2470. Nationalization crisis (Part 2)
Meng-Mothma showed extremely high leadership and planning abilities in the operation to rescue Incom Corporation. She first understood that it would be impossible to snatch someone from the Imperial Intelligence Department by force, so she decided to adopt a roundabout strategy.
The first is drag. She planned many transportation accidents, so that Imperial army, who forcibly occupied the Incom Corporation headquarters Fresia (Fresia), was never able to transport enough soldiers and engineers. The lack of troops and equipment made it difficult for the Imperial Intelligence Department to relocate Incom Corporation equipment, search for data and drawings, and find X-wing prototype.
Then, Meng-Mothma conveyed a bad idea to the Intelligence Department through the Intelligence Department's internal eyeliner - let them send away Incom Corporation's criminals first.
In the forced nationalization of Incom Corporation, those who can be called 'criminals' are naturally senior officials, engineers, and technicians.
The person in charge of the Intelligence Department listened to this idea, so he divided the already insufficient troops again, and diverted the troops from searching for databases and prototypes, and prioritized the capture and transfer of personnel. The main reason why he agreed to this idea was that he wanted to "secure the bag" first, complete some of the goals first, and after settling the criminals, he could then concentrate his forces to find those things that could not be found for a while.
The person in charge of the Intelligence Department never thought that Fresia located at Core Worlds would be attacked.
As a result, this action left Fresia empty of troops, but it was not enough. Meng-Mothma once again used her diplomatic skills and extensive connections. She contacted the liberal democrats within Kuat Drive Yards and planned a riot.
Galactic Empire did know that Kuat Drive Yards was unstable, but they believed that Little Kuat and Dunn-Vesex were enough to suppress those unstable factors, so they did not pay much attention.
So this riot robbed a group of senior engineers who yearned for freedom and democracy, including Willix-Blythex! Kuat Drive Yards's senior technical talents suffered heavy losses!
This operation made Imperial Intelligence Department very angry, especially after hearing about the importance of Willix-Blythex from Kuat Drive Yards, they immediately mobilized their troops, including the power of Inquisitorius, to hunt down Willix.
And at this moment, while the Empire's attention was completely focused on Kuat Drive Yards, Meng-Mothma revealed her real killer move!
She cooperated with New Jedi Order, and New Jedi Order sent four Jedi Knight to help, and got in touch with the Rebel Alliance soldiers who had infiltrated Fresia, and launched a sudden attack with the Incom Corporation rebels.
They eliminated several lone the Empire patrols and even killed a magistrate! Then he took away the T-65, all the databases of X-wing fighter, and four of the five prototypes. The remaining one couldn't be taken away and was blown to pieces.
Then, four X-wing fighter piloted by Jedi Knight even sank a Aquitenes-class light cruiser during their retreat!
This operation cannot even be said to have disgraced Galactic Empire, it is simply a shame and a great humiliation!
Core Worlds, who was at the center of his family's power, was attacked by the Rebel Alliance, and took Incom Corporation's database and prototype away under his nose?
Galaxy Imperial Intelligence Department immediately pressed forward with its troops, and even dispatched more than ten Imperial-class Star Destroyer from the front line, surrounded Fresia, and then conducted a carpet search.
But this is not the end.
When Imperial Intelligence Department ran to Fresia to carve a boat for a sword, Meng-Mothma turned his blade and immediately planned another robbery. Abduct all the Incom Corporation technicians who were just sent to Mid Rim for mining!
Now even Imperial Intelligence Department was confused.
What followed was endless anger. Intelligence Bureau immediately conducted a careful internal inspection to determine the person responsible and the parties involved, and then directly arrested and shot the Intelligence Bureau senior intelligence officer who made the decision to divide the troops. As for the person who came up with the idea, he had already escaped in the chaos.
Finally, in this nationalization crisis, there is another Mega-corporations involved.
Tagge Company.
Tagge Company cannot be considered a military-industrial complex, because this company basically does everything. But their current economic aggregate has become the largest economic entity among the Galactic Empire, and they even have a larger economic share than InterGalactic Banking Clan (S).
However, in such a huge company, Orman-Tagge, a careerist who wants to be Empire's Second-in-Command, has high ambitions but low ambitions.
After Orman-Tagge united with several of his brothers to 'assassinated' their mother Sanya-Tagge and usurped the company's supreme leadership, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to Emperor Palpatine.
He did not hesitate to sacrifice his family and his company, but also wanted to reach the pinnacle of his life - to replace Das-Vader and become Palpatine's true right-hand man.
But it is a pity that he first misunderstood the Empire's political structure, secondly misjudged Palpatine's ideas, and thirdly miscalculated the current situation.
Das-Vader has never been 'Empire's Second-in-Command'. There are people who can rival him in both political and military fields. He is Darth-Sidious's apprentice, nothing more. Even for Darth-Sidious, who is bent on reaching the ultimate goal of 'One-Man Sith', Darth-Vader is not even an heir.
Finally, in the eyes of Palpatine, there has never been anyone in the Galactic Empire who can be called the 'second in command'!
Orman-Tagge always greets Palpatine with a smile, treating him as a useful tool and giving him some benefits, but will never agree to his extremely childish request of 'Empire's Second-in-Command'.
Orman-Tagge have no idea that what Palpatine wants is a Theocratic Empire and a Dark Side the Empire. The ones who rule this the Empire can only be those Dark Followers controlled by Dark Side. Secular people like him will always be the scum at the bottom.
Of course, for Tagge Company, such a result cannot be directly defined as a bad thing or a good thing... At best, because of the active flattery of Orman-Tagge, Tagge Company also underwent nationalization and reorganization, and this process was not greatly hindered.
A smooth handover also avoids possible killing and destruction.
