"Actually, this really had nothing to do with her," Tang Xiao said. "But if she couldn't even control her own child, how could an entire planet's foreign affairs be entrusted to her? So if she died, she died. If you're interested, Count Dooku, let's watch together."
"Hahahaha! Good, very good!" Count Dooku laughed heartily.
Before long, on the raised platform outside Unifar Temple, the trial that had been delayed for nearly twenty minutes finally began.
Many residents of the capital had also gathered around the square, watching this farce from afar. In truth, these ordinary commoners did not care whether it was the Rebel Alliance or the king. As long as they had work, food to eat, somewhere to live, and a wife and children to hold, that was enough.
So they had truly come to watch the spectacle. Decapitation, such a bloody and primitive punishment, could still stir the dark side of their hearts that they dared not touch.
Soon, General Kalani arrived on the platform surrounded by IG-100 guard droids. On the other side stood the planet's supreme military commander, General Akenath Tandin, dejected and downcast.
Without further nonsense, General Kalani said directly, "We will now begin the public trial and execution of those who colluded with the rebels."
With that, he stepped aside and yielded the center of the platform to the prisoners.
Then a High Court judge stepped forward to read the charges for the public trial and execution. It was essentially an accusation that these people had abused their authority for private gain, accepted bribes from the Rebel Alliance, indulged the Rebel Alliance's destruction of planetary property, and caused massive civilian casualties, and were therefore to be treated as traitors.
Mina Bontri, the former planetary senator, was brought out under guard. Her hands were cuffed