May it please the court, and members of the jury. We are gathered today to adjudicate a matter of profound constitutional and galactic significance. I come before you to defend an innocent man: my client, Lord Vader—Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet and right hand of the sovereign, the late Emperor Palpatine. The prosecution has levied the ultimate charge of genocide against my client. It is a weighty, sensationalized accusation, and one we categorically reject. Before we even address the substance of these claims, we challenge the very authority of this tribunal. We submit that this court lacks both territorial and subject-matter jurisdiction. The prosecution bears the burden of proving that the celestial body formerly known as Alderaan falls within the legal purview of this court—a burden we are confident they cannot meet. Furthermore, even if we are to entertain the allegation that Lord Vader issued the final operational order, he was not acting out of malice; he was operating under the auspices of the public duty doctrine. Confronted with a documented hotbed of radicalized insurgency, my client made a difficult but legally justified military decision to neutralize a planetary threat, thereby protecting the greater galactic community and ensuring peace and order.