Jana was surprised by the reactions from the other senators. She hadn't had a chance to respond to president Thorne and others as the session seemed to move away from her, but that didn't mean she couldn't collect her thoughts.
Apparently the President of the Intergalactic Systems Consortium thought that being the first to announce an audit meant you had a higher chance of passing said audit. Which was a ridiculous statement of its own and wouldn't need a retort. To assume that an audit was weighed on public opinion might be how it worked on the Hutt worlds the ISC is currently so keen on taking, but it sure as kark wasn't how the civilized worlds operated. Then him seemingly thinking that announcing an audit was a bigger conflict of interest than being a boardmember of one of the affected megacorporations and voting against sanctions on that very company. It surprised Jana that none of her fellow senators, not even those among the Republic, made any notion of that in their own contributions.
Then senators tried to refute her claim that Blackwell droids have been used in the armies of the Sith Empire simply because they haven't been mentioned to be among their numbers in the most recent conflicts. What Jana had said was that the droids had been used when the Sith first became a galactic player. They were the backbone until a military of people could be formed. Surely no one denied the droids being used in Sith attacks before the Empire was able to launch invasions. Her whole point was that megacorporations had helped establish an Empire. A pity that no one seemed to realize this. Perhaps she simply was too new at this and couldn't yet find the right words that could sway the others.
Sanctions and audits were actually quite easy to perform, too. All you really needed was to check bulk shipments on paper. There's a list of transactions. Does one look suspicious, say a shipment of three million rifles to Eriadu, then you flag it for further investigation. You halt the shipment and slap a fine in case you can objectively prove it was meant for the Empire. Sanctions aren't meant to completely halt trade, for that's simply impossible, but you can make it less cost-effective en less profitable. Above all else its a political statement to publicly denounce the Sith Empire for their past actions. Their direct attacks on Republic and FWA worlds, or their attempted assassination on the president of the ISC. It tells the galaxy that simply removing 'Sith' from 'Sith Empire' doesn't suddenly not make the Sith Lords responsible for their past massacres of republic civilians.
Jana's fellow senators seemed intent to bury the resolution by pretending it was a logistical nightmare. By pretending that despite being at war we were not allowed to strike back -regardless of how the Chancellor did it- because unlike the Empire we would face repercussions for every single civilian death while ignoring the countless of innocent lives lost due to Sith aggression.
If this was how the Galactic Senate operated, then no wonder the Empire was winning.
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Apparently the President of the Intergalactic Systems Consortium thought that being the first to announce an audit meant you had a higher chance of passing said audit. Which was a ridiculous statement of its own and wouldn't need a retort. To assume that an audit was weighed on public opinion might be how it worked on the Hutt worlds the ISC is currently so keen on taking, but it sure as kark wasn't how the civilized worlds operated. Then him seemingly thinking that announcing an audit was a bigger conflict of interest than being a boardmember of one of the affected megacorporations and voting against sanctions on that very company. It surprised Jana that none of her fellow senators, not even those among the Republic, made any notion of that in their own contributions.
Then senators tried to refute her claim that Blackwell droids have been used in the armies of the Sith Empire simply because they haven't been mentioned to be among their numbers in the most recent conflicts. What Jana had said was that the droids had been used when the Sith first became a galactic player. They were the backbone until a military of people could be formed. Surely no one denied the droids being used in Sith attacks before the Empire was able to launch invasions. Her whole point was that megacorporations had helped establish an Empire. A pity that no one seemed to realize this. Perhaps she simply was too new at this and couldn't yet find the right words that could sway the others.
Sanctions and audits were actually quite easy to perform, too. All you really needed was to check bulk shipments on paper. There's a list of transactions. Does one look suspicious, say a shipment of three million rifles to Eriadu, then you flag it for further investigation. You halt the shipment and slap a fine in case you can objectively prove it was meant for the Empire. Sanctions aren't meant to completely halt trade, for that's simply impossible, but you can make it less cost-effective en less profitable. Above all else its a political statement to publicly denounce the Sith Empire for their past actions. Their direct attacks on Republic and FWA worlds, or their attempted assassination on the president of the ISC. It tells the galaxy that simply removing 'Sith' from 'Sith Empire' doesn't suddenly not make the Sith Lords responsible for their past massacres of republic civilians.
Jana's fellow senators seemed intent to bury the resolution by pretending it was a logistical nightmare. By pretending that despite being at war we were not allowed to strike back -regardless of how the Chancellor did it- because unlike the Empire we would face repercussions for every single civilian death while ignoring the countless of innocent lives lost due to Sith aggression.
If this was how the Galactic Senate operated, then no wonder the Empire was winning.
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OOC: I realize me making this post seems a bit passive aggressive. I decided to do it this way because I didn't see any fun in an endless back on forth. I think I addressed all the post that were directed towards my character and their arguments. All points are 'on the record' already and I wouldn't be making new points in a dialogue retort.