition! I personally never understand why people who haven't already read asynch start reading race con because surely the main appeal of race con is detective obi-wan which people who haven't read asynch aren't invested in. but if you're having fun, what the hell do I know.

Hello, friend!

I'm glad you're enjoying race con! it's been a whole lot of work getting...that many words written (and I swear I'm working on the next part, I've just been in the mines (studying) lately which has precluded me from being able to write fanfic or any of my other projects that I'd rather be cooking right now).

You mentioned that Quinlan was a spy trying to have an in with the rebel jedi?

Also how about the other way, what's the Jedi's reaction once the obi hivemind makes contact.

hello friend I know it's been over a year since you sent this but I literally do not remember ever seeing this ask

In parex, Quinlan is a mandalorian Jedi who's pretended to defect so he can get in with the rebels and get information on their operations largely because he has psychometry which means he can get access to information even if the Jedi choose to not tell him things (which they are very wary of). There's a while where he's trying to convince Mace to take him on as a Padawan but Mace is reluctant because a) taking on a Padawan who's in his 30s and was raised as a Mandalorian is a recipe for disaster and b) Mace is still not feeling great about the fact that his last Padawan (Obi-Wan) sacrificed himself to save Mace (plus the person they were trying to rescue at the time) and then got horribly tortured, publicly humiliated, and executed. But yeah. Quinlan actually works for Cody and reports to him and leads to a number of rebel plans not working out properly.

The obi-clone hivemind gets in contact with the Jedi because one of the obi-clones (Boga) gets shot off a cliff and sends out a last ditch psychic distress call and Mace manages to pick them up before they die. Very weird situation for everyone involved because like obviously Boga was in that situation because of friendly fire situations and the Jedi have no idea if the obi-clones are loyal to the Empire but at least they want to find out who taught the obi-clones to do all that Jedi stuff the Mandalorian Jedi don't know how to do. Boga looks like a younger Obi-Wan, obviously, which means Mace really really doesn't want to have to kill them. But Boga wakes up, finds out they're still alive, and in Jedi custody and then is like "hey I have a lot of information that would be useful for you guys".

Which is fine until slightly later when Boga finds out that Quinlan is there and recognizes his voice as being the double agent who keeps calling Cody and immediately murders Quinlan in the neck (so Quinlan can't report the fact that an obi-clone has made contact with the Jedi), which lands them in Jedi jail. Not helped by the fact that the obi-clones are not as a whole that trusting of the Jedi.

And then Obi-Wan has to get in contact with the Jedi and possesses Boga to do that so he can actually talk to Mace and co which has a lot of mixed feelings involved because a) cool that Obi-Wan is still alive, b) uncool that Obi-Wan has been in Jango's torture basement for eleven years, c) uncool that Obi-Wan has done this really ethically dubious thing of raising 2000 psychic hive mind clones for the Empire, and d) one of the other obi-clones is actively on the run at this very moment please save them before Cody and co catch up and execute them.

So basically. It's a lot for Mace and co to deal with.