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In the following time, the Galactic Republic and the Confederation of Independent Systems were still fighting fiercely, and the flames of war had spread to hundreds of planets.
But the battles on hundreds of planets are only direct confrontations between the Republic and the Confederacy. In fact, because of the Confederation of Independent Systems' overt independence and the launch of civil war, internal struggles have occurred on most planets in the galaxy.
Because in the 25,000-year history of the Galactic Republic, the contradictions left behind are too numerous to count. There has never been peace during the founding stage of the Republic. In other words, among the 25,000 years of history, the real peace has only been in the last 1,000 years or so.
The Eternal War, the Infinite War, the Hyperspace War, the two Sith Wars, these are just the super wars throughout the galaxy, not to mention countless local wars and even armed conflicts. The number of people who died and were injured in this process cannot be measured in numbers.
And the economic size of the entire galaxy is so huge. Countless families and classes have risen, and countless families and classes have declined; countless people have become rich, countless people have gone bankrupt, and even more people are struggling with exploitation and work. . No one can calculate how much hatred and sadness there is in it.
But the strength of the Galactic Republic has suppressed all these contradictions. With the continuous development of science and technology and civilization, the cost of conflicts becoming higher and higher. In the era of cold weapons, one could raise arms and rise up, but in the era of hot weapons, there is already an insurmountable gap between the power of the state machine and the civilian population. Even in the interstellar age, can you still fight against a space battleship if you rise up?
However, no matter how hard they are suppressed, these contradictions still exist, and they are becoming more and more powerful as they continue to brew. At that time, the Galactic Republic was like a balloon filled with flammable gas. As the amount of gas increased, the balloon grew larger and larger, and was in danger of collapsing at any time.
Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious had carved countless cracks into the tough shell of the Republic's balloon for nearly 80 years. They did not create conflicts, but intensified them. contradiction. The power of a fire does not depend on the size of the match, but on the size of the flammable substance ignited by the match.
In the end, Count Dooku's separatism lit a fire at the cracks spewing flammable gas.
This fire eventually burned down the entire Galactic Republic, but Darth Sidious, the man behind the ignition, did not expect the extent of the existence he ignited, so the fire continued to burn, and eventually The Galactic Empire he founded was also burned to ashes.
Even the later New Republic was roasted by the hot embers of this fire. In the end, it was unable to bear it and became the third victim... Of course, this is a story for another day.
When the flames of the civil war were ignited, it was not just a direct confrontation between the two giants, the Galactic Republic and the Confederation of Independent Systems, but more of a struggle between different classes and factions within countless planets.
Although the Republic and the Confederacy only fought on hundreds of planets, there were more than 14,000 planets where civil wars and coups broke out across the entire galaxy! !
The internal regimes of these planets have undergone many changes due to this civil war. The struggle between the pro-Confederacy factions, the pro-Republic factions, and even the neutral factions who want to stay out of the matter has also been detonated. Taking this opportunity, they have made their conflicts public. .
The chatter in the parliament escalated into hand-to-hand combat, armed marches, bloody suppression, attacks on planetary administrative centers, armed uprisings, and even some provinces on the planet directly declared independence and joined the Republic or the Confederation of Independent Systems.
If the direct war between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems has caused tens of millions of deaths, then the death toll caused by these armed riots and even civil wars can already be calculated in the hundreds of millions.
You know, it has only been a month since the war broke out.
As the war intensified, the control areas between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems were changing almost every day. Not only the star map in planetary units, but also on each planet. Maybe today the main continent of a certain planet declared to secede from the Republic and join the Confederacy, and tomorrow it was destroyed by the Republic's local defense fleet that hurriedly arrived.
And because of the influence of corporate giants such as the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association, many planets in the inner ring and even the core circle are also swinging between the Republic and the Confederacy, which makes the situation even more complicated.
Even the Supreme Strategic Command of the Republic cannot accurately deploy existing occupations. They can only identify specific people as war targets.
And Count Dooku is the number one target to be captured or even eliminated.
In these countless battles, many names began to appear in the sights of both sides, such as Severance Tann, who quickly captured Sarabin on the Confederate side, and Matt Howe, who severely damaged the Republic fleet in Bespin. Na, General Grievous who is in charge of the overall situation.
There are also many resounding names on the Republic side, such as Jedi Master Shen Jon, who recaptured Sarabin in one day, and who firmly defended the Cesswenna sector, preventing the superior forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems from advancing even at a heavy price. Governor Wilhuff Tarkin of the 18th Legion.
Gold will always shine. Some people are born for war. In peacetime, they have no sense of existence. But once war breaks out, they will find their most suitable stage and shine dazzlingly.
However, during this period of time, Dawn Planet seemed very peaceful. After the Battle of Bespin, the two fleets A and B of the Fourth Civilization calmed down. Fleet A, led by Matt Horner, continued to consolidate Bespin's defense line and began to mine a large amount of supplies for the next step. war use.
Fleet B continues to be stationed on the planet Noah Ha-on, echoing the Gran people on the Golden Rock planet, threatening the strong defense line built by the 19th Legion of the Republic in the Karl System.
But the confrontation was a confrontation, and they did not take the initiative to launch an attack.
On June 27, Fleet A and Fleet B quietly completed the defense change without anyone knowing. In order to improve the confidentiality, the defense change did not replace the warships, but the personnel. Later, based on the structure of the two fleets, Different small-scale warship mobilization was carried out.
Now, Matt Horner has been stationed on the planet Noah Ha-on and continues to confront the 19th Legion of Governor Suramar, and Fleet B is ready to start the next step of the plan-attack the planet Christophsis!
On June 29, Parcel Argent, the chairman of the Enterprise Alliance who coveted the planet Christophsis, finally got an emergency loan from San Hill, the chairman of the Interstellar Banking Association. Through the guarantee of this loan, Semel Siren dispatched a fleet of 30 Hiigaran-class battlecruisers to the planet Ando (Ando), the assembly point selected by the Enterprise Alliance, and the war was about to begin.
On July 1, a large-scale riot suddenly broke out among the Croydon people on the planet Christophsis. Their leader made a formal appeal to the planetary parliament on the planet Christophsis, demanding autonomy for the Croydon people and decided to join. Confederacy of Independent Systems.
On July 2, the Christopher Sith Planet Council flatly rejected this rude request, and the atmosphere between the two parties began to become tense.
