The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

988. Upheaval of the Confederacy (Part 2)

Shu Mai shuddered for no reason, she looked around, the atmosphere in the parliament was heated up, many people were shouting and arguing loudly, but a few of them were sitting in high positions, motionless, watching with cold eyes developments.

The Interstellar Banking Association, the Trade Federation, the Enterprise Alliance, the Fourth Group, and the Dawn Planet, as the war progressed, they have become the true core of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Once upon a time, the commercial guild under her banner was also a huge force second to none, but now, the war has widened the gap in strength between them.

Commercial guilds have no core competitiveness at all. Even their main battleship, the Disobedient-class light destroyer, was actually authorized by the Technology Union to build them.

To put it more bluntly, they don't have any core competitiveness in any war.

In the past, neither the Interstellar Banking Association nor the Trade Federation actually had such core competitiveness. The Interstellar Banking Association has been holding the Generosity-class frigate for almost a lifetime. Luke Hook of the Trade Federation The Shenyi-class battleship was refitted from a cargo ship, and the Shenyi-class destroyer they invested in was actually designed by Lundili Interstellar Power Company.

However, I don't know when, the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association suddenly had the ability to design and build their own large warships, and the warships they produced were only stronger than the Galactic Republic's warship design! !

So when they suddenly proposed to upgrade the battleship in the parliament, Shu Mai realized that no one could stop them!

Neither can Count Dooku!

Now Shu-Mai looked at these people again, and looked at the hard-fought Geonosis planet Grand Duke Bogle-Inferior, Technology Union foreman Walter-Tambo, and Ainle- Councilor Tim, Director of Super Communication Group Per-Nudo, and Queen Miraji-Sintel of Planet Ziglia suddenly felt a surge of fear in their hearts.

She only felt that the current independent galaxy confederation suddenly became so strange and so terrifying...

With the same feeling, there is also Count Dooku. Although he was already prepared for the small group that appeared now, when the small group suddenly started to exert its strength, he still felt powerless for a while.

He found that his lord, Darth Sidious, was very correct in one point. Compared with people like Tang Xiao and Newt Gunley, his biggest weakness was that he didn't really have his own basic board at all.

There may be countless galaxies who are impressed by his charisma, his passionate speeches, and his freedom and righteousness, but these galaxies have never really belonged to him.

Looking at the other end of the parliament, the director of the fourth group, Gross Shelbya, is talking to Mina Bontry, the representative of the Onderon planet, about the benefits that the Onderon planet will get after the new bill is passed. After the Behemoth-class battlecruiser is officially purchased by the military of the Confederacy of the Independent Galaxy, as one of the largest producers of the Behemoth-class battlecruiser, what kind of benefits will they get.

Mina Bontry nodded repeatedly and kept exchanging views with Shelbya, but it was obvious that her attitude was completely different from before.

The feeling in Earl Dooku's heart was even stronger, and at this moment, he really understood what the dead angel wanted to do.

He was right, he didn't regard the Confederation of Independent Galaxies as a consumable, but really wanted to build the Confederation into a powerful regime that could rival the Galactic Republic!

Then the question is... In this kind of confrontation, in the confrontation between the two major forces in the Milky Way, in the struggle between the two Sith Lords of the previous generation, how will I, who is very weak in various senses, deal with myself? .

In terms of power, he is just the earl of the planet Sereno, and in terms of power, compared to Dead Angel and Darth Sidious, he can't even be regarded as an official Sith!

After thinking a lot in his mind, Earl Dooku calmed down, and said in his unique, magnetic voice, "Then, the council will vote on this proposal tomorrow!"

...

The result of the vote was no surprise. The proposal to relax the conscription requirements of each planet, allowing the planets that joined the Confederacy to send their own soldiers to join the war, and to reduce war taxes in this way was passed with a slight advantage.

The reason for the slight advantage is actually that it was created by people like Ainle Tim and Francis Underwood, veterans in the political arena.

On the surface, Ainle-Tim had nothing to do with Dawn Star, and he also expressed his and the ring faction's distrust of Tang Xiao's proposal, so most of the ring faction abstained from voting.

Coupled with Francis Underwood swaying in the middle, the bill that should have actually passed by a large vote only narrowly prevailed over the opposition.

According to this proposal, the Confederation of Independent Galaxies will initially select 100 planets among all the joining planets, and then recruit 500 million troops on these planets. The number is relatively small, mainly because it is difficult to gather training facilities, but it is already a good start, and more barracks and training facilities are also being built.

According to the preliminary plan, the number of recruits will continue to reach 2 billion in the next year, and there will be at least 10 billion reserve soldiers.

At the same time, as another aspect of this proposal, the Confederation of Independent Galaxies will shut down one-third of the robot factories, and transform the production lines of these factories to produce various parts of the battleship.

Afterwards, another motion was also passed amid intense discussions.

According to this proposal, the Higra-class battlecruisers and the Generosity-class communication frigates currently in service in the Confederation of Independent Galaxy will withdraw from the active service of the first-line fleet and stop construction, while the Disobedient-class light destroyers will face strong opposition from the Technology Alliance and the Business Guild. Under the struggle, the production line is retained, but the order quantity will be reduced.

Also reducing the number of orders is the Shenyi-class destroyer.

In the future, the Shenyi-class destroyer will be mainly used as the flagship of the fleet, so most of the convertible cabins of the Shenyi-class will be changed to command and communication functions.

As a replacement, the Confederation of Independent Systems determined the Behemoth-class battlecruiser as the main battleship of the navy, and will also issue orders for the Sowa-class aircraft carrier and the Cole-class battlecruiser.

At the same time, the construction plan of the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier proposed by the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association has also received the support and investment of the Confederation of Independent Galaxy. The Infinity-class super aircraft carrier will exist as the fleet flagship of the Confederation of Independent Galaxies.

This proposal marks that the navy of the Confederation of Independent Star Systems will go in another direction - more systematic and more efficient, instead of building whatever ships can be built by several major corporate giants as before.

Finally, the Confederacy of Independent Galaxies will formally contact the Galactic Republic and prepare to start peace negotiations-the deep meaning of this negotiation is to disrupt the deployment of Darth Sidious.

Because the Galactic Republic is far from reaching "mature", Darth Sidious is absolutely unwilling to conduct peace negotiations! -

[Easter egg chapter attached picture 1: The president of the commercial guild, Shu Mai. 】