A few months at max. [He only trusted them for as far as he could throw them--and he couldn't throw them.

Lupin puffed away irritably at his cigarette as he contemplates the scale of this. It could very well lead to war--and he was no soldier, as his recent stunt proved. Even when the re-anchoring incident happened and Lupin firmly believed that he was a spy for the New Republic, he was never a soldier. His rank of Commander in that lifetime was all because of the deeds he did on the sidelines.

The one time he was involved in a battle nearly killed him--but, that was a different lifetime, and a lie.]

Hopefully they give us enough time to breathe on this round. We all have some recuperating to do...and thinking.