2295. The last calm before the storm
11BBY, May 17th.
It has been 63 days since Galactic Empire besieged Balmorra. Trade Federation finally failed to do what Tang Xiao requested. It stubbornly resisted for the last two months (70 days) and announced its complete surrender with 7 days left.
40 days before this, Neimoidian's home planet, Neimoidia, had also completely turned into a sea of fire. Nearly 1 billion Neimoidian died in the siege of the Galactic Empire and Orbital Bombardment. This planet that gave birth to one of the richest races in the galaxy is now a completely uninhabited dead land.
After Trade Federation surrendered, the Galactic Empire army marched into Balmorra and completely took over one of Core Worlds's largest industrial centers.
However, what now falls into the hands of the Galactic Empire is no longer the industrial center that supports Trade Federation's extremely huge business volume, but a devastated ruins.
In Balmorra's offensive and defensive battle, Trade Federation invested almost all of its combat robots. The total number of combat robots of various types deployed on the planet's surface reaches 11 billion!
The Empire Fleet Commander Das-Vader After the initial limited Orbital Bombardment, he immediately launched a landing operation, trying to protect the factories on the planet as much as possible. But Galactic Empire's landing force was attacked by as many battle robots as the sea!
Almost every Imperial army position was attacked by hundreds of millions of combat robots. The formations of robots had no end in sight, covering mountains and plains, everywhere!
Even because the supply of weapons cannot be guaranteed, most B-1 combat robots are empty-handed. But with the output power of a combat robot, even if it hits it with an iron fist, it is still a very fatal threat!
In the landing battle in the first two days, Galactic Empire lost more than 300,000 landing troops. Rivers of blood flowed into several landing positions, and corpses piled up in mountains.
After that, Das-Vader had to order Balmorra to be subjected to indiscriminate saturation Orbital Bombardment!
This time Orbital Bombardment lasted for a whole month! Most of the factories and warehouses were completely destroyed by the bombing, and the planet became a purgatory, with molten steel everywhere it passed, forming blazing rivers.
This flow is not just molten steel, it is clearly countless Imperial credits! But Galactic Empire will completely defeat Balmorra even if he uses this method of self-destruction. The mistake of Rendili Planet cannot occur a second time. Even if you cannot get it yourself, you must not let Duchy of Dawn get it!!
Even the final occupation was just a formality. Because when Imperial army stepped onto the surface of this red-hot planet, there were almost no living creatures on this planet.
The furious Palpatine ordered the extermination of all Neimoidian in the galaxy on the spot, but the councilors of Imperial Senate strongly discouraged it, because if they really did this, Galactic Empire would end up in an even more disgraceful ending in this originally disgraceful war.
This will further reduce the credibility of the Empire and lead to more frequent and worse uprisings and riots.
Finally, Palpatine changed Extermination Order to Expulsion Order, confiscated all property of all within the Empire's Neimoidian, distributed some dry food to each of them, and asked them to leave the country within a time limit.
This war, recorded by the Galactic Empire as 'Trade War', lasted for nine months. Galactic Empire paid a heavy price and finally completely uprooted Trade Federation.
Trade Federation, the Mega-corporations that rose like Blitz and fell like a meteor, grew from becoming the largest corporate entity in the galaxy to being completely destroyed and became a state-owned holding company of Duchy of Dawn, which existed for a total of 339 years.
Once upon a time, they were the symbols of Outer Rim Territories. The planet of Outer Rim of the galaxy only recognized Trade Federation but not Galactic Republic. But after a series of conspiracy calculations and head-on confrontations, they finally came to an end.
After Balmorra was captured, Trade Federation was completely disbanded and reorganized, and was renamed Neimoidia Logistics Company. Newt Gunlay took the blame and resigned. He became the sinner of Neimoidian, but later, under the arrangement of Tang Xiao, he secretly enjoyed a prosperous and peaceful life on a remote planet.
He died 20 years later - the 17th year when Fourth Empire was officially established.
Tang Xiao did not break his promise. He gave two habitable planets that were devoured by Meng Gal-Meng Gal to Neimoidian, so that those Neimoidian who were expelled from the within the Empire one after another had a home to rely on.
The two planets were named 'New Neimoidia Planet' and 'New Balmorra Planet' by Neimoidia to commemorate the countless compatriots who died in this war. In the days that followed, they started out in the transportation industry again and became one of the Fourth Empire's top logistics groups.
And Galactic Empire was finally able to get out of the quagmire of Trade War, like a tired giant, cleaning his wounds bit by bit.
The countless industries left by Trade Federation have been annexed. As the largest enterprise in the galaxy, Trade Federation's industries are naturally not just those Wealth World and industrial planets, but their industries are spread throughout the galaxy.
At the same time, Galactic Empire also temporarily froze the wealth plundered from Trade Federation Wealth World on the grounds that the assets were unknown, and did not return it to the noble families of Core Worlds.
This wave of naked plundering has somewhat recovered a lot of war costs for the Galactic Empire, allowing this heavy war machine to continue to operate.
At the same time, something that originally seemed inconspicuous finally ignited the powder keg of the Milky Way that was already on the verge of exploding!
In April 11BBY, while Trade War was still going on, Galactic Empire issued a wanted order against Zann Consortium for the third time, banning all their business qualifications and requiring them to leave Saleucami Planet within a time limit.
Galactic Empire quickly ordered Tagge Company, who was in the spotlight recently, to set up a garbage disposal company specifically to deal with the countless battleship ruins of Saleucami Planet.
At the same time, at the initiative of Imperial Senate, Galactic Empire began to carry out a series of anti-corruption and anti-gang operations in Outer Rim Territories - anyway, as long as Inner Rim and Core Worlds are not involved, such anti-corruption operations still receive huge support.
According to this operation, many gang organizations and corrupt officials entrenched in Outer Rim have been severely cracked down.
Galactic Empire obviously intends to use this series of actions to restore its war strength as soon as possible and get itself back on the right track of arms expansion and war preparations.
But things backfired... Obviously for some people, this Galactic Empire that quieted down and started cleaning up its interior was definitely not what they wanted.
On May 33, 11BBY, a starry sky photo was placed in front of Emperor Palpatine's desk.
This photo is of a planet in Unknown Regions, called Levik planet. It was once occupied by Xilu people, and based on this, Ssi-ruuvi Imperium was established.
But this is not important. The most important thing is that in the synchronous orbit of a satellite near Levik planet, there is an extremely huge ring-shaped structure floating impressively!
In the center of the ring structure, there is a ripple of energy that looks like a ripple, and countless spaceships are entering and exiting through it.
Regarding this thing, the Empire astronomers, Chief Engineer, and scholars can only come to one conclusion——
Stargate!