Sam | Mara
The books really don't go into it much. I remember having the conversation with Skywalker, but there's never any exploration in the books themselves and there isn't much about me before I was the Emperor's Hand, so there's nothing to go on. I've... learned to live with it, I guess. Enough so that I really don't think about them showing up here - I'd rather have Luke, or even my son, Ben, here again. But I can't say that I haven't wondered about it before - who I was, or would have been, if not for the Emperor. I'd like to think they were good people, but they could have been anyone.
She might know. And just because it's sentient doesn't mean that it's pulling us for some higher purpose - it might just like us better than someone else from our show, or be looking for some sort of balance of this type or the other.
They're - poking at things they don't really have any business poking at. I don't know - you're not a bad guy, and I'm not a bad guy. We've both done things in our past that we might not be proud of always, and we both have had to struggle to find ourselves - but the only thing that means is that we're human. A bad guy, honestly, might not even have the struggle.
Is it better for the moment that he isn't here? Whatever time he came from? Maybe you'll have a chance to figure some of that out on your own before he shows up again. Assuming he even does... there's nothing to say that he absolutely will.