How was Palpatine able to secure the vote to become Chancellor when the majority of the Senate was being payrolled by the Trade Federation?
>because he controlled the Trade Federation!
If Palpatine (under the name of Sidious) told (for example) Gunray to support the Senate vote for Palpatine, wouldn’t that have made Gunroy (and with it the entire Trade Federation) extremely suspicious (due to the fact that Palpatine spoke on behalf of Naboo)? It doesn’t make any sense.
>because he controlled the Trade Federation!
If Palpatine (under the name of Sidious) told (for example) Gunray to support the Senate vote for Palpatine, wouldn’t that have made Gunroy (and with it the entire Trade Federation) extremely suspicious (due to the fact that Palpatine spoke on behalf of Naboo)? It doesn’t make any sense.