Policital schemes

With the tech assistance secured, you grab a speeder and ride it a block away from Dantel's apartment. Then, you take his form with **** projection and casually walk up to his place. There are some well armed clone troopers standing around his door, when they see you they all salute you.

Troopers: General!

Lana (imitating a manly voice): Khm, troopers!

Sergeant: Sir, we believed you were giving a speech in the senate, we were not expecting your return so early!

Lana (imitating a manly voice): Ehm, yes, but since there was trouble in the senate a few days ago, the chancellor suggested I hold my speech from here, via holo.

Sergeant (suspiciously): I see. Sir, your voice sounds... Strange... Is everything alright?

The clones stop the salutations and look at you, waiting for an answer.

Lana (thinking): Oh by the ****, why did you have to notice that?!

Lana (imitating even worse): Ehm... I just...

Sergeant: Sir, what is the security code to enter the house?

Lana (thinking): Security code?! Oh come on...! How am I supposed to know that?!

Sergeant (as he and his men slowly raise their blasters and point it at you): Sir...?! The security code! Now, or we take this as an attempt of intrusion and open fire!

Lana (not even imitating any more, using mindtrick instead): You don't need my security code.

Sergeant: We... don't need your security code...

Lana: You will let me enter my home.

Sergeant and troopers: We will let you enter your home.

You enter and lock the door behind you. There's nobody inside, so you are free to search for his computer. You easily find it in his study, but as expected, it's locked, luckily, you have came prepared. You connect your datapad to the computer and call Drek.

Lana: Okay Drek, showtime!

Drek: Let's see what we have here... Hmm, I have seen this type of programming before, not the best if I may say, the Republic must be short on funds to pay for tech experts and data protection.

Lana: How long will it take you to hack it?

Drek: A few minutes at worst. While I'm doing that, don't you want to get rid of the camera recordings?

Lana: Good idea, there's a datapad next to the computer, it must be for the cameras. I'll just delete everything they recorded today and turn them off altogether.

Drek (surprised): Oh, wow, this was easier than expected. The "official's" password was "Long_live_the_Republic66", how original!

Lana: Thanks for the help, I'll manage it from here!

Drek: Okay, call me if you need anything else! May the **** be with you Lana and I hope you know what you are doing!

You search through his data and find all sorts of things. Battle plans, secret weapon projects, preparations for events once he's elected chancellor, the man really is confident. However, you find something else too. There are details of an illegal **** trading network, going through General Dantel. Everything is there, who was auctioned, to whom, when, where, the price, everything. It seems mostly they were captured during his battles, some of the civilians in the line of battle were systematically **** by his agents and brought to different holding cells on different worlds. Later on, they were either sold to the Hutt Cartell or ransomed back to the Trade Federation for either a hefty price or a shipment of illegal high tech weapons. There are notes, that some senators might have found out about it and he wants them eliminated to guard the secret. He asked the Trade Federation to provide him an assassin, who'll deal with them.

Lana: So this is how he managed to win so many battles! He had access to weapons no other army had, not to mention the extra money he could use to get what he wanted! At the cost of civilian lives... He really is not interested in the cost, only the result... I have to get this to Padmé, he must be exposed!

You grab your datapad, take his form once more and rush out of his apartmant. You hop on your speeder and make your way right to the senate.

Lana (contacting Padmé on the speeder): Padmé, there's something you need to know! I found something!

Padmé: What's that?

You tell her what you found, she is as surprised as you are.

Padmé: Lana, the break in the session is almost over, I'm afraid I can't talk to you about this any further. Bring whatever you found directly to the chancellor! He'll know how to expose and trial the man! He had just delivered a strong speech for the Capital Security Act, if he gets exposed soon, they will certainly lose countless votes!

Lana: I'll be right on it Padmé!

After arriving to the senate building, you ran straight to the chancellor's office. The session is over and the corridors are filled with senators and their escorts. On the way to the higher levels, you have to fight your way through the crowd of people. Once at the chancellor's office, one of his secretaries come out.

Secretary: I am his excellency's secretary, how may I be of assistance?

Lana (taking your helmet off to be polite): I'm Lana, Jedi knight, I require an urgent meeting with the chancellor, it's important!

Secretary (bowing to you): Welcome master Jedi! The chancellor is not in his office as of now, he will be here in around 30 minutes.

Lana: Is he in the building? I can talk to him elsewhere too!

Secretary (pointing at some benches next to the door): Please, he asked me not to have him disturbed. You may wait here if you like!

