466. Separatism
As time goes by, the separatist movement set off 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 act perversely 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 is a dead letter.
Next, Count Dooku secretly reached a preliminary agreement with 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 forced the Republic to submit, these companies would have astronomical financial gains and could legally occupy a large number of galaxies. At the same time, they would 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 take their place.
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 was originally located in the Outer Rim Star Region, but the Ambitious Business Guild wanted 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.
Regardless, Count Dooku eventually received funding from these enterprises, and his activities grew larger and more blatant. In the Outer Rim, many planets have stopped broadcasting Galactic Republic media and instead broadcast Count Dooku's speeches in large numbers.
This not only intensified the conflicts between the planets in the outer ring and the planets in the inner and core circles, but also made the atmosphere in the Galactic Republic increasingly 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 didn't take any substantive action, he just kept trying to persuade the Outer Rim Star Region through the media.
Naturally, the slogan that the upper and lower lips touch the empty mouth and white teeth come out 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 cabin. According to different configurations, the Shenyi-class destroyer can be used as a command ship or an aircraft carrier. and battleships to use.
But in fact, in order to avoid suspicion, Lundilli Interstellar Power Company outsourced this project to the Free Dac Volunteers Engineering Corps, a large engineering company established by Quarren people, mainly for Lundili Deely Star Dynamics conducts outsourcing and machining 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 in the dispute between the Mon Calamari and the Quarren on the planet Mon Calamari, gained the support of the Quarren, and allowed the Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps to break away from Lundili. Come out and 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 massive shipyard on the Quarren colonial world of Parmant, specifically for the construction of Divinity-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 Shu Mai, the president of the Commercial Guild, and Parcel Argent, the president of the Enterprise Alliance, to jointly fund the design of a powerful power transmission system in conjunction with the Hoersch-Kessel Drive Company. Fire support ship, this project was named Recusant-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 later competition, it was defeated by emerging super industrial enterprises such as Kuat Power Shipyard, and became a subsidiary of the Trade Alliance. It 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 deep 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 the Rookery Hook-class cargo ship. Therefore, the construction work of the Defiant-class is also scheduled to be handed over to the Free Dark Volunteer Engineering Group.
In addition, the technical alliance mainly provides technical support in all 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 the only two things that Count Dooku sees in the product line announced by the Fourth Group. .
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[Note 1: As always, the classification of battleships 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. The official name is defined as a destroyer bar. 】
