(She is on her feet again, barely keeping herself from getting tangled in her skirt. Palpatine...? A Sith Lord? Ahsoka can't mean the man who was her mentor. She paces and then sits down again in another chair, her legs too shaky to hold her.)

What about Anakin and Obi-Wan? (Imagining a powerful and obviously insidious Sith Lord hunting down the Jedi is frightening. How could Palpatine have risen so high without someone - anyone - opposing him?)

I don't understand. Even if Clone troopers were sent after the Jedi, they should have been strong enough to withstand them. I...

What has happened to the democracy?