'snort! '
'Members of Parliament present! '
'We, the Trade Federation, declare once again: We will never admit any unfounded charges imposed on us! Our governor was illegally arrested by the Hero Federation troops when he was passing by Naboo. We will never admit that evidence! '
'Therefore, the Supreme Court of the Galactic Republic should immediately and unconditionally release him, and order the Federation of Heroes to compensate us for all losses and severely punish the murderer who ordered the firing, instead of carrying out such unreasonable actions against our innocent Governor at a later date. Judgment? '
'We strongly protest against the evil deeds of the Federation of Heroes and the slanderous accusations! ! '
'therefore……'
'We hereby urge the Parliament and the Supreme Speaker to immediately issue a special pardon order and immediately and unconditionally release His Excellency Governor Newt Gunray, who has been innocently detained for more than ten days, because our respected Newt Gunray Your Excellency the Governor is indeed innocent and framed! ! '
In today's parliament, the representatives and members of the trade alliance are still going about their business as usual. They are roaring loudly at the Supreme Speaker of the Republic on the rostrum and their opponents on the platform next to them, and at Senator Nova on their seats. With.
Although their words have been said many times in the dome-shaped hall of this parliament, similar views have been raised and appealed countless times, and even the protests have made Supreme Speaker Finis Valoran and members of the presidium In addition, other congressmen present were almost aroused by hearing this, but today they still ran out with the same tune and continued to express their protest.
They had to do it...
Because the various measures taken by the Parliament, or rather the Supreme Speaker and his party members, against their trade alliance have become more and more obvious. In addition, the governor of the trade alliance has been captured alive by the other party, and the key investigation and trial work is about to come to an end. So, now they have to be secretly anxious and become more and more hysterical, trying to confuse things or continue to delay them at this critical moment?
'besides! '
'We urge the Parliament to immediately suspend the implementation of the illegal bill No. "Silver" 020200105, and immediately declare that the tax increase on remote trade corridors is illegal and cancel the relevant tax actions. Otherwise, we will reserve the right to take necessary measures. In order to protect our legitimate interests from being infringed? ! '
Now, anyone can see that the growing opposition and division within the Galactic Republic Council is already obvious.
In the view of the members of the Trade Federation, the Galactic Republic, under the wanton behavior of the Supreme Speaker and some "chaotic party members", once again voted to pass the parliament and blatantly restored the one on Nabu Star. The agreement to impose high tariffs on important remote trade routes is extremely wrong. Their trade alliance will never sit still or pay taxes honestly because of this!
However, the worst thing now is that those who are intercepting and collecting taxes on the route near Naboo are no longer the small tax surveillance ships of Naboo and the stupid Naboo people who don't dare to offend their trade alliance. It's those damned protoss who were recruited from nowhere by that Federation of Heroes!
Under the blockade of the opponent's advanced and extremely fast warships that can also use the 'space jump' ability, in recent times, countless trade alliances and large and small cargo spacecraft related to the trade alliance have been blocked due to They were forcibly detained for smuggling and 'suspected refusal to pay tariffs', and countless legal or illegal goods were confiscated or destroyed at the same time, causing their trade alliance to suffer extremely heavy losses in just ten days.
And this is the reason why people from the Trade Alliance will continue to clamor hysterically and lodge strong protests in the parliament today, even going so far as to issue threats of force again!
Because they really can't sit still now...
In fact, their trade alliance has been unable to sit still for a long time, because they are now at an absolute disadvantage in the parliament! As early as a few days ago, when they saw that there was no hope of reversing the situation, they had already tried some unconventional and violent methods!
For example: let someone assassinate the most important and troublesome figure in the Speaker's faction - Nova?
But, for assassinating an opponent, people in their trade alliance will definitely not admit that they did it themselves! After all, the Jedi Order have only investigated: it was just a stupid thing done by a group of bounty hunters who fled to the planet Coruscant after receiving an unnamed fund, and it had nothing to do with their trade alliance. connection, because the bounty was not Republic credits, but was issued in the form of precious minerals. That kind of thing is not difficult for the trade alliance, which is extremely wealthy and specializes in various trade and mineral development. It is certain that no one will find out who issued the 'bounty' collected by the other party!
