Chapter 256 Aftermath
254. Aftermath
The Eriadu Business Summit is destined to become a farce.
After the robot riot completely disrupted the summit, representatives from all parties went home angrily, and things did not end there.
First of all, the angry Galactic Parliament Speaker Finis Valorum announced a thorough investigation of this terrorist attack. He concluded that there must be someone inside cooperating with the Nebula Front.
The Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn also captured the leader of the Nebula Front when she was on the planet Eriadu at that time, which also confirmed that the Nebula Front was directly involved in this matter. However, nothing could be asked from her, because the Republic Inquisitor was surprised to find that although someone must be cooperating with her, this poor fool didn't even know who that person was!
The investigation work was carried out with difficulty, but all the clues were cut off at the beginning. The officer who received the goods, the technician who maintained the scanner, the transporter who transported the robot, just these three or two kittens. If you continue to investigate, you will immediately feel that a big net is covering everything, and the investigation cannot proceed at all. .
Military personnel must have been involved in this attack, because they knew exactly where the defenders were deployed and could deploy the problematic robots in the most critical places. However, even so, the investigation against the military was still unable to be launched at all, and nothing could be found.
In the end, we can only place all the blame on the Nebula Front, and then arrest a few clerks, radical reporters, and related people at the bottom.
And because of this terrorist attack, the Galactic Republic Parliament, the host of the summit, was also widely questioned. Amidst the outcry, the Deputy Speaker of the Galactic Parliament, Botan, sadly resigned, and a few months later, he was Died of illness at home.
Sheev Palpatine, a well-known member of the Naboo planet, declined the offer to take over as deputy speaker. In the end, the deputy speaker of the parliament was served by the young and powerful Mas Ameda.
Such a result will obviously not satisfy Finis Valoran. In fact, this terrorist attack has pushed him into a corner. In despair and madness, Chancellor Finis Valorum vented his anger on the Jedi Order.
He issued an order ordering the Jedi Order not to participate in any affairs of the Galactic Republic. If there is anything that requires the Jedi Order to participate, it must be commissioned by the Galactic Council before the Jedi Order can participate.
As for the Jedi Order, although Master Mace Windu was angry at this decision, Master Yoda only accepted it very calmly.
After that, Finis Valoran determined that there must be corporate giants behind this terrorist attack, and the issues at the summit had not been resolved in any way, so he unilaterally announced that the Galactic Republic would be outside The Ring Star Region implements tax policies, and every planet in the Outer Ring Star Region must cooperate with the Republic to complete the economic census and settle tax officials.
This decision caused an uproar in the parliament. The ring faction members, mainly composed of members from the Outer Rim Sector, left the meeting angrily on the spot and issued a joint statement. The Outer Rim Sector rejected the tax policy of the Galactic Republic unless the Republic's Judicial Fleet could prove it. They can defend the Outer Rim planets.
Among the corporate giants, the terrorist attack on this business summit also caused a stormy situation.
The fourth convoy attacked by the Nebula Front was actually a convoy of the Trade Federation. During this attack, almost all representatives of the Trade Federation were wiped out, including representatives of the largest shipbuilder and industrial giant in the galaxy, Quat Power Dockyard.
After several top-level leaders died at one time, Kuat Dynamic Shipyard expressed anger towards the Trade Alliance, and they announced their withdrawal from the Trade Alliance. A month later, it announced that it would withdraw from the technical alliance, go completely alone, and draw a clear line with those business alliances. However, the Trade Alliance is also suffering, and it is clearly them who are suffering this time.
However, a bigger change has occurred, and the Trade Alliance cannot take into account the negative impact caused by the withdrawal of Kuat Dynamic Shipyard from the alliance and the decline in stock prices.
Because the current Governor of the Trade Federation was killed in this terrorist attack, not only the Governor, but also the entire management team around the Governor, now the Trade Federation, one of the largest economic entities in the galaxy, has actually entered power. vacuum period.
At this time, Newt Gunray, who had been preparing for success, suddenly emerged, quickly defeated all competitors with thunderous means, and officially assumed the post of Governor of the Trade Alliance.
During this process, a group of high-ranking officials from the Trade Alliance, including Rune Harkou, almost unanimously sided with Newt Gunray, helping him quickly stabilize the situation and control the entire Trade Alliance. And they also entered the core of power of the Trade Federation as they wished.
Behind this change of power, Darth Sidious’s support for Newt Gunray and Francis Underwood’s support for Rune Harkor made They have successfully extended their tentacles into this huge economic entity.
The withdrawal of Kuat Power Shipyard and the rise of Newt Gunray marked that the Trade Alliance was completely controlled by the Neimoidians, and their economic policies began to tilt.
Ford Tonis, co-chairman of the Interstellar Banking Association, was also frightened by the terrorist attack and announced that he would no longer participate in next year's general election. As a result, among the remaining candidates, Thornhill's advantage is almost unshakable, and he has basically been determined to be the next co-chairman of the Interstellar Banking Association.
After more than a month of chaos, the corporate giants who finally sorted themselves out internally also counterattacked a series of moves by the Galactic Republic.
The Trade Federation, the Interstellar Banking Association, the Enterprise Alliance, the Commercial Guild, and the Technology Alliance issued a joint statement stating that they would never recognize the Galactic Republic's unilateral tax collection in the Outer Rim Star Region, and claimed that this was a violation of The trampling of galactic democracy.
And in response to the increasingly severe security situation, these corporate giants also unilaterally declared that the restrictions on the specifications of warships owned by companies in the Rusang Reform were invalid. In other words, they will start building and purchasing large warships without limit.
The Fourth Group, firmly siding with the Trade Federation, also joined this joint statement and publicly condemned the Galactic Republic. However, the advertisement they made using the previous video of the Battle of Malastar Fjord was removed - after all, this was the instruction of Sheev Palpatine.
In response to the provocation of the corporate giants, the Galactic Republic, which has lost the support of the judicial fleet, is unable to respond. On the contrary, Kuat Dynamics Shipyard quietly announced the spacecraft project they are currently testing as a tit-for-tat answer-
The Acclamator-class assault landing ship (Acclamator-class assaultship)! !
(End of this chapter)