2008-07-13 - GNN Vegetius Declares Martial Law on Ryloth

==Vegetius Declares Martial Law on Ryloth==
===Author: Heinrich Vegetius===
RYLOTH. GREAT HALL. The Great Hall is littered with Rodian bodies, who have been kind of haphazardly stacked on the far side of the room, but it seems that Heinrich Vegetius, who stands at a podium addressing reporters and Rylothian officials, who are ... 'escorted' by Stormtroopers, who are now completely in a crude and early form of the armor we all know and love from the movies.
"Rodians, Citizens of the Galaxy, I have wonderful news!" he says, beaming in a wide, toothy grin that ends up looking more wolfish then cheerful, and even so, does not reach his eyes.
"Today I have liberated the planet of Ryloth. For years, it has been subjugated by the corrupt Judicator Amelia Karanthes, and before her the mentally ill Jedi Yaalamabananarama or whatever her name was. This has turned this once proud, if incredibly seedy and slavery plagued planet into the festering hotbed of poverty it is today."
He looks back towards the Twi'lek officials. "I am eager to reopen elections on this planet, but enough is enough. Any candidate wishing to become the Judicator of Ryloth must pass screening by Stormtrooper Command, to ensure the survival of the Rylothian people and ensure their safety and prosperity continued under the Umbrella of the Republic. Representative government is wonderful, but if someone, say the traitorous, mass-murdering Nerf-hugging self-declared Lady Mediator Euphemia Bellamy should try to come into power, it would be a blow that would cripple Ryloth permanently."
He smiles. "Until we can find some candidates for elections, and there must be more than one, to ensure some sort of democratic choice is maintained, I declare myself Imperator of Ryloth. I will not change or alter any laws previously passed by the planet, but any demonstrators, criminals, slavers, drug users or traffickers, Black Imperium citizens, or any dissenters of any kind will be immediately arrested. All lawful Republic citizens will be given free access to Ryloth to do normal business. Stormtrooper Command Mobile Headquarters will be relocated to Ryloth for the duration of the planet's pacification."
"We would also like to remind the Galaxy that Stormtrooper Command is an Independent Military Organization, and while we support the Republic, we are not an apparatus of the Republic Government and as such, do not give Stormtrooper Command it's orders."
As reporters shout and struggle to ask indignant and angry questions about the Rodian bodies piled behind him, or his certainly controversial comments, but the Stormtroopers advance, and herd all of the reporters out of the room, arresting any of the particularly indignant ones.
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