The Galactic Republic was now truly a complete mess in the Northern Territory, especially in the Northwest Territory. It was practically a hopeless situation.
Even when the Separatists brazenly marched into Ord Mantell with trumpets blaring and occupied the planet, the Republic did not dare make a sound—because it had spread its net too wide and could no longer reel it in.
Scipio was under Geth invasion, where Master Windu was leading troops in fierce battle. Moreover, the InterGalactic Banking Clan had only just split off, so the Galactic Republic had to set an example for them and guarantee their security and credit. It had no more strength left to reinforce the Northern Territory.
Of course, the more important reason was Chancellor Sheev Palpatine's rather inexplicable intelligence report. Based on this baffling yet terrifying intelligence, the Republic Intelligence Department and the Republic Supreme Strategic Command concluded after deliberation that if the Geth and the Separatists truly joined forces, the Republic army could only adopt a passive strategy in the Northern Territory.
They had already prepared to abandon the entire Northwest Territory and redeploy their defenses around Bilbringi, the industrial planet in the Inner Rim Territories that served as the headquarters of the Seventh Army.
Fortunately, San Hill's InterGalactic Banking Clan was also carrying out its own consolidation. After moving into Ord Mantell, it made no further moves, merely conducting massive construction projects across the planet and treating its nominal government—the Central Administration Bureau—as if it were invisible.
But the Geth continued to ravage the Northern Territory! They still had not stopped!
A month later, in march of 20 BBY, unable to withstand the Geth's harassment and slaughter, the Malareen Alliance, led by Ansion Planet and Malarian Planet in the Mid Rim region of the Northwest Territory of the galaxy, announced