Palpatine's face when

Palpatine sat in the Chancellor chair in the Senate, only keeping the minimum amount of attention to the normal babble and preamble speeches summing up the last session before others could speak. The hidden Sith Lord could barely contain his giddiness behind his mask of a mere bored politician as everything seemed to be slipping into place. The Jedi were sending everyone they could scrape up into a deathtrap of a planet, he was about to gain even more political power, and that morning he had received news that two Jedi and Senator Amidala had been captured and they would be publicly executed, a move that would guarantee the senate going to war, yes everything was going good for one Sheev Palpatine. Now it was time to start the show, and first up was introducing the Gungan he had suckered into the part to finally make his dreams of acquiring more power come true.

"In the regrettable absence of Senator Amidala, the chair recognizes Senior Representative of Naboo, Jar Jar Binks." Palpatine smiled as he drank in the waves of feeling and reaction from the Senate, cheers and boos roughly equal at his introduction.

Jar Jar nervously fiddled with the formal robes he was wearing, not having enough time to both search the archives and get a proper fitting in, though finding the third option out of the current mess was worth the discomfort. He blinked and stood nervously as he realized he was supposed to speak now, his mind having gone over his speech in his head blanking for a moment as Palpatine gave a nod. Jar Jar cleared his thought and attempted to start his speech off on the right foot.

"Senators, dellow felagates..." Of course, he immediately tripped over his words, having to stop as the senate broke out in laughter. Jar Jar had to wait for the order to be called until it was quiet enough to continue, he took a steadying breath and leaned forward, gripping the edge of the podium in front of him. "These are exceptional times, I come in front of the senate today not just as a Gungan, but as a Representative of Naboo, a decade ago the people of Naboo barely acknowledged the presence of the Gungans, but after the exceptional events a decade ago, I stand here among you as an equal. No one can deny that the events that allow me to stand here today were exceptional, but they were limited to one peaceful planet. Then it was a single blockade, today in these exceptional times it is not just a single blockade that tightens the rope around a single planet, but a massive army poised at the neck of the entire Republic. These exceptional times are due to an exceptional threat, and demand exceptional measures, exceptional people! A decade ago the senate was shaken with a new chancellor, one that stands strong before you where before there was a weakness."

At this Jar Jar took a breath as Palpatine almost visibly preened.

"To get through these exceptional times we must stand strong together with purpose alongside such exceptional men such as the Chancellor. To do so we must not be weak, and bow to threats to the freedom of the Republic, we must be strong, and because we need an exceptional change. The shadow of war looms over the galaxy, but the Republic has stood strong for a thousand years against the shadows of strife and wide-scale conflict. The Confederacy of Independent Systems stands at our gates, rattling their sabers of rhetoric and vitriol. But we must stand strong against this foe, that wants to take over and run things not for the people, but for profit, to fatten already overflowing bank accounts. The Gungans stood side by side with the peoples of Naboo a decade ago against such tyranny, and all the people of Naboo stand strong still today, against a tyranny aimed to cover the entire galaxy."

The Senate seemed to be eating up the Gungans words, only a few angry murmurs from those connected to the CIS breaking the soft silence as the Gungan took another breath. Palpatine was smug, listening to the speech decrying the visible tyranny, but oblivious to the tyranny he was planning.

"Together we can stand strong against such a foe, but to defy this exceptional threat, we much make exceptional choices, ones that have not been made in a thousand years, such choices will reshape the Republic, from a whimpering target to proudly standing against all who would oppose. The Gungans know that if one wants peace, they must be prepared to defend it! To defend it one needs the power to defend it, and so I put to the Senate an exceptional motion, one that will allow the power needed to go into the hands of those defending it."

The speech reached a crescendo, the emotions seeming to grab the attention of all listening, Palpatine adjusting his robes to look perfect for the cameras orbiting, his acceptance speech "humbly" accepting such power in this trying time already memorized and practised to make it sound natural, his contacts had already told him that the charismatic Gungan had spoken to many senators already and gotten their support for his "surprise" motion, combined with his orders to those politicians under his sway, the vote should pass immediately with an overwhelming landslide, he even told those under his thumb that he was going to act shocked at the motion, that would make the public eat up the reactions. Palpatine put those thoughts aside as the Gungan was getting to the point now, he had to make sure he seemed surprised at the motion to sell it now, didn't he?

"Senators, Delegates, Citizens of the Galactic Republic! Hear my plea in these extraordinary times, I propose to you, that the senate moves..." A hush of anticipation fell over the Senate and even the commentators on the live streams beaming across the holo-net as somehow they could tell that history was being made. Palpatine hid his smirk and took a deep breath in for his response speech once the Gungan finished. "...To Renounce the Great Disarmament Act of a thousand years ago."

The Senate was shocked into silence, the Chancellor stood still, motionless, the shock on his face not fake in the slightest. After a moment of no reaction from the Chancellor, one of the Senators in Palpatine's pocket shakily stood and followed his orders

"I... I first the motion, to do so and vote immediately." The shock continued as another Senator followed orders, as well as the Chancellor, was still motionless. "I, second, and move to vote."

This caused the dams to burst, as more followed orders, to call for an immediate vote, and with the Chancellor standing still in shock, the Vice-Chancellor oversaw the vote, the measure passing in the largest margin of any vote under Chancellors Palpatine rule. The Senate cameras took this all in, as the Chancellor stood stock still, eyes glazed as the historic vote passed him by.