"Citizens of the Republic, inhabitants of the galaxy, and all living beings, I am Doraman Stelruin Palpatine, Supreme Justice of the Republic. I have not spoken this publicly for nineteen years, but the fires of war that even now engulf our galaxy must end even the most hermetic self-imposed isolation." "Time is like an endless river which rolls with infinite force through the ages, submerging everything, shattering every institution, unbinding every tie, erasing every memory. All that is unworthy and all that is worthy are equally expunged by its infinite power."