Tabloid [OPEN] Core in Crisis! Stock Market Plummets!

[The Storyteller]

In a shocking turn of events, the Galactic Senate passed a resolution to impose trade restrictions with the Sith, resulting in chaos in the Core. As shipping and weapons manufacturers on Fondor, Kuat, and Corellia, among others, saw their stocks plummet, the New Republic Stock Market saw its single greatest dip in over a hundred years. The rest of the Core, feeling the ripples of this drop, saw similar dips that has financial experts concerned.

Professor Moneypenny from the University of Coruscant had this to say on the matter. "The Core will suffer significant financial fallout unless immediate action is taken. What happens when shipyards cannot sell ships they have been building for months? When they cancel their existing orders to durasteel refineries? The domonio effect of this resolution can bring financial ruin to billions across the Core. I can understand Senators from agrarian worlds in the FWA, and backwater planets in the ISC voting in favor of this proposal, it will barely make any difference to them. But I am very confused by the intent of any New Republic Senators that let this motion pass."

There are already reports of protests on Coruscant and Corellia, as workers wonder if they will have jobs in a week's time, and how they will put food on the table. Tensions are similarly rising on Fondor and Kuat, with unconfirmed reports stating that worker's unions are planning strikes in the coming days.