Fourth Empire Calendar, Year Two of the Empire, January 1st, New Year's Day.
This would also be the first full year since the founding of the Fourth Empire.
About half a year had passed since the signing of the Kira Treaty. The flames of war that had once swept across the entire Milky Way Galaxy had finally subsided.
Everything seemed to be moving in a positive direction.
The Kira Treaty was not a particularly "aggressive" treaty. On the contrary, it was merely a process of slowly eating away at the Galactic Empire.
After the treaty was signed, the first things to arrive in the Galactic Empire were neither Fourth Empire fleets nor fearsome officials. Instead, they were transport ship after transport ship from the Fourth Empire, loaded to the brim with Currency Number Four.
Vast amounts of money swiftly flowed into the Galactic Empire's key industries and set them in motion.
The wages owed to workers were paid off in Currency Number Four, while the Galactic Empire also announced that goods throughout its territory would be fully open for settlement in Currency Number Four.
However, the exchange rate between Currency Number Four and Imperial credits had already fallen from 5:1 to 3:1, and it was still dropping.
The value of Imperial credits was gradually declining.
At the same time, a number of Mega-corporations flocked to the Fourth Empire. Capital had no borders. Although many companies still appeared to remain within the Galactic Empire on the surface, they had in fact begun taking orders from the Fourth Empire.
And under the Kira Treaty, the Galactic Empire had no authority to stop them—because the spark that ignited the Second Galactic Civil War had been the Galactic Empire's attack on the Trade Federation and Rendili StarDrive. The treaty therefore placed specific restrictions on