The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2291. The last resistance

"Your Highness! We can't hold on any longer!" In the Grand Duke's Mansion on Dawn Planet, Newt Gunray, the Governor of the Trade Alliance, knelt down in front of Tang Xiao with tears streaming down his face, hugging his thigh and crying loudly. "Wealth...all the Wealth planets have fallen, and now only the Balmoral planet is left!!"

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

"It's not that I don't want to persist... It's true that the Imperial Legion is coming in bit by bit... We can't resist it at all..." Newt Gunray howled.

Tang Xiao kicked him away and snorted: "What about the planet Cato-Neimoidia? You actually allowed the Galactic Empire to occupy those bridge cities? And I heard that the attack on Zara Darth Vader was there during the city? Then you should blow up all those bridge cities! Let Darth Vader take a bath with the treasures in the ravine!"

"I really don't dare to blow up..." Newt Gunray cried loudly while crawling over to hug Tang Xiao's calf. "Palpatine threatened me. If I dare to blow up Bridge City, he will kill Balmer." The planet Ra and Neimoidia were blown to the ground, leaving none of us Neimoidians alive..."

Tang Xiao could tell that Newt Gunray was really crying this time, because he was truly desperate.

After nearly a year of attacks, the Trade Alliance has basically collapsed within the Galactic Empire. Their planets in the core and inner rings have been besieged, fell or surrendered, while their planets in the middle and outer rings have been besieged. Most of the planets saw the bad situation and left the trade alliance.

Because while the Trade Federation was being hit, other financial groups in the Galactic Empire were not idle either. They had been waiting for opportunities to embezzle the assets of the Trade Federation. And those cooperative planets of the trade alliance have basically fallen into the arms of other companies and consortiums.

Of course, it must be said that the Fourth Group was also involved and occupied many Trade Alliance planets. Pooh! No, this cannot be called embezzlement, this is called legal inheritance.

Now that their three largest wealth worlds have been captured, only their home planet of Neimoidia and the industrial center of Balmoral are left. Basically, the foundation of the Trade Alliance is completely destroyed. If they want to continue to develop, they can only start over on the northern planet Mequito.

The trade alliance, which has been glorious for more than three hundred years and once became the largest super enterprise in the galaxy, will also come to an end. From now on, they will continue to survive as a state-owned enterprise under the Principality of Dawn.

And such a huge gap is about to happen to Newt Gunray himself. He would be embarrassed in front of the entire galaxy. Not only that, all Neimoidians will regard him as a shame, and he will become a sinner of race and civilization!

No matter how much Newt Gunray loves money as much as his life, he would never dare to bear such a name on his head!

Tang Xiao snorted coldly: "Could it be that if you don't blow up Bridge City, the Galactic Empire will let you go? How many people on the planet Neimoidia have been evacuated now?"

"On the planet Neimoidia, there are a total of 4 billion civilians, and 3 billion have completed the evacuation. According to your instructions, they have been temporarily resettled on the planet Rendili, waiting for further processing." Newt Gunray said with pleading eyes. He looked at Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao nodded and said: "You should be lucky that you are an expanding race, and the population on each planet is not large. Evacuation is not difficult."

"But... there are also many people on many other planets... Neimoidians, with a total population of about 20 billion." Newt Gunray said softly.

Then he knelt down in front of Tang Xiao again and begged: "Please, Lord Grand Duke! We can no longer bear the pain of losing the planets of Balmorra and Neimoidia."

Tang Xiao shook his head hard-heartedly and said: "This is impossible. Ever since the Galactic Empire determined to solve your problems with force, all the planets in the core circle of the Trade Federation cannot be saved. I remember I told you, you want to What I am thinking about is no longer how to save...but..."

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

"But...but..." Newt Gunray was trembling all over. The few months of war had already weakened every hard bone in his body that was not many in the first place.

"Delay for another two months, and I will directly give you a livable planet." Tang Xiao directly made the bid.

Yes, the planet Neimoidia doesn't matter, but an industrial center like Balmoral cannot be completely handed over to the Galactic Empire! As for habitable planets, I can have as many as I want now!

Newt Gunray was still hesitant, "But there are many Neimoidians in other parts of the galaxy... If they continue to resist..."

"Two. And I will write down a written instruction." Tang Xiao raised another finger and added: "At the same time, I will try my best to influence Palpatine's decision-making and prevent the Neimoidians from suffering any possible consequences. The massacre order was changed to an expulsion order.”

Newt Gunray finally made up his mind again. He nodded, stopped howling and crying, and whispered: "The planet Balmorra will continue to resist for two months... The Grand Duke, Neimoidia The future of mankind now lies with you..."

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11BBY, March 24.

The Trade Union's largest and last wealth planet, Cato-Neimoidia, was completely captured 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 Union during the attack, the bridge city of Zara collapsed in the crossfire and fell completely into the abyss of 10,000 meters. Now, the Empire rescue team is trying to rescue the property originally stored in the Bridge City vault as much as possible.

All this is the responsibility of the Trade Union. The Galactic Empire has taken over and protected the property deposited by all the core circle nobles and wealthy families, and is conducting the final inventory. After the inventory is completed, it will be returned to everyone.

As for the inevitable losses, the Galactic Empire said that this was caused by the Principality of Dawn giving the Trade Union unrealistic fantasies and letting the Trade Union 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 the Galactic Standard Time.

However, after thinking for 23 hours, the Trade Federation issued a response: Refuse to surrender!

And the Trade Federation released a large number of combat videos, showing that when they were still resisting, the structure of the bridge city Zara was very stable, and there was absolutely no damage caused 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 was stealing from the inside, and after completely emptying the wealth in Zara City, it completely blew up Zara City, destroying the corpses and leaving no evidence!

Originally, Palpatine thought that I would spare your lives, and you would take the blame for Zara City, and everyone would be happy. But now that Newt Gunray was so ignorant, he was furious and ordered Darth Vader to plow the Trade Federation completely into the ground!