988. Confederacy of Independent Systems's drastic changes (Part 2)
Shu Mai shivered for no reason. She looked around. The atmosphere in the parliament was now heated. Many people were shouting and arguing loudly, but a few of them were sitting in high seats, motionless, watching the development of the situation coldly.
InterGalactic Banking Clan, Trade Federation, Corporate Alliance, Fourth Group, Dawn Star Planet, as the war progresses, they have become the real core of Confederacy of Independent Systems. Once upon a time, her Merchant Guilds was also the largest force, but now, the war has widened the gap in strength between them.
Merchant Guilds, there is no core competitiveness at all. Even their main battleship, Defiant-class light destroyer, was actually built under the authority of the Technological Alliance.
To put it more bluntly, they do not have any core competitiveness that can be used in a war.
If it were in the past, whether it was InterGalactic Banking Clan or Trade Federation, in fact, they did not have this core competitiveness. InterGalactic Banking Clan held Generous-class frigate. I have been using it for almost a lifetime. The Luukri-Hok-class battleship of Trade Federation was modified from a cargo ship. The Deceiver-class destroyer they invested in is actually also derived from the design of Rendili StarDrive.
However, I don't know since when, Trade Federation and InterGalactic Banking Clan suddenly had the ability to design and build their own large battleships, and the battleships they produced were only stronger than the battleship design of Galactic Republic!!
So when they suddenly proposed to upgrade the warships in the parliament, Shu-Mai discovered that no one could stop them!
Neither can Count Dooku!
Now Shu-Mai looked at these people, Geonosis Grand Duke Poggle-lower man who was struggling hard, Technological Alliance big foreman Watto-Tanbo, and Ainlee who was watching from the sidelines. -Senator Tim, Super Com Group Director Per-Nudo, Zyggeria Queen Mira Ji-Sintel suddenly felt a wave of fear in his heart.
She only felt that the current Confederacy Parliament suddenly became so strange and terrifying...
There is also Count Dooku who has the same feeling. Although he was prepared for the small group that appeared now, he still felt powerless when the small group suddenly started to exert force.
He found that his Lord Darth-Sidious was very right about one thing. Compared with people like Tang Xiao and Newt Gunray, his biggest weakness was that he did not have a base that truly belonged to him at all.
There may be countless galaxies impressed by his charisma, his passionate speeches, and his freedom and justice, but these galaxies have never truly belonged to him.
Looking at the other end of the parliament, Fourth Group's director Gross-Shelbia was talking to Onderon Council Representative Mina-Bontri After the new bill is passed, Onderon will get benefits. Let's talk about the benefits they will get after Behemoth-class battlecruiser is officially purchased by the Confederacy of Independent Systems military. As one of the largest producers of Behemoth-class battlecruiser, they will get it.
Mina-Bontri nodded repeatedly and exchanged opinions with Shelbia, but it was obvious that her attitude was completely different from before.
The feeling in Count Dooku's heart became even stronger, and at this time, he truly understood what Archangel of Death wanted to do.
He is right, he does not regard Confederacy of Independent Systems as a consumable, but really wants to build Confederacy of Independent Systems into a powerful political power that can compete with Galactic Republic!
So the question is... in such a confrontation, in the confrontation between the two major forces in the galaxy, in the struggle between the two Sith Lord of the previous generation, how will I, who is weak in every sense, deal with myself.
In terms of strength, he is just Earl of Serenno. In terms of strength, compared to Archangel of Death and Das-Sidious, he can't even be considered an official Sith!
After thinking a lot in his mind, Count Dooku calmed down and said with his unique, magnetic and powerful voice. "Then, the parliament will vote on this bill tomorrow!"
The voting result was no surprise. The bill to relax the conscription conditions for each planet, allowing Confederacy of Independent Systems's participating planets to send their own soldiers to join the war, and thereby reducing war taxes, was passed with a slight advantage.
The reason why it is a slight advantage is actually the result of political veterans Ainlee-Tim and Francis-Underwood.
Ainlee-Tim has nothing to do with Dawn Star Planet on the surface, and he also expressed his and Rim Faction's distrust of Tang Xiao's motion, so most people in Rim Faction abstained from voting.
Coupled with Francis-Underwood maneuvering in the middle, this bill, which should actually have been passed with a high vote, only narrowly defeated the opposition.
According to this proposal, Confederacy of Independent Systems will initially select 100 planets among all the participating planets, and then recruit 500 million troops on these planets. The number is relatively small, mainly because training facilities are difficult to assemble, but it is already a good start, and more barracks and training facilities are also being built.
According to the preliminary plan, the number of soldiers will continue to be raised to 2 billion in the next year, and there will also be at least 10 billion reserve soldiers.
At the same time, as another aspect of this bill, Confederacy of Independent Systems will shut down one-third of the robot factories and transform the production lines of these factories to produce various parts for warships.
Afterwards, another bill was also passed during heated discussions.
According to this motion, Confederacy of Independent Systems's current Hiigaran-class battlecruiser and Munificent-class communications frigate will withdraw from active service in the front-line fleet and stop construction. Defiant-class light destroyer will retain the production line under the strong resistance of opponents such as Technological Alliance and Merchant Guilds, but the order quantity will be reduced.
Also reducing the order quantity is Deceiver-class destroyer.
In the future, Deceiver-class destroyer will be mainly used as a fleet flagship, so most of the convertible cabins of Divine-class will be changed to command and communication functions.
As a substitute, Confederacy of Independent Systems has determined Behemoth-class battlecruiser as the main battleship of the navy, and will also place orders for Sova-class Carrier and Kohl-class Battlecruiser.
At the same time, the construction plan of Endless-class Super Carrier proposed by Trade Federation and InterGalactic Banking Clan also received support and investment from Confederacy of Independent Systems. Endless-class Super Carrier will exist as the fleet flagship of Confederacy of Independent Systems in the future.
This motion marks that Confederacy of Independent Systems's navy will move in another direction - to be more systematic and efficient, rather than as before, where a few major corporate giants can build whatever ships they can.
Finally, Confederacy of Independent Systems will formally contact Galactic Republic and prepare to start peace negotiations - the deeper meaning of this negotiation is to disrupt Das-Sidious's deployment.
Because Galactic Republic is far from reaching the 'mature' time, Das-Sidious is absolutely unwilling to engage in peace negotiations! -
[Easter Egg Chapter Attached Picture 1: Merchant Guilds President, Shu-Mai.]