2471, Death Star Project (Part 1)
However, the DS-1 Battle Station project was not accepted by many high-ranking officials of the Galactic Empire. On one hand, the cost and scale of the DS-1 Battle Station were unimaginably immense. On the other, once this weapon was built, the cost of destroying a planet would drop to an extremely low level.
Everyone would worry that one day, their own planet might be blasted into ore with a single shot from the DS-1.
Previously, whether it was the Galactic Republic or its enemies—including powers such as the Sith Empire, Eternal Empire, and Infinite Empire—they could destroy a planet's surface, but they could not destroy the planet itself.
Especially a standard planet around 10,000 kilometers in diameter. Blasting it into fragments required an astronomical amount of energy. And even if it could be done, with that level of energy, doing almost anything else would be far more worthwhile than destroying a planet itself.
Thus, few people had ever directly made planetary destruction the objective of a weapon's design.
But now, under Palpatine's instruction, the DS-1 Battle Station put that very possibility on the table!
The DS-1 Battle Station itself, even as nothing more than a design concept, was enough to send chills down everyone's spine.
Therefore, this project faced unanimous opposition from industrial giants such as Kuat Drive Yards and Corellia Engineering Company.
One important purpose behind Palpatine's vigorous push to nationalize the military-industrial complex was to force the DS-1 Battle Station project forward at the national level.
In truth, Palpatine could not possibly fail to see that, with the pressure from the Kingdom of Dawn along the border and the constantly growing strength of the Rebel Alliance within the Empire, the Galactic Empire's days were numbered.
He could not reconcile the contradictions within