2333. Imperial Navy's interest disputes
Lila-Vesex's words made Dunn-Vesex fall into deep thought, and as time passed, his expression gradually became fierce, greedy and ferocious.
"That's right! We can't fall into the trap of those people! The future of Imperial Navy should be defined by us!" Dunn-Vesex said fiercely, " The humiliating defeat of Imperial Navy in Kira planet must not be blamed on the performance of the battleship! You are right, we need to take advantage of the victory and launch an attack, and we cannot give those people a chance to slander us in front of His Majesty!"
This matter is not just a dispute of will, but involves an extremely huge benefit! Whether it is economic or political benefits, they are extremely huge!
In fact, during the Clone Wars period, Lila-Blythex was eyeing Dunn-Vesex, who had just been appointed Galaxy Governor of Republic Ninth Army at that time. Because Dunn-Vesex is not only young and handsome, but also has a huge family power and has a profound influence on Republic military. At that time, Lila-Blythex was a senior engineer of Kuat Drive Yards and had the support of the military, which was crucial to her.
As a result, Lila made the right move. With her good looks and petite figure, she soon won the favor of Dunn-Vesex at a military review meeting on battleship design. Who would have thought that Dunn-Vesex really likes this mouthful. Lila-Blythex, who is only 1.5 meters tall, just hit this damn lolita's XP!
Dunn-Vesex, who was in love, doted on his girlfriend in every possible way. Using his power, Lila-Blythex also began to expand his influence in the military. Moreover, because the famous first-generation battlecruiser Galactic Republic - Hunter Class Battlecruiser was signed by her at that time, she was already enveloped by the star Halo, a super battleship designer.
With the blessing of this Halo and the support of the military, Lila-Blythex launched Knight-class Star Destroyer and Consul-class Star Destroyer at the end of Clone Wars, and they were quickly approved under the review of the military warship supervision committee and became the next generation main battleship of Galactic Republic.
But at this time, Consul-class Star Destroyer began to be criticized for many design problems. After all, Consul-class Star Destroyer was designed by Lila herself, not her father who had defected. However, at this time, Dunn-Vesex, who had already begun to rise to prominence through his achievements in fighting Geth, and whose status had risen sharply, directly mobilized the power of the military to suppress all these voices.
The turning point was that Onana-Kuat later faced political pressure from all aspects and forcibly launched a raid on Modell Sector. The result was a disastrous defeat. The huge force of more than 400 battleships was almost wiped out.
Afterwards, Onana-Kuat committed suicide, and Kuat Drive Yards was controlled by Little Kuat. In order to help the company survive the crisis, Little Kuat extended an olive branch to Lila-Blythex, allowing Lila to become Chief Engineer of Kuat Drive Yards, and letting Dunn-Vesex hold shares in the company as a condition in exchange for the support of the military.
From this moment on, the interests of Dunn-Vesex began to be firmly bound to Kuat Drive Yards. Whether it was later renaming Consul-class Star Destroyer to Imperial-class Star Destroyer to become the symbol of the Galaxy Imperial army, or designing and building Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, behind these actions are the shadows of the Imperial military Northern Territory interest group headed by Dunn-Vesex.
So under the influence of Dunn-Vesex, Imperial military gave more than 70% of the battleship orders to Imperial-class Star Destroyer. On the one hand, this is because Imperial-class Star Destroyer is the design of Lila-Vesex, who has become his wife. On the other hand, it is to include all these orders in the production system of Kuat Drive Yards.
Of course, there is another relatively hidden reason. Kuat Drive Yards has concentrated almost all its factories in Quat Planet, so the cost for them to repeatedly produce the same type of warship will be very low. Compared with the ubiquitous production models of Rendili StarDrive and Corellia Engineering Company, the Kuat model is more suitable for centralized production rather than diversified production.
Therefore, Imperial-class Star Destroyer was built in large quantities, and under the influence of Dunn-Vesex and Kuat Drive Yards, it actually became the development direction of Imperial Navy. What does it mean to be able to define the direction of Imperial Navy's development?
This means that Dunn-Vesex and Kuat Drive Yards will reap huge benefits from the large-scale construction of Imperial-class Star Destroyer. This benefit is not even a matter of 120 million credit points. Imperial-class Star Destroyer cost 150 million credit points, and the funds involved are as high as hundreds of billions or trillions!
But the problem is that Emperor Palpatine is not a fool. He cannot watch Kuat Drive Yards's unrestricted expansion and monopoly, so he moved his fingers and let Sith Fleet Systems begin to rise. At the same time, Kuat Drive Yards outsourced many of Imperial-class Star Destroyer's construction work to other industrial companies including Corellia Engineering Company.
This is why, this time Imperial military, many people took advantage of the fiasco of Planet Kira Campaign to attack the existing development plan of Imperial Navy. They began to think that it was necessary to build warships specially designed to deal with large groups of fighter jets, and at the same time expand the production of Vindicator-class heavy cruiser.
Because to build a warship dedicated to dealing with fighter jets, what is the most important thing? Naturally it is the fire control system. And who is the best fire control system provider for the Galactic Empire now? Sith Fleet Systems. You can tell this just by looking at the name of their company, 'System'. That's right, they started out by making battleship control systems, so they are naturally familiar with the design and manufacturing of this aspect.
That Damorian Manufacturing Corporation can come up with the design of Tartan-class patrol cruiser in a short time. It is absolutely impossible to say that there is no software support from Sith Fleet Systems behind it. No one believed that such a small company could suddenly design a fire control system that could quickly track and lock on a large number of small targets moving at high speeds.
This matter is also a struggle for interests. Imperial military is not monolithic, there are many factions and many completely different interests. In addition to the Northern Territory interest group Dunn-Vesex, there are also Wilhuff- The faction headed by Governor Tarkin, the faction headed by Darth-Vader, the faction headed by Orman-Tagge, and so on, are very complicated.
Galactic Empire has so much money every year, how is it spent, and whose pockets does it fall into? This is the heart of the struggle between these factions.
So once the development of Imperial Navy begins to turn, there is no doubt that a large number of orders will fall into the hands of Sith Fleet Systems and Corellia Engineering Company. You must know that Corellia Engineering Company also accumulated a lot of experience when manufacturing the DF-20 anti-aircraft gunboat.
In addition, part of the profits of Imperial-class Star Destroyer will be divided by Sith Fleet Systems. The reason is also very direct - the main reactor used by Imperial-class, the L-A2B solar furnace, is produced by Sith Fleet Systems.
In this way, it is no exaggeration to say that the interests of Dunn-Vesex and Kuat Drive Yards will be directly cut in half.
Therefore, this time Chiss mis-ro-nurudo-Lieutenant General Thrawn's great victory in Chiss territory made Dunn-Vesex have this idea...
That's right!
You must not allow others to interfere with the cake you have already eaten!!
After understanding this meaning, Dunn-Vesex very much agreed with his wife's plan... Indeed, now that Lieutenant General Thrawn has won, if it just goes without saying, it will not be of any help to the current situation of strengthening the construction of aviation battleships.
So in order to protect your own interests, you can only...
Raise!!