Before the War

2 years later (1 year until the start of the clone wars)

Johns Empire had reached trillions of people from various races in the galaxy. His Empire was widely known through the Galaxy and attracted many people to immigrate from other Empire's territory and live on Imperium worlds for a better life.

Billions of more droids were made through the 2 years making his droid army go from 1.5 Billion to 100 Billion and his clone army going from 30 million to 120 Million.

The clone army would have been bigger but to maintain and feed over a hundred million troops john didn't have enough food as it takes a lot to feed trillions of people and then once the war starts he will acquire more planets.

The space casino above Naboo had been booming with money coming in every day. But with a lot of people, comes problems that will arrive such as a merchant under the protection of the trade federation had come to visit the Space Casino to trade some things. But before he could make it to the trading part of the casino he was assassinated by a Mandolorian who had stolen a set of Imperium armor. The Mandolorian had then waited for the merchant to come on the station and then assassinate him before he makes it to his location. The Mandolorian was hired by Palpatine to cause tensions to rise between the Trade Federation and The Imperium.

But John had already known of the plan but couldn't prevent the merchant from dying by the time he knew of it. So he presented the recording of Palpatine hiring the Mandolorian and ordering him to kill the Merchant but the trade federation was already under Palpatine's control so they didn't believe him and called the evidence fabricated.

In response to this, the Republic had called for compensation and canceled all trade with The Imperium. But the real reason why the Republic canceled all trade is that the merchant was in fact a high-ranking admiral in the trade federation and had influence in the Republic senate. So they couldn't just let this go so the senate which was now mostly controlled by Corrupt senators under Palpatine had proposed canceled trade and sanctions against the Imperium. All of this was a plan fabricated by Palpatine.

But John really didn't care as Kane told him that it wouldn't affect the economy in the slightest since most trades were with factions outside of the republic so John refused to pay compensation and even closed Borders with the Republic. He also had his spies release the video evidence of Palpatine hiring the Mandolorian and ordering the assassination to the whole of coruscant which began to spread throughout the Republic.

Some planets who had seen this called for Palpatine to be replaced by a new Chancellor while Most planets had thought the video was fake and fabricated. The small number of planets who believed the video knew Palpatine was trying to start problems with Other Factions and disrupt the peace in the Galaxy so they wanted a new chancellor.

But the re-election didn't happen because the majority of senators regardless of whether their own people believed it or not had been corrupted by Palpatine so the vote for re-election had not gone through.

So the small number of planets who didn't believe it had all gathered in a location to discuss what to do. Both Leaders and senators had come to the secret meeting.

The main discussion was what should they do now. Nobody had an answer until somebody suggested they secede from the Republic. This was of course was a senator who had been sent there by Palpatine as a disguise to record the meeting.

Of course, nobody wanted to secede as it was a big decision so after a long discussion, they all decided not to do it and remain in the republic.

The senator in disguise brought the evidence to Palpatine and presented it to him. After receiving the evidence Palpatine proceeded with the next part of his plan. He gathered the whole senate for a meeting and showed the evidence.

The senators who had attended that meeting had shocked expressions on their faces and immediately tried to deny the evidence and call it fake and fabricated.

But the senate was under control by Palpatine and they couldn't convince otherwise as it showed their faces in the video.

In the end, the senate had sanctioned the Planets and for new leaders to be elected. Now, of course, the republic had no right to change a countries leaders or senators but with evidence, they presented to the people they could cause a change to happen.

The planets had once again met but this time they made sure no one was a spy before continuing the meeting.

The leaders of the planets had met to discuss what they should do now. Most leaders had now wanted to secede as they knew that this was for them not believing that the evidence was fabricated. So they had a long discussion on what they should do.

While this was going on The Jedi Order had been witnessing the events happening with the republic and knew something was wrong so they sent masters to investigate the situation because it all seems too suspicious.

A/N: Tomorrows chapter will be the start of the war and sorry for the late updates