The war between the Empire and the Coalition is about to enter its bloodiest phase as 2227 will go down as the 'year of battles'. Meanwhile the Jedi Order keeps fighting a parallel war against the Sith and the Imperial Federation is entangled with a...
As the Army rounded up what was left of the mercenaries in the city, The siblings followed Mon Mothma back to the Senate and into her office, which luckily had been spared from the fighting. Shortly after, Hera and Moot also joined the conversation.
"General Syndulla, General Moot. I commend your work in helping our forces retake the city." Mothma congratulated, considering that Hera had given a hand by taking out a few gunships of the Consortium and used the Ghost to quickly move small teams of special forces from one point to another according to Moot's instructions.
"Just doing my job, President. But clearly, somebody didn't make theirs. How is it possible that nobody noticed anything about Mordys?" Hera replied quite frustrated.
Mothma felt ashamed that she didn't have any real answer. "I suppose the fault is mine. Mordys made several choices in the last few months that seemed quite odd, but I overlooked them."
"Like what?" Ezra asked patiently.
"For starters, I should've been more suspicious when he recommended to put Darvos as leader of the offensive in the Fringe. One does not usually send the Head of Intelligence to lead a campaign and distract his agency from its surveillance duties. But we have been short on Generals for a while."
"Don't you have an agency to keep an eye on internal affairs?" Ezra asked.
"That is...a tricky matter, Ezra." Mothma said cautiously. "Some of us raised that concern, a few months ago, but it caused an uproar among the Senators of minor worlds and the public opinion. They are all afraid that any agency for internal affairs would be just like returning to the times of the Empire and the ISB."
Mothma then glimpsed outside the large window that surrounded her desk in a semi-circle. "Although, I guess today's events might convince many that we need to review our security policies." she said before turning her head again to her guests.
"All of this still sounds quite absurd." Moot commented. "How did Mordys plan to hold on to power? Why did he openly use a criminal group to do this?"
"And how come that a man who preached about security and authority all the time resorted to the help of criminals?" Hera added.
"The investigation will have to clear those questions, but the more I think about it, the more the recent events seem to make much more sense." Mothma said calmly.
"Like the attack at the Academy?" Ezra asked.
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"Yes. It's clear by now, that it was Mordys who allowed the imperials to make their stunt on Lothal. He probably thought that, if the Jedi suffered a terrible blow like that, you might be tempted to request the protection of the New Republic. But then, you found out very quickly that somebody at the Defense Ministry was involved, and so Mordys decided to speed up his coup."
"You really think he was planning it for long?" Jaral asked.
"Of course. You don't improvise a coup of this size. I'm sure he had a way to make sure I and the members of the Cabinet who are usually against him, would be killed in some kind of accident. This open defiance was clearly an improvisation. He probably was going to hand us all to the Consortium and then he would be allowed to walk away and make it look like he miraculously escaped."
