"I was the one that invited you to dine with me," Dorrek counters. "And while we are in transit, I do not have any members of the court and military that I have to eat with. And, technically, if we are going to consider you a visiting dignitary or the eyes and voice of your people, you have a right to sit at the Emperor's table."

Technically Gar's newly defined position, the one Gar had chosen by agreeing to come on this trip with Dorrek, meant he had a lot more freedom in movement, and a pretty serious right to enter to Emperor's presence of his own accord provided Dorrek wasn't working with classified intelligence.