Backroom meetings

Palpatine was quietly smug at the reports came in from the Jedi investigation, his position as Chancellor meant that they reported important things to him such as the existence of the clone army on Kamino. His plan put into motion a decade ago seemed to be on track, as with a "Faceless, Disposable, Replaceable" clone army to combat the "Soulless, Emotionless, Mindless" Droid army, he could set the board for a war that would invest people just enough to be concerned winning it, but not really enough for pushing it hard for the planets not directly involved. However, it seemed that the numbers that had discussed with Sifo-Dias had inflated over time, considering that the Trade Federation had also kept their droid numbers up that was not an issue either, being a politician made him familiar with numbers bloating. The report of thousands of ships loading up with armies of battle droids, was very concerning though, as things were heating up too quickly, if he did not have emergency powers before he struck, then there was a chance of the republic shattering in a single blow. He would have to get his apprentice to hold them back... but what did he have to appease the factions of the Separatist leadership. He had a thought, the Trade Federation still felt the shame of their loss from Naboo and would love to get their hands of Senator Amidala, and if he was right and she was doing a switch with her handmaidens like a decade ago, then there was an opportunity to be had.

Jar Jar was in one of the reporting meetings when the Jedi presented the proof that the Trade Federation was breaking treaties and preparing for war. Voices were raised and concerns bantered back and forth, the obvious choices were brought up, and various senators and functionaries offering the option of themselves proposing to give emergency powers to the Chancellor, however as the meetings were held with those already connected to the senator, the fact of association would tinge any such motion and make it harder to pass. With the Jedi voicing concerns of Sith connections from the report of the bounty hunter being hired by someone using the honorific title of Darth, they held themselves as involved in this issue and as such, they could not put forward any proposal to break the deadlock in the senate themselves in good conscious. With Yoda admitting that at most he could only scrape up around two hundred Jedi to attack the gathering droid army on Geonosis, the fact that the army was needed was apparent to all. One of the advisors in the room stated that if Senator Amidala were to speak in favour, then the swing votes following her lead would likely give enough votes to break the deadlock, her well-known stance though did put the kibosh to that idea though. However it did give Jar Jar an opening to speak, and with a polite clearing of his thought and slipping into a diplomatic manner he addressed the meeting.

"Supreme Chancellor... my august colleagues, I have not been a Representative for long, but I have been one long enough to know that the situation in the senate must change. It is true that we need quick action, and as we saw ten years ago when the senate was deadlocked under Valorum that simply electing a new Chancellor would take up too much valuable time. By the time a new one could be elected and starting to act, that army of droids would be able to make the entire way to Coruscant, and as the republic does not have an army or navy that could stop such a force, we would be defenceless. As such I would be proud to propose the motion to the senate that would break this deadlock and allow the Republic to get the army it needs to be able to withstand such a force. This is a grave situation, and I'm sure both Senator Amidala and the Queen of Naboo would agree and uphold this motion. Surely this would get enough votes to pass to allow the Republic to do what must be done in this trying time." At the end of this Jar Jar gave a cough and dropped the diplomatic speech. "Howsabout somethink likea that, woulds that work ins da senate?"

The room seemed to blink at the shift, and the embarrassed look on the Gungans face. The senators and advisors looked to each other, the formal part of the Gungan's speech did indeed sound like something that would be said and accepted in the senate, but the amphibians actions at the end would be a bit harder from some of the more stuffy personages in the senate to take seriously. Though it was the belly laughter of the Chancellor that caused more raised eyebrows, after a moment Palpatine managed to barely contain the smile on his face, the lips quirking and pausing slightly every now and again to preventing more laughter as he said in a manner attempting to convey all seriousness.

"I thank you, Representative Binks, I am sure, that." A pause to contain amusement. "If called upon, I will serve. But it will be." A snerk of amusement. "The, saddest day, of my life." At this point, Palpatine had to take a deep breath. "Though, you should stick to formal speech, when you address the senate." At this point, one could tell Palpatine could barely contain himself as his face squirmed as he tried to contain his smile. Others in the room were trying politely to hide their grins, and for the most part, were fairly successful, there was a few that had to hide faces behind hands. Behind the mask of being Chancellor though Palpatine silently crowed with laughter, everything was going according to plan.