1150, Sidelining
PS: My mistake. The Imperial-class was indeed called the Imperator-class or Emperor-class during the Republic era. I vaguely remembered this before, but when I checked the entry yesterday and didn't see it, I assumed it was just a fan rumor that had never been officially adopted. But the more I thought about it today, the stranger it felt. When I got home and switched back to the English page, I found that there really were two different names. Translation has to take some blame for this too—Imperator was translated as Emperor-class, and I glanced over it and confused it with Imperial-class... The previous chapter has already been corrected.
At this Republic Ship Supervision Committee meeting, as usual, Kuat Drive Yards and Corellia Engineering Company made a killing.
Kuat Drive Yards went without saying. Between warships of all kinds, ground combat equipment, starfighters, and other military procurements, it secured orders worth more than 300 billion. Corellia Engineering Company, meanwhile, won through sheer volume with orders for DP-20 gunships, CR-series corvettes, vast numbers of small transports, starfighters, airspeeders, and more, securing over 180 billion in orders.
But when it came to Rendili StarDrive, the Ship Supervision Committee's panel of experts grew ambiguous. They hemmed and hawed, saying one moment that further review was needed, and the next that the Victory-class Star Destroyer was incompatible with the Republic's existing logistics. In short, they found every possible excuse to stall.
As for the space battle in the Ambria system, the Committee members claimed that only three Victory-class Star Destroyers had participated, leaving the data sample too small to prove that the Victory-class could truly contend with the Behemoth-class. The chairman even stressed that, no matter what, even if they only considered the performance of those three Victory-class ships, the final result