Republic Viru
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Post by Republic Viru on May 13, 2011 21:22:07 GMT -5
A massive building boasting a diameter of more than two kilometers and several hundred meters tall, with a shield-shaped dome mounted on a narrower drum-shaped body, the Senate Rotunda was built some time in c. 3,996 BBY after the duel in the old Senate Hall due to insufficient security. Located in the heart of the Senate District, the building is situated at the end of a large, flat concourse known as the Avenue of the Core Founders. This area is lined with tall, thin humanoid statues, each representing a founder from each of the Core Founders. At the end of the concourse is one of the ceremonial entrances, the Great Door. It is adorned with the Great Seal of the Republic and the sigils of the Thousand Worlds, who are members of the Senate. Directly inside the Great Door is the Atrium of the Senate. This is a grand entry hall, that is lined with statues of the Republic's greatest heroes and politicians. The majority of the building is dedicated to the Grand Convocation Chamber, a large round room over a hundred meters tall, filled with floating repulsorpods and dominated in the center by a podium. Here is where all Senators from throughout the galaxy meet and discuss legislative issues and concerns of the Republic.
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Post by Senator Tharen on May 15, 2011 7:36:55 GMT -5
Senator Lee Tharen sat in his office adjoining the senate chamber. He knew that the senate would be in session in less than an hour, and was still waiting to receive an agenda.
The Rodian senator was not the most patient of his kind, and cursed viciously at his aide in Rodese.
<"I told you to get me the agenda, yesterday! What have you been doing?">
The poor aide mumbled a muffled apology, and shuffled out of the senators office hurriedly.
Taking a glance out across the skylanes of Coruscant, the senator waited impatiently for his aide to get back, or for the time to pass so that the senate would be in session.
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Republic Viru
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Post by Republic Viru on May 16, 2011 22:35:00 GMT -5
Numa walked through the hallways with a firm and fast pace to reach his office. Walking in, he didn’t stop until he sat down, and then leaned backwards a bit. He took a big sigh in relief. It was unnecessary tension now, but a tense scenario nonetheless. He quickly opens a commlink:
-¨Please send me the latest reports of Senatorial arrivals for the Trade Summit¨ asked his assistant.
A moment later some data pulled up on his screen, he reviewed it quickly. This summit was of great importance, The Empire and the Republic doing anything except of war was unprecedented. What will be the outcome? Billions hoped for peace and trade, that’s why there was such an expectation to see the two superpowers flourish.
A lot of the Republic’s budget was lately been driven to arm itself. The previous years war had taken a great toll on its Navy and Army, new units and reconditioning were being placed. General Gracchus had a request of an increase of the budget last year; his hopes for peace were great indeed. But he knew, and so did the rest, that war could resume at any minute. There was word of some corporations and pirates agitating some territories in the Outer Rim. There was a certain unease…
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Republic Viru
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Post by Republic Viru on May 17, 2011 14:01:01 GMT -5
Senator Numa could see the arrival of several representatives, including Senator Tharen from Rodia. The summit should begin soon, everything was going as scheduled. Not even the terrorist attack would stop an event of such importance. An advisor rushed in -¨Sir, good news! ¨
-¨What is it? ¨
-¨I just heard that you are being nominated for Supreme Chancellor¨
-¨Ah, that¨ answered Numa not really excited about the matter -¨Yes, after deliberating with the different factions in the Senate I believe is best for me to step in an contribute even more on the Republican cause. There is pressure from both the conservatives and the populists for a man that can speed up this bureaucracy¨ -¨I congratulate you sir on the nomination¨
-¨Thank me once we can put a solution to this obvious corruption that envelops this legislative branch.¨ replied the Senator. ¨There is much work to do¨
The advisor acknowledged and stood by his side reviewing the latest issue. No response on the attack yet, Praetos Numa worried about the safety of the hundreds of incoming Senators. He opened a holomessage to the security chief. ¨Inform security to take preventive actions, have all ships scanned for dangerous material, we don´t want an Academy incident here¨ The hologram figure of the chief nodded and the holo ended.
