@[member="Aliannah S. del D. Filia"]
He had to agree, war was not something he enjoyed but he had realized something when sitting under the previous 'peace'. He had realized it wasn't working and spoke. "War is never a good thing but there are problems with the peace we had." Harkness went to his seat and tapped it while he looked out. "Look out that window and what do you see? You see prosperity, you see the upper class, the ones who most of our senators sadly end up representing. They are saints, to them there is no war, there is no poverty, there is no hunger, but there are no saints on the frontier on the borders."
He turned towards her now and spoke offering a smile. "The people on the borders of the Republic we failed, we abandoned them as the sith pushed forward. Metalorn was here we showed we could fight back and then we retreated away to hide in the dirt. We abandoned our people and let them see sith ships on their sensors. Who knows what happened and wasn't reported. Our peace came at two high a price and became something else, it was no longer I observed about peace. We were working to at all costs defend the peace treaty, we had two options. Go back into a war with the empire and all their allies or continue to try and hold onto a peace treaty we knew had failed because it was one child's ideal."
"Ideals are all well and good but they have no place for things. Now I am trying to keep as much as I can from it. There were some good ideas no doubt but not at the expense pf peoples lives. That is why I need the senators to work oversight and make sure we do not wholly step out of line. There is much that can happen when one person has too much power and I am going to try and not end up as the tyrant. Giving charges of war crimes to everyone who disagrees and then proclaiming myself better at decision making then everyone. My plan is simple we are going to fight the Empire to protect the people who can't face down an armada by themselves and we are going to."
He looked at her and chewed his lower lip. "Though I have rambled enough and your position on a committee is what we are looking at, there are plenty still around. Currently I sent a senator to head up the interspecies relations with the people of Valan. I need someone who can handle the agricultural aspects and meet with the planets who supply food across the galaxy. Someone who likes peaceful and serene places."