Private Of Mice and Men | Emergency Senate Session (Galactic Alliance)

[Faith Organa]

Location: Senate
Tags: Marina DeVoe

Faith pushed her seat back some to where she could catch Marina's ear. In a low soft voice where others could not hear Faith spoke, "Listen to their words but yet watch their hands, their eyes....do they look about, seem nervous...or do they speak with intent, and without hesitation. These little nuances in their behavior help to understand them and their positions."

She had listened to Senator Urban Dreyson of Chandrila. "Think of where their homes and where the threat is now located. Those close can already feel the boot of the sith or imperials on their necks from them will come the call for more military hoping to keep the threat away. Others who are farther out need time they might agree to the build up hoping to keep it from their borders."

There was a painful truth to all of this political back and forth there were worlds represented here today that will suffer and that...could not be completely stopped.

She looked at Marina, "So few voices represent so many. We can only pray that we make the right decisions."

 

[Marina DeVoe]

Marina leaned forward, ears perked attentively.
She looked about the grand senate hall and it's representatives as her queen urged her to.
And Marina understood what her Queen Faith Organa were trying to educate her with. marina did so absorb, all that her beloved queen taught her.


But understanding and agreeing with the course of politics going around the galactic Senate were another thing.
"There has to be better solutions than to escalate such crisis to war..." She muttered, wishing...praying to Berkana that the innocents be spared another war.
"I couldn't bear suffer our people again. Alderaan has sacrificed so much already..."
It weren't that the young DeVoe cared less for worlds outside her own. On the contrary, she would give her life to save and help any world...even those bearing the stain of sith...imperialism...those of the underworld and any totalitarian ruled systems. Marina did not care for those governments, but of the populations whom were subjugated forcefully under their iron fists, she could not abandon...nor could she bear to see her own people suffer again under the iron boots of sith troops. And if war came here upon the senate floor, she knew Alderaan would rightfully answer the call...again...like she would herself.

To Marina, the helpless, no matter what government ruled over them, she would not hesitate to help in any manner she could.
marina just loathed any talks of war and anything progressing toward it. But what she were gathering by many of the senate, was that war would be inevitable, despite the many whom seeked other peaceful measures to resolve the current crisis the Galactic Alliance were facing.

"My queen...if I may speak?" Marina at times remembered to ask permission to speak.

She were given permission to do so.

Marina leaned more forward, closer to her queen's ear.
"I've not only seen negotiations breaking down as they are doing here, but have also studied how it has done the same throughout written history....the breaking down of negotiations.
My question is: why does the senate keep doing the same thing over throughout history and expect different results?" She asked.

 

[Seto du Couteau]

Seto Du Coutaeu
Location: Senate Chambers
Action: Listening
Attire

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Indifference was a normal emotion from Seto, such was the emotion he was feeling when listening to the further discussions of escalations of conflict. They were going to war, that little was obvious, and any threat of sanctions to the Eternal Empire would be faced with nearly no concern. Any government choosing to go with the name of the Eternal Empire will hardly give pause to any economic hardships. Seto knew that conflict would only foster more conflict, and an enemy making life difficult would not give them any less fuel to further conflict.​

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Maybe they want to create more discourse, easier to rally behind the kid getting bullied with a darkened eye. . . ​

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Seto stretched forward his arms, reminding himself of his precarious situation of not obtaining enough sleep. The galaxy was up to its old jokes of keeping the young Du Couteau heir sleepless for as long as possible, and more of this restlessness among the Alliance’s borders only bred much more work in the offices. While there was a certain simplicity to the idea of war, the utter horror of keeping logistics and supply lines would haunt his dreams for the foreseeable future. A fate he would rather avoid by simply, well, avoiding it at all possible, but this galaxy was determined for the flames of battle to consume everything once more.​

