After senator Onaconda Farr was assassinated, Chancellor Sheev Palpatine also noticed that public opinion was turning against the war hawks. Worried that this would affect the vote, he temporarily suspended the session on the grounds that a murder had occurred and security could not be guaranteed. He also dispatched an investigative team to thoroughly investigate the matter.
At that moment, almost everyone believed that senator Farr had been murdered by the war hawks, and this public sentiment put Palpatine in a very passive position.
However, once the investigation began, it progressed unexpectedly smoothly. Before long, suspicion fell on Onaconda Farr's assistant—Lolo Purs.
But when they moved to arrest Purs, they were still one step too late. Purs had already killed another senator, none other than one of the war hawks' core members—senator Mee Deechi of the Ombara planet!
Lolo Purs readily confessed to her crimes. She stated that everything she had done was for her planet. Because of this war, the cowardly and incompetent Onaconda Farr had been utterly unable to lead the Rodian planet to make any contribution. As a result, the planet had constantly suffered oppression from the Confederacy of Independent Systems while gaining nothing from the Galactic Republic, caught between two sides and accomplishing nothing.
Thus, Purs's dissatisfaction with Onaconda Farr had steadily accumulated. Not only did Farr fail to consider how the Rodian planet could survive this war, he spent all day associating with pacifist senators like Padmé Amidala and Bail Organa.
After all, unlike planets such as Naboo and Alderaan, which had yet to face any direct threat, the Rodian planet faced the threat of war very directly!
Then Lolo Purs carried out her plan and killed Onaconda Farr.
Mee Deechi, however, had been an accident. After Lolo Purs killed senator Farr, she unexpectedly discovered