Palpatine enjoys keeping the Corries isolated, enjoys knowing none of their comms reach their batchmates in the rest of the GAR and that they’ll never receive any from them. Except of course official messages. Nothing personal though, nothing to allow to think they have any friends outside the Guard.
Palpatine enjoys keeping the Corries isolated, using a Sith veil to cloud the minds of visiting battalions. They don’t even notice they haven’t visited their Corrie batchmates, that they never extended an invitation to a night out. They don’t realise how long it’s been since they commed or visited or saw their Corrie batchmates. They don’t even know if they’re alive or not.
Palpatine enjoys keeping the Corries isolated, locking words in their throats so they can never tell the truth, no matter how desperately they may want to. They can talk to each other, he lets them have that much, but outsiders, no, it’s more fun to watch them struggle, to feel them think the truth and desperately wish to say it and suffer the words locked in their throats. To feel the despair behind their locked tongues.
Palpatine enjoys it, because their suffering is sweet and free and there’s no one and nothing to stop him feeding off of it. It’s an endless supply of fuel for him alone, a banquet of pain no one else even knows about, for him to savour for as long as he wishes. It’s fuel, so no matter how much energy he expends controlling senate votes where other tactics have failed, he’ll never run dry. And if he needs that extra boost he’s always got the delicacy of his Fox’s exquisite soul.
Palpatine enjoys it, because it lets him enjoy the corruption of the Senate, not just the things the Sith have put into place but the greedy and the cruel and the power hungry who play into his plan perfectly, who help him knowingly and unknowingly, who’s deals and corruption ensure his plans will work, and they can work freely, because the Corries can’t tell anyone, and there’s no one to see what’s being done.
Palpatine enjoys it because he can be as evil and Sithly as he likes and they can’t tell a soul, he can tell them everything and there’s nothing they can do. He can use them for hits under Orders, he can use them for fuel, he can take out his anger when plans fail and enjoy his victories when they go well without having to pretend he’s the Republics kind grandfather. He can be as Sith as he likes. He can be exactly who he is and there’s nothing they can do.
Palpatine enjoys keeping the Corries isolated, he really does.
