"Pod Racing. I was five or six when I started." That humans shouldn't have the reflexes for that, much less such a small child probably said a great deal about Vader's own natal prowess with the Force. Even if he was discovered then and there, the Jedi wouldn't have had him and it only would have made him an even more expensive commodity. One his mother would never have been able to hide or protect. He wasn't sorry he slid under their watch for so long - even if it proved just how little they really cared out about Outer Rim.

But that was the entirety of the Republic.

Vader shifted, mostly preventing that need-to-move itch from building. He'd never managed to sit still long. "Because he's closed himself off from the Force for years now. It's how I wasn't able to find him." He didn't need Obi-Wan to tell him. He knew, because the instant Obi-Wan had reached out, Vader had known and chomped down on him. Instantly, spanned by hundreds of thousands of lightyears, he'd known. He'd felt him.

"Such as? No Jedi would remove it even if they knew how, I'm far too dangerous. Sith aren't captured Luke, they are killed. Tech hasn't the knowledge as to how. Aphra could but she isn't here." Did he forget for the time being that Luke has no idea who Aphra is? Yes.