Palpatine’s people were doubtless working the ex-Separatists already with promises and threats. Mon didn’t even have a full list of their names—the administration kept adjusting its plans for Reintegration Day, now less than a month away. Who would be permitted to rejoin the Senate and who was considered a security threat remained in flux. The candidates she did know about were mostly away from Coruscant, back on war-ravaged homeworlds, cut off from galactic communications.
