Time entered 29 BBY, and time passed by in a flash. Three years had passed since Darth Plagueis died and Sheev Palpatine became the Speaker.
During this period of time, too many things happened in both the Dawn Planet and the Galactic Republic, but in general, except for the Dawn Planet's real battle with the Airu people with real swords and guns, most of them were storms.
The peace before.
Palpatine has been working hard to consolidate his power. He first exposed his flaws and made Deputy Speaker Mas-Ameda think that he could influence himself as Speaker to a great extent. Mas-Ameda proposed several
All issues were approved by him.
Not only that, his easy-going attitude in the early days of his administration also made some people from other political factions think they had an opportunity and began to get closer to him.
But in fact, Palpatine was just letting all this happen. He didn't care about the impact these people would have on the Republic through the issues he raised. What he cared about was only the continuous improvement of his secret strength.
He continued to establish good relations with those old and powerful industrial planets and used his rights to conduct transactions. He initially used the Clone Army project to throw out this bait, targeting Kuat Power Shipyard and Rendili Interstellar respectively.
Large industrial companies such as Power Company and Corellian Engineering Company conducted experiments.
The one who finally took the bait was Quat Power Dockyard, and Palpatine also generously gave them their first gift - a military order for a full set of equipment needed by the clone army, worth 7 billion credits, and the Interstellar Banking Association
A guarantee was made and the huge sum of money was paid.
What Palpatine got in exchange was the loyalty of Planet Kuat.
These industrial planets are all hungry for power and yearn for war, because only war can bring them more benefits, so they hit it off with Palpatine's policies and became Palpatine's secret supporters.
After that, he secretly searched for their weaknesses in the process of constant contact with Mas-Ameda and other political factions.
Palpatine knew very well that in his first term, he couldn't do much. He was not the kind of person who wanted three firepowers in his new office. He wanted more, higher, and bigger.
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What he is doing now is to get more support.
Both Mas-Ameda and some other political factions regard him as a weak speaker. They think they can achieve more goals and seek more benefits through Palpatine. In fact,
They did achieve it, and all these black accounts were recorded by Palpatine.
In contrast, Dawn Planet Councilor Francis Underwood appears aggressive. He has a strong aura and is eloquent, and he has the support of a powerful planet behind him. Around him, many outer-ring planets have also been united.
of MPs.
But it is precisely because of this that Palpatine knew that Francis would not become his real political opponent, and those vacillating wallflowers would not choose Francis.
At the beginning of the year 29BBY, the Galactic Republic Council became busy and noisy as always, all for the election of the next year, 28BBY.
The term of the Speaker of the Galactic Parliament is 4 years, and the Constitution of the Republic stipulates that the Speaker can be re-elected once at most (I know this is a beautiful country, but after all, this is an IP over there, there is no way).
As Sheev Palpatine, who has ascended to the position of Speaker halfway, he still has too many things to do, because without a complete election, it is difficult for him to know who his real supporters are, and everything is based on feeling the stones.
Crossing the river. And there are indeed very few cases of successful re-election of speakers who ascended to the throne halfway through the generations.
But this is not a problem for a political master like Palpatine.
Francis Underwood has also become a candidate, but his actions are very strange. He has indeed canvassed for votes and support, but more often he has targeted planets in the middle and outer star regions, and
I don't want to win over the planets in the inner ring. Of course, the nobles in the inner ring can't take a serious look at such a small member of the emerging planet.
Compared to canvassing votes for speaker, Francis' behavior is more like dividing his own sphere of influence.
Palpatine looked at this with cold eyes. If this kind of behavior is not stupid, it means that he is planning something more long-term.
Based on his understanding of Francis, Palpatine knew that it would definitely not be the former.
But something happened during this period. A Jedi master named Jorus C'baoth began to lobby for a very grand plan - the Outbound Flight.
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This bill is a bill to explore, develop and colonize the unknown star field of the Milky Way. The unknown star field is a star field that occupies about one-third of the entire Milky Way. According to estimates, the unknown star field contains an area equivalent to 15 of the Milky Way.
% of the stellar mass.
If the entire Milky Way is laid out flat as a map and viewed according to the traditional star map drawing coordinates of the Galactic Republic, the Unknown Star Field is located on the west side of the Milky Way.
Of course, there is no such thing as southeast, northwest, or northwest in the Milky Way. The west side is just the west side of the plane star map. By the way, the Dawn Planet where Tang Xiao is located is roughly in the southwest corner of the plane star map.
The area of the Unknown Star Territory is very vast. In fact, the territory of the Galactic Republic is equivalent to two-thirds of a circle. The large area of the inner ring star region in this direction to the west is the Unknown Star Territory.
Therefore, in fact, the middle ring and outer ring of the Galactic Republic are not really a ring, but are cut off in the unknown star field.
The unknown star field contains a large number of resources, and according to scientists' judgment, there is likely to be countless dark matter energy disturbing here. In other words, if you want to study dark matter, you will get twice the result with half the effort in the unknown star field.
This is different from the wild space. There are not many habitable planets in the wild space and the resources are scarce, so basically no one cares about it.
But the reason why the Galactic Republic's hegemony does not extend to the unknown star field, and the reason why the unknown star field is "unknown" is because this space is full of abnormal gravity traps and dark energy fluctuations.
And hyperspace is a complete mess here. If you enter the hyperspace channel at the same place, the place you come out of is completely different. It may be a black hole, it may be an electromagnetic nebula, or it may plunge directly into a star.
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Explorers call this mess of hyperspace channels in the unknown star field the tangle, which means a mess that cannot be sorted out at all.
But now, Jedi Master Jolus Sebaoth claims that he has the ability to navigate hyperspace in unknown star fields.