597. Awarding of honors
Energy Planet Sarapin located at Core Worlds was once occupied by Separatists!
Such news shocked the people of Galactic Republic. After several days of preparation and planning, Speaker Sheev-Palpatine officially held an emergency meeting on June 22 and proposed Bill No. 426117.
According to the content of this bill, the local defense forces of each planet will be strengthened. Galactic Republic will dispatch a military advisory group to urge these planets to expand the size of their armies, purchase warships and fighter jets, and ensure that every soldier in the army has received more than three months of rigorous training.
However, most of this additional expense has to be borne by the planets themselves. Galactic Republic will only provide about a quarter of the funds as subsidies. Not only that, the ground forces and space fleets established by these planets must be under the unified command of Republic Supreme Strategic Command.
This bill is equivalent to a nationwide military expansion and imposing war on every planet.
Those wealthy planets like Inner Rim and Core Worlds naturally don't matter, but many planets like Mid Rim and Outer Rim simply can't afford such high expenses.
As mentioned before, most of the planets of Mid Rim and Outer Rim had original technology and civilization that could not meet the star civilization standards. However, after joining Galactic Republic, they were forcibly raised and their productivity could not meet the demand at all. Therefore, most planets can only serve as places for dumping goods and exporting labor and raw materials. This approach makes these planets that are already burdened with heavy war taxes even worse.
Kuat Drive Yards, Corellia Engineering Company and Council Representative couldn't hold back their laughter on the spot, they were so happy. Once this bill is passed, it will be equivalent to another excuse for them to plunder the wealth of other planets. They can also renovate the backward equipment that has been accumulated for hundreds of years and sell it at a high price. As for whether these equipment can truly resist the invasion of Separatists, it is none of my business!
However, this bill was desperately opposed by a group of members led by Alderaan Senator Bail-Organa. For a time, Republic Senate was once again in turmoil and the atmosphere was very tense.
On the other side, in the administrative center of Confederacy of Independent Systems, among Raxus Secundus, Council Representative Rosana-Goodes of Dawn Star Planet made impassioned speeches in the council of Confederacy of Independent Systems. After Francis-Underwood took office as Prime Minister of Fourth Civilization, the members of Dawn Star Planet in Confederacy of Independent Systems were appointed by Rosana-Goodes serves as the business negotiation expert who was once Elite Class. As one of the first batch of talents awakened by Fourth Civilization, she finally reached the pinnacle of her life.
She conveyed the shocking news to everyone - Confederacy of Independent Systems's troops, led by Sefrans-General Tann, invaded the galaxy Republic Core Worlds, occupied Energy Planet Sarapin, and caused power outages on dozens of Core Worlds planets!
Not only that, she also took out Galactic Republic's secret weapon - Extractor's data and handed it to Count Dooku himself as a trophy on the spot.
This is exactly why this act was evaluated as an excellent move by the wily Helmut-Baron Zemo. Once the data on this secret weapon is handed over to the public, the possibility of Count Dooku borrowing the resources of Confederacy of Independent Systems to research this thing and then handing it over to Das-Sidious will be eliminated!
You know, because Das-Sidious's public identity - Speaker Palpatine is in the public eye after all, and there are countless pairs of eyes staring at his position, so he must do his best in every aspect to the extent that he can become a role model for everyone.
At least that's the case for now.
Therefore, he cannot do a lot of work in private, so a lot of dirty work is actually handed over to Confederacy of Independent Systems under the leadership of Count Dooku. The most famous project is the DS-1 project, which is the famous Death Star!
Death Star is a magnificent project completed by Geonosians. It must be said that this insectoid race may be born with a talent for this kind of Megastructure. Whether it is Killiks that flourished hundreds of thousands of years ago or the current Geonosians, they are very good at completing this kind of super project.
This huge project was developed by Darth-Sidious under the command of Count Dooku. Count Dooku deceived the members of Confederacy of Independent Systems and told them that it was a super weapon used to deal with Galactic Republic. So the corporate giants and various Confederacy of Independent Systems franchise planets who were anxious to lose on the battlefield invested money and efforts. On top of the heavy war tax, the cost of a super project was added, and then it was completed.
In the end, these secret projects became the possessions of Darth-Sidious, and those who contributed money and effort, including Count Dooku himself, all became victims.
Interestingly, the powerful super laser cannon of Death Star is based on the energy focusing system of Kyber Crystal, which started from Extractor Project.
Now, Rosana-Goodes directly put Extractor Project up to let everyone know that there is such a thing, but the details will not be made public, and then directly handed it over to Count Dooku. In this way, Count Dooku will face many restrictions if he wants to quietly hand over this project to Das-Sidious.
On the other hand, the tremendous power Extractor showed in Sarapin has already fallen in the eyes of Galactic Republic. Handing Extractor to Count Dooku at this time is equivalent to handing this hot potato to him.
Finally, Fourth Civilization's productivity is tight, so just give this expensive project to Count Dooku and let him organize funds and manpower to study it. Anyway, at this stage, the power of Confederacy of Independent Systems has only advantages and no disadvantages to Fourth Civilization.
This is equivalent to delaying the development and manufacturing of Death Star. You must know that if Death Star is really completed later, Fourth Civilization will fight to the death now, no matter how much territory he captures, it will be useless. Death Star will directly shoot Dawn Star Planet, and everything will become a cloud.
Count Dooku was at Raxus Secundus at the moment. He took the data memory of Extractor with a smile on his face, without any clues.
Afterwards, he announced that he would hold a public medal ceremony for the generals who had won this stage of the offensive, and said that he would personally meet Sefrans-Tann, the general who fought all the way to Republic Core Worlds, and personally wear a medal for her.
But Rosana-Goodes said that General Tann was seriously injured due to a shameless sneak attack by Jedi Knight. He was recovering from his injuries at Dawn Star Planet and could not participate in the awarding in time. Therefore, General Tann's adjutant, Lin Nanyi, could only participate.