Ender shot Ben a slightly grateful look. "Yeah," he said, with an apologetic hint, "Not the Sith thing, thankfully." He cast a gaze back across the Senate, taking in how huge it was, the number of planets-- had to be enormous. "Right now, I'm just mostly here to listen," he said, "We might have a Senate of our own one day - but only if it's desirable. And it has to come from the colonies themselves, not our home planet, but that's barely even philosophy right now."

One day, Starways Congress was going to be a real pain in Ender's butt, but he didn't know about that just yet.