The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2295, The last calm before the storm

11BBY, May 17.

63 days have passed since the Galactic Empire besieged Balmora. The Trade Union finally failed to meet Tang Xiao's request to resist for the last two months (70 days). With 7 days left, it announced its complete surrender.

40 days before that, the home planet of the Neimoidians, Neimoidia, had completely turned into a sea of ​​fire, and nearly 1 billion Neimoidians died in the siege and orbital bombardment of the Galactic Empire. This planet, which gave birth to one of the richest races in the Milky Way, has now completely become a dead zone without people.

After the Trade Union surrendered, the Galactic Empire army entered Balmora and completely took over one of the largest industrial centers in the core circle.

However, what fell into the hands of the Galactic Empire was no longer the industrial center that supported the Trade Union's huge business volume, but a devastated ruin.

In the attack and defense of Balmora, the Trade Union invested almost all of its combat robots. The total number of various types of combat robots deployed on the surface of the planet reached 11 billion!

After the limited orbital bombardment at the beginning, Darth Vader, commander of the Imperial Fleet, immediately launched a landing operation, trying to preserve the factories on the planet as much as possible. However, the landing forces of the Galactic Empire were attacked by as many combat robots as the sea!

Almost no Imperial army positions were hit by hundreds of millions of combat robots. The formation of robots was completely endless, all over the mountains and plains!

Even because the supply of weapons could not be guaranteed, most of the B-1 combat robots were empty-handed. But with the output power of the combat robots, even if they swung their iron fists and smashed down, it would be a very deadly threat!

In the landing battle two days ago, the Galactic Empire lost more than 300,000 landing troops, and several landing positions were bloody and corpses piled up.

Afterwards, Darth Vader had to order an indiscriminate saturation orbital bombing of the planet Balmora!

This orbital bombing lasted for a whole month! Most of the factories and warehouses were completely destroyed in the bombing, and the planet became a purgatory. Everywhere it passed, there were melted steels that gathered into hot rivers.

This flow was not just melted steel, it was clearly countless imperial credit points! But the Galactic Empire had to completely capture the planet Balmora even if it had to sacrifice 3,000 points. The mistake of the planet Rendili could not happen again. Even if they could not get it, they would never let the Principality of Dawn get it!!

Even the final occupation was just a formality. Because when the imperial army stepped onto the surface of this red-hot planet, there were almost no living things on the planet.

The furious Palpatine ordered the extermination of all Neimoidians in the galaxy on the spot, but the members of the Imperial Parliament strongly dissuaded him, because if he really did so, the Galactic Empire would end up with an even more dishonorable ending in this originally dishonorable war.

This would further reduce the credit of the empire and lead to more frequent and worse uprisings and riots.

Finally, Palpatine changed the extermination order to an expulsion order, confiscated all the property of all Neimoidians in the empire, issued a little dry food to each person, and asked them to leave the country within a time limit.

This war, recorded by the Galactic Empire as the "Trade War", lasted for 9 months. The Galactic Empire paid a heavy price and finally uprooted the Trade Union.

The Trade Union, a super enterprise that rose like lightning and fell like a meteor, has existed for a total of 339 years from growing to the largest corporate entity in the galaxy to being completely destroyed and becoming a state-owned holding company of the Principality of Dawn.

Once upon a time, they were the symbol of the Outer Rim Star Region. The planets in the outer ring of the galaxy only knew the Trade Union and not the Galactic Republic. But after a series of conspiracies and head-on confrontations, they finally came to an end.

After the capture of the planet Balmora, the Trade Union was completely disbanded and reorganized, and renamed Neimoidia Logistics Company. Newt Gunray resigned and became a sinner of the Neimoidians, but later, under Tang Xiao's arrangement, he secretly enjoyed a rich and peaceful life on a remote planet.

He died 20 years later - the 17th year of the official establishment of the Fourth Empire.

Tang Xiao did not break his promise. He gave the two habitable planets swallowed by Mnggal-Mnggal to the Neimoidians, so that the Neimoidians who were expelled from the empire one after another could have a home.

The two planets were named "New Neimoidia" and "New Balmora" by the Neimoidians to commemorate the countless compatriots who died in this war. In the days that followed, they started again in the transportation industry and became one of the best logistics groups in the Fourth Empire.

The Galactic Empire was finally able to pull itself out of the quagmire of the trade war, like an exhausted giant, cleaning its wounds bit by bit.

The numerous industries left by the Trade Union were annexed. As the largest enterprise in the galaxy, the Trade Union's industries were naturally not limited to those few wealth planets and industrial planets. Their industries were spread throughout the galaxy.

At the same time, the Galactic Empire temporarily froze the wealth looted from the Trade Union's wealth planets on the grounds that the assets were unclear, and did not return them to the nobles in the core circle.

This wave of naked plundering has somewhat recouped a lot of war costs for the Galactic Empire, allowing this heavy war machine to continue to operate.

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At the same time, something that originally seemed inconspicuous finally ignited the powder keg of the Milky Way that was already on the verge of exploding!

In April 11 BBY, while the trade war was still going on, the Galactic Empire issued a wanted order against the Zane Consortium for the third time, banned all their business qualifications, and required them to leave the Salukami planet within a time limit.

The Galactic Empire quickly ordered the recently popular Tagge Company to set up a garbage disposal company to go to the Salukami planet to dispose of the countless battleship ruins.

At the same time, at the initiative of the Imperial Council, the Galactic Empire began to carry out a series of anti-corruption and anti-crime operations in the Outer Rim Sector - anyway, as long as it did not involve the Inner Rim and the Core Circle, such anti-corruption operations still received huge support.

According to this operation, many gangster organizations and corrupt officials entrenched in the outer ring have been severely cracked down.

The Galactic Empire obviously intends to use this series of actions to restore its war strength as soon as possible and get itself back on the right track of military expansion and war preparations.

But things went counterproductive... Obviously, for some people, this Galactic Empire that quieted down and began to clean up its internal affairs was definitely not what they wanted.

On May 33, 11 BBY, a photo of the starry sky was placed in front of the desk of Emperor Palpatine.

This photo is of a planet in the unknown star field, called Planet Levik. It was once occupied by the Xilu people, and the Xilu Empire was established with this as its core.

But this is not important. The most important thing is that in the synchronous orbit of a satellite near Levik's planet, there is an extremely huge ring structure floating impressively!

In the center of the ring structure, there is an energy ripple like a ripple, through which countless spaceships are entering and exiting.

Regarding this thing, the imperial astronomers, major engineers, and scholars can only come to one conclusion——

Stargate!