2061. The desperate and powerful the Empire (Part 2)
In the Galactic Empire's current military industry system, the most important components are three industrial giants-Kuat Drive Yards, Sith Fleet Systems, and Corellia Engineering Company.
Among these three industrial giants, Corellia Engineering Company is relatively independent, because they are mainly responsible for the construction of a large number of civilian, industrial and commercial spaceships. Therefore, although they are very large, they are basically not responsible for research and development tasks in the the Empire army.
Corellia Engineering Company is currently mainly engaged in OEM. After obtaining the blueprint, it helps the other two industrial giants to produce and OEM their warships. Because what Corellia Engineering Company is responsible for is actually to dredge the lifeblood of all walks of life in the galaxy, and because a large number of industrial, commercial, and civilian spacecraft are built by them, even the aggressive Palpatine has not completely included them in the military war machine of the Empire.
However, Corellia Engineering Company still has its own military production line, and the various types of frigates and gunboats they produce still rely on the active Galactic Empire Navy with good performance. In addition to their own DP-20 anti-aircraft gunboats, CR-90 frigates and other small warships, the most important OEM warship of Corellia Engineering Company is the Victory II-class Star Destroyer previously obtained from Rendili StarDrive.
Sith Fleet Systems Company, formerly known as Republic Sienar Systems, was a huge industrial enterprise reorganized by Reis-Sina after the establishment of the Galactic Empire, with the support of Palpatine's cronies, Wilhuff-Tarkin.
When Galactic Empire began to re-adjust the industrial system derived from Galactic Republic, one of the biggest changes was to eliminate Rendili StarDrive, which had defected to Duchy of Dawn, and to replace it with Sith Fleet Systems. And now in the Galactic Empire's industrial system, the division of labor is more clear. Sith Fleet Systems company is responsible for fighter jets, engines, operating AI, etc.
Sith Fleet Systems presided over the development of the most important update of Galactic Empire Navy - TIE Project. This plan directly stipulates the main fighter and bomber models of Imperial Navy in the future, all of which will be TIE series fighter developed by Sith Fleet Systems.
In addition to the first-generation TIE fighter, the TIE series now has models including TIE/LN air superiority fighters, TIE/RB heavy support fighters, TIE/SA bombers, etc., and the more powerful TIE Interceptor is also being studied to counter Duchy of Dawn. Newly launched fighters include Sabre, Broadsword and other models.
Not only that, the TIE series also includes transport aircraft, landing ships, shuttle aircraft and other models. Sith Fleet Systems, who made a lot of money in this series, even developed several TIE series tanks! If Rothana Heavy Engineering, the subordinate of Kuat Drive Yards who is mainly responsible for the Imperial Army's armament, had not protested, maybe Sith Fleet Systems would have produced a few TIE series walking machines!
In addition, the most important product of Sith Fleet Systems company is the L2B cation reactor they designed and manufactured. This kind of reactor has excellent performance and huge power. Reis-Chine even publicly stated more than once that the L2B cation reactor is Galactic Empire's own artificial star!
Galactic Empire All large warships are designed and built based on this kind of reactor. The most typical one is Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Some people jokingly said that the design of Imperial-class Star Destroyer is to add armor around the L2B cation reactor and install a turret.
Finally, just like the name Sith Fleet Systems, they also designed the entire battleship operating system of Imperial Navy, as well as the navigation system of the pilot robot.
In the Imperial Navy military industry system, the core is still Kuat Drive Yards.
Compared with Corellia Engineering Company, Kuat Drive Yards lacks a lot of background and is easier to control; compared with Sith Fleet Systems, it has enough size and strength to support the huge military needs of the Galactic Empire.
The current Kuat Drive Yards has gone through a lot of troubles at the hands of his predecessors Kuat of Kuat, Onana-Kuat, and almost lost most of his family fortune in the raid to invade Modell Sector. Little Kuat, who later took over as Kuat of Kuat, still showed his strong skills in the face of this mess.
