2060. Desperate and powerful the Empire (middle)
Among the Galactic Empire, the dignitaries of Core Worlds are like this. It is self-evident what will happen to other planets.
Inner Rim Territories There are also some second-rate, but still very powerful and profound wealthy nobles, but these nobles have become the best bait for those top wealthy families. Mergers, acquisitions, destruction, engulfment, all kinds of methods are emerging in endlessly.
While Core Worlds's top wealthy families spend a lot of wealth to satisfy Palpatine's greed, they will naturally choose to pass on their own conflicts, so Inner Rim becomes the best choice.
Under such crazy actions, the Inner Rim nobles had to choose to surrender. They relied on the top wealthy families of Core Worlds, using their own resources and heritage to find ways to play both sides of several different wealthy families and squeeze out a little living space for themselves.
They would complain loudly in parliament, seeking a solution to their plight, but no one would listen to them. Every pair of greedy eyes in the parliament has regarded them as the most delicious prey.
What is even more desperate is that the nobles of Inner Rim are not even qualified to enter the relationship of Emperor Palpatine! They can only find those Sector Governor and faction leaders to help each other, and then choose a more decent posture and be eaten bit by bit by the latter.
The only difference is how long they can struggle before being eaten, and whether they can leave themselves any leftovers. Next, what they need to think about is how to please their new master and make their life easier.
Likewise, what about Mid Rim Territories? Those can no longer be said to be wealthy families, just some relatively developed planets. Those planets in Mid Rim Territories have no status at all. Their only value is their little production capacity and consumption capacity. So during this inhumane plunder and annexation, Mid Rim Territories's planet became a commodity dumping ground and parts processing factory.
The wealthy nobles of Core Worlds and Inner Rim and their giant companies are trying every means to start stimulating consumption on these planets. They use various methods to corrupt the ruling classes of these planets, let them promote the planet's population explosion, guide people's distorted consumption concept, and make these planets gradually lose their ability to take care of themselves, and then they are included in the insignificant link of Imperial economic sphere.
Each of these 'transformed' Mid Rim planets has a population of tens to tens of billions, but they have no ability to support these populations. At the same time, the distorted concept of consumption has caused people on the planet to compete with each other, and vanity has become common. Giant companies have imported all kinds of addictive cheap products, destroying the original economic systems of these planets, leaving these planets to rely on large amounts of imports to maintain their survival.
Where do the funds for imports come from? They will be arranged by giant companies to produce some single products with no technical content. For example, it specializes in the production of the XX-9 heavy-duty Turbolaser cannon used by Imperial-class Star Destroyer... Oh, did you think it was the laser cannon itself? No, it's the shell or barrel of the heavy Turbolaser gun...
These complex equipment were split into parts with no technical content, and then such factories were copied in large numbers on the planet Mid Rim to reduce costs. And what can a planet that can only produce turret shells do industrially? Nothing works! They can only use all their income from producing turret shells to purchase various commodities provided by giant companies, so that they can support the huge population base on their planet.
Such a planet and such people will not have any future or hope.
As for Outer Rim Territories?
Sorry, Galactic Empire does not recognize the people in these places as the Empire citizens. The Empire will only carry out inhumane plunder of these places. Only when the Empire makes claims on these planets, they are the Empire territory and the Empire citizens. And if it is a pirate invasion or a famine that requires support, haha... you are not qualified.
Galactic Empire has a special department to analyze how to maximize the use of Mid Rim Territories's planet and Outer Rim Territories's planet.
For example, Raffa planet, after analysis, believed that this planet did not have the foundation to develop mining or industry, but the land was fertile, so Imperial Agriculture Department came directly to force people to plant high-energy crops. In order to reduce costs, they are not even willing to pay for fertilizers. They only want to plant predatory crops, exhaust all the fertility of the planet, and then leave.
As for how many people will starve to death on the planet? They don't care. Anyway, if people starve to death and fall on the ground, isn't it also fertilizer? In a few hundred years, maybe this planet will be rejuvenated? Nature is great, right?
In short, the Empire never cares about what happens to these Outer Rim planets. Anyway, there are countless Outer Rim planets, and they plunder them one by one. I don't know how long they will plunder. There will always be endless leeks to cut.
This is the extreme policy adopted by the Galactic Empire under Palpatine's rule.
Why would he do this? There's only one reason - fast.
Because this is the fastest way to increase his own strength, not only his own strength, but also the Empire's strength.
Only by plundering like this can the Empire accumulate enough wealth and resources to expand his army and prepare for war in the shortest possible time.
Only with this kind of centralization can the regime, which was originally forcibly reorganized and established the Empire in the midst of turmoil, consolidate its power as quickly as possible.
Similarly, countless wailing creatures and countless cruel killings have become his Dark Side Force best food. While Imperial army committed various crimes, his power grew day by day. Not only him, but Darth-Vader, Blackhole, Kadan and other powerful Dark Side users are also becoming stronger and stronger in such a dark and terrifying world.
Especially Palpatine, whose mind was increasingly distorted by Dark Side Force. He doesn't care at all what happens to the Galactic Empire, he only cares about what he gets!
As long as he possesses invincible power, any enemy will be crushed by him alone! In this case, does he still need to care about the opinions of those ants?
One-Man Sith, isn't that what it is?
As long as I am strong alone, what happens to the galaxy has nothing to do with me.
And of course, at least at this stage, in order to maintain his reign of terror, Palpatine must also maintain a powerful and terrifying army.
The main purpose of establishing such an army is to exterminate those endless rebellions and suppress those disobedient planets, so that they can plunder more wealth and resources!