2477. A project full of loopholes
Poggle-The inferior man's face instantly turned gloomy. He knew that what Nova said was the case.
The entire DS-1 combat space station project has a high degree of corruption, a high degree of redundancy, and a high degree of bureaucracy. For the so-called confidentiality, every link often needs to be packaged and reviewed at all levels.
For example, if you want to transport a batch of Durasteel materials for Death Star armor to Tarassia, you will first issue a bidding announcement through a shell company registered as a planetary construction company. The bidding content is, for example, "High-strength alloy building materials required for Colla Planet super high-rise buildings." Then another shell mining company will win the bid and start providing the required raw materials.
But the mining process is fake. At this time, the mining company will also transfer the raw materials to another metallurgical company affiliated to Kuat Drive Yards through fake projects. The metallurgical company began refining work, but the project they were undertaking at this time was a project to provide armor steel to Imperial-class Star Destroyer, which had nothing to do with this construction project.
After that, Durasteel and the false building materials are manufactured, and the metallurgical company will outsource the transportation of the materials to another transportation company, which is disguised by the military. The transportation company will first transport this large amount of materials to Colla Planet, and then the empty shell construction company will return the materials on the grounds that the materials are substandard or have excess materials.
But shipping companies would refuse to accept the materials, citing the cost of shipping. The final batch of materials will be scrapped, or the original contracting party will kindly donate the materials to the the Empire government. In the end, it is picked up by the garbage disposal company, or by military personnel.
After that, the materials were pulled to Tarassia on the grounds of separate processing.
So this formed a closed loop of material transportation, and the source of this batch of Durasteel was whitewashed in the Empire's account. Because the first premise is that the mining of this batch of minerals and the smelting of Durasteel cannot be made out of nothing. Accounts must be left so that they can be disguised.
Otherwise, with so many people involved in the entire production and transportation process, how can we hide it from others? In what name are their wages paid? In what form do they exist as a company? There is no solution to this.
In the end, during this process, miners, transport ship drivers, and smelter workers all thought they were working on other projects. And during the whole process, many false or wrong transportation chains were produced, which can deceive others.
On the surface, this process seems to be a good way to cover up the transportation and confidentiality requirements of the materials required for the construction of Death Star, but in fact you have to think about it, it is Galactic Empire who completed this entire process!
In this process, there are layers of approvals, layers of exploitation, and layers of bribery. There are too many ways to line your own pockets. Especially for the sake of confidentiality, many bribes were even carried out by the Galactic Empire officials!
For example, giving a certain customs administrator a chance for promotion, or giving him an extra bonus to turn a blind eye to material transportation, etc. There are endless things like this.
That's why Nova said that although the entire process of the Galactic Empire building Death Star was indeed kept confidential, as long as you grasp the end point of all materials - Tarassia, you will find that the whole process is full of loopholes!
Kingdom of Dawn Military Intelligence Department still got help from the Rebel Alliance. With the help of the Rebel Alliance, their agents found an informant who worked for the Rebel Alliance. This informant is actually a broker. He has some connections in the Galactic Empire officialdom and politics, as well as the Mid Rim Outer Rim business world. He is a versatile character.
So this informant helped Kingdom of Dawn's agent to easily disguise himself as a confidant of a high-ranking official from Imperial Center, then contact a material supplier and successfully gain trust. At this time, as long as we grasp the point Tarassia and start with the transportation routes near the planet coordinates, we can immediately eliminate all false routes
Then, because all the materials transported to Tarassia were subcontracted, changed hands, and disguised in order to keep it confidential, the transportation methods were all strange. It can be seen that Durasteel is transported in a refrigerated spacecraft, and tens of thousands of tons of Frozen Fish are mixed in it, not to mention other weird things.
So it became possible to sneak in.
Of course, in fact, whether it is Kingdom of Dawn Head of Military Intelligence Salatan-Morse or his number one agent Nova, they must admit one thing, that is, Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin is not here. This is the biggest reason why they can get in!
They learned through the Rebel Alliance's high-level relationship at the Galactic Empire that Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin was sent to an interstellar mine in Mid Rim Territories to supervise a "civilian space station construction project" due to an unexplained 'management error'.
Wilhuff-Tarkin was not there, so they dared to carry out this infiltration operation so boldly, directly and quickly.
Because who are Wilhuff-Tarkin? He has been in the military for a long time and has deep military qualifications. And look at what he has done. When he was serving as the star district Grand Moff, he colluded with Sheev-Palpatine, who was still a member of the assembly at the time, and planned a very bad terrorist attack at the economic summit of Eriadu!
When it comes to entraining private goods and internal infiltration, Wilhuff-Tarkin are the real experts! If he was still there, then Tarassia's security couldn't be so lax.
Now, Wilhuff-Tarkin has been squeezed out, and Orson-Krennic is taking charge. If it is the early stage of Death Star's construction, it can be said that many construction contents are frame structures, which can basically be solved on the spot. But the current construction stage involves the construction and supply of many precision instruments and parts, which all need to be manufactured and transported from outside.
However, Orson-Krennic is now under direct pressure from Emperor Palpatine because the construction progress of Death Star is lagging behind! Why Palpatine disclosed the existence of Death Star in the parliament is actually a disguised form of pressure.
Because when the time comes, when he really wants Orson-Krennic to take out Death Star and show it to the parliament and Krennic can't do it, then he'll just wait for his head to fall to the ground.
Therefore, Orson-Krennic can only speed up the progress as much as possible.
Why did Death Star just install a Sublight engine, a sub-project with no technical content? He excitedly took a photo of Dark Prophet Kadann to watch the ceremony, just to prove to His Majesty the Emperor that he was still in control of the construction progress of the Death Star project.
Therefore, he relaxed the review mechanism and accelerated the input of construction materials.
The final result is that at this moment, Ganzuo Daosuo and Nova are standing in front of the Poggle-lower class!!