Chapter 458 29BBY [Fourth update, please vote for me, please subscribe, please recommend]
456, 29BBY
Time enters 29BBY, time flies by, until Darth Plagueis dies , it has been 3 years since Sheev Palpatine became the Speaker.
During this period, too many things happened in both the Dawn Planet and the Galactic Republic, but in general, apart from the Dawn Planet having a real battle with the Airu people, , most of them are the calm before the storm.
Palpatine has been working hard to consolidate his power. He first exposed his flaws and made Deputy Speaker Mas-Ameda think that he could influence himself as Speaker to a great extent. Mas-Ameda Meda raised several issues that were passed by him.
Not only that, his easy-going attitude in the early days of his administration also made some people from other political factions think they had an opportunity and began to get closer to him.
But in fact, Palpatine is just letting all this happen. He does not care about the impact these people will have on the Republic through the issues he raises. What he cares about is only to continuously improve his secret power. strength.
He continues to establish good relations with those old and powerful industrial planets and use his rights to conduct transactions. He initially used the Clone Army project to throw out this bait, and tested large industrial enterprises such as Quat Power Shipyard, Rendili Star Power Company, and Corellian Engineering Company.
The one who finally took the bait was Kuat Power Dockyard, and Palpatine generously gave them their first gift - a military order for a complete set of equipment needed by the clone army, worth 7 billion credits. , and the Interstellar Banking Association guaranteed and paid this huge sum of money.
What Palpatine got in exchange was the loyalty of Planet Kuat.
These industrial planets are hungry for power and yearn for war, because only war can bring them more benefits, so they hit it off with Palpatine's policies and became Palpatine's secret supporters.
After that, he secretly searched for their weaknesses in the process of constant contact with Mas-Ameda and other political factions.
Palpatine knew very well that he couldn't do much in his first term. He was not one of those people who wanted a new officer to have three sparks. He wanted more. , higher, bigger...
What he is doing now is to get more support.
Whether Mas-Ameda or some other political factions regard him as a weak speaker, they believe that they can achieve more of their own goals and seek more through Palpatine. Benefits, in fact, they did achieve it, and all these black accounts were recorded by Palpatine.
In contrast, Dawn Planet Councilor Francis Underwood appears to be aggressive. He has a strong aura, is eloquent, and has the support of a powerful planet behind him. Around him, many outer-ring planets have also been united. of MPs.
But it is precisely because of this that Palpatine knows that Francis will not become his real political opponent, and those swaying wallflowers will not choose Francis.
At the beginning of the year 29BBY, the Galactic Republic Parliament became busy and noisy as always, all for the election of the next year, 28BBY.
The term of the Speaker of the Galactic Parliament is 4 years, and the Constitution of the Republic stipulates that the Speaker can be re-elected once at most (I know this is a beautiful country, but after all, this is an IP over there, there is no way).
As Sheev Palpatine, who has ascended to the position of Speaker halfway, he still has too many things to do, because without a complete election, it is difficult for him to know who his real supporters are. Everything is crossing the river by feeling the stones. There are indeed very few examples of speakers who have ascended to the throne midway through the generations and have been successfully re-elected.
But this is not a problem for a political master like Palpatine. Francis Underwood has also become a candidate, but his actions are very strange. He has indeed canvassed for votes and support, but more often he has targeted planets in the middle and outer star sectors, and I don’t want to win over the planets in the inner ring. Of course, it is impossible for those nobles in the inner circle to take a serious look at such a small member of the emerging planet.
Rather than canvassing for votes to run for speaker, Francis’ behavior is more like dividing his own sphere of influence.
Palpatine looked at this with cold eyes. If this kind of behavior is not stupid, it means that he is planning something more long-term.
Based on his understanding of Francis, Palpatine knew that it would definitely not be the former.
But something happened during this period. A Jedi Master named Jorus C'baoth began to lobby for a very grand plan - the Outbound Flight.
This bill is a bill to explore, develop and colonize the unknown star areas of the Milky Way. The Unknown Star Field is a star field that occupies about one-third of the entire Milky Way. According to estimates, the Unknown Star Field contains the equivalent of 15% of the stellar mass of the Milky Way.
If the entire galaxy is laid out flat as a map and viewed according to the traditional star map drawing coordinates of the Galactic Republic, the unknown star field is located on the west side of the galaxy.
Of course, there is no such thing as southeast, northwest, or northwest in the Milky Way. The west side is just the west side of the flat star map. By the way, Tang Xiao's planet Dawn is roughly in the southwest corner of the plane star map.
The area of the Unknown Star Territory is very vast. In fact, the territory of the Galactic Republic is equivalent to two-thirds of a circle. The large area of the Inner Ring Star Territory adjacent to this direction on the west side is the Unknown Star Territory. Star field.
Therefore, in fact, the middle ring and outer ring of the Galactic Republic are not really a ring, but are cut off in the unknown star field.
The unknown star field contains a large amount of resources, and according to scientists' judgment, there is likely to be countless dark matter energy disturbing here. In other words, if you want to study dark matter, you will get twice the result with half the effort in the unknown star field.
This is different from the wild space. There are not many habitable planets in the wild space, and resources are scarce, so basically no one cares about it.
But the reason why the Galactic Republic's hegemony does not extend to the unknown star field, and the reason why the unknown star field is 'unknown' is because this space is full of abnormal gravity traps and dark energy fluctuations .
And hyperspace is a complete mess here. If you enter the hyperspace channel at the same place, the place you come out of is completely different. Maybe it is a black hole, maybe an electromagnetic nebula, maybe directly. Plunge into a star.
Explorers call this mess of hyperspace channels in the unknown star field the tangle, which means a mess that cannot be sorted out at all.
But now, Jedi Master Jolus Sebaoth claims that he has the ability to conduct hyperspace navigation in unknown star fields.
(End of this chapter)