As time goes by, the separatist movement started by Count Dooku continues to grow and develop.
The Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, Sheev Palpatine, devoted all his energy to combating dissidents, expanding his own power, and completely allowing the corrupt officials of the Republic to perpetrate perverse actions in the Outer Rim Sector.
Under such circumstances, coupled with Count Dooku's unparalleled reputation and eloquence, a large number of planets in the Outer Rim Sector joined the separatist movement and began to resist a series of policies of the Republic.
Since 500 planets, including the Dawn Planet, publicly announced their refusal to pay taxes for the Republic, more and more planets have joined in. The Galactic Republic has worked hard to implement the free trade area since the former Speaker Fenis Valorum.
Tax policy has become a piece of paper.
Next, Count Dooku secretly reached a preliminary agreement with the inter-galactic super enterprises including the Trade Alliance, Technology Alliance, Interstellar Banking Association, Enterprise Alliance, Commercial Guild, and the Fourth Group, allowing them to join his cause to fight
republic.
And the promise he gave was that once they successfully force the Republic to submit, these companies will have astronomical financial gains, and can legally occupy a large number of galaxies. At the same time, they will also receive unimaginable privileges.
That's right, he was never talking about starting a life-and-death war with the Republic, but telling these corporate giants that war is just a means to bring the Republic to the negotiating table, and even to overthrow the current Galactic Republic government, and then use
They replaced it.
Each of these corporate giants has ulterior motives, such as the Trade Federation because Governor Newt Gunray was coerced and recruited by Darth Sidious, the Interstellar Banking Association was a layout left by Darth Plagueis during his lifetime, and the Technology Alliance
The base of the Alliance with Enterprises is already in the Outer Rim Star Region, but the Ambitious Business Guild wants to seize this opportunity to advance to the next level.
As for the fourth group, they are eager to start this war, and the bigger the better, it is best to fight out all the brains.
But no matter what, Count Dooku eventually received funding from these enterprises, and his activities became larger and more blatant. In the Outer Rim Star Region, many planets have stopped broadcasting the media of the Galactic Republic and switched to broadcasting a large number of media
Count Dooku's speech.
This not only intensified the conflicts between the planets in the outer ring sector and the inner and core planets, but also made the atmosphere in the Galactic Republic more tense.
Sheev Palpatine has made public speeches more than once, stating that he cannot accept the act of dividing the country under any circumstances, and called on the separatists to return to the negotiating table and not be blindly aggressive.
But having said that, he did not take any substantive actions and just kept admonishing the Outer Rim Star Region through the media.
Naturally, the slogan that white teeth will appear when the upper and lower lips touch the empty mouth is naturally impossible to be accepted by the Outer Rim Star Region, but Palpatine also hopes that this is the case. The reason why he said this is just to create his own
It's just a setting that still loves peace and longs for the unification of the Galactic Republic.
As for Count Dooku, since he already had enough support, he quickly started preparations for the war.
The first thing is the industrial aspect. According to the report of Newt Gunray, the Governor of the Trade Federation, the Trade Federation was jointly developing an upgraded version of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser - the Providence-class carrier (Providence-class carrier) with Rendili Interstellar Dynamics Company.
/destroyer)【Note 1】.
The Shenyi-class destroyer is a multi-functional warship equipped with an advanced command system and heavy armor, and adopts a modular design, which can easily replace the functional cabins. Depending on the configuration, the Shenyi-class destroyer can be used as a command ship or an aircraft carrier.
Use it with battleships.
But in fact, in order to avoid suspicion, Lundili Interstellar Power Company outsourced this project to the Free Daters Engineering Corps, a large engineering company established by Quarren people, mainly for Lundili
Lee Star Power Company conducts outsourcing and processing operations.
As the separatist movement intensified, Rendili Interstellar Dynamics could no longer sit still, and they were preparing to withdraw from the project. At the same time, Count Dooku intervened between the Mon Calamari and the Quan people on the Mon Calamari planet.
The disputes between the Run people were supported by the Quarren people, and the Freedak Volunteer Engineering Group was separated from Rendili to build warships specifically for the separatists.
The Shenyi-class destroyer project was also brought over by the Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Group, and the Trade Alliance continued to invest in preparing to complete this powerful warship.
The Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Group secretly built a huge shipyard on the Quarren colonial world of Parment, specifically for the construction of Divine-class destroyers.
And after having decided to embark on the road to war, the ambitious Count Dooku persuaded the Trade Federation to spend huge sums of money to design a more powerful invincible warship based on the Divine Will-class destroyer - the Conqueror-class heavy cruiser.
(Subjugator-class heavy cruiser)!
As these were not enough, Count Dooku asked the President of the Commercial Guild, Shu Mai, and the President of the Enterprise Alliance, Parcel Argent, to jointly fund the design of a powerful power transmission system in conjunction with the Hoersch-Kessel Drive Company.
A fire support ship, this project was named the Ret-class light destroyer (Ret-class light destroyer).
Hersch-Koschel Dynamics is one of the oldest spacecraft design and construction companies in the galaxy, with a history of more than 4,000 years. However, in the subsequent competition, it was defeated by emerging super industrial companies such as Quat Dynamics Shipyard and became
It became a subsidiary company of the Trade Federation and was successively transferred to the Douro people's consortium and the Nimbanis consortium in the Hutt space.
But after all, this is a company with a profound foundation, so it is no problem to carry out some design and construction work. But after all, the company's scale is limited, and it is currently mainly engaged in the construction and reconstruction of Rookery Hook-class cargo ships, so it is disobedient.
The construction work of the fighter class is also scheduled to be handed over to the Free Duck Volunteer Engineering Corps.
In addition, the technical alliance mainly provides technical support in various aspects, including the research and development of army equipment, various robots, and fighter jets. The Interstellar Banking Association naturally provides money.
Here, the main job of the Fourth Group is to cooperate with the Trade Federation to build Hiigaran-class battlecruisers and ghost fighters. These are also the only things that Count Dooku sees in the product line announced by the Fourth Group.
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[Note 1: As always, the battleship classification in "Star Wars" is particularly fascinating. The Divine Will class alone has several names such as command ship, battleship, dreadnought, cruiser, and destroyer... This is still based on the settings.