2471.Death Star project (Part 1)
However, the DS-1 combat space station plan was not accepted by many senior officials of the Galactic Empire. The reason is, on the one hand, because the cost and engineering volume of the DS-1 combat space station are unimaginably high, and on the other hand, because once this weapon is manufactured, the cost of destroying the planet will drop to a very low level.
Everyone will worry about whether their planet will be bombarded with minerals by DS-1 one day.
Because in the past, whether it was Galactic Republic or its enemy countries, including Sith Empire, Eternal Empire, and Infinite Empire, they could destroy the surface of a planet, but they could not destroy the planet itself.
Especially for a standard planet with a diameter of about 10,000 kilometers, the energy required to blow it into pieces is basically an astronomical figure. And even if it could be done, with such an energy level, doing anything else would be much more cost-effective than destroying the planet itself.
Therefore, few people would directly consider destroying the planet as the goal of weapon design.
But now, under the instruction of Palpatine, the DS-1 battle space station has directly brought this matter out!
The weapon itself, the DS-1 battle space station, even just a design concept, is enough to make everyone shudder.
Therefore, this plan was unanimously opposed by industrial giants including Kuat Drive Yards and Corellia Engineering Company.
Palpatine This time, one of the important purposes of vigorously promoting the nationalization reform of the military-industrial complex is to forcefully promote the DS-1 combat space station plan at the national level.
In fact, it is impossible for Palpatine not to see that with the pressure of Kingdom of Dawn at the border and the increasing power of the Empire domestic Rebel Alliance, the lifespan of the Galactic Empire is numbered.
It is impossible for him to reconcile domestic conflicts. In fact, he has never done so. So no matter what, there is only one ending for the Galactic Empire - taking all the dross and contradictions inherited from Galactic Republic over the past 25,000 years, and then dying tragically.
Just as Palpatine expected.
Kingdom of Dawn and Rebel Alliance just speed up the process.
Therefore, Palpatine needs to complete the construction of the DS-1 combat space station as soon as possible. In his opinion, it doesn't matter if Galactic Empire perishes, but his enemies will never feel easy. The DS-1 battle space station is a 'big gift' he gave to Tang Xiao!
The plan for the DS-1 combat space station was actually planned as early as the Dath-Pregas period. However, Dath-Pregas only has a simple plan, which is to use some of the ancient Sith Empire's super technologies to build some super weapons that can only be controlled by a few people.
In this way, one of Darth-Pregas's power ideas can be realized - using a very small number of people to enslave the vast majority of people.
Whether it is Das-Pregas or Palpatine, they all realize very clearly that the contradictions in within the Galactic Republic are almost irreconcilable. Only through complete destruction can these contradictions be completely broken and a new political power can be reorganized.
But they must also admit that they are not here to solve problems, but to enjoy the power dividends brought by their rule. Therefore, they must have a means to overcome all contradictions. And this method is a variety of super weapons.
Why are both Sith Empire and Galactic Empire in the original plot keen on developing various super weapons? Even if these costs are used to build Star Destroyer, I am afraid they will have at least ten more fleets, but they are still happy with it?
This is the fundamental reason.
The original design concept of DS-1 came from the design of super Star Destroyer cannon, a model of the ancient Sith Empire. The design of super Star Destroyer cannon was just a theory. It was not until the outbreak of Clone Wars that the theory was transformed into a real blueprint, which was transferred from Geonosians to Palpatine through Count Dooku.
However, according to what the leader of Geonosians, Poggle-Inferior, later said, he only asked the engineers of Geonosians to perfect the design of the DS-1 combat space station and really refine it to the point where it could be executed.
Although it is not yet known where the initial design draft of DS-1 came from, if we continue to extrapolate, we can understand that the design drawing of DS-1 is divided into two parts. One is the fortress hull part, which is the part carried out by Geonosians. This part should be the basic design done by the secret client Palpatine.
And the other part is the huge super laser transmitter. The source of this part of the design is Extractor Plan, which was developed by Wookiees scientists and tested at Achilles Planet. Later, in the battle where Sefrans-Tann raided Core Worlds, the technology was taken away by Tann by accident.
According to the original plan, the initial construction of the DS-1 battle space station would be carried out on Geonosis, and Count Dooku would beguile those Separatist Mega-corporations to contribute money and effort to complete the construction of this super weapon. Including Trade Federation, InterGalactic Banking Clan, those Mega-corporations all believe that the completion of this super weapon will help them defeat Galactic Empire in one fell swoop.
With the frontline losing ground, this option to reverse the situation in one fell swoop is really tempting.
But they never imagined that this super weapon built with their own money and efforts was not for their use.
However, the construction plan of the DS-1 combat space station was strongly opposed by Tang Xiao. And as Dawn Star Planet continues to grow, the opposition of Tang Xiao becomes louder and louder, and his supporters also increase, causing serious resistance to the advancement of the plan.
But later, Palpatine continued to promote the project from another angle by splitting InterGalactic Banking Clan. And the basic structure of the DS-1 combat space station being built outside Geonosis was divided into multiple sections and sent away.
Where it was sent, Tang Xiao doesn't know. But what he knows is that the DS-1 battle space station is still absorbing a large amount of the blood of Separatist Mega-corporationss such as Trade Federation, InterGalactic Banking Clan, Corporate Alliance and Technological Alliance, because these Mega-corporations are still thinking about snake and mouse, betting on both ends.
It was not until later, at the end of Clone Wars, that those Mega-corporations realized the true face of Palpatine and turned to Tang Xiao one after another, but it was already too late.
However, at this time, Tang Xiao did greatly hinder the construction progress of the DS-1 combat space station, and his goal was basically achieved. As for how Galactic Empire will promote construction in their own country in the future, he has no control over it.