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Planets burn and stars weep. Seto took a moment, he was being rather cynical than usual, and for that he blamed his tiredness once again. The Force was a finicky thing to wield, it would often lead him to assume certain future events, and other times Seto would outright ignore the warnings. The Force balanced the galaxy in such a confusing and incoherent way that Seto wondered if there were beings outside of this reality that pulled the strings to constantly force conflict and battle.​

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Or maybe this is how life just is. . . ​

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“Empress Teta seeks recongication.”​

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“Empress Teta will stand behind any and all sanctions leveled against the Alliance’s enemies. We have no arguments or qualms there, and neither am I opposed any military aid or wide spread troop movement. The only suggestion I wish to add is to allow the Alliance to grant subsidies to planets as to allow them a chance to build up their Planetary Defense Forces without taxing their own economies too greatly.” ​

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“The Alliance Navy, though great and powerful, cannot patrol every sector and system in the kind of numbers required to defeat a possible invasion force. As such this will fall to the Planetary Government to be the first stop-gap against potential threats.” ​

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Seto nodded his head once and sat back down, he wasn’t someone to not take advantage of terrible circumstances. Besides, he figured that if the Alliance planned on going into a full war economy, subsidies to individual planets would be but drops in a bucket compared to the vast ocean of spending the Alliance Military were about to do in the coming days.​

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[Adhira Chandra]

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The Chancellor had resumed her seat for the duration of the ensuing debate that followed her opening remarks. The Vice Chair and Staff Aide spoke in hushed voices over her lap about the best approach to introducing new legislation, but she paid very little attention to them, listening instead, to the voices of the Senators who spoke up in turn. At some point during the discussion of the other officers, they must have come to a decision, because her terminal chimed letting her know that Minister Oldani was seeking recognition. Her dark eyes shifted downward to the slate of pods usually occupied by government ministers and saw the bright bald head twinkling far below the Chancellor's podium.​

"The Chair recognizes the Minister for Commerce, Sadavir Oldani," she droned, formally, "for brief remarks." Adhira liked to keep the work of the Senate and the Executive as separate as possible, though being the de facto leader of both often necessitated some crossover. She could not deny that Sadavir certainly provided them all with a harsh clarity that she would not have been able to vocalize.​

Yet, when the government official concluded his remarks, the debate resumed. The Senate did seem to be leaning one way, though and finally, she rose to her feet, clenching the edge of her lectern tightly. She waited a moment for the murmur of the assembly to dampen.. as much as it could be expected to and turned on her own microphone. "Senators, several important points have been raised during this session," her voice echoed throughout the chamber, bouncing off the walls and bringing further silence, "to address the concerns of the honorable members of Empress Teta and Corellia, we will endeavor to introduce new spending legislation which will strengthen the presence of planetary defense forces and reinforce the Alliance Defense Force to better accommodate any new sanctions when we resume.. For now-"​

The Vice Chair leaned forward and put her hand on Adhira's elbow causing her to pull back from the mic briefly. The woman informed Adhira that a bill to formalize the sanctions had been prepared and was ready to be proposed. "For now," she resumed as if nothing had happened, "the Chair recognizes the Senator of Frego for a motion." Adhira remained standing as the mousey new addition to the Senate floated to the center of the floor in her pod.​

"Thank you, Chancellor. In congress with several of my colleagues, I move that the following motion be adopted," there was a chime and the text of a bill outlining the details of several sanctions against the Eternal Empire appeared on the screens of every Senator.​

"Is there a second?" Adhira inquired dutifully and was surprised by the sudden alien roar from somewhere above her. The translator did not register what was said, but she would settle for it. "Having heard a sufficient second, the Senate will now vote." On each Senator's screen, the vote would appear with the options. Adhira gave everyone a moment to enter their selection.​