Faced with the pressure from Emperor Palpatine requiring the Empire to take over Kuat Drive Yards directly, Little Kuat decisively chose to refuse. He roped in Lila-Vesex, also known as Lila-Blythex, and continued to maintain as her super battleship designer Halo, thus being able to get close to Imperial Navy's powerful faction, Governor of the Ninth Army, Dunn-Vesex, known as King of the North.
Vesex dotes on his new love, Lila-Vesex. After a lot of gossip, Dunn-Vesex directly used the financial quotas of Northern Territory's seventh, ninth and tenth legions to send a large order to Kuat Drive Yards. On the one hand, it solves the problem of Kuat Drive Yards's cash flow rupture. On the other hand, because Northern Territory is now in long-term contact with Geth, Northern Territory's order for Imperial-class also indirectly shows Imperial military's recognition of Imperial-class Star Destroyer.
With such a guarantee, Little Kuat can continue to sell his Imperial-class Star Destroyer, which has been criticized in previous battles, to Core Worlds's Imperial Navy. Kuat Drive Yards This game of chess finally came to life again.
Later, under the planning of Dunn-Vesex, he kidnapped Lila's father, the real genius designer Willix-Blythex. And this time, after learning from the experience of Doctor Zhang Jiarui being rescued by Duchy of Dawn's agents and causing Quat Planet to turn upside down, Lila-Vesex was heavily fortified and finally did not allow his father to be rescued again.
Of course, in order to appease Emperor Palpatine, Little Kuat also paid a huge price to please His Majesty the Emperor. In addition to donating a lot of gifts and funds, he gritted his teeth to complete the design and build Executor-class Super Star Destroyer.
After seeing this 19,000-meter-long super battleship, Palpatine finally gave up his plan to directly take over Kuat Drive Yards, allowing them to continue to be independent.
Seeing that he could not leave and couldn't withstand his daughter's persuasion, Willix-Blythex finally softened and helped Lila to revise the design of Imperial-class Star Destroyer, and based on this, launched Imperial II-class Star Destroyer.
Therefore, after solving the problems of internal and external troubles, Little Kuat also repaid Palpatine. Although he maintained the independence of Kuat Drive Yards, he still strengthened Imperial military controls itself, such as military consultants stationed in the company for a long time and accepting Palpatine representatives into the board of directors, in order to dispel Palpatine's wariness about them.
Then, Little Kuat began the operation to completely transform Kuat Drive Yards into the war machine of the Galactic Empire. Quat Planet The huge industrial Star Ring is under full construction, and at the same time, 1,500 Imperial-class Star Destroyer will be built, and it is expected that this number will double in a few years!
Not only that, those small interstellar shipyards are also constantly manufacturing various types of small battleships and auxiliary battleships.
A steady stream of spaceships sailed out of the dock and joined Imperial Navy, making Imperial Navy's power unprecedentedly powerful. Moreover, in order to meet Kuat Drive Yards's huge resource needs, within the Empire's countless mining planets are mining around the clock, and huge amounts of resources are continuously fed into Quat Planet, making this the busiest place in the Empire.
Now, with the support of these three industrial giants, Galactic Empire Navy has become a terrifying military force with tens of thousands of kilometer-class battleships, hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized warships, and millions of fighter jets!
Compare it to the Clone Wars period.
At that time, Galactic Republic's thousand-meter-class battleships were constantly being manufactured and consumed, but they were only maintained at the level of about 2,000 ships, and there were tens of thousands of small and medium-sized warships. And in this way, Galactic Republic is also capable of launching large-scale battles such as Modell Sector Raid with more than 400 battleships participating in the battle. And among the largest Battle of Saleucami, more than 1,000 battleships participated in the war!
But now, Galactic Empire, which has tens of thousands of battleships, can easily support a very large battle involving 2,000 to 3,000 battleships! By then, the only thing that will restrict the Galactic Empire army will be the overwhelmed hyperspace channel!
But now, Galactic Empire has temporarily dispersed these battleships to various places, mainly to suppress the uprising movements that are emerging one after another, and then to monitor Duchy of Dawn.
