A Salarian fleet suddenly appeared over Felucia: 10 Dominator-class drone motherships, 5 Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruisers, and 20 Enforcer-class heavy destroyers. Faced with such a force, the Merchant Guilds did not dare make any rash moves.
However, the fleet merely remained there without taking any further action. It showed no intention of blockading the planet and paid no attention whatsoever to the ships coming and going from Felucia.
Shu Mai sent representatives to contact the Salarian fleet, but received no response at all. She could only order the planet to prepare for any unforeseen incidents.
The Merchant Guilds naturally still had fleets under their command, but those fleets had yet to be recalled, and some had been destroyed by Galactic Republic defenders during the Delon system campaign.
But ultimately, Shu Mai did not dare truly recall her fleets. If she did, it would mean openly turning against the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Felucia, where she was based, lay within Confederacy-controlled territory and had no direct hyperspace route connecting it to Galactic Republic space. If they truly came to blows with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, they would probably be smashed to pieces within days.
Unwilling to sit around and await death, Shu Mai repeatedly reached out to the InterGalactic Banking Clan, Trade Federation, Corporate Alliance, Technological Alliance, and other Mega-corporation giants in search of aid. Yet every one of those messages vanished without a trace.
So she contacted the Galactic Republic...
The Galactic Republic responded very enthusiastically, but distant water could not put out a nearby fire. The Republic was already in a state of panic over the destruction of the clone factories on Kamino. Where could it find the strength to fight all the way to Felucia?
Where was Felucia? It was tucked away in the northeastern corner of the