EXT. CORUSCANT - IMPERIAL SENATE BUILDING - SUNSET
Speeders fly through the city on a quiet, normal day. The Imperial Senate building comes into view, shimmering in the sunset.
INT. IMPERIAL SENATE BUILDING - SENATE CHAMBERS
MON MOTHMA and her aides, late for a special session of the Senate, walk into the Chandrilla Senate Pod. Next to EMPEROR PALPATINE stands his Grand Vizor, SATE PESTAGE and MAS AMMEDA.
PALPATINE: ...as I had come before you two decades earlier, I told you of the betrayal of the Jedi Knights.
Some Senators applaud.
PALPATINE (Continued): We agreed that the best way to deal with a corrupt body was to see it's dismantling.
Mon Mothma thinks for a moment.
MON MOTHMA: No...
PALPATINE (Continued): Instead of announcing my plans for the Senate's next ten years, I am announcing that this body will be dismantled immediately.
Gasps and uproar are heard amongst the Senators
MAS AMMEDA: Order...Order!
PALPATINE (Continued): There are some among you that will stop at nothing to see the Empire die! This body is hereby destroyed, just as traitors twenty years earlier were, for a safe and secure society that will last for years to come!
The Senator from Mon Calamari stands.
SENATOR: Emperor Palpatine! This is madness! You cannot maintain control without us!
PALPATINE: Back down, Senator!
SENATOR: No! I will not back down this time! I stayed silent during the formation of the Empire, but I will not stand silent today! You will have to kill me first!
PALPATINE: Very well...
A shot is heard and the Senator falls out of his pod to the floor of the Senate Chamber. Stormtroopers move into each of the Senate pods. Terrified reactions can be heard throughout the chamber.
PALPATINE: Now, is there anything else that needs to be said here?
The Senators quiet down
PALPATINE (Continued): Then, for the final time...the Senate is adjourned!
Palpatine's pod descends back towards his holding office. Mon Mothma and her aides walk out the building.
EXT. IMPERIAL SENATE BUILDING - NIGHT
Mon Mothma and her aides walk towards a shuttle.
MON MOTHMA (to Aide): Contact Viceroy Organa on Alderaan. Tell him what has taken place...tell him that democracy is dead. And, be sure to tell him to be careful.
AIDE: Yes, m'lady.
Mon Mothma takes one last look at the Senate building as a reminder of democracies past. She boards a shuttle and heads off into the distance.
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