2467. Kuat Drive Yards's semi-nationalization
After suffering two consecutive defeats, Imperial military seemed to feel that its half-year preparations had not had any effect, so it attributed the responsibility to the constraints of the domestic military-industrial complex.
Therefore, under such circumstances, Emperor Palpatine signed a decree requiring that all military-industrial complexes of the within the Empire must be nationalized and controlled by the Empire.
Under the instruction of Palpatine, Sith Fleet Systems, Corellia Engineering Company, Kuat Drive Yards, and Big Three, the largest military-industrial complex in the the Empire period, all came under tremendous pressure. And those second-tier companies, including Nubian Starship Power Company, Incom Corporation, Blaster Technology Company, etc., are under more intense pressure.
Kuat Drive Yards The current Kuat of Kuat——Little Kuat tried his best to withstand the pressure from the emperor. He began to bribe Imperial Industrial Inspection Committee officials, and went to Dunn-Vesex through the relationship of Chief Engineer Lila-Vesex, trying to resist the pressure through the power of the military.
For Little Kuat, moving closer to Dunn-Vesex and directly handing over half of the company to Palpatine are completely different things. Because the relationship between him and Dunn-Vesex can be said to be mutually beneficial, but for Palpatine, it is complete occupation and plunder!
Little Kuat was very determined. He said bluntly to Lila-Vesex in secret communication, "I would rather see Kuat Drive Yards, the legacy of my ancestors, and the efforts of countless generations of Kuat of Kuat before me be completely destroyed and turned into ruins! Then, the Empire can own it."
After that, he ordered that all the more than 117,000 joints of Quat Planet's industrial Star Ring be installed with huge amounts of explosives. As long as Quat Planet was occupied by the Empire's military, he would detonate these explosives and completely destroy Kuat Drive Yards and the huge industrial Star Ring.
Galactic Empire also responded directly. Quat Planet Councilor Gideon Danu was arrested by the Empire. However, the Empire did not dare to really do anything about it. Next, they just requested that full-time investigators be stationed at Kuat Drive Yards to monitor all the company's actions, and the investigators also had the right to interfere with Kuat Drive Yards's company decisions.
The investigator is one Dark Prophet, Jedgar (Jedgar).
Dark Prophet is the name of the members of Dark Side Force Order and the Dark Force (The Dark Force). The Dark Force is Dark Order founded thousands of years ago by the fourth generation Bane's faction Sith Lord, Darth Millennial. They refused to follow Sith path, so they were separated from the inheritance of Sith at the beginning of their creation.
After Dath-Sidious founded Galactic Empire, the Dark Force surrendered to the Emperor of the Empire and became the Emperor's Dark Advisor under their current leader Kadann (Kadann). Because most of the members of the Dark Force are proficient in Force precognition, they basically surround Das-Sidious to provide the emperor with their own predictions and judgments.
This time, it is also the first time that Dark Prophet appears in the secular world.
Little Kuat had no choice in facing this Dark Prophet. At the same time, Dunn-Vesex also hinted to him in a very subtle way that if Kuat Drive Yards really fell to Northern Territory, it might lead to a more serious blow.
After thinking for a long time, Little Kuat could only choose to accept it, which is equivalent to leaving Kuat Drive Yards in a state of semi-nationalization. But after making this decision, problems occurred inside Kuat Drive Yards.
Kuat Drive Yards actually had a very serious internal struggle during the era of the previous Kuat of Kuat - Onana-Kuat. Onana-Kuat, who advocates power and autocracy, has a very profound conflict with Gideon Danu, who advocates freedom and democracy, and there are many people within Kuat Drive Yards who do not support Onana-Kuat's policy of constantly moving closer to Galactic Republic put Onana-Kuat under tremendous pressure, so they took the risk and forcibly attacked Kingdom of Dawn's Modell Sector, which resulted in a disastrous defeat.
That fiasco almost led to Kuat Drive Yards's demise. Later, under the leadership of Little Kuat, they survived by using the relationship between Lila-Vesex and binding their interests with King of the North Dunn-Vesex. As a result, internal conflicts were temporarily suppressed.
But pressing it does not mean there is nothing. Although Little Kuat's behavior style is more tactful and rational compared to Onana-Kuat, his surrender to Dunn-Vesex is still unacceptable to the liberals within Kuat.
The liberal democratic faction headed by Gideon Danu prefers to grow through market-oriented development. They believe that if they are deeply bound to the interests of the Galactic Empire, although it will bring considerable benefits in the short term, in the long run, a company that has lost its independence will end up either being annexed or falling into internal struggles within the Empire and being overrun by other forces.
Therefore, facing the persecution of the Galactic Empire, Gideon Danu chose to fight to the end and never compromise. He denounced the Empire's ambitions and anti-market and anti-regulation behavior in parliament, which ultimately angered Palpatine and led him to arrest.
And after Little Kuat accepted the compromise conditions, these liberal democrats continued to resist. Little Kuat was worried that their resistance would give Galactic Empire a bigger excuse to actually carry out military occupation of Kuat Drive Yards, so they had to suppress the liberal democrats with force.
He reorganized Quat Elder Council and expelled all the liberal democratic elders.
However, this series of Company One actions finally put Kuat Drive Yards in a precarious situation, and their industrial production was also affected to a certain extent. But the biggest impact is on the design and construction of new warships.
In August of 10BBY, a vicious defection incident occurred in Quat Planet.
Members of the liberal democrats kidnapped Kuat Chief Engineer Lila-Vesex's father - Willix-Blythex, and then fled from Quat Planet without missing a trace.
Of course, 'kidnapping' is just an external rhetoric. In fact, according to surveillance, Willix-Blythex left with those people voluntarily.
Galaxy Imperial Intelligence Department tried to intercept Willix-Blythex in the direction of the border of Kingdom of Dawn, but failed. He did not escape in the direction of Kingdom of Dawn, but went to other places and disappeared without a trace.
However, the loss of Kuat Drive Yards's real battleship designer did not make Little Kuat and Lila-Vesex feel panic or frustrated, because they knew...
Now the problem of Kuat Drive Yards is far from the question of whether a new type of warship can be designed!