393. Colonial expansion
The cliques and quarrels in the parliament often actually stem from the interests of the planets they represent.
The new Rim Faction Senator, like the previous Rim Faction, is dominated by Outer Rim Territories, especially non-Human race planets. They have gathered together and want to have more say in this galaxy.
Among Galactic Republic, there is indeed Human Supremacy. Because at the beginning of the civilization of the Milky Way, humans were indeed one of the first races to rise, and they were also the largest race throughout the entire Milky Way. Inner Rim and Core Worlds and perhaps Draon Planet were all established by human civilization in the past.
Therefore, in many Outer Rim planets, the race is not human, which is one of the reasons why they are discriminated against.
But despite this, Francis gave Rim Faction Senator a lot of help politically, especially during the speaker election. He almost stood up alone to turn the tide and stop Sheev-Palpatine used some corruption and black materials to directly knock Senator Tim into a situation of no return. It is not an exaggeration to say that it even saved Tim's political career.
Therefore, those Rim Faction Senator who are still firm in their stance will naturally accept this sentiment. In addition, Separatist Movement of Count Dooku has begun to move, and many Outer Rim planets have begun to shake, so they have begun to move towards Francis.
The current New Rim Faction Group is apparently led by Senator Tim, but in fact many political strategies and plans were proposed by Francis-Underwood. He is the real leader of the New Rim Faction Group.
But in fact, only a true political veteran can see that whether it is Palpatine or Francis, they actually maintain an unspeakable tacit understanding. Although they attack and quarrel with each other, they will never really take the final step of a complete confrontation.
In fact, they are just using this quarrel and mutual attack to establish their own political group. What they want is not to produce a result, but to exert their own political influence.
Expressing one's political stance and showing one's personal charm during quarrels is also a process of screening one's own comrades.
At the same time, Claire-Underwood also started active activities. After 4 years of development, Outer Rim Territories Mutual Aid Fund, which she founded, has become a sizable foundation, and has helped Outer Rim Territories no less than 200 planets, and has more or less cooperation experience with more than 1,000 planets.
Because since Chancellor Palpatine came to power, the political winds in the galaxy have begun to become a little bad, especially for the planets of Outer Rim, so many of those Outer Rim planets have encountered difficulties. For example, the price of imported goods from Core Worlds has become higher, and some cooperations have been directly cancelled.
Under such circumstances, more and more planets came to her for help.
Claire organized a series of rescue strategies. In addition to various material rescues, she finally launched two long-planned rescue plans.
The first item is refugee accommodation. Take in the refugees from various impoverished planets due to famine and war, and transport them to a newly developed mining planet under the name of a reclamation group.
The second item is to provide job opportunities. A large number of job opportunities will be opened in Dawn Star Planet and some newly opened interstellar mines, and for those with certain abilities, family members will be accommodated. These people are treated better than refugees.
These two rescue strategies are based on the reputation Claire's mutual aid fund has accumulated over the past few years, otherwise it can easily be regarded as a slave trade.
In order to dispel the doubts of these people, Claire has also made the working conditions of these mines and development areas transparent, and all working conditions and benefits are public.
Anyway, the main purpose of these two strategies is to increase the population. After a period of working life, a considerable number of those refugees and workers will naturally become members of Fourth Civilization.
The newly developed mining planet Fourth Civilization is the same as Endor system. It is also located in Modell Sector, but it is closer to the core of this star area. It is a galaxy called Kuna's Tooth (Kuna's Tooth). This galaxy belongs to Kuna Cluster (The Kuna's Tooth). constellation), this cluster contains several galaxies: Kuna's Eyes, Kuna's Teeth, Kuna's Fist, Kuna's Horn, Kuna's Tail, Kuna's Heart, Kuna's Scales and Kuna's Esophagus. It is a new star cluster.
Tang Xiao decided to open a mine here mainly because it was part of the legacy of Damask Holdings Group that it had taken over before. This mine was a mine that Hego developed using the financial and material resources of the holding group after acquiring Ragnarok-class Titan warship from Tang Xiao.
Hego-Damask II was originally considered to be part of Modell Sector, and the mines here could also be protected by Dawn Star Planet.
There is a planet in Kuna's Tooth System, also named Kuna's Tooth, which is the best planet in the Mid Rim realm in this galaxy. It has a thin but harmless atmosphere, and the geological movement is relatively stable. The overall environment is similar to Mars, but it has a large number of frozen underground water bodies and rich mineral resources.
If this planet is to be inhabited, a fully enclosed residential area must be built. In fact, there are already small residential areas built by some criminals and bounty Hunter on this planet. In addition, Tang Xiao also plans to carry out atmospheric modification and environmental modification projects here to further improve living conditions.
Kuna Cluster is the direction of colonial expansion chosen by Tang Xiao. After all, Endor system is too small. There are only two habitable planets, Dawn Star Planet and Cave-Beer, and they are both asteroids.
In the expansion operation here, Tang Xiao also roped in Semirians to work together. He found that he liked this race more and more. Semirians has a large population, and they are very productive if they really let go. They are strong, obedient, and have developed industries. Their councilor Thunbach-Tula has no other problems. As long as they give enough money, they can do anything hahaha.
Based on the investigation of Kuna Cluster, Tang Xiao determined that this cluster has great potential for development. Four of the galaxies, Teeth, Tail, Angle, and Fist, have habitable planets. Kuna's Eye is a newly formed galaxy with a large number of rare minerals.
As long as Kuna Cluster is brought under control, Fourth Civilization will have a stable basic market, instead of guarding the small place Endor system all day long, with no strategic depth, and being hit by others accurately.
In order to support the colonization work in Kuna's Tooth Planet, Tang Xiao also specially purchased 5 Luukri-Hok-class freighter from Trade Federation. They were not converted into battleships, but pure cargo ships.
As 31BBY entered the second half of the year, the first 500,000-person reclamation group recruited from Outer Rim Territories landed at Kuna's Tooth on Luukri-Hok-class freighter.