Bo-Katan Kryze set down the speech in her hand, wiped the sweat from her brow, and wearily rubbed her temples. She had been speaking for more than three hours straight, relying entirely on specially made throat-soothing drinks to endure it.
After raising the banner of rebellion and leading the people of Mandalore in resistance, Bo-Katan Kryze had shed her combat armor, put on solemn and elegant dresses, and begun devoting herself to politics. Only then did she finally understand the painstaking intentions of her sister, Satine Kryze.
Satine Kryze had repeatedly urged her to study law, rhetoric, strategy, and compromise. But to the Bo-Katan of those days, all of that had been the behavior of cowards. She believed that Mandalorians should defeat every enemy on the battlefield head-on.
Yet reality had told her that some enemies would never appear on the front lines, while some friends could only be won through compromise. Unless one possessed the strength to crush the entire Milky Way Galaxy, politics was a subject that could never be avoided.
Bo-Katan Kryze only regretted that she had once cared solely about honing her combat skills, even secretly joining Death Watch, leaving her so utterly unlearned now... Whenever she needed to give a speech, she had to have someone write it for her; whenever she needed to negotiate, she could only have Vitaly Orlov mediate on her behalf.
Even for this speech, in order to carry her voice across the entire planet, she had secretly sought assistance from the Duchy of Dawn forces under Sefrans Tann. Jango Fett had asked Sefrans Tann to dispatch ten Sentry-class Electronic Warfare Frigates to Mandalore in secret, providing support for Rebel Alliance communications and ensuring the speech signal remained clear.
This did indeed violate the Rebel Alliance's principle of refusing outside interference,