2607. Drastic changes in the Galactic Empire (1)
Imperial Capital, Imperial Center - the former Coruscant.
At this moment, many rumors are beginning to spread in the Galactic Empire's political arena, and the most critical and important one is that His Majesty the Emperor will hold a celebration in the near future.
This celebration will be the grandest and most spectacular gathering since the establishment of the Galactic Empire. Galactic Empire will hold a grand military parade to show off its powerful fleet and army. Not only that, it is said that some new weapons and equipment will also be unveiled.
But if it is just like this, it will only make some ordinary people happy, win win win. What really interests those Core Worlds wealthy cabinets is the awarding ceremony that will be held at this celebration!
During the investiture ceremony, Emperor Palpatine will confer twelve marshals!
Marshal! This is the pinnacle of military rank, the highest honor of a soldier, and also means the highest power! This is Honor that has never been seen before in the 25,000 years of Galactic Republic!
And the canonization of the twelve marshals also revealed a message - His Majesty the Emperor will re-divide the sphere of influence among Imperial army.
Whenever it comes to re-dividing the spheres of influence, it also means a large amount of exchange of interests, which also shows the direction of Imperial army in the future.
Moreover, is it enough just to appoint a marshal?
The appointment of a marshal often means the expansion of the power behind the marshal. The authority of a marshal can also make the supporters behind him soar to the sky!
How powerful is the marshal? We don't know yet. But what is certain is that since a marshal is to be appointed, Palpatine will definitely release part of his power from his own hands to the marshal, so that the marshal can truly become the supreme commander in the army, much higher than Admiral of the Navy.
During this period of time, all the honorable members of Core Worlds became excited.
Marshal Conferment Ceremony, which was originally postponed due to the failed assassination attempt on His Majesty the Emperor, is finally here!
Almost everyone who thought they had the ability to compete for the position of marshal began to mobilize all their strength and took action, hoping to completely lock in the position of marshal before this celebration.
At present, most people believe that the appointment of the twelve marshals is likely to be based on the current war zone established by the Galactic Empire, that is, the legion.
After all, Galactic Empire followed the setup of the twenty legions of Galactic Republic. However, during the course of the war, these twenty legions, 18th Army, 19th Army, 17th Army, 14th Army, and 8th Army, have all been destroyed. 14th Army failed to win the resurrection match.
In addition, 20th Army Governor Octavian-Grant committed suicide because he lost Fondor Planet, so naturally there is a vacancy. 12th Legion also suffered heavy losses during this period of fighting and is very likely to be removed from the list or even merged into the 4th Army.
Then 13th Army hangs alone on Hutt Space. As Hutt gradually begins to establish a unified national power, 13th Army no longer needs to exist and will probably be removed.
In this way, wouldn't there be exactly 12 legions left?
Just when the Empire nobles began to fight openly and secretly because of the twelve marshals, Galactic Empire Intelligence Bureau also quietly began to change.
Compared with the twelve marshals, although Intelligence Department's revolution was silent, it was also extremely dangerous and cruel.
The real leader of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, 'Blackhole' Koronar, disappeared after going to Unknown Regions to perform a secret mission. He was neither declared dead nor missing. He just disappeared.
In the internal documents of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, 'Blackhole' was finally defined as retirement.
After that, the nominal Director of Imperial Intelligence Bureau Armand-Isard was finally able to legitimately become the actual controller of the Intelligence Bureau.
This process is not smooth sailing. Although Armand-Isard is the director in name, it is well known that the power that should be in his hands basically belongs to 'Blackhole'. And it is impossible for Imperial Inquisitorius to listen to Armand-Isard.
Therefore, after the Imperial Intelligence Bureau retired from 'Blackhole', it was actually due to a state of division in which there were many people on the mountain and each was doing its own thing. At the same time, there are also several key departments of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, the real power holder.
Within the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, the only ones truly controlled by Armand-Isard are the Action Bureau, which is the department responsible for implementing specific actions. Several other departments, including Sector Navigation Bureau, Internal Organization Bureau, Analysis Bureau, Intelligence Data Bureau, etc., were basically divided up by several other senior officials.
However, Armand-Isard took action immediately after learning that 'Blackhole' had not returned. Many of his possible competitors were either suddenly exposed and arrested at this time, or were assassinated, had car accidents on the road, or were shot in the back and committed suicide out of a sudden thought.
During this process, Armand-Isard's daughter, Isanne-Isard (Ysanne Isard) began to emerge.
She has been the director of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau and has done an excellent job for a long time. And in the process of Armand-Isard defeating many challengers this time, Isanne-Isard acted vigorously and decisively, eliminating many of them before they could react.
Not only that, after Armand-Isard finally became Supreme Leader of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, with the help of Isanne-Isard, the situation was quickly stabilized, and the departments whose leaders had been assassinated and left without a leader were brought under their command.
Now, in addition to Imperial Inquisitorius, all the power of the Intelligence Bureau under 'Blackhole' has been completely controlled by Armand-Isard.
He is the veritable king of the dark side the Empire...
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Only one hour.
That's right, an hour.
After Armand-Isard became Imperial Intelligence Bureau, the real Supreme Leader, only an hour later, his daughter Isanne-Isard came over with a team of Imperial Guards wearing blood-red armor. After reading His Majesty the Emperor's decree, he was immediately arrested for treason.
Armand-Isard Looking at the charges displayed in front of him, he was completely confused. These charges include colluding with the Rebel Alliance, leaking key intelligence from the Empire, assassinating senior Intelligence Bureau officials, deliberately allowing his subordinates to carry out suicide missions, etc. The most important one is that the leaked intelligence caused the super battleship the Eye of Palpatine's system to be compromised by Kingdom of Dawn, which in turn caused the battleship to be sunk!
So, what is the Eye of Palpatine?
With this question, Armand-Isard was dragged directly to the Intelligence Bureau's own execution ground and shot on the spot, not even Judgment.
Isanne-Isard almost immediately became the new leader of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, and instantly took over all the power of Armand-Isard. It is difficult not to think that her quick action was not intentional. And what she brought was Imperial Guards! This also directly shows the attitude of His Majesty the Emperor!
After that, Isanne-Isard appointed Wullf, who was highly respected in the Intelligence Department and had deep-rooted connections in the military. Colonel Z-Yularen, as the minister of the Intelligence Bureau Internal Organization Bureau, then promoted a group of close officials directly under her, truly completing the transfer of power.
Wullf-Yularen also regained the rank of general after being demoted from the position of Admiral of the Navy to the Intelligence Bureau as colonel, except this time he was a civilian general.
Thanks to the mysterious heroine X for the reward of 500 Qidian Coin!!