1787. Galactic Empire Navy Reform (2)
On the battlefield where Knight-class Star Destroyer appears, Fleet Commander on the Duchy of Dawn side must be topped by some battleships, sometimes Hell Angel-class, sometimes Kohl-class. And it is necessary to keep small warships as far away as possible from this super firepower monster equipped with a full 120 turrets.
And even this is not enough, because Knight-class Star Destroyer's extremely strong shield also makes it an extremely difficult target to destroy. In order to fight against Knight-class, Duchy of Dawn's fleet Commander also had to mobilize Calamity-class battlecruiser and use the bombing of Particle Beam Lance to fight.
But as Particle Beam Lance is an ultra-long-range strike weapon, putting firepower on Knight-class Star Destroyer is a huge waste in itself. It's just like when you start a group, and all ADC's ultimate moves are used on singles, do you think it's a loss?
Therefore, in the several battles that Knight-class Star Destroyer participated in, the losses of Duchy of Dawn's small and medium-sized battleships were much higher than usual, thanks to the rampant Knight-class Star Destroyer.
In fact, strictly speaking, just as Willix-Blythex commented on Knight-class Star Destroyer, this model of Star Destroyer is absolutely very strong overall, but this strength is based on the huge 1,600-meter-long ship and the SFS l-a2b giant ionization reactor that occupies almost one-fifth of the volume.
Therefore, although Knight-class Star Destroyer is majestic on the battlefield, if you think about it carefully, according to the generous three-dimensional triangular shape of Knight-class Star Destroyer, its overall volume of 1,600 meters in length is almost more than twice that of the Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser, which is more than 1,100 meters in length!
Under such circumstances, it is still impossible to obtain an absolute advantage on the battlefield, so it is obvious how this model of warship is evaluated.
Willix-Blythex is spot on - it could have been better.
It is equivalent to saying Knight-class Star Destroyer, that is, using the size of Galactic Republic/Galactic Empire to bully the small, and using something that although the performance is not very good, but has great power to fight directly and unreasonably. It's like using a big ax to deal with those finely crafted daggers of Duchy of Dawn.
It is precisely because of this that Knight-class Star Destroyer's battlefield performance is actually not bad.
But why was Knight-class Star Destroyer eliminated in just one year? It's because Knight-class Star Destroyer lost every battle he participated in... not only lost, but the two crucial battles were both fleets formed with Knight-class Star Destroyer as the core——
Modell Sector Raid and the Yago-Dur system battle.
Strictly speaking, in fact, these failures had other objective factors, and it cannot be blamed on a battleship like Knight-class Star Destroyer. But it happened that it was at this time that both Galactic Republic and Galactic Empire needed to characterize these two tragic failures and find a scapegoat.
If you look at the bigger ones, it's naturally Kuat Drive Yards and Onana-Kuat who take the blame. If you talk about the smaller ones, it's naturally the frontline Commander Cassio-Tagge and Gideon-Tarkin took the blame, and technically speaking, the one who took the blame was naturally Knight-class Star Destroyer.
But why are the designers of Knight-class Star Destroyer, Chief Engineer Lila-Blythex of Kuat Drive Yards okay? It's simple, because she is now Mrs. Vesex.
That's right, Lila has married Dunn, and they are now called Lila-Vesex.
Who dares to put the blame on King of the North Dunn-Vesex's wife? Tired of living? Didn't you see the wedding of the two of them, did Emperor Palpatine both attend?
As for Knight-class Star Destroyer, Lila-Vesex, the statement is very simple: Knight-class Star Destroyer was originally a prototype ship used for testing - have you ever seen any regular battleship that doesn't even have Hangar Platform? This type of warship is for technical reserves for Consul-class Star Destroyer.
However, Onana-Kuat, who were already greedy for profit at that time, for their own selfish interests and to promote the immature Modell Sector Raid, forcibly submitted Knight-class Star Destroyer as an official battleship for review, and bribed the officials of the Republic warship Manufacturing Supervision Committee at the time to allow the battleship to be approved.
And in the following battles, although Knight-class Star Destroyer participated in the battle, he still could not save the defeat. All these things were forcibly suppressed by Onana-Kuat, in order to obtain the command power of Modell Sector Raid.
In this way, the explanation is perfect. Not only did the failure of Modell Sector Raid be successfully interpreted as the mistake of Onana-Kuat, this mistake was not only insufficient preparation for the battle, but also the inadequate performance of the battleship. It perfectly pushed away the responsibilities of Dunn-Vesex and Lila-Vesex. Not to mention, in this way, even the responsibilities of the frontline Commander Cassio-Tagge were reduced a lot.
No matter what, Tagge family is still one of the wealthy families of Core Worlds. At this time, it is natural to be merciful and tolerant, just give him a step down.
So all the dirty water was poured on Onana-Kuat. She was already dead anyway. Her son, husband and other relatives were also implicated, and all their property was confiscated, and then they were expelled from Quat Planet and wandered in other places. As for the ending, no one cares.
The ones who did these heartless things were her nephews, the current Kuat of Kuat and Little Kuat.
The losers in political struggles will have to suffer such consequences.
Speaking of which, in the new round of Galactic Empire Navy procurement plan, Commander II-class Dreadnought, Knight-class Star Destroyer, Kallak-class light cruiser, Hunter Class Battlecruiser, and Consular-class cruiser are no longer visible., CR-70 frigate, DP-20 gunboat, V-19 Torrent light fighter, ARC-170 heavy fighter, Delta-7 fighter, Eta-2 fighter, these are the equipment that once shined among Clone Wars.
Plans to replace these equipment are already underway, the most important of which is Consul-class Star Destroyer!
While Knight-class Star Destroyer was constantly being targeted by Duchy of Dawn on the front line, Kuat Drive Yards and Lila-Vesex were not idle. She was also constantly summarizing some of Knight-class Star Destroyer's weaknesses and mistakes, and making corrections in a timely manner.
Through the relationship between Dunn-Vesex, she had already known that Knight-class Star Destroyer was about to be eliminated. As Consul-class Star Destroyer, which was almost the same type of ship as Knight-class Star Destroyer, if it remained the same, it would definitely not be justified in any case.
Therefore, the transformation plan for Consul-class Star Destroyer has been ongoing, and then Lila-Vesex simply found the design plan of Victory II-class Star Destroyer. With her connections, it would not be difficult to obtain Victory II-class Star Destroyer's data from the Galactic Republic Shipbuilding Supervision Committee.
Lila knows very well that Victory II-class Star Destroyer was designed by his father, the real ship design genius Willix-Blythex. The design concept is definitely much better than the Consul-class Star Destroyer designed by myself.
More importantly, her own design philosophy and her father's design philosophy are in the same vein, and they can learn from each other very well. At the same time, the designs of Knight-class Star Destroyer and Consul-class Star Destroyer were started before Willix-Blythex left Kuat Drive Yards.