Chapter 1369: Collapse of Finance
1369. Collapse of Finance
Time has entered April of 20BBY.
As the war has been going on for two years and is entering its third year, the Confederacy of Independent Systems has begun to show its defeat, retreating steadily on almost every front.
Except for some developed planets that are still resisting, the Confederation of Independent Systems has almost lost the entire Central Star region.
It was originally contained and destroyed a large number of Republic fleets in the battles between the Rendily System and the Semirex System. However, Speaker Sheev Palpatine directly deprived all planets of their local defense fleets, leaving the Republic with one more fleet. Although the quality is not very good, the fleet is terrifying in quantity.
Under the attack of this fleet, the planets Minban and Rusan fell one after another, and the war began to approach the defense line set up by General Grievous on the Salukami planet.
At the same time, cruel battles are also starting on the ground battlefields of countless planets.
The huge robot legions dropped by the Confederacy of Independent Systems on these planets are constantly blocking the advancement of the Republic's army. But at this time, due to the emergence of genetic weapons, the Republic had to recall all its clone armies. Therefore, on the battlefields of these planets, the Republic can only rely on the precise bombing of a large number of small and medium-sized warships to fight.
Although these small and medium-sized spacecraft will not cause damage to the planet's environment, they still cause a devastating blow to the facilities on the planet's surface. The industrial foundation and people's livelihood foundation of these planets captured by the Republic have been severely damaged.
The result of this is that many planets are further alienated from the Galactic Republic. Even if they are forced to welcome the arrival of the Republic fleet and claim to be liberated from the tyranny of the Separatists, in fact, these planets have no influence on the Galaxy. The Republic hates it no less than the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Yes, the role played by the Confederation of Independent Systems in this war has never been positive. Even with the reorganization of the Confederation of Independent Systems, the wealth-raising and exploitation behaviors of those corporate giants have become less unscrupulous, but for Let the war continue, the Federation of Independent Systems will continue to exploit these planets, plundering almost all their wealth and production value.
And now the Galactic Republic's extremely brutal offensive has also sown the seeds of chaos within the galaxy.
At the same time, the performance of the natural army of the Galactic Republic on the battlefield can be said to be very awkward, and this kind of awkwardness comes at the cost of blood!
In this new round of counterattacks by the Republic, the number of natural soldiers killed in just one month has exceeded 60 million! The number of injured soldiers has exceeded 100 million! The pensions brought by these killed and injured soldiers are astronomical, making the finances of the Galactic Republic even worse.
The Interstellar Banking Association (S), which was reorganized with the planet Scipio as the core and Rush Clovis as the CEO, is also facing a financial void at this moment. There is no other way, Rush-Clovis can only issue 50 trillion credit points of currency urgently, and because there are not so many rare alloys, these currencies are all banknotes encrypted by encryption methods.
This paper currency is called 'Republic Coin' and is guaranteed by the credit of the Galactic Republic.
Yes, this is a credit currency! Different from the gold standard, grain standard and other currencies that appeared before the advent of the interstellar era, this kind of credit currency is equivalent to no guarantee. The value of the currency is entirely determined by the conscience and credit of the Galactic Republic.
But it has reached its final stage, and when we look up at the Galactic Republic, every road is filled with despair. Where does the conscience come from? Where does the credit come from?
And those families who lost their loved ones, because all they got in the end were these banknotes that they couldn't tell whether they had any value, and many places simply refused to accept these banknotes. These desperate people had no choice but to take to the streets one after another and come to the administrative center of their planet and city to hold demonstrations and even armed riots.
For a time, various uprisings and rebellions occurred one after another within the scope of the Galactic Republic.
The same situation also happened in the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Count Dooku had already broken up with Darth Sidious by this time, and he had already managed the Confederation of Independent Systems as his important power and political capital.
It was different from when he was attached to Darth Sidious, because at that time he believed that he had a way out, and it didn't matter what happened to the Confederacy, as long as he could assist the West It would be great if Dios completed his plan. But now, he must ensure victory in this war.
In order to decouple the economy of the Confederation of Independent Systems from those corporate giants and gain more independence, Count Dooku has done a lot of work, including finding ways to open the Confederacy's own national bank and collect many industrial planets. Return to the country and so on.
But it's not easy. Even if the commercial guilds have been divided and merged, none of the remaining corporate giants are fuel-efficient. They are not willing to be controlled by Count Dooku. Even if they have not really broken up yet, both parties Confrontations at the economic and political levels have gradually taken shape.
What’s more serious is that the Technology Alliance has begun to think about returning to the Galactic Republic.
As part of the plan to bring these corporate giants to heel, General Grievous placed the main fleet of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, mainly old battleships including the Generous class communications frigates and the Defiant class light destroyers, in Germany. Most of them were lost in the Battle of Long Planet, and now the new generation navy of the Federation of Independent Systems is in the process of being formed.
But brand new battleships are more powerful and advanced, but naturally more expensive. Where do these costs come from? Naturally, it was also passed on to those alliance planets.
Faced with the almost completely unreasonable exploitation and plunder of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, riots and uprisings also broke out within the Confederacy, and they could not be suppressed no matter how hard they suppressed them.
Relatively speaking, the situation within the jurisdiction of the Fourth Civilization is much better. But the main reason is that the fourth civilization is located in a remote location, has a weak industrial base, and has a sparse population... However, with the successful rebellion of Lundili Interstellar Power Company, the fourth civilization suddenly had a population of 600 billion more people. , and a large number of industrial facilities.
In order to make these population and industrial facilities work, Daphne Clement, the interior minister of the fourth civilization, suddenly found that her side had become a bottomless pit at some point.
This bottomless pit is devouring countless resources, money, population, and job opportunities. The greatly increased resource demand has overwhelmed the resource system of the fourth civilization, and if those extra factories and people are allowed to idle , but it will also cost more resources to feed them, which is even more impossible.
The main reason why the economy of the Fourth Civilization has not collapsed yet is because the Fourth Civilization has a large amount of high-tech equipment that far exceeds that of the Galactic Republic Navy, allowing them to defend it without maintaining a huge fleet. own territory.
For example, the existence of the Titan battleship Xuanwu prevents the Galactic Republic from taking the initiative to attack the Eriadu system, a transportation hub, even if it has assembled three times its fleet.
During this period of 20 BBY, the consequences of the war began to appear, and the out-of-control war had overwhelmed both sides.
In order to pass on some of their internal conflicts through war before they collapse, the Galactic Republic, the Confederation of Independent Systems and the Fourth Civilization all chose...
Accelerate!
(End of this chapter)