Lana: Ah great, I'm not much of a patient person anyway...

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Secretary (taking a better look at you): Hmm... Haven't we met before...? You look a lot like somebody I met a long time ago on Tatooine...

Lana (thinking): Met me...? On Tatooine? Who is this... Wait, is she...? That senator I found in the dune sea!? Damn, that was a long time ago, I didn't expect to see her again! She looks way better with less sand on her, though that adventure with her, having lost all her clothes was fun! Anyway, I don't have time to chat, I better just go and find Palpatine.

Lana (lying): Sorry, I haven't been to Tatooine for at least a decade now, I doubt we could have ever met. I'm just here for the chancellor.

Secretary: Hmm... Strange... I could have sworn...

Lana (thinking): She better believe me, I don't want to mindtrick her too today! {endif}

Secretary: Anyway, as I said, the chancellor will be available soon, please, be seated until he arrives!

Lana: I'll just go and talk to somebody in the meantime, I'll be back in 30 minutes!

Secretary: As you see fit, Master Jedi! I will let his excellency know, you are coming!

You try to find Padmé at the meantime, but you only find her friend, Chuchi. She hasn't seen Padmé since the session, but suggests you take a look at Mon Mothma's office, she often goes there to talk to her. You follow the advice and walk to the office. When you knock on the door it opens slightly, with people inside. You suspect trouble, therefore ready yourself for a fight.

Lana (loudly as you open the door): Senator Mothma, are you there...?

Mon (casually): Lana, what brings you here?

There she was, though you have caught her in the middle of something.{if Bath = true} Something awfully similar to your time spending with Padmé under the shower.{endif} Mothma is bent onto her desk by a human with his pants down and she's getting drilled in her ass. You don't know what to do with the awkward situation, so you just back out.

Lana (slowly walking back out of the office): I ehm... I'll wait for you outside...

Mon: Alright, just please, do close the door behind you!

You do so and sit down onto a bench next to her door. 3 minutes later you see the man exiting the office and leaving.

Mon (loudly from the office): You may enter!

Lana (thinking): This is madness, these senators really can't control themselves!

Valare: You should have seen a few of the Dark Council meetings, if there were terrible news, some simply killed each other out of anger, other times they rather just held an orgy in the room to channel their raw emotions in a different way. It was more efficient though, they didn't have to find new council members every week!

Lana (thinking): I guess politics are the same, no matter which side you are on...

Mon (casually, still naked in her chair): What can I do for you, Lana?

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Lana: I was just looking for Senator Amidala, but I can clearly see she isn't here.

Mon: Yes, sorry, I haven't seen her since the seccon was over, I was "busy", you know.

Lana: What was that all about...?

Mon: Ah, don't mind it, sometimes we have to use all we have in order to secure the "right" votes of wavering senators.

Lana: So you have just corrupted him...?

Mon (giggling): Oh no, not him, not this time at least! He was delivering me a recording of a suspicious senator from the Techno Union, who's working for the Separatists, but we didn't have proof of it as of now. However, now there's a video of him and his mysterious contact he visits often in the senate. I have checked it, the senator was meeting with Mas Amedda, Palpatine's right hand man! They were meeting too often and exchanged suspicious documents each time they met. It contains all the evidence we need to trail them both. I have long suspected that there was a conspiracy and somebody near the chancellor was involved. If I may ask you a favour, could you bring this video to the chancellor? I want it to be shown in the senate in the afternoon, so the conspirators won't have time to escape! Palpatine will be more than welcome if this conspiracy is exposed!

Lana (taking the datacontainer): Certainly, I have some business with him anyway, I'll do it as swiftly as possible.

Mon: Thank you Lana! Oh and... If somebody asks about me and the senator you have just seen leaving... We were only discussing the quality of this years Chandrillan wine.

Lana: Naturally.

You return to the chancellor's office again, hoping he's back by now. You are wrong though, he has somebody else inside now, but you spot an unfriendly face, waiting for the chancellor as you do. It's General Dantel, the man you have originally come to expose. Knowing only you know him, and he doesn't know you, you don't start talking to him, just stand and wait.

Dantel (following a brief silence): Master Jedi, I hope you are not here to do anything unwise with that data you have taken from me.

Your eyes go wide at this statement, how can he even know you? Let alone that you have broken into his house?!

Lana (lying obviously): General, I have no idea what you are talking about...

Dantel: Let's leave the formalities and be direct with each other, that's the simplest way. I do not like games Lana Ordo, I have ears and eyes everywhere, especially in my home. Did you really think you could get away with that theft?

