The Army Is Ready
Large numbers of ships flew out from the massive industrial Star Ring around Kuat Planet. A rough count put their number in the tens of thousands!
Even for Kuat Drive Yards, now at the height of its power, deploying ships on such a scale was unprecedented.
There were warships fresh off the production line, supply ships loaded with all manner of provisions, and large numbers of transport vessels packed with battle droids.
Fewer than ten planets in the entire Milky Way Galaxy could boast such a sight on their own. And those other planets that could reach this scale mostly did so because of their enormous populations—Coruscant, with a trillion people; Rendili, with six hundred billion; Nal Hutta, with one hundred billion; and so on. With such vast populations, it was only natural for countless ships to come and go around them...
But Kuat Planet had a population of only three billion! Maintaining the lives of those three billion people required nowhere near so many ships. The tens of thousands of vessels taking off from here now were a pure display of the planet's industrial strength!
Inside a lavishly decorated building in the administrative district of the Kuat Industrial Ring stood a young man dressed in extravagant clothes and a tall hat, with exaggerated earrings hanging from his ears. His features were effeminate.
He was Little Kuat, a senior executive of Kuat Drive Yards and Onana Kuat's nephew.
At that moment, he gazed at the countless ships departing outside the window, his eyes filled with coldness.
"The moment my aunt sat down at this table, she had already lost," Little Kuat said icily.
Four people stood respectfully behind him, all core executives holding high positions within Kuat Drive Yards.
"Indeed. Onana Kuat should not have gambled.