The Governor's Wedding (II)
Yet the countless spherical orbital shipyards surrounding Rendili Planet, though spectacular beyond compare, also exuded a desperate desolation when one saw their folded-in structures and extinguished lights.
During the Sith Wars thousands of years ago, Rendili Planet had been incomparably busy. Every shipyard had held several orders at once, and warships rolled off the lines one after another, mingling with transports carrying raw materials in an almost unending stream.
Aside from Corellia Engineering Company, which had quietly made a fortune in the civilian spacecraft and small-to-medium vessel markets all along, Rendili StarDrive had been the very embodiment of industry—the embodiment of warships!
More than half of the Galactic Republic military's spacecraft had been built by Rendili. At the time, Kuat Drive Yards could only pick up scraps in the margins.
But after the war ended, thousands of years had caused Rendili to completely lose itself in its more than twenty thousand years of legacy and its halo as the Milky Way Galaxy's greatest industrial giant.
When Kuat Drive Yards began systematically cultivating its own warship designers and building its own warship production lines, Rendili StarDrive was still obsessed with its outdated franchise model;
When Kuat Drive Yards poured hundreds of billions into the development of new warships, Rendili's shipyard owners and executives at every level casually spent tens or hundreds of millions on their own extravagant lifestyles;
Thus, Kuat Drive Yards produced brilliant warship designers such as Willix and Blythex, father and daughter, while Rendili StarDrive produced spoiled young masters like Gali Ulan, who could spend millions upon millions on a single outfit.
Now that a new war had broken out, the comparison between Kuat and Rendili had quietly shifted. On the surface, it was the Acclamator-class assault ship and Hunter Class Battlecruiser designed by Willix