The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

Chapter 2229: The Battle of Cato-Neimoidia (Part 2)

2230: The Battle of Cato-Neimoidia (Part 2)

With the increasing number of wars in various parts of the galaxy and the gradually shrouded war clouds, 12BBY came to an end.

After entering 11BBY, the situation of the Trade Federation was getting worse and worse. They were no longer able to continue the war. All the remaining resistance was just a desperate struggle, a last ditch madness.

After the initial chaos, the Galactic Empire quickly stabilized the situation with its strong military and industrial power.

First, the Outer Ring Star Regions were temporarily cut off from the waterways cut off by the Trade Federation or refused to share navigation data. These places also broke out in large-scale riots at the beginning when the traffic was cut off, killing the officials of the Empire and overthrowing the rule of the Empire. However, with the efforts of astronomers, hyperspace experts, deep space navigation robots and other aspects, the Galactic Empire gradually restored traffic after a few months.

And those planets where riots occurred, without exception, were cruelly and bloodily suppressed!

Such suppression naturally aroused more resistance. These planets had basically been planted with the seeds of resistance, and under the command of an invisible hand, they broke up into pieces, hid again, and waited for the opportunity to appear.

The Galactic Empire was now in a state of chaos, and they did not notice that the resistance movements in various places had gradually become more organized from the random destruction of scattered soldiers. And such organization was not based on planets or star locations, and even involved the layout of the entire galaxy!

Secondly, those companies that were in danger because of the attack on the Trade Union gradually calmed down under the comfort of the official Galactic Empire. After all, they were all businessmen, and businessmen were driven by interests. They were not willing to stand up and confront others head-on, especially when the goal was the invincible Galactic Empire.

After making a lot of promises, those large companies and consortiums in the Galactic Empire also accepted the mediation of the official Galactic Empire and accepted the statement that this military action was only aimed at the Trade Union.

And more importantly, there were substantial benefits! For example, Vulture Planet and Alacod Industries.

Although the Vulture Planet was destroyed by war, it was not completely plowed into the ground. Many factories on it can still work. This is especially true for Alacod Industries. As one of the three largest robot manufacturers in the Milky Way, their industry and supply chain are not limited to the Vulture Planet, but a huge system spanning thousands of planets. These have become the spoils of the Galactic Empire and are placed on the table for those corporate consortiums to divide up.

And the existence of the Trade Union, which once became the largest commercial entity in the Milky Way, is an extremely large cake. The size of Alacod Industries is just a part of the Trade Union. In the former glory of the Trade Union, there were thousands of companies, and some of them were even larger than Alacod Industries!

These companies and enterprises have all become the targets of the Galactic Empire's plunder. At the same time, this is also the most substantial benefit, blocking the mouths of other companies, allowing these capitalists who have sucked the blood of the Trade Union to sit down again, talk about their loyalty to the Galactic Empire, and imagine the next target of division.

Maybe... the Fourth Group is good.

Of course, if you can break into the planet Mykito, then the Interstellar Banking Association (M) will naturally be an extremely wonderful goal!

Many nobles, wealthy families, giant companies, and capital gradually forgot the horror and despair of the Clone Wars and began to fantasize about the benefits that war can bring.

In terms of diplomacy, the Galactic Empire suppressed the Principality of Dawn, and continuously organized military exercises and cruises in the two places where heavy troops were gathered, Fondo and Kira, to publicize its military presence. The Principality of Dawn also conducted a series of military exercises in the corresponding planets of Yago-Dur and Eriadu in response.

Both sides made a gesture of fighting at the slightest disagreement, but in fact it was a fight between two sticks - both sides were afraid, and they didn't want to go to war at this time. They all felt that their war preparations were not yet complete, and they all felt that once the preparations were completed, they would inevitably win the final victory.

So at this stage, the Galactic Empire and the Principality of Dawn did not want the affairs of the Trade Union to hinder their original plans.

But no matter what, the Galactic Empire's actions did make the Principality of Dawn dare not go beyond the line, and it never really sent forces to reinforce the Trade Union, but only played a supporting role.

Finally, there are those people who sympathize with the Trade Union.

The propaganda agencies of the Galactic Empire spared no effort to promote the Trade Union as an evil, cruel, and cold super-giant enterprise. And let all the people believe that their miserable lives are precisely because the Trade Union controls the transportation and logistics in most areas of the Milky Way, levies high transportation fees, and thus causes prices to skyrocket.

In addition, the Trade Union does not do anything in many places, so such propaganda was quickly accepted by the public.

Not only that, the Galactic Empire also announced the establishment of the Ministry of Public Transportation to take over the transportation and logistics business of the Trade Union. And the Ministry of Public Transportation promised that reducing transportation costs and thus reducing prices is the direction of their future efforts.

Thus, in this series of actions, the Trade Federation eventually became a lonesome person, struggling alone in the war against the Galactic Empire.

The war has now spread to the three wealth worlds of the Trade Federation in the core circle of the Milky Way - Cato, Deco and Kru. Among them, the planet Cato-Neimoidia is the place where the battle is most intense.

Darth Vader believes that a direct attack on the defense line of the planet Cato-Neimoidia will inevitably cause serious losses, so he carried out special operations and airdropped more than 200 groups of the most elite warriors to the planet, including the 99th Clone Force.

Although most of these troops were destroyed by the defenders of the Trade Federation, the raging fire refines the real gold, and the troops that survived in the end are all the elite of the elite!

These warriors continue to destroy on the planet, including assassinations, kidnappings, and bombing of high-value targets such as spaceports, warehouses, and material transfer stations, which has caused very serious losses to the Trade Federation. And more fatal than the losses is the leakage of a large amount of intelligence.

The intelligence on Darth Vader's desk now contains a lot of information about the military deployment, material supply, and personnel transfer within the planet.

In addition, the warships gathered from all over the world have further strengthened Darth Vader's fleet. He has really begun to think about the timing of the general attack!