A Secret Meeting of Treason
"Palpatine's ambitions are no longer concealed at all! By bypassing the Senate so directly to deal with the Jedi Order, he has already disregarded the Senate's restraints. And... how could he dare lay a hand on the Jedi Order?" Padmé Amidala was in unbearable pain.
What pained her even more was that she had no idea what role Anakin Skywalker had played in all this.
"I'm worried that our loyalty to the Republic is gradually heading in another direction," Bail Organa said in his deep, steady voice. "Or rather, we have pledged our loyalty to the wrong thing..."
He took a deep breath. "We have long fought against tyranny and hegemony. Democracy has always been the weapon we took pride in. Yet now, I find that the Republic itself has become the demon it once fought against."
"We must find a way to stop them!" said another senator, Bana Breemu. "Especially Sheev Palpatine. I fear that as time goes on, his power will only grow greater. Looking back, he has been doing this every single day since the war began."
Bana Breemu was the Council Representative for Humbarine planet. The Humbarine sector she represented had once been one of the Core Worlds' most important industrial bases.
However, because the Humbarine sector was very close to the Trade Federation's home territories of Kato Neimoidia and Balmorra-Neimoidia, when Sefrans Tann led the Plague Titan warship all the way to Kato Neimoidia, some planets in the Humbarine sector were briefly occupied by the Trade Federation amid the chaos.
For that very reason, political rivals often attacked her as a Separatist surrenderist. In truth, however, she was one of the Galactic Republic's most loyal supporters.
"But what should we do now? Even in the matter of the Jedi Order,