21 BBY, May 31.
Raxus Prime, Confederacy Parliament.
"We should halt the construction of droid factories! Devote our precious industrial capacity to building warships instead! Geonosis's droid factories should cease operations immediately!" Semirres Planet Representative Tounbark-Tula delivered an impassioned speech before the parliament.
Seated at the head of the chamber, Geonosis's leader, Archduke Poggle the Lesser, wore an exceedingly grim expression. He slammed his cane down and rose to his feet, speaking in a voice mixed with Geonosian language and difficult to understand. "We need more battle droids to meet the demands of the war! In the past three months of fighting, we have lost more than 300 million droids across the various battlefields!"
"Yet no matter how many droids we have, we still need enough warships to transport and escort them! The number of our Luukri-Hok-class battleships has already begun to plummet, and these cumbersome warships can hardly meet the needs of combat!" Ruute Gunray, uncle of Trade Federation Viceroy Newt Gunray, also said loudly.
In a setting like this, Trade Federation Viceroy Newt Gunray and InterGalactic Banking Clan Co-Chairman San Hill generally did not attend, mainly because both still had one foot planted on the Galactic Republic's side.
And with their status, they indeed disdained arguing with others in such places.
"That is precisely why we also need to build warship shipyards. The Port Pament expansion proposal was only passed last month," Count Dooku said in a deep voice.
"Given the current state of the war, our industrial capacity has reached its limit. The Galactic Republic is building warships far faster than we are! Therefore, we must further concentrate our industrial output on warship construction!" Corporate Alliance representative Denaria Kee rose and said the same.
"Then how will we solve the problem of ground combat forces?" Poggle the