Chapter 457: 29BBY


    The time enters 29BBY, time flies by, and it has been 3 years since Darth gueis died and Sheev Palpatine became the Supreme Chancellor.


    During this period of time, not too many things have happened to Dawn or the Gctic Republic, but in general, except for Dawn''s real battle with the Ayrous, most of them are just minor storms, the tranquillity of before.


    Palpatine has been working on consolidating his own power. He first showed his ws and made Deputy Chancellor Mas Amedda think that he can influence himself to arge extent. Mas Amedda proposed several proposals, and all issues were passed by him.


    Not only that, but the easygoing he showed in the early days of his administration also made some people from other political parties think that there was an opportunity to take advantage of him, so they began to approach him.


    But in fact, Palpatine was just letting all this happen. He didn''t care about the impact these people would have on the Republic through the issues he raised. What he cared about was only continuously improving his own secret strength.


    He kept building good rtions with those old, powerful industrials and used his rights to make deals. He initially used the project of the Clone Army to throw out this bait and testedrge industrial enterprises such as Kuat Drive Yards, Rendili StarDrive, and Corellian Engineering Corporation.


    It was the Kuat Drive Yards that finally bit the hook, and Palpatine also generously gave them their first gift-a Military Order for a full set of equipment needed by the Clone Army, worth 7 Billion Credits, and the Interster Banking n guarantee and paid this huge sum of money.


    And what Palpatine got in exchange was the allegiance of Kuat.


    These industrials are eager for power and yearn for war because only war can allow them to get more benefits, so they hit it off with Palpatine''s policies and became Palpatine''s secret supporters.


    After that, in the process of constant contact with Mas Amedda and those other political factions, he secretly searched for their weaknesses.


    Palpatine is very clear that in his first term, he can''t do too much. He is not the kind of person who wants a new official to take office. He wants more, taller, bigger ...


    What he is doing now is to get more support.


    Whether it is Mas Amedda or some other political factions, they regard him as a weak Supreme Chancellor. They think that they can use Palpatine to achieve more goals and seek more interests. In fact, They did, and all the ck ounts were recorded by Palpatine.


    On the other hand, Francis Underwood, Senator of the Dawn, is aggressive. He has a strong aura, is eloquent, and has a powerful behind him. Around him, many Outer Rings are also united.


    But it was precisely because of this that Palpatine knew that Francis would not be his real political opponent, and those swinging fools would not choose Francis.


    At the beginning of the year 29BBY, the Senate of the Gctic Republic began to be busy and noisy as always, all for the election of the next year.


    The term of the Supreme Chancellor of the Gctic Senate is 4 years, and the Constitution of the Republic stiptes that the Supreme Chancellor can be re-elected at most once.


    As Sheev Palpatine, who was on the way to the position of Supreme Chancellor, still has too much to do, because without aplete election, it is difficult for him to know who his real supporters are, and everything is feeling like stones cross the river. It is true that there have been few examples of sessful re-election of the Supreme Chancellor who ascended to the throne halfway through the generations.


    But this is not a problem for a Political Master like Palpatine.


    Francis Underwood has also be a candidate, but his actions are very strange. He has indeed canvassed votes and gained support, but more of them are targetings in the Middle Ring and Outer Ring Star Regions and doesn''t want to win over thes in the Inner Ring. Of course, those aristocratic lords in the Inner Ring would not be able to take such a young member of an emerging seriously.


    Compared with canvassing for the Supreme Chancellor''s election, Francis'' behavior is more like dividing his own sphere of influence.


    Palpatine looked at this with cold eyes. If such behavior is not stupid, then he is nning something more long-term.


    From what he knew of Francis, Palpatine knew that it would definitely not be the former.


    But something happened during this time. A Jedi Master named Jorus C''baoth began to lobby for a very grand n-Outbound Flight.


    This proposal is a proposal to explore, develop and colonize the Unknown Star Region of the Milky Way. The Unknown Star Region is a Star Field that upies about one-third of the size of the entire Milky Way. ording to estimates, the Unknown Regions contain 15% of the mass of stars in the Milky Way.


    If the entire Milky Way is ttened as a map, and the coordinates are drawn ording to the traditional Star Map of the Gctic Republic, the Unknown Star Region is located on the west side of the Milky Way.


    Of course, there is no term for the Milky Way. The west side only refers to the west side of the Star Map. By the way, Dawn where Tang Xiao is located is roughly in the southwest corner of the Star Map.


    The area of the Unknown Star Region is very vast. In fact, the territory of the Gctic Republic is equivalent to a two-thirds circle, and arge area of the Inner Ring Star Area close to this direction on the west side is the Unknown Star Region.


    Therefore, in fact, the Middle Ring and Outer Ring of the Gctic Republic are not really a ring but are truncated in the Unknown Star Regions.


    The Unknown Regions contain arge number of resources, and ording to the judgment of scientists, there are likely to be countless Dark Matter energies disturbing here. In other words, if you want to study Dark Matter, you will get twice the result with half the effort in the Unknown Regions.


    This is different from the Wild Space. There are not many habitables in the Wild Space, and the resources are scarce, so basically no one cares about it.


    But the reason why the Gctic Republic''s hegemony did not extend to the Unknown Regions, and the reason why the Unknown Regions are ''Unknown'' is because this space is full of abnormal gravity traps and dark energy fluctuations.


    And Hyperspace is aplete mess here, you enter the Hyperspace Channel at the same ce, and the ce you get out of ispletely different, maybe a ck hole, maybe an electromaic neb, maybe directly plunged into a star.


    Explorers call this messy Hyperspace Channel in the Unknown Regions the ''Tangle'', which means a mess that can''t be made out at all.


    But now, Jedi Master Jorus C''baoth ims that he has the ability to travel in Hyperspace in the Unknown Regions.