As the Geonosians rioted, the Galactic Empire came under immense pressure.
First, within the Empire itself, a large number of senators led by Senator of Alderaan Bail Organa launched extremely sharp criticism against the Empire's policies. They believed that a project as massive as the Death Star was simply a waste of manpower and money, something the Empire's finances could not sustain, and that it had to be stopped.
Bail Organa even raised his arms and shouted directly, calling for terrorism to be completely eradicated from the Empire! And the Death Star was the very synonym for terrorism.
At this time, the devastating losses suffered because of the Geonosian uprising left those senators from the Imperial Loyalty Committee, Palpatine's lackeys, utterly unable to argue back.
The enraged Palpatine directly declared the Imperial Senate adjourned indefinitely and forcibly ordered the Imperial Engineering Department to see the Death Star project through to the end.
Beyond the Geonosian uprising, this incident had another fatal problem—why had the Kingdom of Dawn fleet appeared on Tarassia? How had they learned the location of the Death Star project, and when had they begun colluding with the Geonosians?
Imperial investigators classified Emperor Karina's previous spontaneous covert resistance as collusion with the Kingdom of Dawn. That made the matter even more serious—the Kingdom of Dawn had not only colluded with the Geonosians, but had begun making covert arrangements a considerable time ago!
This meant that the DS-1 battle station project had been riddled with infiltration from the very beginning!
How could that possibly be tolerated?!
Intelligence Department Minister Armand Isard, as well as Blackhole, who controlled the Intelligence Department from behind the scenes, consequently fell under Palpatine's suspicion.
Armand Isard began a sweeping internal purge within the Empire. He promised Palpatine that within the next three months, he