Lana: ...

Dantel: Instead of telling you not to give that to the chancellor, how about you listen to my side of the story. I will let you decide what you want to do afterwards. First, I have no idea who sent you there or why, I do not even care about that. What I care about is the integrity of the Republic. Do you know how many battles I have won so far? No, because neither do I, I stopped counting after 30. But let's not discuss my military accomplishments now. Whatever you have been told, whatever you may think you have found, are not even close to the truth. Everything I did, everything I do and everything I will every done, are all for the sake of this Republic! Do you know what a general needs to win a battle? He needs money. And when he has it? He needs more of it.

Lana: I have seen Jedi generals win their battles with minimal economic burden.

Dantel: Ah yes, the newly arrived Jedi generals, who have replaced us, the original generals of the Republic. I had been in service for 34 years already when the new clone army arrived and the war broke out. Most of my colleagues were instantly fired to make place for your Jedi friends. Only a handful of us remained in charge. Only a handful who knows how to wage war and fight battles by hard earned experience, not by some unnatural, magical thing. I do not like your kind at all, you are strong, powerful, you could wipe the entire senate out if you decided to. We could barely defend ourselves against such a betrayal, that is why I personally proposed the Capital Security Act to be put into law. With extra soldiers in the capital, a potential Jedi revolt could be handled better.

Lana: Jedi do not seek to betray the Republic, they seek to keep it together!

Dantel: Oh, I am sure they do! That is why they do not allow any outsider into their little temple. So much secrecy, yet nothing to hide? I find that hard to believe. Not to mention that moral code that keeps them from using all their abilities to win the battle at hand. I have looked up the documents about you when I heard you were in my apartment. You are something else, effective, quick to act and not limited by morality. We are more similar than you think.

Lana: We are not similar at all! You sold civilians into slavery to get money and weapons! Do you have the slightest idea how terrible their lives have become by your greedy and selfish actions?!

Dantel: Selfish?! I am everything but that! Yes, I did sell them to raise extra funds or get my men some harder firepower, to overwhelm the Separatists! What do you think, was it worth it to have a few thousand "loaned" and saving hundreds if not thousands of millions on each planet I reconquered or defended? I am not limited by morality, I use every available weapon at my disposal to earn what I aim at.{if ATZ3 = true} Even sell some intel on a rival generals, like I did on Atzerri as you must have already found out, to distract the enemy forces from defending key planets that I can invade!{endif} Had I not acted as I did, at least a dozen planets would now be under separatist occupation or worse. I had to make decisions and I made them knowing, I serve the greater good! Not to mention the Republic laws regulating slavery are holding the Republic back! Slaves with collars are innovative, simple to be used, labor saving, the Hutts demonstrate it to this day, how slavery is cost effective in all industries, from agriculture to factory jobs! Long ago, it used to be accepted in the Republic too, but got outlawed millennia ago by some fools. If the Republic still had it, it would give us an economic advantage, plus a higher militaristic productivity to defeat the CIS. Only a short sighted idealist would question that! Like those idiotic senators, who found out about the flow of credits into my pockets and wanted to use it against me. I had to deal with them, but I did not finish the job as perfectly as I intended to. But there is always am other chance.

Lana (thinking): Hmm, he has a point with some of that, but still... At least he admitted the bombing.{if ATZ3 = true}And his betrayal on Atzerri...{endif}

Dantel: But. As I said, I use everything at my disposal, so here is my offer. If you give that data back to me, I promise I will reward you with some extra fame. I have connections, I can arrange for every news media to mention your heroic actions during that bombing not long ago. I am sure you would appreciate a little screen time!

Lana: Well...

Dantel: Furthermore. I know how Senator Orgaga is using his wealth to buy influence the opinion of other senators. Not to mention how persuasive Senator Mothma could be, if she is surrounded by men in an office... And we haven't even mentioned how she and Senator Amidala gained their wealth by imposing extra taxes on their people, so that they could "send in as charity" to other Republic worlds. Senator Mothma even forbade the taxing of the elite aristocracy, because they threatened to make her resign otherwise! I too have proof of their actions, but I am willing to keep them a secret, if you keep my actions a secret. Why ruin each other's career when we could just simply walk away without losing anything?

Lana (thinking): What should I do? If I expose him, I may cause a lot of harm to Mothma and Bail, maybe even Padmé... It could lead to more trouble in the long run. But I shouldn't let such a man run free. Even if there's some merit in his words and the actions are somewhat justifiable.