Planet Naboo, the capital city of Theed.
The Minister of Guards walked quickly to the Palace, as far as the King's Hall.
Now the entirety of Planet Naboo, including Theed City, is in a state of complete martial law, basically three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. Facing the blatant invasion of the Trade Federation, Planet Naboo is doing its best to take precautions even if it is weak.
In the King's hall, the Queen of Planet Naboo, dressed in fine attire and with thick makeup on her face, was sitting on the throne. The Queen's maids stood behind her.
Concern was written on everyone's face.
"Your Majesty! The Trade Federation refuses to withdraw troops and refuses to negotiate. Their only request is for us to surrender unconditionally! And sign an even more unequal peace treaty!" The Minister of Security came to the Queen, shaking his head and sighing.
"Help me connect to the communication of the Trade Federation Commander, and I will talk to him personally," said the Queen.
The communicator was activated, the holographic projection flashed, and the projections of the Viceroy of the Trade Federation, Nute Gunray, and his adjutant, Rune Haako, appeared in front of him. The Queen said blankly: "The current behavior of the Trade Federation is a violation of the laws of the Republic! You must withdraw your troops immediately, otherwise, the Republic will not tolerate your invasion!"
Nute Gunray pretended to be surprised, and said, "Oh? Invasion? Your Majesty, you should pay attention to your wording. There is no intrusion here. Everything is legal. We are serious businessmen and act according to the law."
"There is nothing in the constitution of the Republic that can support your barbaric invasion!"
"Oh, this matter has to be discussed by the Senate of the Republic, and Planet Naboo has nothing to say. Besides, it's because you broke the contract first."
"The unequal treaty signed by the former King Ars Veruna should have been invalidated with his abdication and suicide. Moreover, this treaty fundamentally violates the principles of fairness and justice of the Republic! The people of Planet Naboo will never approve!"
"Then let's wait and see." After Nute Gunray said this coldly, he shut down the communication.
Queen Amidala stared in the direction of the communicator, and her expression was completely hidden by the thick makeup. After a moment of silence, she said: "Immediately report the situation here to the Senate of the Republic. In addition, Put me through the communications of our Senator, Sheev Palpatine, immediately."
The holographic projection projects the image of Sheev Palpatine. He has a high hairline, his gray hair is neatly combed, his hook-like nose looks very energetic, and he always has a kind smile on his face.
He bowed to the queen and said: "Your Majesty, I have heard about what happened on Planet Naboo, and I have reported the situation to Supreme Chancellor Vinis Valorum as soon as possible. Of course, if a formal call for help is issued in the name of the Queen of Planet Naboo, I think the effect will be better."
"I hope that the Republic can stop the invasion of the Trade Alliance, impose sanctions on them, and even take back their trade privileges." The Queen said coldly.
Palpatine sighed, with a hesitant and lonely expression on his face, and then he said with a little embarrassment: "Okay, I will fight for this matter in the Senate."
"Please be sure to guarantee the Republic's position on this matter, because once our Trade Routes are cut off, our material reserves won't last long," said the Queen.
"Okay, my Queen." Palpatine bowed again, and wanted to turn off the communication, but seemed to want to say something, but still turned into a sigh, and turned off the communication.
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Trade Federation flagship command center.
Rune Haako looked at the blue Planet Naboo through the porthole, and said with lingering fear: "It's okay, okay, the reaction of Planet Naboo is not very violent."
"The key is not on Planet Naboo, but on the Republic side!" Nute Gunray said, "We are standing still until the Queen of Planet Naboo comes to beg us!"
"But..." Rune Haako was about to say something, but he looked around again, and after making sure that there was no one nearby, he whispered, "Didn't that lord want us to occupy Planet Naboo?"
"Sending ground troops to occupy them and besieging them to make them surrender are two different things!" Nute Gunray said with a gloomy face, "We can't block our own back! Once we send ground troops, then we have really violated the laws of the Republic."
"This is the best, this is the best." Rune Haako said, patting his chest.
"Planet Naboo doesn't have many troops, they won't be able to support it." Nute Gunray snorted coldly, looked at the Military Observers of the Fourth Group sitting on the other side, and said with a smile: "This battle is destined to be fought." If you can't get up, you can treat it as a vacation."
Now the relationship between the Trade Federation and the Fourth Group is very good, and the project of the Hiigaran-class Battlecruiser that the two parties are cooperating to develop is also in progress, so Nute Gunray is naturally very polite to the representatives here.
The representative sent by the Fourth Group is Xiao Guanghua, the current Commander-In-Chief of the Army. Tang Xiao also knows that the war on Naboo is mainly based on the ground war. The battle in space is not fierce and has no reference value.
Xiao Guanghua nodded with a sullen face, and said politely, "In any case, we also need to learn from the Trade Federation in order to improve our level in all aspects."
He had already cursed in his heart, if Tang Xiao hadn't ordered him not to interfere in the Trade Federations' decision-making before he left, he would have even wanted to go up and beat up these two cowards!
You are invading brother! And your 60 Lucrehulk-class LH-3210 Cargo Freighters are loaded with a full army of 6 Million Droids! At this time, instead of directly landing on the ground, capturing the opponent's Supreme Commander alive, so as to avoid more variables in, he still wants to wait for others to surrender?
Your opponent is a planet with a population of 4.5 billion! Even if we only count the human regime, there are more than one billion people. If you look around, you can find a large number of passionate men. How could it be so simple to submit?
And you guys are worried that ground invasion will break the law? Brother, what you are doing now is already shitting on the face of the Galactic Republic, okay? Whether there is such a thing as a ground invasion has already offended the Republic to the end! Why don't you end the battle quickly, cook rice with raw rice, and then slowly go to the Senate to argue, even thinking about whether it is illegal?
Nute Gunray also accepted Xiao Guanghua's compliments, and he said: "Actually, we also took this opportunity to learn how to use the Droid Army to fight. As you can see, the B-1 Battle Droid, due to the problem of computing speed, does not perform well in large-scale combat and cooperation. Therefore, we converted the Lucrehulk-class LH-3210 Cargo Freighter into a Droid Control Ship, and our controllers coordinate the Droid battles. At least in the previous In simulation tests, these rigid B-1 Battle Droids fared much better."
He looked at Xiao Guanghua, "Are you the Army unit in charge of the Fourth Group? You also ordered 10 million B-1 Battle Droids from us before, so you need to take a good look at this battle and learn from it."
Xiao Guanghua nodded but did not speak.
"Okay, since we don't have anything to do here, I brought some Shula fruit wine, which is a special product on Planet Naboo, just in time to wish us to occupy Planet Naboo, hahaha!" Rune Haako leaned over and said.