Everyone's plans were proceeding as scheduled. However, plans always had a way of encountering the unexpected.
It was the same for everyone.
"To be honest, I'd find it much easier to accept if you told me this was all part of your plan to cast a long line and catch a big fish."
Looking at Earl Dooku before him, Duanmu Huai immediately launched into a complaint. Hearing this, Earl Dooku's face twitched slightly, but he said nothing.
Duanmu Huai was not aboard the Inquisition's battleship at the moment. Instead, he was currently on a remote planet called Geonosis. The reason he had come here was directly related to Earl Dooku.
Simply put, this was what had happened.
After deciding to deal with the Galactic Council first, the Trade Federation Governor was still unwilling to let the matter go. It knew that dealing with the Inquisition was impossible for now, but the governor had another enemy.
That enemy was Queen Amidala.
From the Trade Federation Governor's perspective, when they had blockaded Naboo Planet, if this queen had been sensible and signed the agreement sooner, perhaps the Trade Federation's fleet would not have been wiped out by the Inquisition. Or perhaps Queen Amidala was in league with the Inquisition!
After all, Queen Amidala was human too! She could claim she knew nothing, but who would believe that?
Thus, the Trade Federation Governor chose the simplest and most effective method: assassination!
In its view, if it couldn't take down the Inquisition, killing this stubborn queen first and venting its anger would be good enough!
For the first assassination attempt, the governor chose to blow up Queen Amidala's ship when she came to Coruscant for a meeting. Unexpectedly, this queen was quite the sly one. She had disguised herself as a pilot and sat