Chapter 2294 The last tranquility before the storm
2295. The last tranquility before the storm
11BBY, May 17th.
63 days have passed since the Galactic Empire besieged the planet Balmorra. The Trade Federation finally failed to do what Tang Xiao asked for and stubbornly resisted the last two months (70 days). There are still 7 days to go. day, announced complete surrender.
40 days before this, the planet Neimoidia, the home planet of the Neimoidians, had also been completely reduced to a sea of fire. Nearly 1 billion Neimoidians were trapped in the Galactic Empire. Died during siege and orbital bombardment. This planet that gave birth to one of the richest races in the galaxy is now completely a deserted land.
After the Trade Federation surrendered, the Galactic Empire's armies marched into the planet Balmorra and completely took over one of the largest industrial centers in the Inner Circle.
However, what now falls into the hands of the Galactic Empire is no longer the industrial center that supports the Trade Federation's huge business volume, but a devastated ruins.
In the battle to attack and defend the planet Balmorra, the Trade Federation invested almost all of its combat robots. The total number of combat robots of various types deployed on the planet's surface has reached 11 billion!
After the initial limited orbital bombardment, Imperial Fleet Commander Darth Vader immediately launched a landing operation, trying to protect as many factories on the planet as possible. But the landing force of the Galactic Empire was attacked by as many battle robots as the sea!
Almost no imperial army position was attacked by hundreds of millions of battle robots. The formations of robots had no end in sight and were everywhere in the mountains and plains!
Even because the supply of weapons cannot be guaranteed, most B-1 combat robots are empty-handed. But with the output power of a combat robot, even if it hits it with an iron fist, it is still a very fatal threat!
In the landing battle in the first two days, the Galactic Empire lost more than 300,000 landing troops. Several landing positions were filled with blood and mountains of corpses.
Afterwards, Darth Vader had to order an indiscriminate saturation orbital bombing of the planet Balmoral!
This orbital bombing lasted for a whole month! Most of the factories and warehouses were completely destroyed by the bombing, and the planet became a purgatory. Molten steel gathered into blazing rivers everywhere it passed.
This flow is not just molten steel, it is clearly countless empire credits! But the Galactic Empire will completely capture the planet Balmorra even if it uses this method of self-destruction. The mistake of Planet Rendili cannot happen a second time. Even if you can't get it yourself, you can never let the Principality of Dawn get it! !
Even the final occupation was just a formality. Because when the imperial army stepped onto the surface of this red-hot planet, there were almost no living creatures on this planet.
The furious Palpatine ordered the extermination of all Neimoidians in the galaxy on the spot, but the members of the Imperial Council strongly dissuaded him, because if this was really done, the Galactic Empire would be This originally disgraceful war came to an even more disgraceful end.
This will further reduce the credibility of the empire and lead to more frequent and worse uprisings and riots.
Finally, Palpatine changed the extermination order to an expulsion order, confiscated all property of all Neimoidians in the empire, distributed a little dry food to each person, and asked them to leave the country within a time limit.
This war, recorded as a 'trade war' by the Galactic Empire, lasted for nine months. The Galactic Empire paid a heavy price and finally completely uprooted the Trade Alliance.
The Trade Alliance, a super enterprise that rose like lightning and fell like a meteor, went from growing to become the largest corporate entity in the galaxy to being completely destroyed and became a state-owned holding company of the Principality of Dawn. It existed for a total of 339 years.
Once upon a time, they were the symbol of the Outer Ring Star Region. The planets in the outer ring of the Milky Way only knew the Trade Federation and not the Galactic Republic. But after a series of conspiracy calculations and head-on confrontations, they finally came to an end.
After the planet Balmorra was captured, the Trade Federation was completely disbanded and reorganized, and was renamed Neimoidia Logistics Company. Newt Gunray resigned and became a sinner of the Neimoidians. However, under Tang Xiao's arrangement, he secretly enjoyed a prosperous and peaceful life on a remote planet.
He died 20 years later - the 17th year of the official establishment of the Fourth Reich.
Tang Xiao did not break his promise. He gave the two habitable planets that were devoured by Mongar-Mongal to the Neimoidians, so that the Neimoidians could be expelled from the empire one after another. Moidians have families to rely on.
These two planets were named 'New Neimoidia Planet' and 'New Balmoral Planet' by the Neimoidian planet to commemorate the countless compatriots who died in this war. In the days that followed, they started again in the transportation industry and became one of the top logistics groups in the Fourth Reich. The Galactic Empire was finally able to extract itself from the quagmire of the trade war, cleaning its wounds bit by bit like a tired giant.
Countless industries left by the Trade Federation have been annexed. As the largest enterprise in the galaxy, the Trade Federation’s industries are naturally not only those wealth planets and industrial planets; throughout the galaxy.
At the same time, the Galactic Empire also temporarily froze the wealth plundered from the Trade Federation's wealth planet on the grounds that the assets were unknown, and did not return it to the noble families in the core circle.
This wave of naked plundering has somewhat recouped a lot of war costs for the Galactic Empire, allowing this heavy war machine to continue to operate.
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At the same time, some seemingly inconspicuous things finally ignited the powder keg of the Milky Way, which was already on the verge of exploding!
11BBY, in April, while the trade war was still going on, the Galactic Empire issued a wanted order against the Zane Consortium for the third time, banned all their business qualifications, and required them to leave Saru within a time limit. Planet Kami.
The Galactic Empire quickly ordered the Tagg Company, which has been in the spotlight recently, to set up a garbage disposal company to go to the Salukami planet to dispose of the countless battleship ruins.
At the same time, at the initiative of the Imperial Council, the Galactic Empire began to carry out a series of anti-corruption and anti-criminal operations in the outer ring sector - anyway, as long as it does not involve the inner ring and the core circle, such anti-corruption actions are still Got huge support.
According to this operation, many gangster organizations and corrupt officials entrenched in the outer ring have been severely cracked down.
The Galactic Empire obviously intends to use this series of actions to restore its war strength as soon as possible and get itself back on the right track of military expansion and war preparations.
But things backfired...Obviously for some people, this Galactic Empire that quieted down and began to clean up its internal affairs was definitely not what they wanted.
On May 33, 11 BBY, a starry sky photo was placed in front of the desk of Emperor Palpatine.
This photo is of a planet in the unknown star field, called Planet Levik. It was once occupied by the Xilu people, and based on this, the Xilu Empire was established.
But that's not important. The most important thing is that in the synchronous orbit of a satellite near Levi's planet, there is an extremely huge ring structure floating impressively!
In the center of the ring structure, there is a ripple of energy that looks like a ripple, and countless spaceships are entering and exiting through it.
For this thing, the imperial astronomers, major engineers, and scholars can only come to one conclusion-
Star Gate!