1928, The End of the Confederacy of Independent Systems (I)
He took the first wrong step. Though he later came to a tearful realization and constantly tried to return to the right path, it was already impossible. That mistaken step had doomed him to be a disposable pawn forever; no matter how he struggled, he could not escape that fact. But regardless, I admire him, because it was his efforts and actions that kindled the first spark in the Milky Way Galaxy. —Tang Xiao, Interviews with the Emperor of the Fourth Empire, Part Three, Chapter Nine, On Count Dooku.
In fact, when Sola-Balk died, filled with disappointment in Count Dooku and the sorrow of seeing his ideals go unrealized, he did not know that Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems had already ceased to exist.
The reason the Slaughter-class battleship had launched its lone assault on Felucia, carrying out what could be called a suicidal operation, was also because of this.
That was right. Before Felucia fell, the Confederacy of Independent Systems had already been destroyed first, vanishing into the long river of the Milky Way Galaxy's history.
Time rewound to three days earlier. While the Galactic Empire's ground forces were being endlessly harassed by Reaper, and Darth Vader had dispatched four Dark Jedi Knights to hunt Reaper down, the capital of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Raxus Prime.
Within the Confederate Congress, the seats that had once been filled were now sparse. At least two-thirds of them stood empty. Most of the remaining senators seated in their places wore expressions of anger and despair.
Because everyone present clearly understood that the Confederacy of Independent Systems could no longer sustain this war.
After the defensive line on Saleucami Planet fell, nothing remained to stop the Galactic