Imperial fleet who monitor Duchy of Dawn are mainly gathered in two places - one is the capital of the Republic's Twentieth Army, Tallan Planet (Tallan), this planet is backed by Fondor Planet (Fondor), one of the largest shipyards in Galactic Republic, and directly faces Duchy of Dawn's northern portal Yago-Dur planet.
The other one is Kira planet facing Duchy of Dawn's most important transportation hub - Fortress Planet Eriadu.
Kira planet and Tallan Planet have both assembled heavy forces, with 1,000 capital ships stationed there to ensure that Duchy of Dawn has no chance of breaking through their blockade.
If one day Galactic Empire is determined to completely solve the problem of Duchy of Dawn, then the fleets of Kira planet and Tallan Planet will be the most important force.
But at present, despite such a huge fleet, even Emperor Palpatine, who hates Tang Xiao with all his heart, has to admit that Galactic Empire currently does not have the power to initiate an attack and quickly defeat Duchy of Dawn.
The reason is Galactic Empire's current situation of internal and external troubles.
At present, Galactic Empire is besieged on all sides. Although it cannot be said to be accurate, it is basically close to the same.
Let's put aside for the moment the uprisings and the various intrigues among the major factions and families within the Galactic Empire. The external environment alone is bad enough for the Galactic Empire.
In Northern Galaxy, due to the raging of Mechanical Life Geth, the entire Northern Territory has been plunged into war, and it has never calmed down for a moment. Since Geth has begun to utilize warp navigation technology and ignore hyperspace channels, almost no planet in the entire Northern Territory is safe, so Galactic Empire has to maintain a huge fleet in Northern Territory to ensure safety.
Although the position is only Governor of the Ninth Army, in fact due to a large number of contacts and the favor of Palpatine, Dunn-Vesex can be said to be the de facto controller of the entire Northern Territory. The seven, ninth, and tenth legions, as well as Eighth Army, who was previously destroyed by Geth and is preparing to be rebuilt, are all under the control of Dunn-Vesex.
In order to cope with Geth's attack, Dunn-Vesex has the terrifying strength of more than 3,000 capital ships and 150,000 small and medium-sized warships. This huge fleet is divided into more than 40 squadrons. In the area where Geth is the most severe, almost 200 habitable galaxies are deployed.
Not only that, Dunn-Vesex's subordinates also include rising stars like Gillard-Perine. Dunn also admires Perine very much and asks him to comprehensively organize the battle against Geth.
At the same time, there are also super stars like Mis-Ro-Nurudo-Thrawn. It's just that Dunn-Vesex is not familiar with this famous general who will surely shine in the future. Thrawn is now just Commander of a patrol fleet.
And in Eastern Territory of the Galactic Plane Map, this was Core Worlds which used to be Confederacy of Independent Systems. After the destruction of Confederacy of Independent Systems, this area did not really return to peace.
A very direct question is, why does Confederacy of Independent Systems use Raxus Prime as its administrative capital?
It's not because this place is so unique, it's just because Separatists is the most powerful force in this area!
Here, whether it is Raxus Prime, Felucia, Semirres Planet, Osus Planet, Saleucami Planet, Dak Planet... these planets all hate Galactic Republic from the beginning, and wish Galactic Republic would die tomorrow.
What's more, after Count Dooku later followed Tang Xiao's advice and recognized the true face of Palpatine, whether it was for selfish reasons of self-preservation or some other plan, in short, he worked hard for a period of time and sincerely wanted to build Confederacy of Independent Systems even more powerful.
So it is conceivable that even if Confederacy of Independent Systems falls apart, these planets cannot truly devote themselves to the Galactic Empire.
Although Dath-Vader led a huge fleet to capture Saleucami Planet in one fell swoop, and after that, almost all the former Confederacy of Independent Systems-joined galaxies surrendered, but the problem is that these planets only surrendered superficially, and they completely dismissed Galactic Empire.
To put it more seriously, the reason why these planets surrendered was because they saw Duchy of Dawn also surrendered! On the other hand, when the war between Duchy of Dawn and Galactic Empire starts again, these planets will immediately jump up to resist Galactic Empire. At least there is no problem in secretly restraining them.
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