The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2290 The Last Resistance
2291: The Last Resistance
“Grand Duke! We can’t hold on any longer!” In the Grand Duke’s Palace of Planet Dawn, the Governor of the Trade Union, Newt Gunray, knelt in front of Tang Xiao with tears and snot, hugging his thighs and crying loudly, “All the planets of wealth…wealth have fallen, and now only Balmora is left!!”

"Didn't I tell you that you have to persist for at least two years? How long have you persisted now?" Tang Xiao asked back coldly.

"It's not that I don't want to hold on...it's the Imperial Army that's pushing in little by little...we can't resist it at all..." Newt Gunray howled.

Tang Xiao kicked him away and snorted, "What about Cato-Neimoidia? You actually let the Galactic Empire occupy those bridge cities? And I heard that Darth Vader was there when we attacked Zara? Then you should have blown up all those bridge cities! Let Darth Vader bathe with those treasures in the ravine by himself!"

"I really don't dare to blow it up..." Newt Gunray cried loudly while crawling over to hug Tang Xiao's calf, "Palpatine threatened me that if I dared to blow up Bridge City, he would blow up the planets Balmora and Neimoidia to the ground, leaving no Neimoidian alive..."

Tang Xiao could see that Newt Gunray was really crying this time, because he was truly at his wit's end.

After nearly a year of attacks, the Trade Federation has basically completely collapsed within the Galactic Empire. Their planets in the core and inner rings were besieged, and either fell or surrendered, while most of their planets in the middle and outer rings left the Trade Federation when they saw the situation was not good.

Because while the Trade Union was being hit, other financial groups in the Galactic Empire were not idle either, they were always waiting for an opportunity to embezzle the assets of the Trade Union. And the planets that cooperated with the Trade Union were basically thrown into the arms of other companies and financial groups.

Of course, it must be said that the Fourth Group also participated in it and occupied many planets of the Trade Federation. Bah! No, this cannot be called occupation, this is called legal inheritance.

Now that their three largest wealth worlds have been captured, only their home planet Neimoidia and the industrial center Balmora are left. Basically, the Trade Union's base is gone. If they want to continue to develop, they can only start over in the northern border planet Mygeeto.

The Trade Alliance, which had flourished for more than 300 years and once became the largest super-enterprise in the Milky Way, will now come to an end. From now on, they will continue to survive as a state-owned enterprise under the Principality of Dawn.

Such a huge gap is about to happen to Newt Gunray himself. He will lose face in front of the entire galaxy. Not only that, all Neimoidians will regard him as a shame. He will become a sinner of race and civilization!

No matter how much Newt Gunray loves money, he would never dare to bear such a reputation!
Tang Xiao snorted coldly: "If you don't blow up Bridge City, will the Galactic Empire let you go? How many people on the planet Neimoidia have evacuated now?"

"There are a total of 40 billion civilians on the planet Neimoidia, and 30 billion have already completed the evacuation. According to your instructions, they will be temporarily resettled on the planet Rendili, awaiting further processing." Newt Gunray looked at Tang Xiao with pleading eyes.

Tang Xiao nodded and said, "You should be thankful that you are an expansionist race, and the population on each planet is not large. The evacuation work is not difficult."

"But... there are also many people on many other planets... Neimoidians, with a total population of about 200 billion." Newt Gunray whispered.

Then he knelt down in front of Tang Xiao again and begged, "Please, Grand Duke! We can no longer bear the pain of losing the planets of Balmora and Neimoidia." But Tang Xiao shook his head with a heart of stone and said, "This is impossible. From the moment the Galactic Empire decided to solve your problems by force, all the planets in the core circle of the Trade Federation cannot be saved. I remember I told you that what you should think about now is not how to save them... but..."

His expression gradually became ferocious. "Revenge!... That's right! Revenge on the Galactic Empire! Revenge on Palpatine! And now every second you delay on the planet Balmora is revenge! Do you understand?"

"But...but..." Newt Gunray was trembling all over. Several months of war had broken every tough bone in his body, which was few to begin with.

"If you delay for another two months, I will give you a habitable planet as a gift." Tang Xiao directly offered the price.

That's right, Neimoidia doesn't matter, but an industrial center like Balmora can never be handed over to the Galactic Empire in its entirety! As for habitable planets, I can have as many as I want now!
Newt Gunray was still a little hesitant. "But there are still many Neimoidians in other parts of the galaxy... If we continue to resist..."

"Two. And I will write a written order." Tang Xiao raised another finger and added: "At the same time, I will try my best to influence Palpatine's decision and change the possible massacre order against the Neimoidians into an expulsion order."

Newt Gunray finally made up his mind again. He nodded, stopped howling and crying, and whispered, "Balmora will continue to resist for two months... Grand Duke, the future of the Neimoidians now depends on you..."

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11BBY, April 3.

The Trade Federation's largest and last wealth planet, Cato Neimoidia, was completely conquered by the Galactic Empire's most elite force, the Fist of Vader - the 501st Legion.

On the day of the fall, the Galactic Empire suddenly announced that due to the fierce resistance of the Trade Federation during the attack, the bridge city Zara collapsed in the crossfire and fell completely into the abyss of ten thousand meters. Now, the imperial rescue team is trying to rescue the property originally stored in the vault of the bridge city as much as possible.

All of this is the responsibility of the Trade Federation. The Galactic Empire has taken over and protected all the properties deposited by the core circle nobles and wealthy families, and is currently doing the final inventory, which will be returned to everyone after the inventory is completed.

As for the inevitable losses, the Galactic Empire stated that this was caused by the Principality of Dawn giving the Trade Federation unrealistic fantasies, causing the Trade Federation to resist stubbornly.

Finally, the Galactic Empire once again issued an ultimatum to the Trade Federation, demanding that the last two planets of the Trade Federation - Balmora and Neimoidia - surrender within 24 hours of Galactic Standard Time.

However, after 23 hours of consideration, the Trade Federation issued a response: Refuse to surrender!
The Trade Federation also released a large number of combat videos, showing that while they were still resisting, the structure of the bridge city Zara was very stable and was definitely not damaged by the war! And the actual time when Zara fell was 5 hours earlier than the time released by the Galactic Empire!
The Galactic Empire robbed the city of Zara and emptied it of all its wealth before completely blowing up the city and destroying all evidence!
Originally, Palpatine thought, I will spare your lives, and you will take the blame for Zara City, and everyone will be happy. But now that Newt Gunray is so tactless, he is furious and orders Darth Vader to completely plow the Trade Union to the ground!