Count Dooku stood on the platform with a modest smile on his lips, but to Tang Xiao, the smile on his face now looked more like mockery.
That was right. From the very beginning, the freedom and equality proposed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems had been nothing more than a game. Freedom and equality had never existed in the first place.
And now, those more than 300 planets, including Onderon, had come before the Confederate Congress to demand so-called freedom and equality? This was utterly absurd!
Count Dooku raised a hand, signaling for everyone around him to quiet down.
The prestige he had accumulated within the Confederacy of Independent Systems over more than a decade remained unmatched. The noisy chamber immediately fell silent, and only then did he slowly ask, "Then what proposal do you have for peace, senator Mina Bonteri?"
Mina Bonteri's expression eased slightly as she began arranging the documents before her.
Tang Xiao merely watched it all with great interest. Half a year ago, during one of their meetings, Mina Bonteri had still been looking forward to victory in the war. She had even been angered by Tang Xiao's claim that the war was about to fail.
Yet half a year later, she was already standing in the Confederate Congress, openly opposing the Confederacy of Independent Systems' war policies.
It could only be said that what had happened over the past six months had exceeded the limits of what she could bear.
The Confederacy of Independent Systems might have been winning battle after battle during this period, but countless hidden dangers had actually been planted beneath those victories. Whether it was General Grievous's massive Festival Offensive, which had swept from the eastern side of the Milky Way Galaxy to the south and covered more than a