2472.Death Star project (Part 2)
After temporarily solving the problem of the Geonosians rebellion, the problem of the DS-1 combat space station has not been completely solved. In other words, the problem of Geonosians is just a trivial problem.
The biggest problem with the DS-1 battle space station is its confidentiality.
Because many people do not support this project, but for the project to proceed smoothly, extremely large amounts of funds and materials must be raised.
For example, the main structural material of DS-1 - Durasteel, which is a high-strength alloy steel. Although the refining technology of this material is mature, it still exceeds the existing Durasteel output of the Galactic Empire to meet the construction of a spherical space station with a diameter of 160 kilometers.
In other words, in order to meet the construction of DS-1, Galactic Empire had to more than double its production of Durasteel. This means more factories, more mining areas, more smelters, in other words, more capital investment.
The biggest engineering accident occurred when DS-1 came to a secret space in Tarasiis system to start construction. In order to save transportation and mining costs, Orson-Krennic ordered to collect materials locally. Galactic Empire's engineering team dragged hundreds of asteroids among Tarasiis system to the construction site and crushed them on site, and began to smelt Durasteel from the raw metal materials in the asteroids.
As a result, after working for several months, they discovered to their dismay that the metal deposits produced by Tarasiis system could not be smelted into Durasteel. All the work in the past few months has been in vain. After a long time, we still had to transport materials from other places.
This requires DS-1 to transport even the supply of raw materials throughout the galaxy. However, during this period, Rebel Alliance was very active. Many construction materials were robbed or destroyed by the Rebel Alliance on the way, causing heavy losses.
The activity of the Rebel Alliance allowed Galaxy Imperial Intelligence Department to further strengthen the confidentiality of the DS-1 combat space station construction plan. However, in order to keep a project confidential, it is often necessary to disguise the project, re-plan the confidential transportation route, or even set up a separate department or company to carry out confidentiality work.
This has led to further bureaucracy, and the number of people involved in the entire DS-1 construction plan has reached tens of millions! And among this huge number, less than one-third is actually used for project production.
It is equivalent to saying that this project requires huge amounts of financial and resource support from major consortiums and military-industrial complexes in the galaxy, but they cannot be allowed to know that these funds and resources are used to build the DS-1 combat space station. In order to achieve this goal, the entire project was bent over and over again, and a lot of useless work was done.
But Orson-Krennic still completed his work very well. Now, in August of 10BBY, the main frame of the DS-1 combat space station has been completed.
The most important thing is that the extremely huge Hypermatter reaction reactor has been installed at the core of DS-1, and on August 14, it began to officially supply energy to the entire space station.
This was a breakthrough leap. From this point on, the energy supply for the entire project became very convenient, without the need for energy delivery spacecraft. The extremely huge energy output of DS-1 is enough to meet the energy needs of the entire project!
With sufficient energy, the engineering team began to build various processing plants outside the space station as planned. This allows the construction and processing of many parts to be carried out locally, greatly speeding up efficiency.
The main engine of DS-1 is built in the middle of the core column with a diameter of 3 kilometers and a length of 160 kilometers, which runs through the north and south poles of the space station. Around the core column, a lateral support structure extends around and supports the annular equatorial structure of the space station.
At this time, the DS-1 battle space station looked like a giant gyroscope.
Then, based on the equatorial ring, three ring-shaped structures extend toward the north and south poles. This is the main support structure of the entire spherical space station, which consists of a huge core column, an equatorial ring, plus three rings in the northern hemisphere and three rings in the southern hemisphere.
Then, at the position of this total of seven rings, seven Gravity Generator with different orientations were also installed. This means that there are seven different directions of gravity inside the DS-1 combat space station, which will ensure the comfort of the personnel inside the space station to the greatest extent possible.
And in some main defense belt locations, armor with a thickness of more than 30 meters began to be installed. This will be an extremely terrifying amount of work, because the surface area of the entire DS-1 combat space station reaches more than 80,000 square kilometers! The amount of armor steel needed reached an extremely terrifying level!
Next, the problems that worried Orson-Krennic the most finally began to be solved.
With energy supply and Gravity Generator, he can finally let those Geonosians build residential areas. For these Geonosians, this is a very important development, because they will no longer have to live in the surrounding engineering spacecraft and squeeze next to each other in narrow and crowded cabins.
Three months later, when the preliminary construction of a residential area capable of accommodating 2 million people is completed, these Geonosians who have families to return to will no longer have any excuse to launch another rebellion.
While Orson-Krennic worked hard to promote the smooth progress of the DS-1 main structure project, another part of this huge project also made great progress.
weapons systems.
In fact, during the Clone Wars period, the design blueprint handed over to Palpatine by Geonosians through Count Dooku did not include weapon systems. Because the Super Laser Weapon of the DS-1 battle space station, which can directly destroy the planet with one shot, has never been completed.
Although the research direction of this Super Laser Weapon has been determined, it is to use a large amount of Kyber Crystal to focus energy, and use the characteristics of Kyber Crystal to amplify energy to form powerful laser rays, thereby directly destroying the planet.
But it is still very difficult to do this.
Extractor, developed by Wookiees scientists, is an attempt to miniaturize this super laser. However, during the testing process of Extractor Project, Alaris satellite, where the project was located, was raided by Sefrans-Tann. This matter can only be said to be Galactic Empire's unlucky fate, because Sefrans-Tann found out that Galactic Empire had a secret project here by accident, and then she directly killed Decimator prototype without knowing what the project was.
This delayed Galactic Empire's research on Extractor for a long time. Fortunately, Sefrans-Tann took away the prototype, but the experimental data was not taken away. This allowed the Empire's research to continue.
