The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2294 The Last Calm Before the Storm
2295: The Last Calm Before the Storm
11BBY, April 5.

63 days have passed since the Galactic Empire besieged the planet Balmora. The Trade Federation finally failed to meet Tang Xiao's request of resisting for the last two months (70 days), and announced its complete surrender with only 7 days left.

40 days before this, the Neimoidians' home planet, Neimoidia, had been completely turned into a sea of ​​fire, and nearly 10 billion Neimoidians had died in the siege and orbital bombardment of the Galactic Empire. This planet, which gave birth to one of the richest races in the Milky Way, has now become a completely uninhabited dead zone.

After the Trade Federation surrendered, the Galactic Empire army entered the planet Balmora and completely took over one of the largest industrial centers in the Inner Circle.

However, what has now fallen into the hands of the Galactic Empire is no longer the industrial center that supports the Trade Federation's huge business volume, but a devastated ruin.

In the battle for Balmora, the Trade Federation deployed almost all of its combat robots. The total number of combat robots of various models deployed on the planet's surface reached 110 billion!
After the limited orbital bombardment at the beginning, the commander of the Imperial Fleet, Darth Vader, immediately launched a landing operation, trying to preserve the factories on the planet as much as possible. However, the landing force of the Galactic Empire was attacked by a sea of ​​combat robots!
Almost no imperial army positions were attacked by hundreds of millions of combat robots. There was no end to the robots' formations, they were all over the mountains and plains, and everywhere!

Because the supply of weapons could not be guaranteed, most of the B-1 combat robots were empty-handed. However, with the output power of the combat robots, even if they swung their fists and smashed down, it would still be a very deadly threat!

In the landing battles of the previous two days, the Galactic Empire lost more than 30 landing troops. Several landing positions were flooded with blood and corpses piled up like mountains.

Afterwards, Darth Vader had to order an indiscriminate saturation orbital bombing of the planet Balmora!
This orbital bombardment lasted for a whole month! Most of the factories and warehouses were completely destroyed in the bombing, and the planet became a purgatory. Everywhere it passed was molten steel, gathering into hot rivers.

This flow is not just molten steel, it is clearly countless Empire Credit Points! But the Galactic Empire must completely capture the planet Balmora even if it has to sacrifice 3,000 of its own strength. The mistake of the planet Rendili cannot happen again. Even if it cannot get it, it must not let the Principality of Dawn get it! !
Even the final occupation was just a formality, because when the imperial army set foot on the red-hot surface of the planet, there were almost no living things on the planet.

The enraged Palpatine immediately ordered the extermination of all Neimoidians in the galaxy, but members of the Imperial Senate strongly advised against it, because if they really did so, the Galactic Empire would end up in an even more dishonorable ending in this already dishonorable war.

This would further damage the empire's credibility and lead to more frequent and more severe uprisings and riots.

Finally, Palpatine changed the extermination order into an expulsion order, confiscated all property from all Neimoidians within the empire, gave each person a little dry food, and ordered them to leave the country within a certain period of time.

This war, recorded by the Galactic Empire as the "Trade War", lasted for 9 months. The Galactic Empire paid a heavy price and finally uprooted the Trade Alliance.

The Trade Federation was a super corporation that rose like lightning and fell like a meteor. It grew into the largest corporate entity in the galaxy before being completely destroyed and becoming a state-controlled company of the Principality of Dawn. It existed for a total of 339 years.

Once upon a time, they were the symbol of the Outer Rim, and the planets in the outer ring of the Milky Way only knew the Trade Federation and not the Galactic Republic. But after a series of conspiracies and head-on confrontations, they finally came to an end.

After the capture of Balmora, the Trade Union was completely disbanded and reorganized, and renamed Neimoidia Logistics. Newt Gunray resigned and became a sinner of the Neimoidians, but later, under Tang Xiao's arrangement, he secretly enjoyed a rich and peaceful life on a remote planet.

He died 20 years later - the 17th year after the official establishment of the Fourth Reich.

Tang Xiao did not break his promise. He gave the two habitable planets that were swallowed by Monggal-Monggal to the Neimoidians, so that the Neimoidians who were expelled from the empire one after another could have a home.

The two planets were named "New Neimoidia" and "New Balmora" by Neimoidia to commemorate the countless compatriots who died in the war. In the days that followed, they started again in the transportation industry and became one of the best logistics groups in the Fourth Empire. The Galactic Empire was finally able to pull itself out of the quagmire of the trade war, like a tired giant, cleaning its wounds bit by bit.

The countless industries left behind by the Trade Federation were swallowed up. As the largest enterprise in the galaxy at that time, the Trade Federation's industries were naturally not just those few wealth planets and industrial planets. Their industries were spread throughout the entire galaxy.

At the same time, the Galactic Empire temporarily froze the wealth plundered from the Trade Alliance's wealth planets on the grounds that the assets were unclear, and did not return them to the nobles in the core circle.

This wave of naked plundering did more or less recover a lot of war costs for the Galactic Empire, allowing this heavy war machine to continue operating.

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At the same time, some things that seemed insignificant at first finally ignited the powder keg of the Milky Way that was already on the verge of exploding!

In April 11 BBY, while the trade war was still going on, the Galactic Empire issued a third wanted order against the Zahn Group, revoking all their business qualifications and requiring them to leave the planet Salukami within a certain period of time.

The Galactic Empire quickly ordered the recently popular Tag Corporation to set up a waste disposal company to specifically go to the planet Salukami to deal with the countless ruins of warships.

At the same time, at the initiative of the Imperial Parliament, the Galactic Empire began a series of anti-corruption and anti-crime operations in the Outer Ring star regions - anyway, as long as it did not involve the inner ring and core circle, such anti-corruption actions still received huge support.

As a result of this operation, many gangs and corrupt officials entrenched in the outer ring were severely hit.

The Galactic Empire obviously intends to restore its war strength as soon as possible through this series of actions and get back on the right track of military expansion and preparation for war.

But things went against their wishes... Obviously, for some people, this Galactic Empire that has calmed down and started to clean up its internal situation is definitely not what they want.

On May 11, 5 BBY, a photo of the starry sky was placed on the desk of Imperial Emperor Palpatine.

This photo is of a planet in an unknown star field, called Levik. It was once occupied by the Xiru people, and the Xiru Empire was established with it as the core.

But this is not important. The most important thing is that in the synchronous orbit of a satellite near the planet Levik, there is an extremely huge ring-shaped structure floating!

In the center of the ring structure, there is an energy ripple like a wave, and countless spaceships are passing in and out here.

Regarding this thing, the Empire's astronomers, engineers, and scholars can only come to one conclusion -

Stargate!