1931. The End of Confederacy of Independent Systems (4)
Count Dooku looked down at his abdomen in disbelief, then looked up at General Grievous. He used his last strength to slash out with his sword, cutting off General Grievous's arm.
General Grievous did not pursue the victory, he just took a step back and looked at his dying opponent coldly.
Poof, Count Dooku was completely weak, and fell to the ground on one knee. His trembling hand covered the wound on his abdomen, while the other hand still held his crank Lightsaber tightly. He maintained this posture until the end of his life.
General Grievous then stepped forward and squatted in front of Count Dooku's corpse. He slowly took off the metal mask with a piece missing from his face, placed it in front of the corpse, and sang the ancient ballad of Caladanian.
A black Bail Grubb-22 fighter jet landed in the sky, the cockpit opened, and a robot pilot jumped out and stepped aside.
General Grievous then stood up, took another deep look at Count Dooku's body, turned around and jumped on his own Soulless One fighter, started the engine and flew away.
At this time, a burst of strong electric sparks erupted from the heads of the 100,000 combat robots who participated in the mutiny at the same time, followed by billowing smoke. These robots all fell to the ground like puppets with their strings cut off and stopped moving.
General Grievous directly piloted the fighter jet, flew out of the outer orbit of the planet where General Trench was deployed, went to the space port to join the Devastation-class battleship, and then took this fleet composed of one Devastation-class battleship and 10 pieced together Generous-class frigate, heading in the direction of Hutt Space.
At this time, according to the previous instructions of Count Dooku, the ship Slaughter-class battleship that went to Felucia and used Dragon's breath to eliminate all life on the planet has been forgotten.
The robot operator on Slaughter-class battleship still faithfully executed the final combat order of Count Dooku and flew towards Felucia. Even though Devastation-class battleship, which was supposed to meet halfway, did not arrive, the battleship still moved forward alone.
After entering Felucia, Slaughter-class battleship broke into the synchronous orbit of Felucia to launch Dragon's breath according to the preset combat instructions, and ignored Imperial-class Star Destroyer who came to defend it, and was eventually sunk.
Fortunately for the residents on Felucia, because Slaughter was quickly surrounded and attacked by 10 Imperial-class Star Destroyers, Dragon's breath only fired one shot, and only the capital area of the planet was infected by the virus. Because the Capital District had faced fighting before, most civilians were evacuated, so only about 600,000 people died in this disaster.
After Galaxy Imperial army occupied Felucia, it immediately began to clean up the remaining viruses spread by Dragon's breath, eliminating ecological hazards. This was one of the few good things Galactic Empire had done.
At the same time, dozens of figures were projected on the holographic projections in the Dawn Star Planet and Duchy Palace conference rooms.
Fourth Group Supreme Director Glosse-Shelbia, Trade Federation Governor Newt Gunray, InterGalactic Banking Clan (M) Co-Chairman San-hope Er, Corporate Alliance Chairman Parcell Argent, Protoss Shelak Tribe patriarch Zerakas, Vasari, the Givin, Salarian, Semirians, Vaxian and other core race leaders, as well as General Ling, Volgograd-Kanidi, Chief of Staff Qi Jian, Commander of the Navy Matt-Hona and so on.
The people attending the meeting here are all important officials from the powerful side of Duchy of Dawn. They can influence the lives and deaths of hundreds of millions of people with just a few moves. And now, these people are gathered together, all surrendering at the feet of the person sitting in the main seat of the conference room——
Grand Duke of Dawn, Tang Xiao!
Duchy of Dawn It has been a long time since there has been a summit of this level, and now this meeting is held just because a major event that can shake the entire galaxy has just happened!
Confederacy of Independent Systems, disbanded!
This plan was started by Count Dooku after Battle of Naboo happened in 32 BBY. Under his constant lobbying, a large number of Outer Rim and Mid Rim galaxies who were dissatisfied with Galactic Republic joined it. At that time, they were called Separatist Movement.
After ten years of expansion and planning, Separatist Movement was finally able to grow and develop, with tens of thousands of galaxies joining it, and secretly signing an agreement with Count Dooku.
By 22BBY, Count Dooku and core franchise members officially signed on Geonosis and confirmed the establishment of a political regime independent of Galactic Republic - Confederacy of Independent Systems!
Galactic Republic responded immediately, declaring war on Confederacy of Independent Systems and launching a surprise attack on Geonosis, which kicked off the vast civil war known as Clone Wars.
The two sides started fighting across the entire galaxy. Confederacy of Independent Systems's troops were once directed at Inner Rim of the galaxy. Even the portal from Inner Rim of the galaxy to Core Worlds, Delon system, was attacked.
But in the end, Galactic Republic relied on its extremely large industrial capacity, nearly unlimited population, and economic volume dozens of times greater than Confederacy of Independent Systems to push back the front line. Confederacy of Independent Systems began to turn defensive during the war.
Dawn Star Planet also expanded a large number of areas during the war, and announced the establishment of Duchy of Dawn in 20BBY, and Tang Xiao became Grand Duke of Dawn. At the same time, Count Dooku, the leader of Confederacy of Independent Systems, also officially took office as the head of state of Confederacy of Independent Systems. This also marked the change of Confederacy of Independent Systems's definition of this war from a galactic civil war to a life and death contest between countries.
However, during this process, Galactic Republic, which was suffering from internal and external troubles, could not suppress the internal conflicts first. Under the plan of Chancellor of the Republic Palpatine, it was reorganized into the Galactic Empire!
In this war, Galactic Republic became the one who couldn't bear it first.
Immediately afterwards, Grand Duke of Dawn Tang Xiao and Galactic Empire made separate peace talks and withdrew from the war. Confederacy of Independent Systems, led by Count Dooku, was forced to shrink the front and make the final resistance in Eastern Outer Rim.
The war lasted for another four years. With the fall of Confederacy of Independent Systems's final line of defense, Saleucami Planet, Confederacy of Independent Systems was completely unsustainable in the war, and failure was an obvious outcome.
But no one thought that even though Confederacy of Independent Systems was already in a desperate state, the one who gave Confederacy of Independent Systems the final blow was not Galactic Empire, but the former Supreme Military Commander of Confederacy of Independent Systems—General Grievous!
General Grievous suddenly launched a mutiny, raided the Confederacy of Independent Systems capital Raxus Prime, and killed the Confederacy of Independent Systems head of state, Count Dooku!!