477. Galactic Republic's road to war (Part 2)
Because Separatist Movement has very clearly begun to move towards war, Galactic Republic must respond. There is already a lot of information indicating that Separatists ers are building a large number of new warships. These warships have blatantly violated the warship restriction treaty of the Rusan Reforms period. Whether it is the hyperspace engine level, the maximum power of the weapon, or the shield capacitance, they all greatly exceed the limits of the contract.
In contrast, Judicial Fleet's main battleships, the large and bulky Prosecutor-class, Governor-class, and Commander-class, seem to be more than 8,000 meters, more than 4,000 meters, and more than 2,500 meters in length, but they will be easily bombarded to pieces by those new warships of around 1,000 meters in length.
Star battleships are such a continuous spiral development process from small to large, then from large to small, and then from small to large, and from large to small.
This situation has intensified everyone's fear of the threat of Separatists war. This fear is like if you are the boss of a heavy industry group, but you are blocked by a group of gangsters with sticks when you go out in an alley.
Although you can transform the heavy industry group into a military industrial enterprise with an order when you get home, and then drive an army tank over, but at this moment, you are inevitably beaten, and you may even be beaten to death!
How to deal with it?
It's better to drive out the tank before going out, so that these gangsters can no longer threaten you.
May 16th, 24BBY, is a day destined to be recorded in the history of Galactic Republic!
Because on this day, the "Military Creation Act" proposed by Speaker Sheev-Palpatine was not passed. He failed...
This vote did not get the majority of votes among Galactic Senate as Palpatine had judged and hoped. Although those congressmen are indeed full of fear of war, Palpatine misjudged one thing - he thought that the fear of war was enough for him to win a majority of votes, but he underestimated the degree of corruption of Galactic Republic's fat-minded congressmen.
Because according to "Military Creation Act", Palpatine will receive emergency response powers during the war, as well as legislative powers. The legislative power is the most powerful weapon and the greatest power in the hands of these congressmen.
In other words, if they want to support this bill, these congressmen must hand over their power. This is something these congressmen are unwilling to accept, even if the war is to start at their doorstep tomorrow.
Anyway, it will take at least several decades for the war to reach Coruscant. During this time, it is better to enjoy the benefits of this huge power.
At the end of every dynasty in history, there would be many such sycophants and traitors, but in Galactic Republic, such guys filled the entire Galactic Senate Building.
Moreover, the strong opposition from Dawn Star Planet members Francis-Underwood and the new Rim Faction Senator led by him is also a very big factor.
In fact, the number of new Rim Faction Senator is now much smaller. Many planets have withdrawn from Galactic Republic Senate, but some members are still insisting. It's not because he is greedy for this power, but because he wants to continue to cause trouble for Galactic Republic.
For Francis-Underwood, he wanted to give Tang Xiao more time to prepare for the battle, even though he knew that his time with Republic Senate was numbered.
However, Sheev-Palpatine has never been a person who only does one thing for one goal. After the voting on this motion ended, Rynoth Councilor Orn Free-Ta proposed another motion.
Councilor On-Fry-Ta said that in this extraordinary time, only Chancellor Palpatine is the right person to lead Galactic Republic forward.
However, now Chancellor Palpatine's second term is about to expire. According to the constitution, he can no longer be re-elected. This means that when Separatist Movement's war threat is imminent, Galactic Republic will replace a supreme leader, and the replacement of the supreme leader often means policy discontinuity or even fault.
No matter which angle you consider it, such a result is very bad. If it is serious, it will even give Separatists more opportunities, causing Galactic Republic to lose future wars.
Orn-Free-Tower proposed to grant Sheev-Palpatine an unlimited additional term until he completely eliminated Separatist crisis.
Maybe it's because Palpatine already has great political power, maybe it's because of his good public image, maybe it's because the "Military Creation Act" he proposed before was not passed, which gave those opposing members a sense of compensation or balance...
The motion was passed by a landslide.
The passage of this bill has also allowed Palpatine to completely break free from the shackles of his term, and can carry out his actions within the scope of Galactic Republic unscrupulously and expand his power.
At the same time, this also means that the speaker election that took place 4 years ago in 28BBY became the last one in the history of Galactic Republic for more than 25,000 years.
There will be no next time, Sheev-Palpatine is also the last speaker of Galactic Republic.
At this time, he was thinking about another thing... He had realized his mistake, and he understood that in order for those corrupt and greedy congressmen to hand over their power, he needed more preparation - a preparation that was enough to make those congressmen recognize the reality.
He is patient enough, he can wait.
And this wait is 2 years...
The past two years have passed by in a flash, and Count Dooku has always maintained a tacit understanding with Palpatine. He knows that his master is not ready yet, so he is not in a hurry to take the final step so quickly.
He kept making preparations, and Outer Rim Territories gradually became monolithic under his management, and an administrative system independent of Galactic Republic began to form among these planets. Based on this system, the planets of Outer Rim Territories began to uniformly allocate resources to each other to facilitate the use of wars that may break out in the future.
It is worth mentioning that the wife of Francis-Underwood, Claire-Underwood, also has a high reputation in Outer Rim because she created Outer Rim Territories Mutual Aid Fund. Therefore, she finally accepted the invitation and appointment of Count Dooku, reorganized Outer Rim Territories Mutual Aid Fund into Outer Rim Territories Administrative Headquarters, and coordinated the affairs between all planets that joined Separatist Movement.
This move is also a show of goodwill to Tang Xiao and Dawn Star Planet, because since the outbreak of Battle of Naboo in 32BBY, until now in 22BBY, in these 10 years, the development of Dawn Star Planet has reached a level that even characters like Count Dooku must pay great attention to!
And Tang Xiao's preparation plan has also reached its final steps.
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