2513. Assassination of the Emperor
In fact, Dark Prophet's life is not easy now. In the past half year or so, Dark Prophet, headed by Kadan, has suffered great criticism.
In addition, the upcoming the Empire Marshal Conferment Ceremony among the New Year Celebration originally scheduled for the end of 10 BBY has been postponed. This incident is also considered to be a major mistake of Kadan. Of course, this incident also involves Blackhole, who is responsible for the Intelligence Department door.
At that time, the reason why Dark Prophet Kadann wanted to personally inspect the construction of Death Star and participate in the sea trial ceremony of Death Star was because he wanted to use the sea trial ceremony of Death Star to put more Halo on himself, so...
Avoid disaster.
What happened to cause Marshal Conferment Ceremony to be postponed?
Emperor Palpatine, was assassinated.
The masterminds of this assassination operation are Grand Moff Bartam (Grand Moff Bartam), High Sector Governor Trachta (Grand Moff Trachta), and Sector Governor Kadir (Moff Kadir).
They planned to place bombs to blow up the shuttle barracks area when Emperor Palpatine patrolled to the star area where Bartam was located, and first eliminate Emperor's Guard. Then, under the pretext of strengthening the emperor's security, a team of specially treated Clone Trooper was transferred to Palpatine's side.
Finally, it is up to these Clone Trooper to complete the assassination operation. These Clone Troopers have all been specially processed by Kaminoans, and have far more power than ordinary Clone Troopers. Moreover, enhanced versions of biochips are installed in their brains, making them as ruthless as machines and with almost no independent thinking.
This ensures that these Clone Trooper are powerful enough to complete the assassination, and will not be aware of the assassination because their thoughts are perceived by Emperor Palpatine.
At the same time, this trio also organized a similar operation, preparing to eliminate Darth-Vader who was preparing the Core Worlds defense line at Delon system.
But the assassination ended in a very funny way. First, High Sector Governor Bartam and Trachta died one after another, and then Sector Governor Kadir personally led a company of reinforced Clone Trooper to besiege Palpatine alone, but was burned to coke by the Force lightning in the sky.
At the same time, the enhanced Clone Trooper sent to Delon system to assassinate Darth-Vader was also torn into pieces by him, chopped into pieces of stumps and meat all over the ground.
The assassination operation failed completely.
This incident was considered to be a major dereliction of duty by Dark Prophet Kadann, because he did not foresee such a child's play assassination and allowed the assassination to be carried out.
It can be said that this assassination operation was successful because they actually carried it out to the last step, allowing the assassin to face the emperor directly. The only reason for failure is because of the almost invincible power of Palpatine.
Palpatine did not kill Sector Governor Kadir, but left him alive. Imperial Intelligence Bureau and Imperial Inquisitorius led by Blackhole immediately intervened in the investigation. After prying open Kadir's mouth, tens of thousands of people were arrested. Most of these people were executed after rigorous interrogation and torture.
This time, it seemed like a farce, but it was actually an assassination operation of extremely profound significance. With the arrest of these people, the veil was gradually unveiled.
Among the trio, Kadir is just an ordinary Sector Governor, but he controls a large amount of resources from Imperial frontier and Outer Rim territories, and his strength is not inferior to High Sector Governor. He is mainly worried that the political power structure of the Empire will change, causing border Sector Governor like him to lose power.
The problems of High Sector Governor Trachta and High Sector Governor Bartam are even more typical. They are all people who advocate mechanical transformation. The star sector they manage uses a large number of robots and cyborgs, and even they themselves have undergone mechanical transformation surgery, turning themselves into powerful cyborg cyborgs.
And the most fundamental reason why they want to accept such transformation is fear.
Both of them are members of the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, but unlike Alliance Chairman Orman-Tagge, as High Sector Governor, they have dealt with the military a lot, and they have more contact with Dark Followers of Palpatine, so they know the power of Dark Side Force very well.
Force-sensitive has far superior perception and movement abilities than ordinary people, and can even rely on the Force to predict what will happen in the future. The fighter jets they drive can fly freely on the battlefield and are almost never shot down by the dense anti-aircraft firepower. The Lightsaber they wave can always arrive at the shooting position of the Blaster Beam 0.0001 seconds in advance, and then bounce the beam back.
Such power is almost invincible.
But, they didn't.
Therefore, Trachta and Bartam made the same choice - to transform themselves. After transformation, they have gained powerful power and high-speed computing power through science and technology, but this is still not enough.
Under such circumstances, Emperor Palpatine has been pursuing a plan to let Dark Followers enter the major departments of the Empire. Especially in the recent nationalization of Imperial domestic enterprises actions, Palpatine has placed many Dark Followers into those companies to take charge of Supreme Advisor.
Not only that, Dark Followers has also begun to be installed in many government departments, and the military is the hardest hit area, with Dark Followers entering almost all legions.
The most numerous of them is Dark Prophet under Kadan.
This is considered to be a sign that Dark theocracy power has begun to seize secular power. In addition, Palpatine is very tired of Imperial Senate and he is planning to dissolve the parliament. This incident is regarded by many officials as an important symbol of the impending transformation of the the Empire power structure.
Therefore, at this time, within the Galactic Empire, a fierce struggle began between Dark theocracy power headed by Dath-Vader, Kadan, and Blackhole; military forces headed by Dunn-Vesex, Wilhuff-Tarkin, and others; Mega-corporations forces headed by Orman-Tagge, Little Kuat; and the Empire bureaucratic forces headed by Koru Ya-Fan D'ron.
This struggle is very complicated because there are different factions within these people. But in general, the contradiction between Dark theocracy power and secular forces is the most acute.