However, Tang Xiao failed to calculate one thing.
That is, in the original plot, the construction time of the DS-1 combat space station, which is Death Star, is about 20 years, but this time is not a reflection of the real industrial production capacity of the Galactic Empire. The real industrial production capacity of the Galactic Empire is reflected in the original plot. After Death Star I was destroyed, the Empire quickly launched the Death Star II plan, and within 4 years, more than 80% of the construction of Death Star II, which was about half the size of Death Star No. 1, was completed!
In other words, what restricts the construction progress of the DS-1 combat space station is not the industrial production capacity of the Galactic Empire, but the research and development of key technologies and the corruption issues within the Empire.
Tang Xiao indeed delayed the progress of the DS-1 main structure, which was far from enough by then. At the same time, his intelligence agency also found Galen-Erso, the energy scientist who perfected the Death Star super laser emission system in the original plot, but Tang Xiao understood that Galen-Erso was actually a useful person to him, because he would leave a fatal weakness in the structure of DS-1.
The person who actually completed the super laser launch system was Orson-Krennic. He was also Chief Engineer who supervised the construction of the DS-1 combat space station. And this person, Kingdom of Dawn's intelligence agency has never been able to find him.
In other words, the delay in the main structure project is not critical to the Galactic Empire. The really critical super laser research and development process cannot be touched. This has resulted in the construction progress of DS-1 not being greatly affected.
And after that, Palpatine instigated the betrayal of Poggle-lower people and Technological Alliance.
In order to buy a life from the Galactic Empire at the end of Clone Wars, Technological Alliance undertook a large part of the design and construction work of DS-1. And Poggle-lower betrayed even more completely. He kidnapped Queen of the Geonosians——Emperor Karina!
Geonosians is a race similar to a bee colony, and all their reproduction work is completed by Emperor Karina alone. Therefore, Emperor Karina is equivalent to the god of Geonosians, and is also the foundation of their race. This kidnapping case also shows the determination of Poggle-lower people to sell out their clan for glory.
For Tang Xiao, this kidnapping case means that his monitoring of the DS-1 combat space station has completely failed. From then on, he could no longer control the construction of DS-1.
In other words, in the first confrontation of DS-1, Tang Xiao gained a point first by virtue of his familiarity with the plot, but was soon regained by Palpatine with his superior wisdom and powerful power, and the two sides returned to Qidian.
Next, return to the perspective of the Galactic Empire.
The foundation of the DS-1 combat space station has previously been completed at Geonosis with a huge core column 160 kilometers long and 3 kilometers in diameter. This is also the foundation column that runs through the north and south poles of DS-1. After that, the frame construction of the equatorial ring was completed.
Then, this part of the project was split up and secretly transported to Tarassia (Thalassia), a remote galaxy in Northern Galaxy Outer Rim, for continued construction. And after Poggle-lower people betrayed Count Dooku, Emperor Karina of Geonosians was placed here.
Tarassia is an unexplored planet. Previously, only Thalassians (Thalassian) lived here. This race has a small population and almost no productivity of its own. It only engages in bounty Hunter and slave trading activities everywhere.
After this planet was selected, almost all Thalassians were exterminated, and the rest became slaves. It is ironic that these slave traders eventually became slaves. And this planet has become Geonosians's second home.
Galactic Empire transported a large amount of supplies and stored them in Tarassia, and Emperor Karina also began to lay eggs in large numbers under the pressure of the Empire. The eggs hatched and grew into adult Geonosians within just a few years, and then became the laborers who continued to build the DS-1 battle station.
In order to complete the construction of DS-1, Orson-Krennic served as the director of the entire project. Under his organization, the project was split into hundreds of thousands of projects, from the design of toilets and drainage, to the design of ventilation, and even the design of armor connectors were separated and then handed over to different companies for OEM.
These companies do not know what the projects in their hands are for, because these projects may be used for the construction of Star Destroyer, the construction of colonies, or a civilian spacecraft project.
After they completed the design, the design results were gathered back and returned from different secret channels to the core project team established by Orson-Krennic for integrated design, and then handed over to Geonosians workers for construction.
The entire construction process involves hundreds of thousands of Geonosians workers and millions of engineering robots, so the construction process is also full of various difficulties.
The first is the workers of Geonosians, because Geonosians is a hive race but not a hive consciousness. In other words, their individuals have independent consciousness. These Geonosianss born from Tarassia did not accept the fate of being enslaved immediately after their birth, so many stood up to resist.
This is also inevitable, because Poggle-the inferior people kidnapped Emperor Karina, but the race Geonosians revolves around Queen in a series including He couldn't bring all these things over, such as holy places, sacrifices, political structures, etc., and these ideological things could not be compensated by no matter how much material Galactic Empire provided Tarassia.
In other words, Geonosians, which was born in Tarassia, lacks tradition. At this time, forcing them to wear protective clothing to work in outer space for a long time brought their sense of resistance to its peak.
Therefore, the problem of Geonosians labor rebellions continues to break out, which makes Orson-Krennic extremely annoyed. He cannot hand over the entire construction work to robots. Geonosians labor is the best tool.
Because the Poggle-lowers also brought a large number of Geonosians scientists and engineers, these senior talents became the core intermediate point of the construction organization. They directed the newly born Geonosians workers through Geonosians's unique synapse nest, allowing these workers to quickly complete the growth and education process and quickly become qualified workers.
It is precisely because of this trait that Geonosians becomes the best engineer and builder in the galaxy.
Therefore, Orson-Krennic had to meet the requirements of those Geonosians and equipped them with an entire luxurious logistics team.