Chapter One: A Plague on Both Your Houses

Former #1 Palpatine story on Wattpad. Palpatine has finally secured his place in the Republic Senate. When a crisis in Alderaanian space focuses the Senate on the issue of slavery in the Republic, Palpatine uses the issue to make his name as a statesman and a firebrand of controversy in the Senate, to cement many loyalties he will need later ... and to bring the Jedi under the direct control of the Office of the Chancellor.

This is the second prequel story to Midnight in the Garden. The order is as follows: Masters of the Game; this story; then Midnight.