1786. Galactic Empire Navy Reform (1)
"Your Excellency, I think your behavior just now is very irrational." On the way back from the laboratory, Doctor Halsey said coldly, "You don't understand the power of Spartan warrior at all. Although I know you possess the mysterious the Force, not even an armored vehicle can withstand the punch of John 117."
However, Tang Xiao still had an excited look on his face, and he grinned, "This punch made me feel the joy that I haven't seen for a long time! Hahahaha... I told you, Halsey, if he can really beat me to death, I will immediately call him Admiral of the Navy."
"You will be dead at that time, who can you turn to to cash it in?" Doctor Halsey disagreed.
"Just cash it in with me." Tang Xiao said.
"Well, this is a good joke. It sounds interesting." Doctor Halsey said calmly.
"When you face death, you will understand my words." Tang Xiao said meaningfully, took out the communicator, looked at it, and said, "Newt Gunray has sent good news, Endless-class Super Carrier is the first ship, Infinity has officially completed its sea trials and has been incorporated into Duchy of Dawn Navy for active service. In seven days, I will go to Semirres Planet via Hutt Space to attend the first flight ceremony."
"Although I don't want to interfere in politics, if you appear publicly on Semirres Planet at this time, I'm afraid Galactic Empire's face will not look good. There is a possibility of another war." Doctor Halsey said.
"Palpatine's face will still be given to him now. Therefore, I will not make a public appearance..." Tang Xiao said, "However, how could I miss the maiden voyage of such a super battleship? Hahaha Ha... I will take Master Chief and Jango-Fett's group the Mandalorian with me. Before that, you need to prepare them thoroughly."
Doctor Halsey stopped. This was already the entrance to the laboratory. She still had many things to be busy with and had no intention of leaving. He just said to the back of Tang Xiao who was gradually going away, "They will definitely be ready for everything."
"You won't let me down, I'm sure." Tang Xiao said, waved his hand, and gradually walked away.
At the same time, compared to Duchy of Dawn's current slowdown in battleship updates, Galactic Empire's actions are very frequent and intensive.
After signing a peace treaty with Duchy of Dawn, Galactic Empire completed the finalization and entry into service of Imperial-class Star Destroyer, Pursuer-class aircraft carrier, Vindicator-class heavy cruiser and Victory II-class Star Destroyer within six months.
Well, you read that right, it does include Victory II-class Star Destroyer. Although this type of Star Destroyer was designed by Willix-Blythex who was already in Rendili StarDrive at the time, and Rendili StarDrive had already rebelled against Galactic Republic, Victory II-class Star Destroyer still entered service with the Galactic Empire.
Because after careful comparison, the Navy Headquarters of the Galactic Empire believes that the 900-meter-long Victory II-class Star Destroyer is a very good supplement compared to the 1,600-meter-long Imperial-class Star Destroyer and the 600-meter-long Vindicator-class heavy cruiser. The smaller and more flexible Victory II-class Star Destroyer can perform more assault missions on the interstellar battlefield.
The design plan of Victory II-class Star Destroyer was submitted as their last effort before the rebellion of Rendili StarDrive. It's just that at that time, what Galactic Republic's senior leaders wanted was to suppress Rendili and support Kuat, so they found some excuses that were not excuses and rejected Victory II-class Star Destroyer's plan.
And now, after eliminating some of the political factors that supported Kuat Drive Yards before, Imperial Navy Headquarters re-evaluated Victory II-class Star Destroyer objectively and found that the design of Star Destroyer is very clever. And it must be said that although the size is several grades smaller than the 1600-meter Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the combat performance is not as huge as the size of the two.
In addition, after the fiasco at Modell Sector, Kuat Drive Yards became the primary responsible party for this huge failure. Although the new Kuat of Kuat's Little Kuat (isn't that a twist?), after a series of operations, put all the blame on Onana-Kuat who committed suicide, Kuat Drive Yards will also have to pay the price for it.
Therefore, after completing the evaluation of Victory II-class Star Destroyer, the Galactic Empire Navy headquarters decided to terminate the order for Knight-class Star Destroyer and instead transferred the data of Victory II-class Star Destroyer to Corellia Engineering Company, allowing them to outsource the production of this Star Destroyer.
As the oldest industrial giant in the galaxy, Corellia Engineering Company has been Galactic Republic's main battleship supplier since the beginning of Galactic Republic's establishment. It is natural to produce Victory II-class Star Destroyer. Moreover, they directly picked up a ready-made one and got a large military order because of it. Why not?
Of course, there are still some unhappy feelings. After all, Victory II-class Star Destroyer is not their own design, so this result is still a bit disappointing. Therefore, Corellia Engineering Company immediately started a plan to design and build its own large battleship to replace Victory II-class.
This brand new plan is tentatively designated as 'Star Defender Project (Star Defender Project)', with an initial investment of 10 billion Imperial credits to start establishing a new company, building a team, and recruiting talents.
But this project was stopped by Emperor Palpatine personally three months after it started. Because he still has more important work to hand over to Corellia Engineering Company, a super top-secret plan that everyone will know about in the future, but now, it is still a super top secret plan that no more than ten people know about.
The plan name is - DS-1.
Coming back to this, Knight-class Star Destroyer was completely unsubscribed after one year of service. On the one hand, it was because of the punishment and liquidation of Kuat Drive Yards. On the other hand, this Star Destroyer was really untimely and had bad luck.
In fact, from the perspective of Duchy of Dawn Navy, several generals who have fought against Knight-class Star Destroyer actually have high evaluations of this Star Destroyer.
In many battles, Knight-class Star Destroyer has been one of the most difficult opponents of Duchy of Dawn Navy, even more difficult than the 8,000-meter-long Commander II-class Dreadnought.
After all, the number of Commander II-class Dreadnought is too small, and it is modified from the old Commander-class Dreadnought. Its foundation is already insufficient. Compared with the huge 8,000-meter-long body, its combat effectiveness is still unable to match.
In addition, when Commander II-class appears, it will definitely appear as the flagship of the fleet, and generally it will not charge into battle. Even when it comes time to confront Commander II-class Dreadnought, Xuanwu Titan warship is often present, or the overall situation has been decided and a large number of fleets are besieging them.
So to say that Commander II-class caused any trouble to Duchy of Dawn Navy... if you think about it carefully, it really didn't happen.
But Knight-class Star Destroyer is different! This kind of Star Destroyer has begun to appear on various battlefields in the scale of 5 and 10 ships before, and is often used as an assault force by the Galactic Republic Navy general at that time.
Every time an attack is launched, this huge 1,600-meter-long hull, 60 heavy-duty Turbolaser cannons, and the powerful firepower of 60 ion cannons pose a huge and direct threat to the Duchy of Dawn warship!
In those battles, how to fight against Knight-class Star Destroyer was one of the biggest issues for General Duchy of Dawn Navy.