2608. Drastic changes in the Galactic Empire (2)
In fact, the mysterious retirement of 'Blackhole' also had a profound impact on another aspect – Dark Followers.
That's right, the balance of strength between the Force-sensitive group serving Galactic Empire and the traditional military and political group has quietly changed.
As one of the three most powerful Dark Side Force userss under Emperor Palpatine, 'Blackhole' not only has extremely powerful power, but also has strong influence.
After Inquisitorius retired from 'Blackhole' and Hydra 'died' in battle, he was disbanded by Palpatine and merged into Imperial Inquisitorius. But the remaining power of Inquisitorius was originally led by Grand Judge Latinal-Tobin (Laddinare Torbin). He very resolutely drew a clear line with the Judicial Department and refused to accept the leadership of the Judicial Department, which can be regarded as retaining the last bit of dignity of Inquisitorius.
However, another very important reason why Latinal-Tobin is like this is that he and Imperial Inquisitorius actually have a very deep-rooted conflict.
Because currently Imperial Inquisitorius's second-in-command, the eldest sister, Arden Lin, had her right arm chopped off by Latinal-Tobin.
The person who dug Arden-Lin out of the grave at that time was Imperial Inquisitorius, and Judicial Department's highest combat power Hydra was not at the scene at that time. When Aden-Lin just woke up, her mind was blurred and she attacked everything around her. Latinal-Tobin cut off her hand during the fight and captured her.
Although Arden-Lin, who had just woken up from a 20,000-year slumber at that time, was the Force and her mind was in chaos, the power to cut off Arden-Lin's arm and capture her was not something just anyone could possess.
The current Imperial Inquisitorius, Latinal-Tobin are the undisputed strongest, and only he has the ability and qualifications to command the remaining power of Inquisitorius.
But no matter how powerful Latinal-Tobin is, his strength is not as strong as the previous Hydra, let alone compared to Blackhole. Moreover, he is extremely selfish and utilitarian, so his popularity is also very bad. Basically, he is just a reckless man.
Therefore, one of the three Dark Side Force userss under Palpatine has collapsed from his sphere of influence to his power to himself.
As a result, this greatly reduced Dark Followers's strength.
Because among the three Dark Side Force users, Das-Vader is the representative of the military, Dark Prophet Kadann is the representative of the administrative side, and Blackhole is the representative of the intelligence side.
Now one of the Iron Triangle's Intelligence Department gates, with Isanne-Isard taking over the throne by killing their fathers, is equivalent to Palpatine's acknowledgment that this part of the power has been handed over to the traditional military and political forces. Coupled with the reopening of Marshal Conferment Ceremony, which was temporarily shelved due to the assassination, this also clearly shows that Palpatine has now had to compromise with the military and political forces.
Another result of Blackhole's retirement is that the previously intensified actions to insert Dark Prophet into the Empire and Mega-corporations have also been suspended.
Dark Prophet's current actions are also much more low-key.
Not only that, Palpatine also canceled all meetings that required him to attend in person and changed them to the form of memorials. He worked in the office and commented on the reports sent by various departments in each sector.
There is internal news that Emperor Palpatine's recent health condition is not ideal.
In addition to the turmoil of Blackhole, the recent Company One series battle that occurred in Eastern Territory has received widespread attention. Because this battle was the first large-scale confrontation between the two sides after the inter-war period of more than half a year between Northern Territory Campaign and Fandor Campaign.
This battle also showed the different directions of military construction between the Galactic Empire and Kingdom of Dawn.
However, Galactic Empire completely concealed the news that the Eye of Palpatine was destroyed and refused to acknowledge the existence of this super battleship. Instead, Galactic Empire trumpeted Destruction battleship that they destroyed Kingdom of Dawn.
Since Fang-class battleship had previously caused great panic to Galactic Republic in the early days of Clone Wars, the destruction of the enhanced version of Destruction battleship has undoubtedly given the the Empire people more confidence.
As for why General Gideon-Tarkin fled back to Charro IV Planet and lost half of the Imperial 12th Legion's jurisdiction, it was explained that it was because of Mon Calamari's sudden betrayal that the original military base Boonta was besieged by Kingdom of Dawn.
Although Imperial army fought bravely and destroyed the Destruction battleship, causing heavy losses to Kingdom of Dawn's superior fleet, it also suffered heavy casualties. In order to avoid further losses, it took the initiative to return to Charro IV Planet.
Victory turned into yes.
Moreover, Mon Calamari's betrayal was promoted by the Empire as the work of Kingdom of Dawn in collusion with the Rebel Alliance, which happened to equate the two as an alliance of counter-rebellion forces conspiring to overthrow the rule of the Empire. The Empire calls on all people to stand up and resist this evil alliance.
Imperial Admiral Garrosh-Tarkin was also believed to have been kidnapped by the Rebel Alliance. Emperor Palpatine instructed Das-Vader to arrange for personnel to rescue him as soon as possible.
Das-Vader sent Imperial Inquisitorius's eldest sister Aden-Lin and her team to perform this task, asking them to find Garrosh-Tarkin as soon as possible and rescue him.