But regardless of whether they admit it or not, certain things have already been widely spread in the parliament. Therefore, after the people from the Trade Alliance gave their speeches, the other members of the entire parliament were not in a hurry to speak, nor did they act like They started whispering and arguing as usual, but continued to watch the confrontation between the two sides with cold eyes.
'...'
'...'
That's right, most of the congressmen are waiting for the reaction of the Supreme Speaker's faction, especially the reaction of Councilor Nova.
after all,
For the congressmen present, although they are good at wrangling and shirking responsibility in their work, and they are usually corrupt and extravagant, but after all, they are also a group of qualified politicians with a keen sense of smell!
No need to think too much, they already know who the real speaker of the Supreme Speaker's group is, and they also know who is supporting the usually gentle and cowardly Supreme Speaker!
so,
Now among them, except for those members who are already in the two opposing factions (the trade alliance and the Speaker's faction) whose attitudes are relatively clear, the other neutral or fence-sitting members who account for about 40% of the parliament, He has always protected himself wisely, pretending to be neutral, never speaking easily, and just waiting to watch the increasingly intense internal fighting between the two factions in the Republic Parliament.
In fact, by now, almost all the people from all the participating countries in the galaxy on the planet Coruscant, most of those Coruscant residents, whose number has reached a terrifying one trillion, have already learned from various channels that the Council has We know the current situation of the parliament, which has been almost split in half in the past half month...
However, everyone knows that under the rule of the bloated bureaucracy that is endemic to corruption, the people of Coruscant, who have long been indifferent, are not able or unwilling to make too many reactions, even if they are currently in the parliament and are invited to participate in the audience The same goes for certain two Jedi Masters.
'...'
'...'
On a special invitation platform in the parliament, Master Yoda and Mace Windu looked at each other silently, looking at the chaos in the parliament but did not dare to speak, because they did not speak now. s right!
Standing behind the two of them were Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan's master and apprentice. It was indeed quite strange for a Jedi to appear in the council, but it wasn't too strange after thinking about it, because today's original The issue is to ask certain parties to state the evil deeds committed by the Trade Federation on Naboo before and the charges of verbally depicting the Trade Governor, so that the Supreme Court can set a trial date?
But it is a pity that they were only allowed to speak once, and the topic had to be diverted by the group of hysterical Trade Federation MPs and representatives... Therefore, the representatives of the Jedi Knights present now only Being able to stay innocently in my seat and watch those MPs who are very different from each other argue about trivial matters for half a day...
perhaps,
The two sensitive Jedi masters present have discovered that the Republic is indeed showing signs of intensifying division?
However, even if they are aware of it, they have no good solution!
Because some things have long been beyond the capabilities of Jedi Knights like them, and their Jedi Knights or Jedi Order are, to put it bluntly, just a group of thugs who maintain the security and order of the Republic. For some of the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Parliament, Political affairs were indeed beyond his ability, and they were beyond their control.
"oh?"
"Take necessary measures? Do you want to continue sending people to assassinate me?!"
At this time, as expected, just as those congressmen who just watched the excitement and did not mind the matter at all, did not speak out, did not speak, and did not try to stop the fight, before the Supreme Speaker could speak, the Nova congressman directly He was the first to retort:
"If you think so, please feel free to come over!"
"Hmph! It's not that I, Nova, look down upon you guys, but the bounty hunters you idiots hired are really amateurs... You must also know that there are dozens of them. I killed them all as long as I could hold on, which really gave me no sense of accomplishment at all!"
"but……"
"Speaking of which, you idiots may not believe it. In a previous operation, I sneaked into an enemy's military base alone and killed all the enemies in the entire base! There were more than a thousand people. They were all dead, either their throats were cut by me or they were shot in the head by me, and none of them escaped!"
"so……"
"Please, everyone from the Trade Alliance, next time you send people here, can you find some who are more reliable or more durable?"
The murderous words came out of the mouth of Nova, a member of the Galaxy, and the already relatively quiet parliament suddenly became silent, as if everyone had been choked by an invisible giant hand?
Even the congressmen and representatives of the trade alliance who were hysterical across the street just now were frightened by the words and deeds of Senator Nova for the first time and took a step back involuntarily.
"Hmph! I'm done!"
However, Nova did not pay attention to the other party's expression. She just held her arms and stared at the other party's reaction leisurely.