Numa then spoke again to his advisor ¨Send a nice lunch to the Rodian Senator, it has been a while I’ve seen Tharen.¨ He continued revising some documents, before the advisor left he added ¨Inform him that the summit should not take long, giving his temper he must be impatient by now¨ said as he chuckled briefly.
The advisor left, doors closed behind him.
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Post by Senator Tharen on May 18, 2011 2:56:50 GMT -5
He still had no sign of his aide arriving, and that was rather frustrating to Tharen.
He was about to reach for his comm to call for the aide, when the door chime sounded.
"Enter,"
He yelled through the comm system linked to the door. A large hover tray was floated in by one of the senate waiters.
"What is this?"
The senator growled at the waiter, not recalling ordering anything. As he smelt the delicious sent of cranker roots wafting off of the tray he became considerably less cranky. Lee Tharen also realised he had not eaten in a few hours, which combined with his species natural high metabolism, was probably one of the reasons for his bad mood.
Before the waiter could respond, Tharen was up and taking the tray from him, pushing it to his chair where he could sit down and enjoy the feast. He would have ignored the waiter had it not spoken to him, saying,
"Senator Numa ordered this for you, Senator. He also says that the Trade Summit will not take long."
Tharen nodded at the waiter, as he was busying himself with carving off a piece of deeply oiled cranker. He sighed to himself as he tasted the plant oozing in his mouth. Senator Numa had good taste, Tharen thought. Yes he had definitely been wise to sign the application for Numa's nomination for Supreme Chancellor. When he'd heard the senator from Corellia suggesting it, Tharen had done some careful research on Numa, as well as spending some time getting to know the man.
Tharen was not one for socialising as it interfered with is busy work schedule as a senator, but he'd found the occasional lunch or drink with Numa to be most informative as well as rather entertaining. Perhaps after the summit, the two could meet again.
"You there, waiter, take a message to Senator Numa for me. Tell him that once the Summit is over, I would enjoy his company for dinner."
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Republic Viru
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Post by Republic Viru on May 18, 2011 23:38:57 GMT -5
The time had come; there was word now in the Senate that an escort group was bringing the Imperial representative. Expectancy was quickly built, a committee was appointed to be at the entrance to greet the officer. Praetos Numa was talking to the Corellian Senator via commlink. Some of the issues involved a huge contract with the Corellian Engineering Corporation and the prospect of new ships for the Republic Navy. There was supposedly a secret warship design that was pushed to be approved and funded by the Senate, but there was still much debate about it. Praetos Numa was not the kind of person to associate himself doing business with mega-corporations, but influence grew from every side and he started to feel indeed the pressure. He was in a powerful position, and by oath he would not brake. Now, word of his nomination spread throughout the building, the massive and beautiful Senate Dome.
Suddenly receives a holomessage on his desk: *Hologram* ¨Sir, we have the Imperial representative on his way¨
-¨Please, have him escorted here whenever you can¨ answered Numa, the holo ended.
All offices are notified now of the presence of the Empire in the Senate. It was time now to begin the Trade Summit
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Post by Republic Viru on May 20, 2011 12:41:22 GMT -5
The vehicles landed at the doors of the Senate. The Quarren advisor and his help showed the way to the Imperial officer Lyel Oskeli. There was a few representatives at the entrance, one of which was Senator Praetos Numa`s assistant. He met the officer with a grin. -¨Welcome to the capital, Captain Oskeli.cWe are glad you are here; we can begin negotiations in the Senate tomorrow, please follow me.¨
They walked through the large paved hallway, were several statues of distinguished figures of the Republic stood tall and proud. At the end, they reached a turbolift to the upper levels of the structure, 2 office holders stood by the doors in an argument, something about resources in Ruusan being held out. They entered the lift to the highest level. Soon they moved to the corridor and to their destination. The assistant guided Oskeli to the entrance *Door chime* ¨Please come in¨ said Praetos Numa, standing up, walking to meet him. They entered the office.
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Post by Alex_xr on May 20, 2011 15:03:59 GMT -5
Lyle looked around the structure. It was worthy of its job housing the scheming politics of the Republic. He ignored the arguing and the officers only giving them recognizing nods. Lyle was glad to finally be somewhere where there were equals.
