The Galactic Empire with Its Buffs Stacked (Part 1)
With the fall of Saleucami Planet, the Confederacy of Independent Systems had finally reached its end. Its once swaggering core members scattered in all directions to seek their own futures.
The Corporate Alliance had long since been crippled by the war, suffering devastating losses in multiple campaigns. Whether it was the raid on Kamino or the assault on Christophsis, they might have looked like victories on the surface, but in reality, both had come at an enormous cost. During the Galactic Republic's earlier counteroffensives, they had also lost several industrial worlds in the Inner Rim and Mid Rim Territories, leaving them unable to recover.
Worse still, with Saleucami Planet's defenses breached, the Corporate Alliance's headquarters—and the Kuriwa homeworld, Mulcana planet—now lay wide open, exposed to the Galactic Empire's reach.
They were different from the Technological Alliance, Semirres Planet, and Jabiim planet, the first to surrender. The Technological Alliance and Semirres Planet had enough bargaining chips in hand, while Jabiim planet? Do not think Jabiim was still the same world it had been at the start of the war, when it had just lost a third of its population to the Brain Plague and was mired in civil war. Jabiim planet was far stronger now than it had been before.
Jabiim planet was rich in precious minerals, and exporting them had brought it substantial profits. Moreover, because it had built strong ties with Tang Xiao and the Fourth Civilization early in the war, Jabiim planet had also received considerable investment from the Fourth Group.
As a result, Jabiim planet's expanded Nimbus commandos had become a renowned force within the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The Galactic Empire was unwilling to casually provoke such a thorny opponent as Jabiim planet, so its surrender was