These days, except for days off, she has been teasing those from the Trade Alliance tit-for-tat in parliament almost every day. She has long been used to it.
'...'
'...'
There was a moment of silence in the parliament, because no one would doubt what Nova said!
The fact that the other party was targeted and assassinated by a bounty hunter has now spread almost throughout the entire planet of Coruscant! Of course, what spreads more is definitely the kind of adrenaline-stimulating thing where the opponent not only does not run away or calls for support when being besieged, but instead faces the enemy alone and kills all the incoming bounty hunters. So much fun!
Especially when the protagonist of the story is also a beautiful young female congresswoman?
Of course, this kind of thing is just private speculation in the news media and certain channels. Even if the guess is accurate, no one has ever brought it to light in the absence of conclusive evidence. Pass.
'you! '
'I-we protest! ! '
'Congressman Nova, you are slandering! Naked slander! ! '
'That's right! It’s slander! '
'Our Trade Federation has absolutely no formal connection with that despicable bounty hunter! We are all businessmen of the Republic who abide by the law. Something as vile as sending someone to assassinate a congressman will never happen to us! '
'So, we will never accept the wording you just said! '
After being stunned for a long time, the Trade Alliance representatives and congressmen, who realized something and were unwilling to accept the 'slander', refuted collectively and continued to act like they just did. Hysterical and roaring, as if the louder they are, the more innocent they are?
Although almost all the congressmen present knew this kind of thing, but they all tacitly agreed without any conclusive evidence and did not say it outright?
"oh?"
"If you were legal businessmen, you would not have surrounded and invaded Naboo for no reason; if you were legal businessmen, you should not have so many armed battleships and combat robots; if you were legal businessmen, you would not have returned I’ve been pestering MPs in parliament over tax issues for so long!”
"In my opinion, it is definitely correct that you are a group of businessmen, but whether it is legal or not is open to question."
Nova looked at the instrument on the platform of her seat and saw that the numbers on it showed that it was getting closer to the end of the day. Then she stopped talking with a sneer.
'protest! ! '
'We reiterate once again: Our Trade Federation has never surrounded or invaded Naboo from the beginning to the end. That is a slander without any evidence at all! And our Governor is definitely innocent, and he must be acquitted as soon as possible! '
'That's right! '
'The distant routes are full of interstellar pirates. The Republic's tax collectors and Jedi Knights cannot protect our safety, so we must have our own means of self-defense. And that's not a battleship, it's just a merchant ship with self-defense weapons. , that is in compliance with the relevant laws of the Republic! '
'Congressman Nova, your sarcasm is baseless! '
'We can all testify that we are not entangled in tax issues, and we have paid all reasonable taxes on time! But now, we are struggling with the unreasonable part! The Republic should not impose heavy taxes on remote waterways. It is illegal and unreasonable without a full vote of the Parliament. We have reason to resist! '
'On the contrary, it's you. Your protoss fleet surrounded Naboo, openly built a military base on Naboo, an agricultural and tourist planet, and kidnapped Queen Padmé Amidala and Naboo. Attacking the passing Governor of the Trade Federation, this is a shameful thing! ! '
'You must give us an explanation for this! ! '
'Give me an explanation! '
'Release our governor, compensate our losses and abolish the unreasonable tax agreement! ! '
Now that the matter in Naboo has basically been settled, their trade alliance has actually planned to suffer a loss and does not intend to entangle more, so their current group of representatives clamoring on their own platform is just to confuse the public.
However, no matter what, the issues of the Governor of the Trade Federation and taxation must be resolved. This is non-negotiable. This is why they have been making trouble in the parliament for many days, so that many affairs of the Republic have to be put on hold. The reason for almost paralysis.
"snort!"
"Forget it, I still think the parliament's act of collecting taxes on remote trade routes is reasonable, and the taxes collected are a bit too low. Those of you who smuggle in the name of trade should be taxed heavily. yes?!"
Nova snorted coldly, and revealed to the other party in a nonchalant manner the next plan she was planning to reform the Republic's taxation: that is to impose heavy taxes on the Trade Alliance!
Because only then will the Republic have enough tax revenue to do some of the things it plans to do, such as conscription and the formation of the Republic Army? Anyway, if she doesn't plan to spend her own money to transfuse blood into this corrupt country, she Nova has no other better way besides attacking dissidents and extracting money from them, which is the most efficient and quick way.
