If Geonosians' faces could change color from blood rushing to them, then Poggle the Lesser's complexion would certainly have looked terrible right now. Even so, the constantly twitching muscles on his face made it clear just how furious he was.
"You actually... colluded with the Separatists!!" Poggle the Lesser's voice trembled slightly. He pointed at Nova, but his eyes were fixed on Ganzo-Dorso.
"What a thing to say. Weren't you a core member of the Separatists too?" Nova mocked sarcastically. "Back when you attended meetings on Raxus, you sat in the front row, while our Emperor was only in the second row."
"If you hadn't kidnapped Emperor Karina for your own ambitions, we would never have come to this point! And you still have the nerve to accuse me of colluding with the Separatists!" Ganzo-Dorso advanced on Poggle the Lesser step by step, murder in his eyes making the elderly archduke shrink back fearfully.
"I was saving the Queen!!! Didn't you know that if we had kept fighting back then, our entire species would have died?! The Empire's fleet was already right in our faces! And you were still dreaming of being buried alongside Count Dooku? Tang Xiao sold out every single person in the Confederacy of Independent Systems to buy Dawn Star Planet's miserable survival! And what about us? We were the ones he abandoned, the ones he betrayed!!" Poggle the Lesser finally erupted under the pressure. He spoke rapidly in words mixed with the Geonosian language, and aside from Ganzo-Dorso, no one could understand him.
He slammed his cane against the ground and shouted rapidly, spraying saliva everywhere. "Tang Xiao has already betrayed us once! In the Empire's eyes, we're secondhand goods now, understand? Secondhand goods!! For the continuation of our species, this was the only way! The