Chapter 395 Colonial Expansion
393. Colonial Expansion
The cliques and quarrels in the parliament often actually stem from the interests of the planets they represent.
The new Ring Faction members, like the previous Ring Faction, are mainly from the outer ring stars, especially the non-human race planets. They have gathered together and want to have more say in this galaxy.
In the Galactic Republic, human supremacy does indeed exist. Because at the beginning of the civilization of the Milky Way, humans were indeed one of the first races to rise, and they were also the largest race throughout the entire Milky Way. Many planets in the inner ring and core circle were established by human civilization in the past.
Therefore, in many outer ring planets, the race is not human, which is one of the reasons why they are discriminated against.
However, despite this, Francis gave a lot of political help to the ringleaders, especially during the speaker election. He almost stood up alone to turn the tide and stopped Schiff- Palpatine used some corrupt information to directly beat Senator Tim to a point of no return. It is not an exaggeration to say that he saved Tim's political career.
So those Ring members who still stand firm will naturally agree with this. In addition, Count Dooku’s separatist movement has begun to move, and many outer ring planets have begun to shake, so they have begun to collapse. To Francis.
The current New Environmental Group is apparently led by Congressman Tim, but in fact many political strategies and plans are proposed by Francis Underwood. He is the leader. The real leader of the New Huanpai Group.
But in fact, only a true political veteran can see that both Palpatine and Francis actually maintain an unspeakable tacit understanding. Although they attack and quarrel with each other, they will never really take the final step of a complete confrontation.
In fact, they are just using this quarrel and mutual attack to establish their own political group. What they want is not to produce a result, but to exert their own political influence.
Expressing one's political stance and showing one's personal charm during quarrels is also a process of screening one's own comrades.
At the same time, Claire Underwood also began active activities. The Outer Rim Sector Mutual Aid Fund she founded has become a sizable foundation after 4 years of development, and has helped no less than 200 planets in the Outer Rim Sector, and has more or less cooperation with more than 1,000 planets. experience.
Because since Chancellor Palpatine came to power, the political winds in the galaxy have begun to become a little bad, especially for the outer ring planets, so many of those outer ring planets have encountered difficulties. For example, the price of imported goods from the inner planets has become higher, and some cooperations have been directly cancelled.
Under such circumstances, more and more planets came to her for help.
Claire organized a series of rescue strategies. In addition to various material rescues, she finally launched two long-planned rescue plans.
The first item is refugee accommodation. Accommodate refugees from various impoverished planets due to famine and war, and transport them to a newly developed mining planet under the name of the Reclamation Corps.
The second item is to provide job opportunities. A large number of job opportunities will be opened on Dawn Planet and some newly opened interstellar mines, and for those with certain abilities, family members will be accommodated. These people are treated better than refugees. These two rescue strategies build on the reputation Claire's mutual aid fund has built up over the years, otherwise it could easily be dismissed as a slave trade.
In order to dispel the doubts of these people, Claire also made the working conditions of these mines and development areas transparent, and all working conditions and treatment are public.
Anyway, the main purpose of these two strategies is to increase the population. After a period of working life, a considerable number of those refugees and workers will naturally become members of the fourth civilization.
The newly developed mining planet of the Fourth Civilization is the same as the Endor Galaxy. It is also located in the Model Sector, but it is closer to the core of this sector. It is a galaxy called Kuna's Tooth. This galaxy is part of the Kuna constellation. This cluster contains Kuna's Eyes, Kuna's Tooth, Kuna's Fist, Kuna's Horn, The galaxies of Kuna's Tail, Kuna's Heart, Kuna's Scales and Kuna's Esophagus are a newborn star cluster.
Tang Xiao decided to open a mine here mainly because it was part of the legacy of the Damask Holding Group that he took over before. This mine was created after Hege obtained the Ragnarov-class Titan battleship from Tang Xiao. After that, a mine was developed using the financial and material resources of the holding group.
Hego-Damask II originally considered being part of the Model Sector, and the mines here could also be protected by the Dawn Planet.
There is a planet in the Fang of Kuna galaxy, also called Fang of Kuna. It is the planet with the best environment in this galaxy. It has a thin but harmless atmosphere and relatively stable geological movements. The overall environment is similar to Mars, but it has a large number of frozen underground water bodies and rich mineral resources.
If this planet is to be inhabited, a fully enclosed residential area must be built. In fact, there are already small residential areas built by criminals and bounty hunters on this planet. In addition, Tang Xiao also plans to carry out atmospheric modification and environmental modification projects here to further improve living conditions.
The Kuna Star Cluster is the direction chosen by Tang Xiao for colonial expansion. After all, the Endor Galaxy is too small. There are only two habitable planets, Dawn Planet and Cave-Beer, and they are both asteroids.
In the expansion operation here, Tang Xiao also roped in the Semires to join him. He found that he liked this race more and more. The Samirs people have a large population, and they are very productive if they really let go. They are strong, obedient, and have developed industries. Their councilor Thunbach-Tula has no other problems. As long as they give enough money, they can do anything. Hahaha.
Based on the investigation of the Kuna Star Cluster, Tang Xiao determined that this star cluster has great development potential. The four star systems of Teeth, Tail, Angle, and Fist all have habitable planets, and the Eye of Kuna is a newly formed planet. There are a lot of rare minerals in the galaxy in the near future.
As long as the Kuna Star Cluster is brought under control, the Fourth Civilization will have a stable basic disk, instead of guarding the small place of Endor System all day long, with no strategic depth, and being hit by others accurately. .
In order to support the colonization work on the Fang of Kuna planet, Tang Xiao also specially purchased 5 Rukrihuk-class cargo ships from the Trade Alliance. They were not converted into battleships, but pure cargo ships.
As 31BBY entered the second half of the year, the first 500,000-person reclamation group recruited from the Outer Rim Star Region landed in the Fang of Kuna on a Rukrihuk-class cargo ship.
(End of this chapter)