1083. Confederacy of Independent Systems Summit (Part 2)
Count Dooku shook his head helplessly, "Unfortunately, Mrs. Shu-Mai, it is not us who decide whether to upgrade, but the battlefield. The cost of Defiant-class is as high as 61 million credits, but it takes 4 to 6 ships to ensure victory over Hunter Class, which costs only 59 million credits..."
He spread his hands and continued, "Even if we include the cost of Hunter Class's huge carrier-based aircraft fleet, this is far lower than the construction cost of four Defiant-classs. Therefore, upgrading is imperative. This is also a way to reduce our financial pressure and improve industrial efficiency."
The anger on Shu Mai's face could no longer be suppressed. Her body even trembled a little, but she still said, "This is against the rules! This is different from the agreement! It's different!! I can promise to reduce the construction cost of Defiant-class as much as possible, maybe to 50 million... No, 55 million credits, but the battleship order must meet the stipulated quantity!"
She could only say this. In fact, she herself understood how much the cost of Defiant-class light destroyer was worth.
The design of this kind of battleship was actually an immature design stolen from the planet shipyard by creating chaos when Quarren Isolation League split from Mon Calamari. It was then bought by Merchant Guilds at a high price, modified and improved, and became their own battleship.
So Shu-Mai was confident at that time that Merchant Guilds could be considered one of the forces that designed and built its own main battleships, and was qualified to be on an equal footing with other major corporate giants.
With such a treasure, it is natural to make good use of it.
For this war, Merchant Guilds invested a huge amount of money and materials. As businessmen, it was naturally impossible for them to lose everything. So investment is investment, and they also made great efforts on the cost of the Defiant-class light support destroyer, increasing the cost of parts and components, and then making a large profit in the middle.
Then through Shu-Mai's operation, these price difference profits were converted into dividends that she personally brought to Merchant Guilds, thereby further consolidating her position and filling her own pockets, making a lot of money.
But now, this cash cow must be canceled directly!
This is absolutely impossible!
At this time, a voice came from the Dawn Star Planet group on the other side, "Actually, Merchant Guilds can also accept parts orders from Behemoth-class and contribute its own strength from another direction."
The speaker is Prime Minister Fourth Civilization, Francis-Underwood.
"Who said you have to contribute! Don't I make money just by producing these parts?!" Shu Mai couldn't bear it anymore and blurted out without thinking at all.
Then the next second, when she saw the expressions of those around her, she realized that she had said the wrong thing.
Confederacy of Independent Systems was established with the principles of fairness, justice, and freedom. You can make money, but on the surface, you must adhere to principles. Putting money on the table is tantamount to slapping everyone in the face.
At this time, Fourth Group director Glosse-Shelbia smiled coldly, tapped the button, and projected a projection of a huge battleship in the holographic projection. This battleship had an approximately rectangular hull and a raised dome at the middle and rear of the hull.
"This is... one of the shipbuilding plans that Kuat Drive Yards is preparing to update in the near future - Commander II-class Star Dreadnought (Mandator II -class Star Dreadnaught). It is a new super battleship that has been completely modernized and redesigned based on the previous Commander-class. The length is still 8,000 meters... According to the data comparison and simulation we have obtained so far, such an interstellar dreadnought requires 100 meters. Only 0 Defiant-class can compete. Mrs. Shu-Mai, the battleship you built is really just like the name, it is a disobedient! 1000 to 1 disobedience, hehehehe." Glosse-Shelbia mocked.
Shu Mai turned around suddenly and yelled at Watto Tambor and Parcell Argent: "Are you just going to say nothing?! These liars have already bullied us!!"
However, Watto-Tanbo had already clearly seen the current direction of the wind. He watched his nose and heart without saying a word.
Anyway, they Technological Alliance have little influence. After all, Confederacy of Independent Systems's main factories and shipyards are here. If you want to build warships, no matter what you build, they will eventually have to come from them. As for the OEM fees... at worst, I can just make a little less at that time.
Parcell Argent was even more silent. After he was dealt with by Tang Xiao in the Christophsis battle a long time ago, he had long realized how powerful this group of people was. After that, he did not dare to disobey them at all, for fear of provoking them again.
Poggle-The inferior man was also silent, he was also assessing the situation. Like Count Dooku and Newt Gunray, he was once a member of Darth-Sidious. Later, he had an affair with the capital of Galactic Republic because of the super tank project. Now it is even more impossible to come into this muddy water.
Tang Xiao, however, always maintained a faint smile and watched all developments with cold eyes.
That's right, in Delon system's offensive, most of the old warships currently in stock will be taken out and given away, and then this military reform can be carried out in a logical manner.
The greedy Merchant Guilds is the first target of this military reform!
And there is more after that! Technological Alliance, Corporate Alliance, not even Trade Federation who has taken refuge with them, no one can escape!
There is no doubt that after Battle of the Delon system, Confederacy of Independent Systems will have a large window period for mobile fleets, but the earlier this window period comes, the better.
After all, the current battle line is still on the edge of Inner Rim of the galaxy. If Galactic Republic waits until it is pushed all the way to Mid Rim or even Outer Rim, and then the military reform comes again, facing the same fleet window period, maybe Galactic Republic fleet will directly hit Dawn Star Planet and Raxus with one stick.
And then General Grievous stole the news and raided Kamino, which was also an important part of this plan.
As long as the production of Clone Trooper is destroyed, the threat of Galactic Republic on the surface of the planet will plummet!
That's right, their plan is to give up space and stop Galactic Republic on the planet's ground battlefield! They deployed combat robots on a large number of occupied planets very early on.
If you don't have a fleet, it doesn't matter. Just surrender your troops to fight with me. Without Clone Army, I'll see how you can defeat my robot army!
Orbital Bombardment? It doesn't matter, if you have the ability, start from Mid Rim and blow it up all the way to Outer Rim.
Will those planets surrender? It doesn't matter, the main force of combat has always been robots. From the moment I put the robots on these planets, the positions of these planets were determined!
Confederacy of Independent Systems, what is missing is the fleet, what is missing is strategic projection power, and what is lacking most is combat robots!
When you Galactic Republic executes Orbital Bombardment on the already unstable planet Mid Rim, by then, you can see how many planets are still willing to help Galactic Republic!
When your power surpasses everyone else, it doesn't matter how much massacre you do. But at least for now, Confederacy of Independent Systems is still there! The fear caused by Orbital Bombardment will only push those planets to the side of Confederacy of Independent Systems, who has power that is at least not weaker than Galactic Republic!
Trade space for time, use the robot army, and use the Mid Rim planet as a strategic buffer. On this basis, Tang Xiao can work with Thorn Hill, Newt Gunray, and Count Dooku to clean up Confederacy of Independent Systems's internal affairs and reform politics and the military.
Use a new fleet that is more advanced and more centralized to produce to replace the old fleet that was previously dispersedly produced, has different models, has low performance and high costs!
Later, after a full contraction, a brand new fleet was used to fight Outer Rim of the galaxy and Galactic Republic in a decisive battle!
Thanks to Assimilation Fighter for the 100000 Qidian Coin, another leader was born. Thank you so much.
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