The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1597、Last Strike

It can only be seen that this uninhabited galaxy has been occupied by a large number of spaceships from the Kuat Power Dock. And more than a dozen large space stations have been built close to the stars. This is where the workers and engineers involved in the construction live and entertain.

And with this huge number of workers and spaceships, what they are building is an incomparably huge facility!

This facility does not seem to have any effect at the moment. It is basically a dish shape with a diameter of more than 20,000 meters! Totally a super giant!

All the projects are carried out in the perihelion orbit. In order to prevent the powerful stellar radiation from interfering with the construction of the project, there are more than ten umbrella-shaped spaceships deployed near the construction site. These umbrella-shaped spacecraft will support a deflector shield with a very wide coverage, and the shield will protect these spacecraft and construction personnel from harm.

Just to maintain the operation of these shield spacecraft, it is necessary to continuously replace the shield capacitors. Just the cost of this part is already astronomical!

That's not all, there are still several energy extraction devices being built closer to the stars, which rely entirely on robots for construction. The energy level of these energy extraction devices is very high. This is definitely not a project to meet the energy supply of this construction area or other planets, but to carry out a project that consumes more energy and is more concentrated!

Look at those constantly busy engineering ships, these spacecraft and the workers, technicians, scientists, and various personnel needed to maintain life. A total of more than 5 million people participated in this engineering project. The salaries of these people alone are also a huge cost, because for the sake of confidentiality, all participants are not allowed to leave before the completion of the project. To let them work with peace of mind, there is only one way - to spend money.

And with this almost endless supply of funds and materials, such a huge project was completed in this unmanned galaxy in just two or three months! It can be said that in this galaxy, only the Kuat Power Shipyard has such terrible industrial strength!

On the bridge of a Knight-class Star Destroyer stationed on the planet, Lila Blissex was facing a holographic projection of a middle-aged woman in gorgeous clothes——the current Kuat Power Dock’s Kuat Special, Onana Quarter (this weird title also sounds super weird).

"Ninth Army Governor Dunn-Wessex has persuaded Speaker Palpatine for us, and now the Supreme Strategic Command of the Galactic Republic has officially approved our application. It will be presided over by our Kuat Power Shipyard. All levels of officers and army and naval combatants have assembled in Coruscant and will be in place in four days." Lila Blissex said.

"What about the conditions?" Onana Quarter asked straightforwardly.

It is not without reason that she regards this military operation to attack the Model sector as her last hole card. Not only because of the political pressure brought to her by Gideon Danu, but also because of the pressure from the Duchy of Dawn.

Onana Kwat isn't an idiot either, she actually knows that Gideon Danu doesn't actually have ambitions to replace her, but the problem is that with Gideon Danu representing Kwat in the Galactic Council The more special deeds, the more praise, and the two contrasted, she herself became a negative teaching material.

If things go on like this, even if Gideon Danu doesn't mean it himself, those who support him will push him up.

On the other hand, it is Dawn Star.

In the battle line in the direction of the Dawn Star, the fleet of the Galactic Republic was defeated again and again, and most of the time it was because of the huge difference in the performance of the battleships. Among other things, there are two types of Titan battleships on Dawn Star, but there is nothing on the Galactic Republic side.

After finally building a solar eclipse class, the prototype ship was blown up...

Onana Quarter herself knew that it was indeed a good thing that the Eclipse-class prototype ship was bombed. So on the surface she scolded Lila Blissex and gave her a blow, but in reality she couldn't really criticize Lila Blissex too much.

This has nothing to do with whether she judges Lila's ability, but because although Palpatine and the laymen in the council are very fascinated by this plan and believe in it, but she also knows that she wants to make the solar eclipse within a year. It's impossible to figure it out! No matter how powerful a genius is, it won't work!

So under this series of failures, there are already some voices in the parliament, which have questioned the design and manufacturing capabilities of the warships of the Kuat Power Shipyard.

If the gap in technical strength with Dawn Star cannot be reversed, as the Republic continues to fail on the front line, such voices will increase. When these influences broke out in full swing, even she herself didn't know if she could withstand the pressure of the Republic.

Even if it is the best ending, it may be sidelined just like Rendili Interstellar Power Company.

With the strength of the Galactic Republic, it is not difficult to build another Kuat Power Dock. At least Sienna Fleet Systems, which is rising rapidly now, is a potential possibility.

Not to mention the Corellia Engineering Company, which can be said to be the oldest industrial giant in the history of the Republic, it can be said that it will be a matter of minutes to replace the Kuat Power Shipyard.

Now they are just making a fortune in the field of civilian spaceships and small and medium-sized warships in a low-key manner, and they don't want to confront the current government's favorites like Kuat Power Dockyard.

I don’t want to, it’s not that I can’t.

So for various reasons, Onana Quarter had to make a last-ditch [Note 1]!

Defeat the Duchy of Dawn! Get their advanced battleship technology! Only then can the status of Quarter Power Dock be maintained!

So after Onana Quarter learned through various channels that the Supreme Strategic Command had drawn up a plan to raid the Model sector, she decided to seize this opportunity.

But looking for relationships in many ways, the results are not ideal. Even if she went to the Minister of Population of the Republic, this act of directly intervening in military affairs was still not accepted.

Under such circumstances, even if she felt 10,000 upset, Onana Quarter had no choice but to find Lila Blissex and negotiate terms with her.

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[Note 1]: In fact, although the situation of the Kuat Power Dock in the original plot was not so bad, Onana-Quat still could not bear the pressure from the Republic, and she stepped down sadly at the end of the Clone Wars. If it weren't for her nephew Little Quarter's methods to be ruthless enough, the Quarter Power Shipyard would have been taken over by the Galactic Empire at this time.