The doors opened and a chime rang. His displeasure was apparent.
" Hello I assume your Senator Praetos Numa? "
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Post by DarthNemesis on May 20, 2011 20:09:03 GMT -5
Colonel McGray's ship landed in the hangar bay. His droid pilot powered down the ship and opened the bay door. McGray stood up and brushed off his uniform, looking at his assistant.
"How do i look?"
His assistant looked at him with a grin.
" Sir, i believe you could not look any better."
McGray walked down the steps of his ship. Looking around, he thought to himself * i never get tired of the galactic politics.* McGray walked down the stairwell and started to walk down the hall with his assistant behind him. Upon walking down, he seen two people talking. Over hearing someone say
" Hello, I assume you are Senator Praetos Numa?"
Colonel McGray wanted to introduce himself as well, standing right next to them.
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Republic Viru
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Post by Republic Viru on May 21, 2011 9:48:39 GMT -5
Praetos Numa welcomed the officer with a firm handshake, smiling; reporters took a few pictures, then they left for the politicians to discuss. He noticed the presence of another person entering the room, with uniform. ¨Yes indeed, pleasure to meet you. I must say, you seem somewhat displeased, do tell us, is there something of concern? ¨
*He addresses the second person*
¨Greetings and welcome as well, please join us.¨
Praetos returns to his chair offering seating to the guests.. They all sat down.
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Post by DarthNemesis on May 21, 2011 10:57:21 GMT -5
Colonel McGray addressed Senator Numa.
" Well this is not my first time being here, but it is always nice to meet politicians with good morals"
Senator Numa offered everyone a seat, McGray sat down by Senator Numa's desk. Colonel McGrays assistant stood behind the retired Colonel.
" Senator, when does the meeting take place? I would love to sit in, if i may?"
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Post by Republic Viru on May 21, 2011 15:27:54 GMT -5
Senator Numa suddenly identified Colonel McGray, this last few days had been intense, not getting much sleep.
-¨I apologize Colonel, for a second I did not recognize you.¨ He brought up a report on the screen, files appeared with information.
¨Colonel, I don’t think you have been introduced; this is Captain Lyel Oskeli, guest of honor and diplomat for the Empire¨ By now, majority of the convoked list of representatives had arrived.
-¨The Trade Summit session begins tomorrow morning; this is a formal meeting before the main event. You are welcome to stay now and attend tomorrow of course¨
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Post by Alex_xr on May 21, 2011 17:25:37 GMT -5
Lyle fumed, Here he was meeting with the republic and some nameless sog comes in and makes it his meeting. He tried to keep somewhat calm.
" Senator I thought that this was a meeting between the two of us? First you have your lackey presume to charge me with some crime right after an assassination attempt is made on me at the academy. If I hadn't been late I most likely would of been dead! I was also questioned why I was there as if I had something to do with the attack. Does your government have no communication. I was at the academy as scheduled to give a donation as a sign of good will. Yet an attack happened right as it was about to start. Now you have some brown noser in here sitting in on our meeting. "
He had said all that had happened to him to some one who could do something. He was still unhappy, that his very safety had been threatened. But he was visibly more calm and seemed to be much more relaxed.
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Post by DarthNemesis on May 21, 2011 17:39:31 GMT -5
The retired Colonel looked over at the Captain.
" I assure you Captain, I am no brown noser. In fact, i served in many wars for the New Republic. I sir am only here to see whats going on in these current events, and how it may affect another war"
McGray looked over at Senator Numa.
" I am sorry if i caused a disturbance Senator, and yes i will be joining in on the meeting. I accept your invitation. Do you mind if i smoke in here?"
Colonel McGray did not feel uncomfortable at all. The Empire and New Republic had been in a dispute off and on for century's. There was no reason for him to feel out of place.
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Post by Republic Viru on May 21, 2011 19:06:25 GMT -5
-¨No. I do not mind¨ answered Numa. He turns and faces the Captain, and looks back at McGray.
-¨Perhaps you would like to share something with us, Colonel? Your visit …surprises me. If the Captain does not object, shall we continue?¨
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