full of sound and fury...

Binks sat in the Senate seat, having nothing to do, the flurry of activity around him as the senators were whipped into a furore by the Chancellors speech not affecting him. As he sat in the middle of the rapid voting he checked his datapad, finding a whole slew of messages, finding the fact that clearing up the backlog of his messages was a more important thing to look after then dealing with the whirlwind of politics swirling around him that he would have a better chance of controlling and guiding then doing so to a tornado by spitting at it. Though he did not know it, as he calmly sat there checking his holo mail, there was one of the senate cameras that focused on him, noticing the oddity of his stillness in the activity around him. Though neither the Gungan, nor the controller behind the camera knew it at the time, this would be remembered as one of the important moments of the war, an iconic moment that would have a far greater impact then immediately apparent.

As Binks was checking his mail he did not know that people could see him doing so, and as such, he was not ready for the wave of messages that came in. For most of the messages he dealt with them with quick replies, a virtual meet and greet, though here and there were a few messages that needed a more detailed response. Though it was not until he got to the messages from Padme Amidala that he really needed to write a heftier response. The response from the Senator was quite verbose, and took all of his concentration to deal with, the sound of the senate dulling to a murmur to his ears.

Summed up, the message boiled down to a virtual dope slap for the measure he put to the senate, congratulations to breaking up the senate deadlock, and disbelief and condolences for getting attacked. All in all, it was a conglomeration of most of the small messages he had been dealing with.

The longer he checked his messages, the more other senators and representatives noticed, and they quickly started to check their own datapads, wondering if there was anything they missed, and the first thing they checked was the various Coruscant news feeds. These feeds were jam-packed with reports of the attacks that morning, and various political pundits and annalists giving their two credits worth. This started a bit of an echo chamber effect, as a cycle started, of political figures speaking, debating similar points with others, checking the political feeds, and then speaking again. The already charged feeling atmosphere started to ramp up, and in the middle of it all, there were two odd points.

On one side, calmly checking his mail, was the Gungan sitting in the seat for Naboo. On the other, was the Chancellor, seeming to bask in the attention and activity, directing it like a maestro conducting an orchestra, a chorus of emotion and energy pointing in the direction he wished.