2561. Lothal Planet changes hands
Kyle Marr is an elected governor, preceded by Arihnda Pryce as Planet Governor during the brief time Lothal Planet was occupied by the Galactic Empire.
Alinda Price is the eldest daughter and heir of Lothal Planet's local Price family, and is also the senior manager of the family's Price Mining Group. After the end of Clone Wars and the collapse of Confederacy of Independent Systems, Price family quickly changed careers to join Galactic Empire, and then actively participated in the politics of the Galactic Empire.
In a series of political struggles, Alinda Price conspired to bring down former Governor Ryder Azadi on charges of treason, and then relied on Wilhuff-Tarkin's support to directly parachute into the position of Governor Lothal Planet.
Alinda Price relied on her family's strength to quickly discover a large number of precious mineral veins underground in Lothal Planet, which even produced Kyber Crystal. Therefore, she began to increase the exploitation of the people on the planet and prepared to build the planet into an industrial center for the Galactic Empire Eastern Territory.
However, her high-pressure policy was immediately opposed by the Lothal Planet people, and uprisings began to break out. In addition, Galactic Empire has limited control over Lothal Planet, which is on the edge of Eastern Territory. Alinda Price has no ability to suppress the uprising.
As a result, the Givin came at this time.
Under the leadership of Kobori, the leader of the Givin, they began to secretly contact Alinda Price and expressed their willingness to support her in promoting industrialization on Lothal Planet, but the condition was that the Givin hoped to establish permanent settlements on Lothal Planet and immigrate about 100 million people.
The population on Lothal Planet was less than 300 million at its peak. It can be said that the land is vast and sparsely populated, so it is not a big problem to establish some permanent settlements. Alinda Price was also distressed by the uprising at this time, and she also hoped that new forces could join in to help her extinguish the flames of the uprising.
So she agreed.
Givin Governor Kobori immediately dispatched a fleet of 10 Aquitenes-class light cruiser to Lothal Planet.
Why Aquatens-class? Although Aquitenes-class light cruiser was not sold on the civilian market by the Galactic Empire, the war between Kingdom of Dawn and Galactic Republic/Galactic Empire has been going on for so long. Naturally, there are many captured warships. It is not difficult to repair 10 Aquatens-class from them.
The composition of this fleet also lowered Alinda Price's psychological defense, and was affirmed by her. At that time, she believed that this the Givin was probably unable to bear the oppression of Kingdom of Dawn, so it traveled thousands of miles to the other end of the galaxy to avoid Kingdom of Dawn.
Because in the battle not long ago, Darth-Vader had just invaded the planet Yago-Dur and exploded a quarter of the Givin's home planet. Kobori also told Alinda Price that they planned to stay away from the war.
Then, Alinda Price, who was eager to make achievements in the governorship that she had finally conspired to seize, believed it!
The Givin is indeed very powerful. They quickly suppressed the uprising on Lothal Planet, and they also began to build large-scale industrial zones and interstellar shipyards.
During this process, the Givin and Alinda Price cooperated very well and jointly attacked Rebel Alliance. For a time, the people on Lothal Planet suffered double exploitation and oppression.
Alinda Price could now raise her head to express her achievements in suppressing Rebel Alliance to her superiors, Wilhuff-Tarkin. She concealed the part about the Givin, only saying that she found a mercenary army from Hutt Space to solve the problem of the Galactic Empire's lack of troops in this remote area.
Wilhuff-Tarkin affirmed her actions and told her that when Lothal Planet's management was effective and achieved initial results, he would not be stingy with his rewards and would push her to a higher level.
Alinda Price was overjoyed, and at this time, Governor Kobori of the Givin was also extremely flattering to her. In addition to a large amount of bribes, he also tried his best to complete any instructions given to her. A cruiser-level private spaceship was even built just for her!
The high-spirited Alinda Price began to relax her vigilance. When the Givin told her that they were going to build a giant stellar energy collection device, she immediately approved it.
Because according to the Givin's feedback, once this giant stellar energy collection device is completed, it will be able to generate more than ten times the energy equivalent to Lothal Planet's existing energy supply system! With sufficient energy support, Lothal Planet's industrial production capacity will increase exponentially.
Moreover, an extremely luxurious space city will be built on this stellar energy collection device, and she and all the nobles on the planet will be moved to the space city.
Alinda Price has already begun to imagine the grand occasion of entertaining the big shots from Core Worlds with a luxurious dinner in the splendid space city. By that time, she will no longer be a country bumpkin from a remote planet, but a military industrial official sitting on one side!
Therefore, she directly approved the Givin's large-scale material delivery requirements, and turned a blind eye to the large number of industrial ships including Raloz-class Heavy Constructor that the Givin quickly sent.
The Givin also constantly reported to her the progress of the project, and also listed in detail the uses of the materials and industrial ships they brought.
It wasn't until more than three months later that Alinda Price realized something was wrong. She did not pass Kobori, but took the personal guard on a spaceship to go to the "stellar energy collection device" to check it out.
However... what she saw was a ring-shaped structure whose main work was almost completed.
At that moment, Alinda Price's originally gloomy face suddenly turned pale, and her mind went blank at this time, and her whole body was frozen there.
In this galaxy, there is only one giant interstellar structure that is ring-shaped...
Stargate.
And her spaceship was immediately surrounded by the Givin's battleships. Givin Governor Kobori sneered and told her that Lothal Planet was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Galactic Empire, and she, the governor, was no longer legal.
Alinda Price did not dare to disobey at all. After she was arrested by Kobori, she was even imprisoned. In the following months, she kept sending false messages to the Galactic Empire, making the Empire still think that Lothal Planet had everything under control.
When Galactic Empire also discovered that something was wrong, it was already too late.
Lothal Planet's star gate has been completed.