Skywalker's Apprentice

Empire

"Do you want me to talk to Anakin for you?" asked Padme, her face worried.
"No," Ashoka replied quickly. It had been a few days since the attack. The battle had been won and the Chancellor saved. Anakin and Obi-wan had returned as heroes.  Anakin had defeated Count Dukoo in mortal combat leaving the war all but won. Obi-wan had been sent to capture or kill Grievous to end the war for good. Everything was looking up in the Galaxy, so why did Ashoka feel so down? It wasn't that she had left the Jedi, the only life she had ever known. Or that she was hiding out in her master's not so secret wife's apartment. The one place he would never look for her while trying to convince her something was wrong with the senate. No it was something in the force. She could feel it as if the darkness was growing and balancing out the light. "Padme, I know you love him and believe when I say, so do I. He was my master but he has changed. He is angry all the time. Plus, I don't trust that the senate or whoever is really in power wouldn't have me arrested again."
"So you really believe the Republic has been corrupted?" said Padme glancing out the window at the skyline of the city world that had become her home since she had left Naboo. It had changed. Since the war had started, the designs had become more cookie cutter and less unique and more military. She knew the answer to her own question before Ashoka replied.
"Padme, you must see it. How much power do the systems hold versus the chancellor? Is it even really a Republic anymore? Do the senators even vote on anything anymore? His term has been extended and his power seems to be growing without end."
"You're right. I hate to admit it. He was once from Naboo too but I guess even good people can be corrupted  by too much power. These days our government seems less and less like a Republic and more and more like an Empire."