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Chapter 1242 The Civil War Begins (It’s also good to eat sweet potatoes recently)

This is a day worth recording in the history of the Galactic Republic.

On this day, the battle that broke out on the planet Geonosis marked the beginning of the civil war between the Independent Federation and the Banking Republic.

In this initial battle, the Galactic Republic suffered heavy losses. All the masters of the Jedi Council perished, and no one survived. This dealt a great blow to the Galactic Republic. Of course, the external statement was that the Independent Federation used the captured Jedi Masters to lure people, and the Jedi Council underestimated the enemy and misjudged the fighting will and strength of the Independent Federation, and suffered heavy losses and was completely wiped out.

This rumor was jointly promoted by the Independent Federation and Palpatine. The reason is very simple. At that time, all the existence there was destroyed by Duanmu Huai. Even the Independent Federation only knew that everything there was destroyed. Who did it? Well... Count Dooku said it was their backup plan, so the Independent Federation adopted it. After all, it would be a waste not to spread such a thing that would destroy the prestige of others.

As for why Palpatine pushed for it, the reason is even simpler. On the one hand, he wanted to cover up the evidence of the Inquisition's involvement. On the other hand, Palpatine wanted all the Jedi to die. This rumor not only discredited the Independent Federation, but also accused the Jedi Council of being rigid, stupid, and ultimately seeking its own destruction.

One black, two blacks, so cool, Palpatine even wants to open the champagne.

After all, for Palpatine, the most difficult thing is not the Independent Federation, but the Jedi Knights. No matter what the facts are, at least within the Galactic Republic, most people believe that the Jedi Knights are the guardians of the Galactic Republic, and therefore are born supporters of the Jedi Knights. This is also the reason why it is difficult for Palpatine to directly attack the Jedi Knights. After all, if you want to discredit the Jedi Knights, most people will not agree.

But now... I'm not smearing you, I'm just stating the facts!

  Even the most die-hard Jedi supporters would think after reading the battle report that this Jedi was brainless. More than a hundred people actually dared to rush over to save others, and in the end, you see, the entire army was wiped out!

There is nothing we can do about it. Most people are result-oriented. If the Jedi Knights win, they will naturally say that the Jedi Knights are powerful, dare to fight against the majority with a small number of people, and finally succeed in rescuing their companions and crushing the conspiracy of the Independent Federation.

  And now you’ve lost...you’ve lost, so you’re just stupid, right?

Now there is no need for Palpatine to smear them. Many people are very disappointed with the Jedi Knights. After all, the entire Jedi Council was involved!

Although some Jedi Knights did not have time to join due to various reasons, the collapse of the Jedi Council still dealt a great blow to them. As for these Jedi Knights, Palpatine naturally secretly tried to send them to the front line, letting them die one by one in the battle with the Independent Federation... Well, they didn't have to do it themselves.

Palpatine wasn't worried that they wouldn't die, for the simple reason that the situation in the Galactic Republic wasn't looking good right now.

Although the demise of the Jedi Council made Palpatine want to pop champagne in his office, the news was a huge blow to the morale of the entire Galactic Republic.

After all, even the Jedi Masters of the Jedi Council and more than a hundred Jedi Knights died at the hands of the Independent Confederacy. Can they really win?

This also led to the fact that in the early stages of the attack by the Independent Federation, the Galactic Republic was completely unable to fight back and was at various disadvantages.

However, the Independent Federation was unable to take advantage of the situation and go further, for one reason only.

Inquisition.

Among the planets attacked by the Independent Federation, there are naturally many planets belonging to humans or humanoid races. Whenever the Independent Federation tries to attack these planets, the warships of the Inquisition will immediately appear, catch the Independent Federation’s fleet and beat them up, blasting them into pieces and then sailing away.

After several times, the Independent Federation and the Galactic Republic both discovered this problem, so the Galactic Republic immediately changed direction and concentrated its forces on those galaxies that did not belong to humans to strengthen defense. After hitting a wall several times, the Independent Federation had to accept this painful reality and also turned to those galaxies controlled by non-human races and fought with the Galactic Republic.

Thus, a strange scene appeared: some galaxies were peaceful and harmonious, while some galaxies were fighting fiercely and desperately.

  Most people do not want to be involved in the war, and they are migrating to those galaxies where there is no war. However...the other side rejected their request to escape!

The reason is very simple. After all, as a force that can influence the war situation between the Independent Federation and the Galactic Republic, the Inquisition is naturally well known to everyone, and naturally everyone knows the principles and positions of the Inquisition. Simply put, they only protect humans and demihumans, and nothing else matters to them. It is best if they all die!

Although no one dared to openly support the Inquisition's proposal under the background of the Galactic Republic, as the beneficiaries, they knew it in their hearts. It was because their galaxy was full of humans that the Inquisition came to help. What if they let those alien races in, and the Inquisition felt that this galaxy no longer belonged to humans, and directly abandoned them?

The Galactic Republic's military is not strong now, and it has been beaten back again and again. If it doesn't rely on the Inquisition to protect itself, can it rely on the Galactic Senate, which is incompetent? What if the Inquisition doesn't come, and the Galactic Republic's fleet can't be relied on, then won't their home be ruined?

