"Revenge? Hehehehe... Sheelal. That name sounds unfamiliar," Count Dooku said mockingly.
"Perhaps that name means nothing to you, but to me, to the Caladanians, that name... means everything!" General Grievous did not rush in. Instead, he paced slowly, maintaining his distance from Count Dooku. "You murdered Kyman Jai Sheelal and stole the future of the Caladanians! Sheelal's death left the Caladanians utterly incapable of resisting Huk!"
"Oh... but you're doing fairly well now, aren't you? Together with the Geth, who delight in slaughtering living beings," Count Dooku sneered.
"But that has nothing to do with you, does it?" General Grievous retorted in the same tone.
"I see. So this was all the Archangel of Death's idea." Count Dooku's gaze turned incomparably cold.
"He gave me an opportunity—an opportunity to do what I wanted to do," General Grievous said coldly.
"Then killing Ainlee Tim was part of it too? If you only brought me here for revenge, there was no need to kill him." Count Dooku snorted. "Ainlee Tim... assuming your plan succeeded and you killed me, Ainlee Tim would become the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The Archangel of Death had you kill him for that reason, didn't he?"
The Confederacy of Independent Systems had previously named Trade Federation Governor Nute Gunray as its first successor. But Nute Gunray had already fled to Tang Xiao's camp. Though he still publicly supported the Confederacy, the Trade Federation's main investments had in fact already withdrawn from Confederate territory.
Under such circumstances, Nute Gunray naturally could no longer remain the Confederacy's heir. This had not been openly discussed before, because once it was brought into the open, would that not amount to admitting that the Confederacy of Independent Systems had split apart?
Thus, Ainlee Tim becoming the Confederacy's successor after Count