“My mind is made up. It’s why I brought you both here. I need you to see the bodies. The waste. The tragedy of war. I need you to see why we need to end it. I cannot ask our people to fight for this again and again. Not once the Empire is truly diminished.”
In one breath she dismisses the war powers of her office as.chancellor. in the next she decides unilaterally the fate of the galaxy? trying to decide if the words of dismay at the cost of war sound fake because of my own cynicism...or the author's. This is a set up.