Tang Xiao, who got Decimator prototype, also started reverse engineering Extractor Project, and then developed Extractor Cannon and installed it on Thor Mech. After that, no further research was conducted. The Extractor technology of Kingdom of Dawn stays at the size of Thor Mech.
However, Galactic Empire invested heavily in this area and began to gradually scale up Extractor's technology.
It was also at this time that the entire DS-1 project was placed under the jurisdiction of Imperial military. High Sector Governor Wilhuff-Tarkin joined in as another leader of the project.
Nominally, the joining of Wilhuff-Tarkin is to help Orson-Krennic coordinate the relationship between the military and Engineering Corps, but in fact, this is just the result of Emperor Palpatine playing with checks and balances again - he does not want to see any one person taking full credit for the DS-1 combat space station project.
It's not that credit and rewards cannot be given, but they must not be given to the same person.
Of course, just as Palpatine expected, Wilhuff-Tarkin and Orson-Krennic started a very fierce internal fight.
Wilhuff-Tarkin hopes that through the construction of the DS-1 combat space station, he can become Commander of this space station. As long as he can do this, he will have enough capital to compete with King of the North Dunn-Vesex.
Orson-Krennic also hopes that with the help of 'Father of the Death Star', Halo, Galactic Empire will become the most powerful person second only to His Majesty the Emperor among the Galactic Empire, and truly reach the point where one person is less than ten thousand people.
As a result, the struggle between the two became fierce from the beginning, even to the point of trying to undermine each other and even causing accidents!
But overall, Orson-Krennic still supervises the DS-1 construction plan first, and his control over the entire project is still higher than Wilhuff-Tarkin.
After Tarkin entered the leadership of the project, a serious accident occurred soon after Tarkin was responsible for the weapon system. Some Geonosians suddenly launched a riot, destroying the results of the previous months' work, and triggering conflicts that killed hundreds of people.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Orson-Krennic dispatched Wilhuff-Tarkin to the fringe areas to be responsible for the supply of raw materials.
After that, Orson-Krennic found his former classmate and energy genius Galen-Erso to assist him in completing the research and development of the DS-1 super laser cannon.
However, he also knew very well that Galen-Erso was a pacifist and liberal, and it was absolutely impossible for him to join the development of DS-1, a weapon specially used for massacre.
Therefore, he disguised this super laser project as a research topic called 'Sky-based Energy Transmission', which was ostensibly to study how to directly supply energy to facilities on the planet from large space stations or large battleships.
He told Galen-Erso that once this project is completed, it will be able to solve the energy supply problems of some backward planets. Once there is sufficient energy supply, the economic and livelihood development of these planets will increase greatly, allowing people on backward planets to live a good life.
Galen-Erso readily agreed to the project, but he still kept a cautious eye and secretly sent his daughter Qin-Erso and his wife to Outer Rim Territories to hide.
However, Orson-Krennic did not know that the addition of Galen-Erso actually did not provide much help to the development progress of the DS-1 super laser cannon. Because under his organization, the research and development of the super laser cannon is actually close to completion. Those little-known the Empire engineers and scientists did a good job, but Orson-Krennic just felt unconfident that such a huge project was progressing so smoothly.
Galen-Erso took advantage of Orson-Krennic's trust in his professional knowledge, gradually improved, and finally successfully entered the core management of the project.
Only then did he realize that Orson-Krennic was lying to him. He had been researching a super laser cannon that could destroy the entire planet!
When he questioned Orson-Krennic, the latter shamelessly told him that energy was projected from the space station to the planet anyway. Except for the difference in power, there was no difference between the two.
Now, when Orson-Krennic was so proud, he had no time to pay attention to Galen-Erso's nonsense.
Because in 10BBY, in a parliament in August, Emperor Palpatine directly announced the existence of the DS-1 combat space station and named it 'Death Star' (Death Star)!
This news is simply a huge bomb dropped on Imperial Senate! Everyone was stunned and stunned, especially after they heard that 60% of the construction work of Death Star had been completed, they felt extremely scared.
Palpatine directly ordered that the entire the Empire immediately concentrate all resources and strive to complete the construction of Death Star within one year.
And he also said that the previous nationalization plans of major military-industrial complexes were carried out to promote the construction of Death Star.
He ordered Orman-Tagge and his Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, and devoted all resources to the construction of Death Star.
This instruction is actually very meaningful, because Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance is just a technology research and development institution and does not have the ability to build a super project like Death Star. The reason why Palpatine issued this order is actually to let Tagge Company, led by Orman-Tagge, contribute money and efforts.
Orman-Tucker is indeed Palpatine's number one licker. He immediately understood and asked Tagge family to gather almost all resources and supply them to Death Star's construction work to speed up the progress of the project.
At the same time, Orson-Krennic, which has received great support, now begins to install the hyperspace engine of Death Star. The installation is expected to be completed within two months, and then Death Star will be moved to the next destination-Scarif for installation and testing of the weapon system.
However, Orson-Krennic never expected that when everything was going in the best direction, a little Geonosians almost ruined everything!
Geonosis, Holy Land Ruins.
In this holy land that was abandoned because Emperor Karina was kidnapped, a short Geonosians walked in holding a container.
Ganzo Daoso——Geonosians Chief Engineer, the person in charge of the B-1 combat robot project.
He flapped his wings and flew to an altar in the center of the holy land, opened the container, and inside was the head of Geonosians!
He placed his head on the altar, and soon, the altar emitted a ray of light, shooting straight into a certain direction of the universe!
Ganzo Daosuo looked at the sky and murmured, "I found you... the traitor..."