Lowering the datapad, that hand moves to press at her forehead, a headache forming at the very thought of all that would await her back on Coruscant. Things in the Senate were going to be a snarled mess by the time she returned, and at this rate there was hardly a hope of untangling them.

"A dozen more systems announced their secession from the Republic," she explains, tone weary as she begins to feel how little sleep she'd gotten. "I won't be surprised if that number triples before the week is out."