Whoosh~!
As alien after alien appeared, each with strange features, different heights and builds, and varying skin tones and facial features, the Galactic Senate guards in their gleaming black formal uniforms snapped to attention and saluted, welcoming the alien attendees who seemed to be dressed as senators.
"Greetings, Elder of Kamino..."
"Greetings, Representative of Ryloth."
"..."
"Ah-ha!"
"Senator of Polis Massa, you finally made it?"
"Yes, Representative of Ryloth. It's good to run into you here. So, is there any news today?"
"Of course! But shall we discuss it over there first?"
"As you wish..."
Today, in the grand Senate Hall—the seat of the Galactic Senate—on the planet Coruscant in the Galactic Republic, stood a building over two kilometers in diameter, crowned by a vast dome shaped like a mushroom. In front of it stretched a magnificent plaza lined with abstract statues of the founders of the Republic's Core Worlds. Inside the hall, countless senators and representatives from the various member worlds sat waiting for the session to begin, gathered on 1,024 floating repulsorlift platforms.
This special session had been convened by Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum. The senators had been called to hear the views of Queen Padmé Amidala, who had been trapped for days by the Trade Federation's blockade and had received no word from her world until she escaped to the capital planet of Coruscant yesterday aboard a J-type 327 Nubian starship. The Senate would then address the Trade Federation's illegal blockade of Naboo and its brazen invasion of the planet with a mechanical army.
That was the main reason so many representatives, commissioners, elders, and senators from across the galaxy had traveled to the Senate Building in their own vehicles at this particular time.
"..."
Phew!
Ten minutes left...
Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum stood on his elevated