Chapter 2135 Arms Race

2135: Arms Race

Amidst the hustle and bustle of the parliament hall, the impassioned speech of Speaker Schiff Palpatine, and the deafening applause of the members, the Galactic Republic Congress quickly passed three bills.

First, immediately borrow from the Interstellar Banking Group, the amount is 100 billion credit points.

Second, add a new order to the clone factory located in Kamino, asking the other party to provide another 3 million clone soldiers. At the same time, an order was provided to the Kuat Power Shipyard, and the construction of 200 warships including the Hunter-class cruiser and the Cheer-class assault landing ship was started again. Provide an order to Urshos Manufacturing Company, asking the other party to immediately manufacture 1 million sets of mechanized exoskeletons.

Third, from now on, the commanders of each theater can carry out limited orbital bombing of planets in battle with the consent of the Galactic Council. If the battle situation is urgent, Speaker Palpatine can also exercise emergency ruling powers and directly authorize orbital bombing.

Afterwards, Speaker Schiff Palpatine had an interview with the new leader of the Jedi Order, Master Mace Windu, and reaffirmed the Republic’s full support for the Jedi Order, saying that victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. It will not affect the Council's evaluation of the Jedi Knights, who are still the pillars of the Republic. At the same time, he also said with tears that he hoped to see Master Yoda return one day.

Then Palpatine and Mace Windu issued a joint statement, re-emphasizing the brutality of the Separatists and the atrocities they provoked the war and caused the destruction of countless families. And very sternly stated that the Republic will definitely fight to maintain the unity of the galaxy, fight for the ultimate peace, and will never give up until it achieves its goal.

The war machines of the entire galaxy are running faster and faster, and more galaxies have begun to be involved in the war. Moreover, in order to maintain the exponentially growing military power, the Republic started a new round of tax increases, which made the burden of joining the various galaxies even heavier.

Representatives of those powerful planets took pockets of money to find the tax officials, and then told their poverty with their noses and tears, and then shook hands with the officials in a friendly smile. And an agreement was reached...

As for the existence of super-capitalists such as the Kuat planet, the Corellian star sector, and the Rendili planet, they just kicked the tax officials out of the door with their nostrils up, but those officials nodded and bowed flatteringly. Well, the kick was accurate, the kick was good, next time I am lucky, I will continue to get kicked...

On the other hand, some planets that are unable to pay bribes are facing another tyranny. The public security forces of the Republic are driving those old warships to show off their power in the Central Star District. One galaxy after another went to collect high taxes and took away a ship. A boatload of wealth, leaving only mourning and starvation everywhere...

As for the outer ring,

Those officials who collect taxes dare not go, because it is now the domain of the separatists, that is, the Confederation of Independent Galaxies.

But is the Confederation of Independent Galaxies really a paradise, does it really represent freedom and justice, and the cry of resisting exploitation and injustice? not at all.

After the end of the Battle of the Guardian Planet, this victory inspired the high-level Confederation, including Earl Dooku, in their view, the victory of the war is just around the corner. Under such madness, the news of the further military expansion of the Republic came, and they chose to continue to expand the military without hesitation to deal with it.

The Confederacy of Independent Galaxies also loaned 100 billion credits to the Interstellar Banking Association, and then ordered 10 Rucrehook-class battleships, 50 million B-1 combat robots, and 300,000 other robots from the Trade Federation. Ordered 100 warships of various types from commercial giants such as the Interstellar Banking Association, Technology Alliance, and Enterprise Alliance.

Undoubtedly, these increased military expenditures were also directly distributed to each of the participating planets of the Confederation of Independent Galaxies. The only difference from the Republic side is that everyone has a share in the Confederation, because it is those business giants who really control the Confederacy, not any of the planets.

The high taxation still overwhelmed the confederation's joining planets, but because of dissatisfaction with the Republic and the victory of the Guardian Star Wars, the confederation's war enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high, temporarily covering up many contradictions.

Business giants headed by the Trade Federation, Interstellar Banking Association, Business Alliance, Technology Alliance, and Enterprise Alliance took the opportunity to ask for loans from some planets that were unable to pay their taxes, forcing them to borrow at extremely high interest rates and transfer the planet resources, industrial capacity, and even population as collateral. By such means, these commercial giants have turned vast numbers of galaxies into dumping grounds for their goods and supplies of raw materials.

Now the independent galaxy confederation's war operations in the outer ring star region have started very smoothly, and the confederation's army has occupied one planet after another. But it is not the same as the freedom and justice they preach. Those robot armies burn, kill and loot wherever they go. As long as there is a little resistance, they will take the whole city away as slaves. Sometimes the commanders of business giants If you are in a bad mood, just slaughter the city!

Wherever the Confederate army went, it was almost as good as the Japanese devils. The nature of the business tycoons was fully exposed. They participated in the war not to promote justice for the Confederacy, but for wealth! More wealth! ! They built warships for the Confederacy, built robots, and sent commanders. Although the Confederacy also paid for these, they still boasted that they were the only supplier of the Confederation.

In order to pull these insatiable merchants into his chariot, Earl Dooku had to give them great power, because only in this way can the Confederation of Independent Galaxy be able to compete with the Kuat Power Dockyard and Rendili Interstellar Power Company. , Sina Fleet Technology, Corellian Star Sector these terrible industrial giants of the Galactic Republic to contend.

Fortunately, this war disaster that spread throughout the galaxy has not yet fallen on Tang Yu's head. Although the guardian planet had just experienced a large-scale battle, after the battle, Tang Yu found that everything around him had changed.

The Governor of the Trade Federation, Newt Gunley, the Governor of the Interstellar Banking Association, San Hill, and the Governor of the Technology Union, Walter Tambor, all took the initiative to contact Tang Yu, and they were courteous and brazen. .

Indeed, although the guardian planet has just suffered from the flames of war, everyone knows that Tang Yu has found the Blade Fleet. A total of 200 dreadnought-class heavy cruisers have made the fleet of the guardian planet the number one existence in the Confederation of Independent Galaxies .

Moreover, in the battle that just happened, the army of the guardian planet, without the support of warships, confronted the elite 13th Army of the Republic head-on, and beat the 13th Army to nothing! You must know that in the previous wars, facing the clone soldiers, the robot army of the Confederacy has always been the one that was beaten!

With such a strong backing, the guardian planet finally enjoys the treatment of a privileged class, which brings unparalleled benefits to Tang Yu.

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