In the uninhabited system designated T6652U7X8849L, every warship Kuat Drive Yards could find had been assembled!
In fact, under a regime like the Galactic Republic, which championed democracy, freedom, free markets, and free trade, industrial giants like Kuat Drive Yards often possessed tremendous power.
Because under such a regime, all the industrial facilities built by these industrial giants—including industrial bases, mining bases, orbital shipyards, and so on—were privately owned. So long as they were willing, they could arm a massive fleet at any time.
However, the Galactic Republic still had one final safeguard: the Republic Constitution. According to the Republic Constitution, no organization outside the Republic military was permitted to possess a defense fleet exceeding certain standards.
With that restriction in place, companies doing military business, such as Kuat Drive Yards and Corellia Engineering Company, could not expand without restraint. Their production capacity also followed the military orders they received, so they generally would not operate at full capacity.
But this time, after receiving authorization from the Galactic Republic Senate, Kuat Drive Yards was finally able to display its industrial capabilities in full!
For the Galactic Republic, with someone willing to foot the bill for so many warships, why would they refuse?
For Kuat Drive Yards, this was an incomparably enormous deal. If they succeeded, they would not only further strengthen their ties with the military, but also obtain Dawn Star Planet's advanced shipbuilding technology. If they lost, they would likewise strengthen their ties with the Galactic Republic, though in a different way.
Thus, just as Adele-Ulan had previously predicted, Kuat Drive Yards brought out all its existing stockpiles, built large numbers of warships in a short time, and assembled a massive fleet.
And unlike Adele-Ulan's prediction, the number of warships Kuat Drive Yards had gathered this time was beyond