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Spoiler: Senators

Carolina Tevinter
Reginald Orian
Sssar Taszzn
Seto du Couteau
Ce-Pas-Ton
Aerarii Tithe
Faith Organa
Seth Saaliche
Taega Vrav'lan
Skawn Kru
Ordon Trozky
Urban Dreyson
Maou
Otto Shule
Hinter Staakten
Donavon Arturo
Kryo Adab
Julius Loghain
Ulrich Sardion
Felipe Valiente
Brama Tagge
Greeble the Hutt
Jasol Dorsian
Auteme
Gat Tambor
Khama Fett
Mazik Stazi

 

[Khama Fett]

LOCATION: Senate Building, Coruscant

OBJECTIVE: Discuss the Eternal Empire

TAGS: Adhira Chandra | Faith Organa | @Senators


A short statured individual joined in his own senatorial pod alongside the other representatives. A new, fresh face representing the Chancellor's former seat of Balmorra. Theptak Ptay, the Jawa who won the election by a miracle. Unlike his predecessor, he was a member of the Corporatist Party, representing the voice of the business folks and workers as well as average voters.

The Jawa wore robes that were more elegant than those of his kinsmen. Stripes of light blue and pale gold were woven into a field of brown. Yellow gems dotted the space where his photosensitive eyes would be behind his robe. Theptak carefully looked over the proposal placed before him.

In his pod with him were a couple of aides. One was a fellow Jawa, a clan-mate of some variation. The other was a protocol droid of an older model, and painted a dull copper-brown. He chattered with his fellows, taking in their points and suggestions. On one hand, embargos were bad for business. It could cut off key trading points with the Eternal Empire, and any goods that businesses in the Alliance might depend on from the Empire. On the other, it would also be bad business to have continued importation of goods from the party declaring war on you.

After some deep thinking, the most junior senator cast his vote. He voted in favor of the sanctions. The market was adaptable, and thus, any goods the Eternal Empire offered could likely have alternatives elsewhere. This was a matter of public image, and it would not look good trading with the enemy. Yellow gems stared back to the chamber. His first action as a senator, and it felt so right to him

 

[Aerarii Tithe]

LOCATION: Senate Building
OBJECTIVE: Discuss the Eternal Empire
ALLIES: Adhira Chandra | Faith Organa | Reginald Orian | Seto du Couteau | Brama Tagge | Felipe Valiente | Jasol Dorsian | Kryo Adab | Otto Shule | Gat Tambor | Maou | Urban Dreyson | Khama Fett | Auteme | Ryv | Marina DeVoe

The utility of economic sanctions was raised by the Senator for Coruscant, who queried their effectiveness given the tendency for Empires to be self-supporting. Tithe prepared himself to speak, intent on noting that while the economy of the Eternal Empire would not collapse overnight, the shrinking profit margins of corporations based within the realm, especially the Zweihander Union, would see CEOs lining up to speak to the Empress. Even the most powerful galactic warlords were not immune to pressure from their economic powerhouses.

Unfortunately, Tithe was gazumped.

The Aarguun narrowed his eyes as Sadavir Oldani, Minister of Commerce, sought recognition and began to explain the justification for the sanctions. Aerarii had spent years plotting to overthrown his last superior, Grand Treasurer Beltis Kishar, and fully intended to make quicker work of his rival this time around. There was only room for one economic genius within the Galactic Alliance.

The debate raged on, with the Senator for Corellia seeking further details on anti-piracy operations, Jedi Knight Ryv giving early details on the planned defence of Byss, and the Senator for Chandrila advocating for increased military spending. The Senator for Empress Teta noted the role which would be played by planetary defence fleet in enforcing any actions against the Eternal Empire.

With the Bill proposed and seconded, a voting panel appeared before Tithe. He faced a moment of hesitation - he was a Corporatist by nature and party affiliation and was wary of government intervention in the business world. At the same time, the proposed sanctions gave him a framework to work within which would allow him to demonstrate his skills and tenacity. He wouldn’t make Minister of Commerce by remaining idle.

Tithe voted in the affirmative, then sat down as those around him lodged their votes.