The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2291 'Leader'

2292, 'Leader'

The Galactic Empire's fleet immediately launched an inhumane orbital bombardment on Neimoidia. Even though most of the population had been evacuated from the planet, and most of the remaining people were in underground bunkers, this orbital bombardment still caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of people!
And the continued blockade by the Imperial Fleet will cause the remaining hundreds of millions of people to die tragically without any help.

Immediately afterwards, Darth Vader personally led the Death Squadron and a large number of the Empire's main fleets to surround the planet Balmora and began to bomb the planetary shield.

However, when bombing the planetary shield, Darth Vader discovered that flames were exploding on the planet from time to time. After scanning, he found that the Neimoidians were actually organizing the destruction of industrial factories on the planet Balmora!
This made Darth Vader furious, and he ordered all warships, regardless of size, to bombard the planetary shield with all their might!

Two days later, the planetary shield was breached, and the Imperial fleet directly descended in altitude, launching a concentrated orbital bombardment on the agricultural area of ​​the planet Balmora!

At the same time, a large number of Galactic Empire Army set out on landing ships and airdropped into several major cities and industrial areas on the planet Balmora at the same time, launching a full-scale attack on the planet!
On the planet Balmora, countless combat robots have completed their activation, and countless red indicator lights are lighting up at the same time in the endless array.

The planet Balmora will resist to the end!

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Tang Xiao certainly knew that his casual words of "resist for two months" and Newt Gunray's casual words of "yes" would cause the deaths of hundreds of millions, or even more than a billion people. But both he and Newt Gunray were just weighing the lives of more than a billion people on the scales.

Newt Gunray was fighting for the survival of his race, the survival of the Trade Union, and his own future place in the Principality of Dawn. And Tang Xiao was fighting for victory in the previous war!

That’s right, if we can’t defeat the Galactic Empire, everything is just empty talk!

But now that Newt Gunray has made a decision and taken action, he also needs to fulfill his promise to Newt Gunray.

He thought for a long time, then opened a drawer on his right.

This drawer has a black velvet bottom and is divided into dozens of small compartments. Each small compartment contains a unique communicator. Some of the communicators are even specially customized versions that are not circulated on the market.

Each of these communicators is one-way and corresponds to a unique set of hyperspace signal repeaters, which then send the communication signal to a unique object.

To maintain such a set of communications requires a huge amount of resources, so the objects corresponding to these communicators are worth the price.

These grids were not full, so Tang Xiao took out a smaller one and pressed the button to connect it.

About 5 minutes later, the communication was connected. In the holographic projection, a humanoid shadow appeared. From this shadow, it was impossible to tell the gender, race, height, weight, etc. Even using the Force, it was impossible to detect any clues. There was no doubt that the other party also had a master of the Force.

It is very likely that it is the New Jedi Order.

"Long time no see, 'Leader'." Tang Xiao smiled and greeted him.

"Not long ago, about 17 standard days ago. When you arrested 8 dissidents in the Model Sector." The leader said coldly.

The sound of his voice had also been processed by a voice changer, so it was impossible to tell what the original voice was.

This black shadow was the leader of the rebels who had just risen in the Milky Way but had already spread their fire to countless galaxies. No one knew his name, so they were just called "leader." "I want to ask you to do me a favor." Tang Xiao was very thick-skinned, pretending not to hear what the leader had just said, and just smiled and made his request.

"I refuse." The leader denied it directly.

"Why are you so willful? Are you a woman?" Tang Xiao retorted to him.

"Hmph! Don't forget what you did to my comrades! There is absolutely no way I can help you with anything as an evil Sith Lord like you!" said the leader.

He paused, then changed the subject and said, "Unless you release all the more than 70 opponents who were arrested in the Model Sector in the past year!"

Tang Xiao sneered and shook his head, saying: "Let me talk about my business first. According to my instructions, the Trade Alliance will continue to resist to the end..."

"What did you say?! Do you know that this will cause countless casualties?!" The leader suddenly became furious.

But Tang Xiao ignored him and continued speaking: "Balmora and Neimoidia will resist for at least two months. And my promise to the Neimoidians is that I will give them at least one habitable planet to settle on."

"The Empire will undoubtedly kill every Neimoidian they see! Because of your order to resist!" the leader shouted, "If you wanted the Trade Federation to consume the power of the Galactic Empire, you have already done it! Their current condition is not suitable for further resistance!"

"So I need your help." Tang Xiao said calmly, "I know you have a certain influence on the imperial political arena. I hope you can push the Galactic Empire to change the massacre order against the Neimoidians to an expulsion order. The reason is simple. Now the Principality of Dawn can no longer feed the 600 billion people on the planet Rendili. Let them sink deeper and deeper into the abyss of famine... Okay, I have made my request. Name your price."

The leader snorted coldly, "Humph! Do you care about the lives of those Neimoidians?"

"Don't worry about whether I care or not. Anyway, according to statistics, there are still about 120 billion Neimoidians in the Empire, and most of them are scattered in many trade centers. So, if the Galactic Empire does not take the initiative to release them, no one can guarantee that they will leave alive."

"If you drive them out, you can feed them? If your immigration policy were a little more conservative, there wouldn't be so many opponents in the Model Sector now." said the leader.

"How about you provide for them?" Tang Xiao asked back, "Anyway, I want them to come out alive, of course it's useful. If you don't agree, then let them all be slaughtered by the Galactic Empire. And to be honest, these Neimoidians are of little use to you rebels. They are all businessmen, the kind that wouldn't dare to fire a gun if you gave them one."

The leader pondered for a long time before he said, "Release all 70 political prisoners in the Model Sector."

Tang Xiao waved his hand and said, "It can't be all of them. We won't let go of those who have lost lives. We won't let go of the organizers and advocates."

"One billion Imperial Credits, in cash!"

"No problem. Newt Gunray will give you this money even if he sells everything he has."

"Battleships! Ten!"

"The upper limit is light cruisers, and they cannot be in service. No larger ones will be given. I will increase the number to 20."

The leader thought for a moment longer, then said, "Finally, I cannot guarantee that all Neimoidians will agree to go to the Principality of Dawn."

Want to sift through them first? You bet. I find those liberals annoying!
Tang Xiao agreed immediately, "Okay, deal!"