"I can say I've never had a history of joining such organizations voluntarily." With The Young- there hadn't been another choice, not if he wanted to help. And even now with the clones... The alternative is unthinkable. To allow a bureaucratic system to lead them into battle, treating them as little more than meat droids? People that would ignore their individuality, their humanity?

While he has no taste for war- Obi-wan is resigned to losing more men than he'd like, for all that he never joined of his own accord. Neither had they.

"And where ought one go for more information on local politics? What little I've heard in the barracks and the tavern have been...less than helpful." Mostly because he's been playing it relatively safe; but perhaps with this gentleman? He can be more straightforward.