Andro only nods at Jelena's words. He stares hard at Seiner, waiting anxiously for his words. He feels with every fibre that surely the next few moments will change the galaxy. He hangs on the moment just as the crowd does, but surely for a different reason. Very slowly, he eases his saber from its holster. He feels through the Force for the internal activator, and poises it on the edge of activation. His whole body is rigid now. This is it, it must have all come down to this moment...
"Nothing important or that need concern you," says Tavers. "And if you know all that, you should know that you won't be seeing Kathya again."
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"Senators," speaks Sienar, suddenly. His voice is strong and alert. Jelena, it does not take you long to see that SDienar already knows how best to motivate his crowd and speak with effect- not using the Force to affect then, but with the ebenfit of the Force's inspiratation (e.g use of powers like Charisma and Cunning).#
"Assembled representatives of the people of the Galaxy. I speak to you now as an elected representative myself, as the head of a world I love and of a Church dedicated to improving the state of the Galaxy.
"We are just a Church of believers. We have no vested power, nor do we seek it. We hold faith that people shall improve, and I have always supported a doctrine of working by inspiration, by setting an example to others. I now humbly offer myself as an example to inspire you. For this Galaxy is heading to a monumental crisis, and you are the only ones who can stop this from happening."
Roan, you are running around the vast crowd, full of aliens of every sort, trying to see what the source of your senses are. Then yuo do see something somewhat odd; one being that from here looks to be made of a solid material that does not move; whilst beings all around were appluading and are now swaying, coughing or talking amongst themselves as Sienar speaks, this one is staying absolutely still.
Tavers is actually not strong-willed per se, but so dominated by his master that his will cannot be changed without his say so.
There's a downside to that- such a being cannot have any initiative at all. Surely that makes him useless in many ways?
"Facing the consequences of failure," says Tavers. "You would do well to always keep yourself useful."
Useful... Something echoes in your head about that word.
"You are all here assembled to talk on the future of Galactic Poverty. You have come to make deals and arrangements, to oversee thr transition fi what you hope to be an improved system. But what you have found instead is that system's destruction. And now all your plans seem for nought."
Sienar is not shouting or sermonising; he is not even speaking that loudly but there is a force behind his voice that means it carries. Most of his words are soft-spoken but he puts an empahsis on some of them (in italics) that gives them the power of a word yelled at many times the volume.
"Something that was always true has become clear to all today. The economics of supply and demand are, and never will be, sufficient to remove poverty and starvation from this Galaxy. They are not enough! When I began my crusade against poverty, and to eradicate the famines caused by the great locust swarms, one thing soon became very, very clear indeed. The food production of the entire Galaxy can be, and is, bought by those sections of the Galaxy that can and do pay more and not to those parts that need it the most. No matter how high their demand, they will never receive the food that they need!
"These companies that deal with food are not working for the same reasons you and I do. They are not there for the peopkle but for their own perpetuatioin They produce merchandise which they wish to sell. Morality does not come into it."
Gallagher scoffs at the Dark Side's near removal of free will and its willingness to dispose of those who fail it, knowing that even if he were afforded great power by using it, he would be expending all those around him as tools. Such a thought is discomforting and he shuns it when the word 'useful' resonates for him. Can he pinpoint at all why it seems significant?
"The failure is not hers," Gallagher says. "She is merely a tool for progressing Sienar's plan, a bystander to events. Jedi are taught to value life, Tavers."
Gallagher is not powerful enough to excise Sienar's power over Tavers?
To be honest, Kathya has not done anything horribly villainous in the time that Gallagher has known her. She is a pawn of Sienar and so has allowed herself to side with him and put her name down in his stead, basically so that Sienar can use her as a buffer if anyone came after him.
She does not deserve to die for that.