New Alderaan
Max didn't like to use his presence as a political tool but, well, his presence was a political tool.
He was not only a member of the Jedi Council but also the Jedi most visible in the Galaxy, he was the face of the Jedi in the Galactic Senate. People thought of his half-cybernetic self when they thought about the Jedi. Sometimes the weight of that caught up to him and he felt it like a weight on his shoulders, threatening to press him down into the ground. Today had been planned as a meeting with the President of New Alderaan to set some firm guidelines as to when they could open their Open Temple on the planet.
His discussions with Nicolas Clément had gone well and the people of New Alderaan were, generally, more peace-loving than the rest of the Galaxy. That and they remembered that it was a Jedi who had avenged the fall of their original homeworld. It wasn't a lot of goodwill but it was enough to not have them be seen as enemies just for being Jedi. Which was good since the whole reason he had brought Alex on the mission was to show him that they could totally have missions together that weren't quite so heavy!
"See?" he joked, gesturing around them at the splendor of New Alderaan's capital, "I told you we could have an official Jedi Mission that didn't go to hell in a handbasket and you didn't believe me."
Of course he was just teasing her - their mission had barely even begun after all. There was still plenty of time for things to go terribly wrong!
@Valen Pelora