[Now came time to put forth the only card Maul had left. He'd tried to get this far with Ahsoka but he'd underestimated her loyalty to Skywalker. Perhaps if he'd told her when she'd said she'd help him, it might have changed things. Or perhaps not. The "kindly old man" mask his master wore in public was completely unbreakable. Even Maul had been fooled by it time and again in his youth, stupidly loyal to a man who never gave a damn about him in return.]
His name is Sheev Palpatine.
[Either Rex would believe him on that point or he wouldn't. It sounded absurd on the surface. The Supreme Chancellor, the man who had been so vehement about not letting the Republic be torn in two? The one who had always been so compassionate and selfless when it came to serving the systems of planets that were under his control? And yet...he'd stayed in office far longer than his term should have allowed. His power had grown substantially, always through the legal means of voting in the Senate, but nonetheless he controlled far more of the governmental body than any other person in charge ever had. The odd fascination he had with things that could produce great power or be turned into weapons. The cracks were there if one only knew where to look.]
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His name is Sheev Palpatine.
[Either Rex would believe him on that point or he wouldn't. It sounded absurd on the surface. The Supreme Chancellor, the man who had been so vehement about not letting the Republic be torn in two? The one who had always been so compassionate and selfless when it came to serving the systems of planets that were under his control? And yet...he'd stayed in office far longer than his term should have allowed. His power had grown substantially, always through the legal means of voting in the Senate, but nonetheless he controlled far more of the governmental body than any other person in charge ever had. The odd fascination he had with things that could produce great power or be turned into weapons. The cracks were there if one only knew where to look.]