'you! ! '
Reasonable? Nonsence!
Representatives of the trade union and parliamentarians said that if heavy taxes were reasonable, who among them would go to such remote waterways for smuggling? In the final analysis, isn't it because only smuggling can make huge profits?
And if everyone pays their taxes honestly, why would the Trade Federation send so many cargo ships to take remote waterways like Naboo? Why not do it in the core area of the Milky Way and the Republic, which is safer, more convenient and more prosperous? A legitimate small business?
'! ! '
'you dare? ! '
'We will never pay even one credit point for unreasonable taxes again! '
'That's right! '
'The illegal bill No. 020200105 must be revoked today! '
'Withdraw the motion! '
'Against tyranny against legitimate businessmen! ! '
'...'
Soon, under the leadership or hint of the Trade Federation, many congressmen who had some interests with them began to make noises, once again turning the good Galactic Parliament into a place like the bustling city of Coruscant outside.
'quiet! ! '
'The time has come. Since the members cannot reach an agreement, today's issue will be temporarily shelved and the voting will be temporarily cancelled. Let's go here first. The meeting is adjourned now! ! '
If this kind of meaningless wrangling meeting is held too many times, everyone will get tired of it, even both parties involved?
So soon, before the members and representatives of the Trade Alliance could continue to complain or refute, the member of the bureau who was experienced in interrupting disputes between the two parties, the guy with horns on his head and neck, stood up and Loudly using his authority to declare the formal end of today's parliamentary resolution.
Regarding certain things, he said that he was used to it... Anyway, the two sides have been quarreling like this and will probably continue to quarrel like this. There is no point in continuing. It is better to break up the meeting and leave more time. Should the MPs handle it themselves?
'...'
'well……'
Seeing the MPs standing up and leaving as usual, Master Yoda and Mace Windu, who were lucky enough to come to the Parliament today to observe, looked at each other, shook their heads, sighed, and stood up with the others. Then he turned around and left through the entrance behind the platform.
Today, they finally saw the administrative abilities of those bureaucrats...
Today, the parliament has been arguing in vain for a whole day, but until now half a day has passed, and until the end of the meeting, both sides have not been able to reach any satisfactory result to both sides. They just saw that the two sides have always been so uncompromising and tit-for-tat. After a long time of fussing, everything finally came to nothing!
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When the members of the presidium of the Parliament of the Galactic Republic announced the adjournment of the meeting, and when the members of the Parliament filed out of the huge steel mushroom-shaped Capitol building one after another, and left one after another, a silver-white, shining ship The streamlined J-type 327 Naboo Royal Starship finally arrived once again at the place where it had been once before and left safely - the planet Coruscant!
"finally reached!"
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Watching the spacecraft fly towards the atmosphere of the planet Coruscant, which looks like a huge glowing steel planet in space, and enter the capital of the Galactic Republic following the route arranged by the robots of the Coruscant Immigration Department, Little Annie, who had been bored on the boat for three full days, finally cheered.
"Next time, I say next time! Miss Amidala, I will never take this slow, broken spaceship of yours from Naboo again!!"
s(??｀ヘ????;)ゞ
Yes, little Annie said that she was really disgusted by this broken spaceship that could not directly use space to jump or arrive in a "swish", but could only rely on an outdated hyperlight engine to navigate!
"..."
"Please tidy up. There may be important officials below to welcome us later. Anne, as the head of state, you can't be too rude."
After standing up and checking that there was nothing wrong with her makeup and clothes, Padmé Amidala walked out while blaming a little girl who insisted on following her but now regretted it. said.
Behind her, in addition to her maids and guards, there was also a representative of the Naboo Gungans, her old friend Jar Jar Binks, who would become a representative of the Naboo Gungans. Instead, he is based in the capital of the Galactic Republic and gets a representative seat on the Senate.
And the reason why they returned to the planet Coruscant this time, in addition to solving some things, was mainly to attend the court against the Trade Federation and its governor a few days later, to criticize certain evil deeds of the Trade Federation and the governor. Make a complaint!
"Wait for me……"
o(??▽｀)o =3 =3 =3
The spaceship finally flew to Coruscant, so little Annie, who had been making trouble on Naboo for many days and scared the Gungans to the point of almost moving their capital, would definitely not continue to stay on this broken spaceship for much longer. She wanted to wait, so she quickly picked up her little bear and followed Queen Amidala, intending to get off the spaceship and find some fun or delicious food on Coruscant.
