1369, Collapsing Finances
The time had entered April of 20 BBY.
The war had already been underway for two years and was entering its third. The Confederacy of Independent Systems was beginning to show signs of defeat, retreating steadily on nearly every front.
Aside from a few developed planets still putting up stubborn resistance, the Confederacy of Independent Systems had almost entirely lost the Mid Rim Territories.
The Republic fleet had originally been pinned down and heavily depleted in the battles of the Rendili system and Semirres system. However, Chancellor Sheev Palpatine had directly stripped every planet of its local defense fleet, giving the Galactic Republic an enormous fleet whose quality might have been lacking, but whose numbers were terrifying.
Under the assault of this fleet, Mimban and Rusan Planet fell one after another, and the flames of war began closing in on the defensive line General Grievous had established on Saleucami Planet.
At the same time, brutal fighting was raging across the ground battlefields of countless planets.
The vast droid armies the Confederacy of Independent Systems had left on those planets continually obstructed the Republic army's advance. Yet at this critical moment, the emergence of genetic weapons forced the Galactic Republic to recall the entire Clone Army. Thus, on these planetary battlefields, the Republic could only fight through precision bombardment by large numbers of small and medium-sized warships.
Although these small and medium-sized vessels did not damage planetary environments, they still dealt devastating blows to surface infrastructure. The industrial and civilian foundations of the planets conquered by the Republic suffered severe destruction.
As a result, many planets grew even more alienated from the Galactic Republic. Though they had no choice but to welcome the arrival of the Republic fleet and proclaim that they had been liberated from the tyranny