The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2595 Liberalism
2595: Liberalism

"This thing is from the Galactic Empire!" another person exclaimed, "The prison facilities on the planet Akrit-Tal have been looted so many times, but I didn't expect to find such a good thing!"

The pirate with a mustache, Galandro, stroked his beard and said, "This is what I am very confused about. I received this signal when I was near the planet Kosher, which is 11 light-years away from here, a full thousand light-years. With just this thing, and there are no signal base stations left by the Galactic Empire around, how could the signal be sent so far?"

"Then give it a try." A technician dressed as a mechanic came over, holding a large bundle of data cables in his hand, the other end of which was connected to a large host. Obviously, this thing was also the military host used by the Galactic Empire on the frigate before!
To be honest, it is hard to imagine that a group of ordinary pirates would be equipped with such a military-grade mainframe. This only shows that they are not ordinary pirates and may have some background behind the scenes.

All I saw was the technician connecting the data cables directly to the metal part and then turning on the power.

At the moment the power was turned on, a large amount of electric sparks suddenly exploded from the metal parts, shocking everyone. When they all thought that this thing was completely destroyed, something amazing happened, some indicator lights actually lit up. This part actually started to work.

All I saw was a line of text appearing on the mainframe screen at the other end. It said, "I am the Galactic Empire." The text kept repeating.

"What the hell is this?" Another pirate scratched his head. "It's been more than two years since the Galactic Empire was destroyed. Don't you know about this thing?"

Galandro said proudly: "There is only one possibility - this thing is left over from the previous war. The fact that it can be used on the battlefield shows that it is a really good thing! Quick, find more information! See what this thing is. I have a feeling that if we sell this thing, we will get rich right away!"

"Let me try." The technician started tinkering with it.

Only the words on the screen kept repeating: [I am the Galactic Empire.] [I am the Galactic Empire.] [I am the Galactic Empire.]

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The timeline goes back to 9 BBY, April 4, one day after the terrorist attack on the spaceport on the planet Lothal.

Planet Dake.

General Jar-Akbar locked himself in his office, without sleep, food or drink, and had been sitting like this for a whole day. He became like this after he met with the leader of the Quarren, Nosori, as the head of the Mon Calamari temporary military government yesterday.

He was thinking, thinking about the future of the planet Dak, and... the future of the Mon Calamari.

However, no matter how he thought about it, under the current situation, the result was extremely pessimistic.

The Mon Calamari have no future.

No, even the entire Dark Planet has no future! Including the Quarren!
The Quarren did not want to join the Kingdom of Dawn, they also wanted autonomy, but the Kingdom of Dawn would not allow it. The difference was that as an ally of the Kingdom of Dawn, no matter how unhappy the Quarren were, the Kingdom of Dawn would still give them benefits. With enough benefits, it was not difficult for the Quarren to make a choice.

However... Jar-Akbar sighed. This was also what Nosori was most worried about - the Quarren would lose the possibility of independence from now on.

Jar-Akbar also agreed with this. He also believed that if they joined the Kingdom of Dawn, according to the Kingdom of Dawn's national integration policy, every race under their control would become a part of the kingdom, and would be a component that could not survive without the other parts.

This is something that many races in this galaxy do not want to see. It is worth mentioning here that liberalism is very popular in the galaxy.

The birth of this trend of thought has a deep historical background. First of all, after the Russan Reform, the Galactic Republic completely relaxed its domestic rule and turned the entire Republic into a completely market-oriented and democratic country.

Under such a political system, each planet is relatively independent. The Galactic Republic has no power to interfere with the development policies of these planets.

In other words, if they want to export food, they can export food; if they want to produce game consoles, they can produce game consoles. Even if there is iron ore everywhere on the planet, the Galactic Republic has absolutely no right to require them to export iron ore or produce turbolaser cannons.

Then, these planets can send their own representatives to the Republic Congress to fight for the interests of their own planets. For example, they can unite with the representatives of other star regions to pass a resolution to increase the price of food.

Under such a political system, these planets will hardly bear any obligations except paying taxes, and the safety of their planets will also be protected by the Galactic Republic's judicial fleet.

It can be said that they live a very comfortable life.

However, on the other side of marketization and democratization, some very bad things will also appear - such as those insatiable yet extremely powerful super-trust groups.

Those super trust groups, such as the Trade Alliance, the Enterprise Alliance, and the Technology Alliance, will cruelly exploit all the planets they are involved in. And this exploitation is a "legal exploitation" through the market.

These super companies will first dump a large number of advanced and cheap goods on the target planets to cultivate the consumption habits of these planets, and even help these planets' population explode. After that, these planets will be in debt or unable to feed the exploding population, thus causing economic collapse. At this time, these super companies will hear the news and come, and control the economic lifeline of the planet with their low prices.

After that, super corporations will make these planets their slaves, turning them into their OEM factories, dumping grounds for goods, etc.

Therefore, these planets hate super-corporations, and they are also terrified when super-corporations ask them to integrate their economy. Because such behavior completely deviates from the purpose of these planets' democratic self-determination and autonomy, and everything is out of their control.

Correspondingly, these planets also hate the centralized politics of national integration. They absolutely do not want the development of their planets to be controlled by the national regime.

Therefore, under this premise, it is easy to understand the behavior of planets and races under the trend of liberal thought.

To put it bluntly, they are not unaware of how much benefit they will gain from national integration, but what they fear more is that after that, they will no longer be in control of their own destiny.

For example, if the country is ruled by a wise and enlightened ruler, then they will indeed live a good life. But what if not?

What if their planet completely becomes part of this country and has no possibility of self-sufficiency, and the country makes some very terrifying demands on them?
For example, if they are asked to hand over 99% of their income, would they be able to resist?

At this time, it is gone.

Therefore, what liberals want is to control their own destiny, even if it means being a little bit poorer. This is the natural contradiction between freedom and authoritarianism, which cannot be reconciled.