The conversation is interrupted as AMEDDA’S communications console emits a high-pitched SOUND. The continuous news feed to the HOLONET SCREEN begins to flicker and distort. After a moment, MON MOTHMA’S face appears on the screen.
MON MOTHMA: (transmission) Citizens of the galaxy lend me your ears. I am Mon Mothma of the Galactic Alliance movement, and I come before you not to praise Mas Amedda, but to condemn him. It has been said that unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; so it was with Emperor Palpatine, and so it is also with your newest Emperor. We have recently learned that Amedda is the organizer of a loathsome and diabolical Imperial plot, one that would aim to make mindless slaves of us all...
MAS AMEDDA looks to SLY MOORE, his face a mask of sudden shock and anger.
AMEDDA: No! What is she doing? How did this happen?
SLY MOORE is equally surprised, and can offer no answer.
AMEDDA: Trace her signal immediately! Find her! She must be stopped!