2139. The beginning and end of Trade Federation (6)
It is simply difficult to calculate how many hyperspace lanes there are in the Milky Way.
But one thing can be confirmed, Trade Federation has far more hyperspace channels than Galactic Empire. Even the star map in the hands of former Jedi Order was not that complete.
If all known shipping lanes in the Milky Way are calculated as 100%, Trade Federation has at least 85% of the hyperspace lanes mastered. The Galactic Empire inherits the database of the Galactic Republic and can only master 50% of the channels at most.
Jedi Order has mastered about 70% of the star maps in his hands. As for Confederacy of Independent Systems, Count Dooku controls almost 75% of the channels. Because he not only got data from Trade Federation, but also got a lot of navigation data from Jedi Order, and also deleted some of the routes controlled by Jedi Order. Of course, Galactic Empire cannot obtain the data of these two.
In fact, this is also an important reason why the current Galactic Empire's control over Outer Rim Territories is difficult to compare with the timeline of the original plot. You must know that Galactic Empire in the original plot, after completely destroying Confederacy of Independent Systems and Jedi Order, mastered at least 75% or more of the waterway.
Although Duchy of Dawn can currently be regarded as the master of Trade Federation, the number of channels that Trade Federation hands over to Tang Xiao is not very large. The channel mastered by Duchy of Dawn is about 65%.
In the original plot, after Trade Federation was annexed by the Galactic Empire, many Neimoidian ran away to Unknown Regions. This alone shows how rich the channels Trade Federation has mastered.
Even if Galactic Republic and Jedi Order wanted to get involved in Unknown Regions, the unfolded Outer Rim Exploration Program could only end in a disastrous defeat, while the remnants of Trade Federation were able to run directly into Unknown Regions when they fled.
And as for the Galactic Empire, of the 35% difference between the number of channels they control and Trade Federation, about 25% know an approximate location, which is not completely unknown. However, in order to be truly navigable, it is necessary to send detectors to detect and verify, and then recalculate the navigation data, which takes a lot of time.
As for the other 10% or so of the waterways, Galactic Empire doesn't even know about them!
Therefore, by comparing Group One, we can understand how big a blow Galactic Empire will be to the Galactic Empire after Trade Federation directly breaks up and cuts off all navigation services! Moreover, Trade Federation did not do this behavior even during the Clone Wars period.
During Clone Wars, Trade Federation provides navigation services to both warring parties at the same time. Almost all navigation robots used by both warring parties are connected to the Trade Federation navigation network.
But now, all this is interrupted!
After the navigation service is cut off, the most direct consequence is that among the Outer Rim Territories that Galactic Empire now nominally rules, at least one-fifth of the galaxies are no longer reachable! This is equivalent to saying that these galaxies have escaped the control of the Empire!
Not only that, the reconstruction plan of the 14th Army, which had been put on the agenda before, was once again interrupted by this incident when it was about to bring order to the chaos.
Ryloth, the capital of the 14th Army, once again broke away from the control of the Galactic Empire. A large-scale uprising broke out in Tusken, and the Empire couldn't even beat the suppressing fleet!
The original governor of the 14th Army, Ulooda, was impeached and investigated after a corruption scandal was exposed. However, under the planning of Padmé-Amidala, the leader behind the Rebel Alliance, the uprising of Tusken unexpectedly took the banner of supporting Ulooda, making the uprising more complicated.
Then Imperial Navy Lieutenant General Jane-Dodonna, who had secretly joined Rebel Alliance, took over the important task and was temporarily responsible for the reconstruction work of the 14th Army and cooperated with the arrival of the new governor. In order to delay the selection and appointment of the new governor, Padmé-Amidala sent member Faxi to compete for this position, using various means to seize the position of governor 14th Army. Although it is destined to be impossible to succeed, there is no problem in muddying the water.
After several months of struggle, Faxi has almost lost the competition, Ulooda has also been convicted, and the new Governor 14th Army has been confirmed, and he is just about to take office to succeed Lieutenant General Jane-Dodonna and become the official Governor-General.
As a result, the current all-out war between the Galactic Empire and Trade Federation has once again made it impossible for the governor of the 14th Army to take office. So according to the previous arrangement, Lieutenant General Jane-Dodonna continued to serve as Acting Governor.
In other words, the entire half-rebuilt 14th Army is now completely under the control of the Rebel Alliance!
14th Army's location is very remote. With traffic temporarily cut off, Lieutenant General Jane Dodonna only needs to regularly report to the Empire that he has suppressed Tusken's uprising and everything is fine.
But will Galactic Empire care about this?
They won't care! Because Palpatine is now in a state of madness!
The order he gave to Darth-Vader was - those Outer Rim Territories were out of control, it didn't matter, they just needed to 'reconquer' them once.
Reconquer! It is equivalent to reoccupying these planets by force, but what will happen during the occupation process? Massacre, plunder, destruction...
However, these planets were once part of the Galactic Empire! It's one of their own! What is happening now is just a temporary disruption in traffic!
But Palpatine doesn't care about this at all. All he wants is wealth, more wealth! As long as all this wealth is concentrated in Core Worlds, he doesn't care at all how many people at Outer Rim will die in the war!
It is even said that the more people die, the wails of the dead will make his Dark Side Force stronger and crazier!
Of course, before 'reconquering' those Outer Rim Territories, the first thing that needs to be solved is still Trade Federation!
Under the leadership of Das-Vader, the main fleet of the Galactic Empire Third Army has been deployed near the core planet of Core Worlds Trade Federation.
Trade Federation's main planets in Core Worlds include Neimoidian's home planet Neimoidia; the three major Wealth World——Kato-Neimoidia, Deko-Neimoidia, Koru-Neimoidia; industrial world Balmorra. In addition, there are the less important Rosha (Rosha) and Vulpter (Vulpter) near the core of the Milky Way.
Among them, the most important planets are the largest Wealth World Kato-Neimoidia, the industrial world Balmorra, and the home planet Neimoidia. Depending on their importance, huge fleets began to blockade these planets respectively.
According to Das-Vader's deployment, he gathered heavy troops on Rosha and Vulpter, preparing to start with the easier and then the more difficult, and gradually cut off Trade Federation's wings.