The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1723. The end of the Galactic Republic (4)

"This is sensational nonsense, a baseless slander against us with ulterior motives!" Crueya Vandron, Sheev Palpatine's advisor, said angrily in an interview with the media : "Those gathered here today are the best members of the Youth League of the Republic. They are also the best generation of the Republic and the future of the Republic! Your doubts are the biggest blow to these outstanding young people!"

Kruja-Vanderlon said loudly: "Of course the Youth League of the Republic cannot recruit only human members! This is just a coincidence. The first application received by the Youth League of the Republic and the first member recruited is a human being. Of course the Youth League will Recruiting members of non-human races, and we have indeed received many applications from non-human races!”

"So have non-human races joined in?" the reporter asked persistently.

"All applications are under review. If someone's application is rejected, then you should pay more attention to your own reasons. Because the Youth League of the Republic represents the future of the Republic, and only the best young people in the Republic can join!" Luya van der Roon's ambiguous answer.

Click, the holographic projection was turned off, Chi Eekway Papanoida, a congressman from the planet Pantora, said worriedly: "Things can't continue like this... Anti-inhumanism, totalitarianism , Palpatine is pushing the Galactic Republic in an extremely dangerous direction."

"There's no doubt about that, but I'm very concerned that there's nothing we can do now," Councilor Bana Breemu said with a sigh.

"Our previous impeachment action against Palpatine did not have any impact on him." Congressman Mon Mothma said, "The power of the Congress has become smaller and smaller, and there are fewer and fewer things we can do. Now Palpatine has almost lost all control."

Bail Organa was silent. He looked at the congressmen who were discussing the plan in vain, and his heart was extremely cold.

They had been fighting with Palpatine relentlessly since the beginning of the war. Although there were no aircraft, cannons, or tanks and warships in this battle, the verbal confrontation was still full of various conspiracy struggles, games and compromises.

But their struggle had little chance of winning from the beginning. Ever since Palpatine received emergency ruling powers, he has been invincible. The remaining time is just the last struggle of these members of Congress.

Bail Organa sighed and said: "Palpatine still cares about his support and public opinion, otherwise he would not let the Republic Protection Committee and the Republic Youth League do so many things to improve his own popularity."

"He wants to make himself the dictator of the Galactic Republic, and he is planning to retain the power given to him by the Parliament forever." The grumpy Congressman Fang-Zha roared, "We must take action!"

"Let's sign the letter," Bail Organa said.

"A joint petition? No! We should start the impeachment process again!" Fang Zha said loudly.

"It's useless. The impeachment process has no effect except irritating Palpatine. Instead, it will only give him enough excuses to arrest us." Bana Bream shook her head and said, "The impeachment process last time I have said at the time that, to a certain extent, we are breaking the law."

"We exercised the legitimate rights of the parliament to launch impeachment. What kind of law did we violate?!" Fang Zha roared.

"Congressman Bana is right, Palpatine has the power of emergency decision-making! Because in everyone's eyes, he is leading the Galactic Republic to fight against the separatists! If he initiates impeachment at this time, he can completely remove the illegal Hat off," Mon-Mothma said.

"Is it useful to submit a joint letter? We lower our heads and beg him?" Fang Zha said unwillingly.

"That's right, just beg him. This is the only way we can..." Bail Organa glanced at the faces of everyone around him and said slowly: "Behind each of us, there is a... As citizens of several planets, we cannot put our emotions above the interests of the planet and the safety of the people. This is our basic principle as parliamentarians."

Everyone lowered their heads.

"Let's jointly submit a letter. It's very painful. I hope Palpatine can change his mind." Bail Organa said, "As long as we can get the support of more congressmen, I believe the weight of this letter will definitely be that of Palpatine." Can’t ignore it!”

"I agree, let's do it." Mon-Mothma said.

…

20BBY, ​​August 15th.

One week after the failure of the Battle of Yago-Dur, more than 2,000 members, led by righteous-minded members such as Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, jointly signed an initiative and submitted it to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In front of husband Palpatine's desk.

This proposal is known as the Petition of 2000.

In this proposal, the congressmen conducted an in-depth analysis of the current situation of the Galactic Republic and the harm of this war continuing to this day.

They believe that although this war is currently at a stalemate, it has caused the separatist forces to continue to retreat. Now the areas that the separatists can control are only their core areas. In the early days of the war, the arrogant arrogance of separatism had been severely dealt a blow. It can be said that the war has achieved phased results.

But similarly, this war also led to numerous internal conflicts in the Galactic Republic and its finances were on the verge of collapse. Under such circumstances, forcibly attacking the planets with the strongest separatist forces is likely to cause tragedies such as the Model Sector Raid War to happen again.

Therefore, the lawmakers believe that it is time to cool down the war and return the war-torn galaxy to normalcy. This is not about compromising with separatism, but it takes time to recuperate and reform the problems that the Republic exposed during the war.

The congressmen mentioned in the initiative that they hope that Speaker Palpatine can fulfill his promise when he was granted emergency ruling powers by the Congress at the beginning of the war and return the power to the Congress, and then the two sides will discuss how to carry out reforms and bring the power back to the Congress. The republic's administration became more efficient.

At the same time, in the proposal, the congressmen also implicitly suggested that the reason why some battles failed was actually because power was not effectively monitored.

Just like the Battle of Model Sector, there were too many shady stories during this battle. If there is parliamentary deliberation and supervision during this process, then this hasty offensive may have a chance to be stopped.

This book of two thousand people is very sincere and has a very low posture, almost speaking to Palpatine in a pleading tone.

This is the last effort for democracy by those members of the Parliament of the Republic who still have illusions and hopes for a democratic republic.

Because other than that, they have no other choice.

After this 2,000-person letter was delivered to the desk of the Speaker of the Republic, Sheev Palpatine, as Bail Organa said, the signatures of more than 2,000 people gave this initiative enough weight and allowed Palpatine to Elpatin could not easily ignore the initiative.

However, when he saw this proposal, Palpatine's deep eyes lit up with anger! (End of chapter)