As Duanmu Huai once said, in the face of life-and-death threats, all races would definitely think of their own continuation first, so those star systems resolutely rejected the requests for asylum from other alien races and directly blocked them out. This naturally made other alien races very dissatisfied. Of course, they did not dare to confront the Inquisition, but they were very angry about the betrayal of their own people.

  We are all citizens of the Galactic Republic. Didn't you say that the galactic races should unite? Why are you now starting to take care of your own business? Are all the things you said before bullshit?

In this case, then we might as well not have this Galactic Republic!

  Under this mentality, many galaxies surrendered to the Independent Federation and joined the Independent Federation. The Independent Federation was naturally very happy about this, and woke up with laughter in their dreams at night. You know, they originally had to spend a lot of effort to persuade those galaxies to join the Independent Federation, but they didn't expect that because of a trial court, these galaxies actually took the initiative to move closer to them!

Because of this, under the influence of the Inquisition, the entire star field gradually became a situation where the Galactic Republic, with humans and subhuman races as the core, was against the independent federation other than humans and subhuman races.

This was naturally what Duanmu Huai was happy to see. Of course, there were also some ignorant humans who stood on the side of the Independent Federation, claiming to uphold some kind of free democracy, but it didn't matter. The Inquisition's attitude towards heretics was no different from that towards aliens. However, for the Independent Federation, problems also emerged.

On the surface, the Independent Federation defeated the Galactic Republic and lost many galaxies.

But in fact, these galaxies are all galaxies of alien races. That is to say, after fighting all the way to the present, the remaining galaxies are all galaxies of humans and sub-humans.

  What does this mean?

This means they must confront the Inquisition head-on!

And if you confront him, you will die!

In the past, if the Independent Federation could not defeat the Inquisition, it could go to other galaxies and fight to the death with the Galactic Republic’s fleet.

But it’s different now. No matter where they go, the Inquisition’s fleet will appear at the first speed and smash the Independent Federation’s fleet to pieces.

As for the Galactic Republic's fleet, they were also happy with this situation. They retreated to the rear and began to rest and rebuild.

  This made the Independent Federation impatient, after all, they were fighting a blitzkrieg, seizing the opportunity when the Galactic Republic had no time to rest. Once the Galactic Republic was given a chance to catch its breath, then when it came to its senses, they would be in trouble!

In fact, strictly speaking, at this point, the goal of the Independent Federation has been completely achieved. Not only do they have the territory and strength to compete with the Galactic Republic, but they have also attracted many star systems to join them. It can be said that this is a hundred times better than what the Independent Federation had expected when it started the rebellion.

However, people are always greedy, and this is especially true for a force like the Independent Federation, which is composed of capitalists.

When the Independent Federation thought that if they could take Coruscant, they would be able to rule the entire Galactic Republic, they suddenly felt that the current situation of dividing the country by the river was no longer acceptable.

They want to swallow up the entire Galactic Republic!

Coupled with Count Dooku's instigation, the leaders of these independent federations became increasingly confident.

However, in the face of their ambitions, the Inquisition became an insurmountable obstacle.

At this time, the Independent Federation had to take the Inquisition, a force that they had previously ignored, seriously. After all, if they could not defeat the Inquisition, then they would not be able to (or dare not to) attack Coruscant.

But how to deal with the Inquisition?

In response to this, Grievous, the robot general of the Independent Federation, came up with a fantastic idea.

  That is...full blossoming!

According to General Grievous, he had carefully studied the battles of the Inquisition and discovered a problem, which was that although the warships of the Inquisition were indeed powerful, they were few in number. By analyzing the data of several battlefields, General Grievous was certain that the total number of warships of the Inquisition was less than 300!

Every time the Inquisition went out, they would attack in a concentrated manner and leave after the battle. Coupled with the powerful warships of the Inquisition, it gave people the illusion of being invincible. However, General Grievous keenly discovered the weakness of the Inquisition, which was that their number was limited after all!

In response to this weakness, General Grievous designed a comprehensive tactic. The tactic itself is very simple, which is to gather all the fleets of the Independent Federation and attack at the same time to launch a comprehensive and thorough attack on the galaxy of the Galactic Republic!

  This is equivalent to putting all your chips on the gambling table at once!

Although it was a pressure, in fact General Grievous felt that the chances of winning were very high.

The reason is simple. The soldiers used by the Independent Federation are all robots, which can be manufactured around the clock. Millions of robots can be easily manufactured, and any loss is a loss, which is not a big deal. But on the other hand, if they can seize the weakness of the Inquisition and invade these star systems at the same time, even if there is a star system that the Inquisition has not taken into account, they will launch millions of robot armies to the planets of that star system in the shortest possible time.

  By then, it would like to see how the Inquisition would deal with the robot army that had already occupied the planet! It could even take advantage of the Inquisition's weakness of human supremacy, hold the inhabitants of that planet hostage, and force the Inquisition to surrender!

Thinking of this, General Grievous looked very proud.

Everything is under control, this is a sure win!