The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

597: Honor

The energy planet Sarabin located in the core area was once occupied by separatism!

Such news shocked the people of the Galactic Republic. After several days of preparation and planning, Speaker Schiff Palpatine formally held an emergency meeting on June 22 and proposed Bill No. 426117.

According to the content of this proposal, the local defense forces of each planet will be strengthened, and the Republic will send a military advisory group to urge these planets to expand the size of the army, purchase warships and fighter jets, and ensure that every soldier in the army has received more than 3 months of training. Strict training.

However, most of this additional expenditure has to be borne by these planets themselves, and the Republic will only provide about a quarter of the funds as subsidies. Not only that, the ground forces and space fleets established by these planets must accept the Republic's highest strategy. Unity of Command.

This motion is equivalent to the expansion of the army for the whole people, imposing war on every planet.

Those wealthy planets in the inner and inner rings naturally don't matter, but many planets in the middle and outer rings simply cannot afford such a high cost.

As I said before, most of the planets in the middle ring and the outer ring were originally technology and civilization that did not meet the standards of a star civilization, but they were forcibly elevated after joining the Republic, and their productivity could not meet the demand at all. Therefore, most of the planets can only be the dumping places of goods and the exporting places of labor and raw materials. Such an approach is tantamount to making these planets that are already burdened with heavy war taxes even worse.

Representatives from Kuat Power Dockyard and Corellian Engineering Company couldn't hold back their laughter on the spot, they were so happy. Once this proposal is passed, it is equivalent to another excuse for them to plunder the wealth of other planets. They can also slightly refurbish the outdated equipment that has been accumulated for hundreds of years and sell it at a high price. As for whether these equipment can be truly Resisting separatist invasion is none of my business!

However, this proposal was desperately opposed by a group of members headed by Alderaan member Bail Organa. For a while, the republic parliament was once again jittery, and the atmosphere was very tense.

On the other side, the administrative center of the Confederation of Independent Galaxies, among the LS Xx planets, Rosanna Goods, the representative of the Dawn Planet, made a generous speech in the Confederation's parliament with a proud face. After Francis Underwood took office as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Civilization, Rosanna Goods, who was once an elite-level business negotiator, served as the member of the Dawn Star Confederacy in the Confederation of Independent Galaxies. One of the awakened talents, she has finally reached the pinnacle of her life.

She conveyed this shocking news to everyone—the soldiers of the Federation of Independent Galaxies, led by General Severance Tann, invaded the core circle of the Galactic Republic, occupied the energy planet Sarapin, and caused dozens of A planet without power!

Not only that, she also directly took out the data of the Republic's secret weapon—the extractor, and handed it to Earl Dooku himself on the spot as a spoil of war.

This is why it is said that this behavior was evaluated as a wonderful move by the wily and calculating Baron Helmut Zemo. Once the data of this secret weapon is publicly handed over, it will directly cut off the possibility of Earl Dooku borrowing the resources of the Confederation of Independent Galaxies to research this thing and then handing it over to Darth Sidious!

You know, because of Darth Sidious's public identity—after all, Speaker Palpatine is under the watchful eyes of everyone, and I don't know how many eyes are staring at his position, so he must do it in every way. It is best to be able to become a role model for everyone.

At least for now.

So he can't do a lot of work in private, so a lot of dirty work is actually handed over to the Confederation of Independent Galaxies under the leadership of Count Dooku, and the most famous project is the DS-1 project, which is the famous Death Star!

The Death Star is a magnificent project completed by the Geonosians. It has to be said that this insect race may be born with a talent for this kind of giant structure, whether it is the Killik who once flourished hundreds of thousands of years ago, or The current Geonosians, they are very good at doing this kind of super engineering.

Darth Sidious ordered Earl Dooku to develop this huge project. Earl Dooku deceived those members of the Federation of Independent Galaxy, telling them that it was a super weapon used to deal with the Republic, so those who lost on the battlefield were anxious The established corporate giants and the confederated planets have contributed money, money, and effort. On top of the heavy war taxes, the cost of a super project was added, and it was completed.

In the end, these secret projects became Darth Sidious's pockets, and those who contributed money and efforts, including Count Dooku himself, all became victims of the sword.

Interestingly, the Death Star's powerful super laser cannon, and its energy focusing system based on Kyber crystals, started from the extractor project.

But now, Rosanna Goodes directly puts the extractor item on the table to let everyone know that there is such a thing, but the details are not made public, and then directly handed over to Earl Dooku. In this way, if Count Dooku wants to quietly hand over this project to Darth Sidious, he will face many restrictions.

On the other hand, the great power shown by the Extractor in Sarabin has fallen into the eyes of the Republic. At this time, handing the Extractor to Earl Dooku is equivalent to handing over this hot potato to him.

In the end, the productivity of the Fourth Civilization was tight, and it was enough to give this hugely expensive project to Count Dooku and let him organize funds and manpower for research. Anyway, at this stage, the strength of the Confederation has only advantages and no disadvantages for the fourth civilization.

In this way, it is equivalent to delaying the research and development and manufacturing of the Death Star. You must know that if the Death Star is really completed in the future, the Fourth Civilization is now fighting to kill, no matter how much territory it occupies, it will be useless. The Death Star will directly shoot at the Dawn Star, and everything will become clouds.

Count Dooku is currently on the planet LSx, and he took over the extractor's data storage with a smile on his face, without any clues.

Afterwards, he announced that he would hold a public award ceremony for the generals who won the offensive at this stage, and said that he would personally meet Severance Tann, the general who had fought all the way to the core circle of the Republic, and personally wear it for her. On the medal.

But Rosanne Goods said that General Tann was seriously injured because of the shameless sneak attack by the Jedi Knights. join.