Hmmm, going based on Rodrigues here in the comments and reading a bit on Wookiepedia the current Queen mother should be Ni'Korish. She has quite the mean streak who'd kill any jedi who stepped into Hapan Territory. Fortunately the Hapans aren't really up to date technology wise so it shouldn't be difficult to subdue them if a war were to ever break out, it'd just take a while. They do approve of a more militaristic approach when it comes to galactic security so if Van "Removes" Ni'Korish from the throne and prevents her daughter from taking the throne, it might not be difficult to bring them into the fold. And if Marcellus just so happens to be of Royal blood, he may be Van's key to achieve just that as he'd have a claim.

Really? They don't know why? The writing is practically on the wall. Hell, half of these senators attending this party are guaranteed to be piles of radioactive wastes. It'd hard NOT to see why they'd leave. Unfortunately the solution to this problem is beyond them, if they dip their nose into it palpatine will send them to the void.

The Mon Cala, particularly one of the most dangerous races in the known galaxy. Once they put their minds to something, they're determined to finish it. With these traits they're known to be some of the best Naval crew you'd want which includes leadership positions and fighter pilot positions. This is a great loss to the republic and an absolute catastrophe for Palpatine. In Canon AND legends, their involvement in the rebellion and how much trouble they caused the Imperial navy caused them to be the species that palpatine hated the most. Once you get Akbar behind the wheel of one of your naval fleets he'll take multiple systems on his own with ease.

It's better to tame the Zygerrian Empire Sooner rather than later. When they join the CIS the leadership will bring back slavery. IIRC they have a particular rivalry with The Togruta (Same species as Ashoka Tano and Shak Tii).

Destroying the thing tying a Sith Spirit to a location is exactly what they'd want, it sets them free. Once Kun escapes he literally could go anywhere in the galaxy. If he escapes you can kiss the galaxy goodbye. Right now the only one who'd stand a chance is palpatine.

You mean Bnar in particularly not the Jed'aii order? To be honest I'm not sure myself how they'd react. But one thing's for certain both The Jedi and Palpatine will be shocked. As for their opinions I'm not sure. As for the council, most of them would probably question why Bnar is with Van, Mundi's faction would probably argue that Van is holding him hostage, maybe even suggesting he turned Bnar to the dark side. Mace Windu's faction would probably argue something similar along the lines of that and coming up with a plan to 'rescue' Bnar. Yoda would probably be neutral on this matter, but I don't think he'll allow Mundi and Mace to act. Yoda's Faction, which includes Shak Ti and Adi-galia currently, will argue to just leave it alone for now to watch and see. - Now, as for Palpatine's reaction, at first he may think it's a jedi trick and may not take it seriously at first, but if he learns that it's the actual Bnar and not a trick. He may become fearful of the old jedi master to the point he'd want to try and have him killed. Who knows just how strong Bnar has become in the past 3000 years? Even the 800-900 year old Yoda could defeat him, and palpatine knows this. So what hope would he have against a 3000 year old jedi master?

It's been stated in the past that Van is a bestseller novelist who recreated numerous franchises from his past life, such as A Song of Ice and Fire. He's made a literal ocean out of the credits he got from sales. He's also been 'confiscating' a lot of the wealth of slavers and pirates that he comes across. So credits definitely aren't an issue, he's probably Richer than Denmask Holdings or The Trade Federation. And if he knows where to look, getting what he needs for the Scimitar's cloaking technology isn't that big of an issue.

Mina is one of Padme's old friends, right? At least it'll be easier to bring Naboo into the fold later down the line.

It's somewhat a morale thing. On one hand they feared that the order wouldn't last because of how badly beaten they got during order 66. However on the other hand, a lot of jedi had actually formed new lives for themselves during the reign of the Empire. Some have even formed families. They fear their lives would've been taken from them after joining the new order. As for the others who still believed in the Jedi way, they basically didn't approve of the methods Luke took or the changes he made to known jedi traditions.

Unfortunately they're too much in the spotlight to repair the katana fleet. the republic will catch wind of it nearly instantly. To be honest it might be their best bet to fix and retrofit the fleet themselves without outside help.

You'd be surprised how much power senators actually had. In some cases you could say that they were the true rulers of their worlds and not the world's governments.

Wait, how does he know all of this? D-Did Revan basically tell him an erotica novel? Or is HK being a creep by watchin them?

The reason why emotions cause jedi to fall to the dark side is because emotions are something that's basically new for them. It's like a volcanic eruption. The more the pressure, the larger the explosion. The more the emotion the jedi has in that moment, the harder the fall. This particularly happens when they're feeling the emotions of fear and anger. This is not healthy. The Jedi have it all wrong, they instead need to teach their students how to control their emotions and manage their attachments so that those connections can then be used to strengthen themselves in the light side.

Helpful in the short term, yes. But in the long term it's catastrophic.

I think Revan actually brought this up at one point. That the reason why emotions make Jedi fall to the dark side is because they don't know how to handle emotions, because the council emotionally neuter their members as children. So when a Jedi is suddenly introduced to such emotions, particularly fear and anger, it quickly overwhelms them and thus fall to the dark side. Revan was going to bring this information to the council to stop them from making such a bad misunderstanding so their members can actually be themselves, but he already knew he was very unpopular within the order so he decided to keep his mouth shut.

Take em out sidious style

Ventress isn't on Dathomir at the moment, she should be on a backwater planet with her jedi master. The only person who comes to mind is Merrin, but she hasn't been born yet I think.