Because the contradictions between other forces are, in the final analysis, a matter of interests. The issue of interests is nothing more than a matter of making more or less, and does not involve the essence. But that is the essential difference between them and Dark Theocracy. Apart from conflicts, there cannot be any intersection between the two parties!
Therefore, even before the matter of Palpatine disbanding Imperial Senate was put into effect, the secular bureaucrats immediately felt the tremendous pressure as soon as the news spread. They are worried that their power will be taken away by Dark Followers, and facing those Dark Followers who have powerful power and can even predict the future, once they lose the power in their hands, they can only be slaughtered by others.
As a result, a huge network was woven, which covered many fields, from the military to administration, from economy to technology. Almost everyone was preparing to fight against Dark Theocracy's erosion of secular power.
So at this time, Trachta, Bartam and Kadir colluded. They all possess very huge power and strength, and control countless connections and resources. Their union itself represents the union of many Interest Communities.
Their assassination operation was carried out very smoothly with the acquiescence of almost everyone who handled it, until they arranged for Reinforced Clone Company to directly face Emperor Palpatine.
But the reason why their operation failed was hilarious.
During the implementation of the plan, because it went very smoothly and seeing that success was not far away, the trio were immersed in joy. At this time, Trachta gradually became domineering, and the information he revealed in his words was quite contemptuous of the other two.
Because it is true that Trachta is a key person in the operation-Reinforced Clone Company was created by him secretly contacting Kaminoans, and he also arranged to plant the bomb to eliminate Emperor's Guard.
At the same time, because the star sector ruled by Trachta is located in Core Worlds, he is the strongest among the three in terms of economic strength and political connections.
The result of this was that Bartam became extremely wary of Trachta, and then he felt that the assassination plan was almost arranged anyway, and he just needed to proceed as planned, so he simply sent an assassin to assassinate Trachta in advance.
But the problem is, Trachta thinks so too.
He also sent assassins to kill Bartam...
As a result, less than a day after Trachta was killed, Bartam was also assassinated.
So Kadir, the weakest and least present among the trio, became the mastermind of the entire assassination operation... And Palpatine, who had already noticed something was wrong through the Force's precognition, was also a little surprised to find that two of the three masterminds suddenly died before he took any action...
But Kadir is also a tough guy. Two of the masterminds of the plan have died, yet he actually took the last step.
It can only be said that he really knows nothing about the Force.
An entire company of reinforced Clone Trooper was crushed to pieces easily like a swarm of ants in front of Emperor Palpatine.
This farce-like assassination operation had an extremely far-reaching impact.
The first is that Dark Prophet did not make any predictions or reactions during the entire action. In addition to the three masterminds self-destructing the entire operation, Palpatine personally foresaw the operation when it was about to begin.
Therefore, Supreme Leader Kadan of Dark Prophet was reprimanded extremely angrily by Palpatine. Coupled with the uprising of Tarassia, which built Death Star, the ability of Kadan was questioned, and Dark Prophet began to be marginalized.
At the same time, this assassination operation also exposed the extremely sharp contradiction between the Secular Power Class and Dark Theocracy classes, as well as these people's essential distrust of Emperor Palpatine.
Thinking about it, it is indeed true. When Palpatine was still the Galaxy Republic Senator, these Secular Power Class were already superior. His process from parliamentarian to speaker, from speaker to emperor was actually achieved with their support.
So from the perspective of these Secular Power Class, the emperor is just the spokesperson of their power. If they can hold up one emperor, they can also hold up another one.
This made Palpatine more determined to build a Dark Theocracy country. He increasingly believed that One-Man Sith's path was the only way he could rule the galaxy for eternity.
However, after all, Secular Power Class has been controlling the power structure of the entire galaxy since Galactic Republic era. They have a profound heritage of 25,000 years. To completely overthrow them is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
Although Palpatine's ultimate goal is a Dark Theocracy country, now, once he leaves those Secular Power Classs, the entire the Empires will collapse instantly. This does him no good at all.
Therefore, he postponed Imperial Marshal's award ceremony, and turned New Year Celebration, which was supposed to be a lively and lively event, into a bloody purge!
Everyone involved in this assassination, from Sector Governor to the warehouse manager, were all arrested and executed! In just over a month, tens of thousands of people were implicated and executed!
This is a major reshuffle of Imperial power structure. The people responsible for the investigation of this assassination are Imperial Inquisitorius and Imperial Intelligence Bureau, and the masterminds behind these two organizations are none other than one of the three representatives of Dark theocracy power - Dark Advisor, Koronar, 'Blackhole'!
Intelligence Bureau agents arrest and search all suspicious persons unscrupulously, and Inquisitorius judges is even more unscrupulous. Under their activities, almost everyone in the entire the Empire bureaucracy is in danger.
During this period of time, the interrogation rooms of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau and Imperial Inquisitorius were full almost every day. And 'Blackhole' also fully enjoyed the trust of Emperor Palpatine in this process and got great satisfaction from it.
Because in this entire investigation, Blackhole, he is the most powerful person in the Empire besides Palpatine. He can investigate anyone at will, search any building in the Empire at will, and as long as there are a few clues, he can arrest anyone immediately!
Therefore, Blackhole is very busy during this time.
Therefore, he did not know that a net of death was slowly spreading against him.
Hydra, Imperial Inquisitorius is one of the four Grand Judge, and is also the strongest among them. She was already thought to have been killed in Fondor planetary battle, her former sphere of influence was instantly divided, and the entire Inquisitorius had forgotten her existence.
But on this day, High Inquisitor of the Imperial Inquisitorius Jerec got news from Hydra!