Chapter 37 has yet another scene of "Lilly tries to strawman people's criticism and yet still makes her OC sound worse.". Mon Mothma calls a meeting to discuss the very obvious point that, if they ally with Alaina's fleet, said fleet that already overpowers the republic could very easily turn round and conquer them like Sith historically do, as well as pointing out that the last empire rose out of a sith pretending to be an ally. As well as generally pointing out that it's very understandable why people might be very suspicious of a Sith Fleet. To ease her fears, Mothma asks for some show of good faith or insurance to secure any sort of alliance.
Alaina's response? Stomp her feet and cry about how unfair it is that people are judging her for 'just existing' and that the Republic have to prove to HER that they're not hostile. After all, they still have yet to eradicate the Hutt Cartels, so they must be terrible... You know, just ignore that she hasn't done that with her fleet either. And then proceeds that to make herself look even worse by informing Mothma that the last jedi, they keep pretending Rey's a jedi here, now has the sith name Darth Iris. Nothing insidious or shady here!
Rey decides what a jedi is because no other jedi is in the room to disagree. Even though she knows nothing about jedi teachings or their order, and that Leia was actually trained as a jedi and force ghosts exist to decide what jedi are and there's a bunch of other still living jedi still in the galaxy. But they should totally trust them, because Starkiller says that the force says they're cool... Even though the story has made a point that the force hates these two.
And then dispensing all subtly and excuses, Alaina literally exits the scene telling them all that they can't challenge her decisions because she's stronger than them and will destroy the Republic if they even think of going against her. Our hero is flat out, without any room for interpretation, saying that everyone has to do what she says or she'll murder innocent people.
And by this point it's not baseless speculation. Alaina literally just threatened the Republic and said she'd attack them if they slightly displease her. So yeah, I'm with Mon Mothra's decision to have Alaina arrested. Of course, Alaina immediately has the Republic subdued and Talon brutally slits Mothra's throat after Alaina implies that her mother, a sith, was actually solely responsible for the rebellion and thus the New Republic. And of course, the Republic does not take the murder of their officials as an act of war.
Also, everyone keeps saying that Alaina is just a kid and hasn't shown any greater ambition for power. She's in her fucking 30's. And I just realized this segment of the chapter is just a shittier version of a segment in the SWTOR Kotet expansion where a rouge senator tries to take over the Player's new alliance faction and you promptly either imprison or execute her on Odessen.