1369. Collapse of finances
Time has entered April of 20BBY.
As the war has been going on for two years and is entering its third year, Confederacy of Independent Systems has begun to show its defeat, retreating steadily on almost every front.
Except for some developed planets that are still resisting, Confederacy of Independent Systems has almost lost the entire Mid Rim Territories.
Originally, in the battle between Rendili system and Semirres system, a large number of Republic fleet were pinned down and eliminated. However, the speaker Sheev-Palpatine directly deprived all planets of their local defense fleets and left Galactic Republic with a fleet that although not very good in quality, was of terrifying quantity.
Under the attack of this fleet, Mimban and Rusan Planet fell one after another, and the war began to approach the defense line set by General Grievous at Saleucami Planet.
At the same time, cruel battles are also starting on the ground battlefields of countless planets.
The huge number of robot legions Confederacy of Independent Systems dropped on these planets constantly blocked the progress of Republic army. But at this time, due to the emergence of genetic weapons, Galactic Republic had to recall all Clone Army. Therefore, on the battlefields of these planets, Galactic Republic can only fight with the precision bombing of a large number of small and medium-sized warships.
Although these small and medium-sized spacecraft will not cause damage to the planet's environment, they still cause a devastating blow to the planet's surface facilities. The industrial foundation and people's livelihood foundation of these planets captured by Galactic Republic have been severely damaged.
The result of this is that Xu Draon Planet is further alienated from Galactic Republic. Even if they are forced to welcome the arrival of Republic fleet due to the situation and claim that they are liberated from the tyranny of Separatists, in fact, these planets hate Galactic Republic no less than Confederacy of Independent Systems.
That's right, Confederacy of Independent Systems's role in this war has never been positive. Even with the reorganization of Confederacy of Independent Systems, the wealth-seeking and exploitative behaviors of those corporate giants have become less unscrupulous. However, in order to continue the war, Confederacy of Independent Systems still continues to exploit these planets, plundering almost all their wealth and production value.
And now Galactic Republic's extremely brutal offensive has also sown the seeds of chaos within the galaxy.
At the same time, the performance of the natural army of Galactic Republic on the battlefield can be said to be very arrogant, and this arrogance is at the cost of blood!
In this new round of counterattack by Galactic Republic, the number of natural soldiers killed in just one month exceeded 60 million! The number of injured soldiers has exceeded 100 million! The pensions brought by these killed and injured soldiers are astronomical, making Galactic Republic's finances even worse.
InterGalactic Banking Clan (S), which is reorganized with Scipio as the core and Rush-Clovis as Executive Officer, is also facing a financial void at the moment. There is no way, Rush-Clovis can only urgently issue 50 trillion credit points of currency, and because there are not so many rare alloys, these currencies are all banknotes encrypted by encryption methods.
This banknote is called 'Republic credits' and is guaranteed by the credit of Galactic Republic.
Yes, this is a credit currency! Different from the gold standard, grain standard and other currencies that appeared before the advent of the interstellar era, this kind of credit currency is equivalent to no guarantee, and the value of the currency is entirely determined by Galactic Republic's own conscience and credit.
But Galactic Republic, who has reached the end of his life and looks up at every road filled with despair, where does his conscience come from? Where does the credit come from?
And those families who lost their loved ones, because in the end all they got were banknotes that they had no idea whether they had any value, and many places simply refused to accept these banknotes. These desperate people had no choice but to take to the streets one after another and come to the administrative center of their planet and city to hold demonstrations and even armed riots.
For a time, various uprisings and rebellions occurred one after another within the jurisdiction of Galactic Republic.
The same situation occurs with Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Count Dooku had already broken up with Das-Sidious at this time. He had already regarded Confederacy of Independent Systems as his important power and political capital to operate.
It was different from when he was attached to Darth-Sidious, because at that time he thought he had a way out, it didn't matter what happened to Confederacy of Independent Systems, as long as he could help Sidious complete the plan, that would be fine. But now, he must ensure victory in this war.
In order to decouple Confederacy of Independent Systems's economy from those corporate giants and gain more independence, Count Dooku has done a lot of work, including finding ways to open Confederacy of Independent Systems's own national bank and nationalizing many industrial planets.
But it's easier said than done, even if Merchant Guilds has now been divided and merged, none of the remaining corporate giants is a fuel-efficient lamp. They are not willing to be controlled by Count Dooku. Even if they haven't really broken up yet, the economic and political opposition between the two sides has gradually begun to take shape.
What's more serious is that Technological Alliance has begun to think about returning to Galactic Republic.
As part of the plan to bring these corporate giants to heel, General Grievous gave away most of Confederacy of Independent Systems's main fleet, mainly the old warships including Generous-class Communications Escort and Defiant-class light destroyer, in the Denon Planet battle. Now Confederacy of Independent Systems's new generation navy is in the process of being formed.
But brand new warships are more powerful and advanced, but naturally more expensive. Where do these costs come from? Naturally, it was passed on to those Confederacy of Independent Systems franchise planets.
Faced with the almost completely unreasonable exploitation and plunder of Confederacy of Independent Systems, riots and uprisings also broke out inside Confederacy of Independent Systems, which could not be suppressed no matter how hard they were suppressed.
Relatively speaking, the situation within the jurisdiction of Fourth Civilization is much better. But the main reason is that Fourth Civilization is located in a remote location, with a weak industrial base and a sparse population... However, with the successful rebellion of Rendili StarDrive, a total of 600 billion people and a large number of industrial facilities were suddenly added to Fourth Civilization's jurisdiction.
In order to make these population and industrial facilities work, Fourth Civilization Ministry of the Interior Zhang Daphne-Clement suddenly found that his side had become a bottomless pit at some point.
This bottomless pit swallows countless resources, money, population, and job opportunities. The greatly increased resource demand makes Fourth Civilization's resource system overwhelmed. And if those extra factories and people are left idle, more resources will also be spent to feed them, which is even more impossible.
The main reason why Fourth Civilization's economy has not collapsed now is because Fourth Civilization possesses a large amount of high-tech equipment that far exceeds that of Galactic Republic Navy, allowing them to defend their territory without maintaining a huge fleet.
For example, the existence of Xuanwu Titan warship makes Galactic Republic dare not take the initiative to attack the transportation hub Eriadu system even if it has assembled three times the fleet.
During this period of 20BBY, the consequences of the war began to appear. The out-of-control war had overwhelmed both sides.
In order to pass on some of the internal conflicts through war before they collapsed, Galactic Republic, Confederacy of Independent Systems and Fourth Civilization all chose...
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