(…)
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'welcome……'
'The Naboo Royal Starship has docked at Republic Airport 066, welcoming Her Majesty Queen Padmé Amidala and Prime Minister Anne to Coruscant again...'
'Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum and Councilor Nova are on their way here. Because the parliament has just adjourned, they cannot come immediately...'
As the Naboo Royal Starship slowly arrived and parked at an airport on top of a building in the Galactic Republic's parliamentary area, a receptionist robot soon greeted everyone.
"..."
??(*??)??
Little Annie ignored the boring and clumsy robot. She just yawned and stretched, then started to look around.
"I see."
"Take us to a place to rest first. We have been traveling for a few days..."
Padmé Amidala just nodded after hearing this. She didn't care about the little thing that no one was here to receive her on the port apron at this time, and directly gave instructions to the robot.
'OK. '
'Please wait a moment, we will arrange a shuttle boat for you...'
The robot's eyes flickered a few times, and then it motioned for everyone to wait patiently, because there were no stairs or elevators here. They had to wait until the arranged reception train arrived before Queen Padmé Amidala was present. The little head of state Anne was taken to the reception area of the Republic.
However……
Neither Padmé Amidala nor a heartless little girl, nor the royal guards of Naboo who were traveling with them, noticed that at this time, in a certain building in the distance, Is there a suspicious guy monitoring the situation here through the window with some kind of instrument?
Then, he (she?) quickly picked up a communicator after seeing it clearly:
'Zizzi...'
'Report! '
'Target reached 066! Repeat, target reached! Location 066! ! '
'Zizzi...'
'clear! '
Express delivery No. 066 is arriving, five seconds counting down! '
'Four! '
'three! '
'two! '
'one! '
'Start delivering packages! ! '
boom……
Suddenly, a huge anti-gravity interstellar spacecraft that was originally flying in the sky over Coruscant according to the original low-altitude intercity orbit and speed among the endless flow of aircraft formations suddenly shook violently. Then its engine part burst into flames with an explosion, and soon there was a loud sound!
Then very quickly, with billowing smoke and flames, it suddenly followed the inertia of its original flight, and after being recaptured by the gravity of the Coruscant planet, it made a parabola, accurately tilting towards No. 066 and stopping. The flat was knocked down...
"Eh?"
∑(??△｀)? !
That is……
As the sound came, when she raised her head, little Annie saw it as a matter of course: an extremely huge spaceship, which seemed to be about the size of a dozens-story building. It was a big lump of iron. There was thick smoke. It looked like there was something wrong with the engine, and it hit them viciously on the head?
(…)
(●￣(??)￣●；)
(There is no doubt that Tibbers knows that it was a big ship that fell down after losing its anti-gravity device and almost all its power! In terms of weight, it might be dozens or millions of tons?)
Soon, without waiting for Little Annie, Queen Amidala and others on the tarmac of Airport 066 below to react or plan to escape, it hit the tarmac hard!
boom! ! !
Then, under the impact of the huge spaceship, the entire Airport 066 was dented in an instant, followed closely by the bigger and more terrifying explosion, which exploded directly, Then fire, thick smoke and continuous explosions directly enveloped a large area of the entire airport!
As for the people who had just arrived from Naboo who were originally standing on the tarmac waiting for the shuttle boat, as well as the other spaceships of different sizes parked aside and the escorting Naboo N-1 starfighters, etc., obviously It is unlikely that it will exist intact.
'! ! '
'Oh My God……'
'That is……'
'not good! That is……'
'Is it the airport where Queen Padmé Amidala and Head of State Anne docked? ! '
In the distance, Congressman Nova, Speaker Finis Valorum, Master Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn and others who were waiting in a luxurious Republic reception hall, when they heard the noise and turned their heads, they just Looking into the distance, I saw the huge interstellar spacecraft exploding due to the impact at Airport 066, as well as the flames and billowing smoke rising into the sky...
Rumble, rumble...
As the fire exploded, finally, after a while, the sound of the explosion, which spread much slower than the light beam, came from a distance, and the terrifying sound wave shocked everyone. The floor-to-ceiling glass in front of me vibrated slightly.
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