To Orman-Tagge's surprise, the old ministers left behind by his mother Sanya-Tagge all seemed to listen to his opinions. In addition to requiring the maintenance of Tagge Company's status and independence, it did not cause much embarrassment to him as a usurper.
This made Orman-Tagge ecstatic. He thought that he had finally won the hearts of these veterans. After killing his mother, he finally ruled this Mega-corporations in a legitimate and legitimate manner!
Moreover, since Orman-Tagge has this loyal dog here, Palpatine also gave him some dog food appropriately.
During the nationalization process of Tagge Company, Palpatine still retained a high degree of autonomy of Tagge Company. Although Dark Prophet was also appointed to the board of directors, the final decision-making power of the company's decision-making was still in the hands of Orman-Tagge. He even had the power to issue instructions to this Dark Prophet.
The bad aspect, undoubtedly, is that this behavior handed over Tagge Company, Galactic Empire's largest economic entity, to Palpatine.
The so-called autonomy and the so-called final decision-making power are all empty words! Orman-Tagge's behavior was actually betraying the entire company in exchange for his unrealistic ambition to become 'Empire's Second-in-Command'!
Another piece of dog food Palpatine gave him was Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance (Advanced Technology Consortium), or ATC for short.
This alliance was initiated by Orman-Tagge. Kuat Drive Yards, Sith Fleet Systems, Corellia Engineering Company and other military-industrial complexes and industrial and scientific research companies respectively integrated their most cutting-edge technical personnel to form an alliance. Cutting-edge weapons are specially developed for the Galactic Empire.
Now, Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance has received strong support from Emperor Palpatine, who forcibly ordered those companies to provide support for the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, including financial resources, material resources, manpower, and even those companies' own databases.
For Palpatine, Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance is a tool he uses to control those military-industrial complexes. Moreover, the real owner of this alliance is Palpatine himself, and Orman-Tagge is just a loyal dog.
Now, Tagge Company is working hard to suppress other military-industrial complex companies and cut off pieces of flesh from them, while Palpatine only needs to sit back and enjoy its achievements.
And although Orman-Tagge is very naive politically, he himself can still deserve the title of 'genius' in terms of technology.
Because it has gathered a large amount of human, material and financial resources, Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance is almost a research and development institution under the Galactic Empire national system, and it has also begun to have its own results.
The first result is-Dark Trooper!
Dark Trooper project is a project that Palpatine has high hopes for, because so far, Galactic Empire has almost never defeated Kingdom of Dawn on the land battlefield. Whether it is Injoori soldiers or Caladanian soldiers, or even Beast Legion, they have defeated Galactic Empire's army many times on the battlefield.
Not to mention Fourth Legion, who is now almost a symbol of invincibility!
In order to gain an advantage on the ground battlefield, Dark Trooper project is the response proposed by Palpatine.
The origin of Dark Trooper project is the L8-L9 combat robot and Z-X3 combat robot that Orman-Tagge designed when he was young. Among these two robots, the L8-L9 robot once participated in the bidding of Confederacy of Independent Systems's main battle robot, but lost to the B-1 battle robot.
After that, the data of L8-L9 was submitted to Galactic Republic military, but it was also not used and was just sealed.
After that, Orman-Tagge independently designed and manufactured the Z-X3 robot. The design of this robot was not recognized by the military, but it was favored by Palpatine because of its powerful performance. He asked Orman-Tagge to develop Dark Trooper project based on the Z-X3 robot.
Orman-Tagge After receiving strong support from the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, he has now completed the first phase of the design of Dark Trooper. This is a humanoid skeletal robot. The reason why it is a humanoid skeletal robot is to flexibly mount armor and use weapons.
At present, the first phase Dark Trooper is not intended to be put into actual combat. Although Orman-Tagge is a dog of Palpatine, he is still very clear in this regard. If Dark Trooper, whose technology is immature, is rashly thrown into the battlefield, it will only be easily crushed by the Kingdom of Dawn Army, which already has a mature combat system.
The effect he wants is that once Dark Trooper appears on the scene, he will gain a decisive advantage and destroy Kingdom of Dawn's ground troops in one fell swoop!
Therefore, the current first stage Dark Trooper is only used for further experiments.
At the same time, another senior general from Imperial military also joined Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance - Admiral of the Navy, Zaarin and Admiral of the Navy Ma Qi.
The research of these two Admiral of the Navy is a new generation of interstellar fighters, but the research direction of General Zaarin is the maneuverability and firepower of fighter jets, while the research direction of General March is the stealth system of fighter jets.
Their joining also means that the work of the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance has been fully launched and will form a series of super technology R&D cores in the future.
I have to say that the dogs Orman-Tagge are really easy to use.
The main purpose of the Galactic Empire in dealing with these domestic military-industrial complexes, in addition to strengthening the integration of resources within the Empire, is also a very important reason, which is the construction of the DS-1 combat space station!
The DS-1 combat space station has always been Galactic Empire's largest and most top-secret project. The ultimate goal of this project is, as stated in Tarkinism proposed by Wilhuff-Tarkin, to suppress the galaxy with absolute fear, thereby achieving the goal of suppressing the thoughts of all rebels with only deterrence.
The core of Tarkinism is to let all opponents in the galaxy see that the result of resistance is to be destroyed along with their own planet. In this way, subsequent resisters will give up the idea of resisting out of fear. In fact, even if he intends to have his own way, people on the entire planet where he is located will be afraid of being implicated and will bring this person to justice.
In this way, there is no need to continue to keep a huge fleet busy in the rear, suppressing rebels and resisters everywhere. The saved troops will be able to be invested in the front line of fighting Kingdom of Dawn.
At the same time, the DS-1 battle space station itself is also an invincible combat force and can easily destroy all battleships including Kingdom of Dawn including Titan warship!