Chapter 52
Luke had finally arrived at Jedi Temple, knowing that he had to talk with the rest of the Council Members after he had taken such a long break from spending time at the Temple for so long. Of course he also had been notified of the fact that they had to discuss the important matter, of how the Council should act considering Master Ralkitta, who had been quite an outsider for a long time and that was truly a matter of concern for rest of the high council. He felt very torn about this whole matter: On one side he knew that a Jedi wasn't supposed to play god especially considering non-force users, but on the other side he couldn't help but feel thankful towards Master Ralkitta because of what he did.
He always had sworn to himself to never let emotions influence his decision making process, but being reunited with his mother that one person that he had never thought to see again eventually did make this whole thing easier said than done in the end. The big question was of course if the rest of the council would understand his position, after knowing about his personal involvement in this situation and the way how personal this whole thing was for him made the thing so difficult for him. He took one deep breath before he entered the Council Chamber, Tresina Lobi was the first to notice Master Skywalker enter the room and said:
„Master Skywalker it's good to you see again, we have important matters to talk about during today's meeting and I think I speak for everybody in the room when I say that it would for the best if we come to a decision as a union on those topics." Of course deep down he knew that Kyp Durron had nailed the the nail right head, so to speak but he wasn't that sure if he could agree with the decision of his colleagues on the Council at the very end even if he was aware of the consequences his actions might cause.
Office of the Chief of State, Mon Mothma
As expected the worst case had been confirmed by the reports that all the present personell had been going through for the past minutes: The New Republic Battleship weren't able to rescue any potiental survivors from the suprise attack on the Listening Post in the Saarn System and their only hope now was that the forces of Admiral Thrawn hadn't been able to steal any data from the listening post, before the New Republic Military Base on the surface of the first planet in the System had been destroyed.
„Of course we all hope that someone from personell had been able to destroy base per self-destruct, before the ground forces would have been able to accquire any data , as it is a fact that just a portion of this highly sensitive data would give Grand Admiral Thrawn a huge advantage in this war." Admiral Ackbar said with especially Leia and Mon Mothma listening closely to his words but also the present senators in the room were aware of the fact how critical this situation was for them.
„I think that I speak for every other person that's present in the room at this moment, when I say that we may have suffered a big loss today but the New Republic is going to survive this war!" Leia said, trying her best to lift the spirits oft he present senators just a little bit even if this easier said than done.
At this moment she couldn't but wonder how her mother had mastered complicated situations like this one during her time as a Senator and Queen of Naboo, it wasn't like she was totally overwhelmed by all of this but it you could only manage a certain amount of stress to a limited extent and maybe she would ask her for some advice when she would have some free time again.
Somewhere in the Underground of Coruscant
Far away from the busy life of the little better suited people, all the filthy criminals did their dirty deals with on another and nobody from the upper levels of the City-like Planet would ever set their foot inside this area.
Two guys where sitting at the bar right next to each other and they were definitely deep into a conversation about some pretty shady business that was going down very soon:
„So do you have the explosives I need ready? Because I have a tight schedule to fullfill and I don't intent to make any adjustments to it."
„Yes, I've got the explosives here with me and you should know that you can always count on me as your partner." Judging from the facial expression of the man, he wasn't very pleased by the fact that his new business partner was questioning his abilities but for now he decided to let it slide because all the doubt would be blown away forever when they would have completed the first phase of the plan to destabilize the Government of the New Republic. The man then finally handed over the bag with explosives to his new partner and said before they went their separate ways:
„Excellent, then now is the time to take action after all those months of planning and we will restore the Empire back to his old glory again." With an evil grin on his face the man finally left the shady cantina in the underground of Corcusant and made his way to the little space ship, that his employers had given to him for this special mission.
The plan will work to perfection and all those naive politician inside the New Republic's government will be too busy with themselves to see on time what kind of disaster is coming their way. The black hooded man thought as he made his way through the dark alleys of the underground and soon the old order would be restored again, as he and his powerful allies were preparing to crush the New Republic.
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