In addition to the power disputes within the Empire, Imperial military is also seizing the time to expand its strength.
During this period, three more Executor-class Super Star Destroyers completed final construction and were put into active service, namely Guardian, Iron Fist, and Reaper.
In addition, two other ships, including Annihilator and Aggressor, have also entered the final stage of outfitting.
Also under construction are Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, Enforcer, Intimidator, Ravager, Razor's Kiss, and Devastator.
In other words, including the sunk Lusankya, the Lila in the hands of Northern Territory, the Wilhuff-Tarkin in the hands of Morak, the Executor in the hands of Das-Vader, and the Hegemony in the hands of Palpatine, there are actually a total of 15 Executor-class Super Star Destroyers under construction by the Galactic Empire.
The three ships Executor-class Super Star Destroyer and Iron Fist completed this time were incorporated into Imperial Defense Fleet and settled into the Imperial Second Legion and Corellian system.
Reaper Super Star Destroyer is also deployed to Northern Territory, but its main task is to defend Scipio and is not directly under the command of King of the North Dunn-Vesex.
Guardian Super Star Destroyer is deployed in Imperial Center, and together with Hegemony forms the most powerful deterrent of Imperial Center.
Among other Super Star Destroyers under construction, the deployment location is confirmed to be Devastator, which is scheduled to be commanded by Tagge family and become the flagship of Orman-Tagge.
Annihilator was handed over to Quat Planet as the backbone of the defense of the Empire's largest industrial center. In fact, Annihilator, which is already in the final stage of outfitting, is already performing this task.
The commissioning of three Executor-class Super Star Destroyers and the successive completion of more Super Star Destroyers have also given Galactic Empires more confidence.
Beyond that, their confidence comes from other areas.
In order to cope with Kingdom of Dawn's long-standing huge advantage in fighter jets, Galactic Empire has been committed to developing its own advanced fighter jets. At present, their research and development directions are mainly in three aspects-TIE Avenger, TIE Phantom and TIE Defender.
Among them, TIE Defender fighter, the full name of TIE/d "Defender" Multi-Role Starfighter, is a new fighter developed by Admiral of the Navy Demi Telis-Zaarin.
This kind of fighter is completely a numerical monster. According to the developer, General Zaarin, TIE Defender fighter will allow the Empire pilots to have the strongest firepower, the highest acceleration, the fastest Sublight, the lowest steering angle, and its fastest acceleration can reach 4220G! This terrible acceleration could only be achieved by Jedi Knight flying a fighter jet before. Not only that, TIE Defender fighter will also be equipped with a hyperspace engine and a permanent shield system.
Imperial military has this confidence, allowing TIE Defender fighter to defeat any fighter in the galaxy now and become the strongest among them.
In addition, it is TIE Phantom fighter, the full name is TIE/ph "Phantom" Multi-Role Stealth Starfighter (TIE/ph "Phantom" Multi-Role Stealth Starfighter).
This is a new type of fighter developed by Imperial Admiral's Martio Batch, and unlike General Zaarin, who focuses on making bricks with huge power and making strange numbers, General Batch's research and development goal is a stealth system.
Since the Galactic Republic period, their fighter pilots have been deeply hit by the Kingdom of Dawn stealth fighter and suffered extremely. In every air battle, the Kingdom of Dawn stealth fighter formation represented by Wraith fighter can cause heavy damage to them. Even if they have a numerical advantage, they cannot ensure victory over these invisible fighters.
Galactic Empire spent a lot of time developing the stealth system and also built his own stealth spacecraft, but the results were not ideal. Either the invisibility effect is not good, or the cost is too high to be mass-produced.
Therefore, Admiral Bach set his sights on Stygium crystals (Stygium crystals). By stimulating the energy of this crystal, an invisible energy field will be formed to achieve an invisible effect.
At the same time, this will also simplify the manufacturing process of the stealth system and meet the conditions for mass production.
But the problem is that the invisible field of Stygium crystals is very powerful. Once it is fully deployed, no instrument or equipment can detect it, including your own people. Even the pilot of TIE Phantom fighter himself will lose control of the fighter jet after deploying the stealth field, resulting in stealth failure.
This is an issue that Admiral Bache is currently addressing.
TIE-Vengeance Fighter, the full name is TIE/ad Avenger starfighter.
This fighter is designed to succeed the TIE Advanced X1 starfighter and is used to replace the original version of the TIE/LN light fighter.
In other words, Galactic Empire plans to completely withdraw TIE/LN fighters from the front-line forces after TIE-Vengeance Fighter is fully put into production, and then use TIE Advanced X1 starfighter as the main force of mass production and TIE Avenger as the core force of mass production.
As a universal fighter designed for ordinary pilots, TIE Avenger maximizes its performance according to the limits that ordinary pilots can achieve. The performance of this fighter far exceeds that of TIE Advanced X1. As for the original TIE/LN fighter, it can only be swatted to death like a fly in front of TIE Avenger.
These three models of the new TIE series fighter are designed with TIE Defender as an elite model, TIE Phantom as a special model, and TIE Avenger as a core model. It is planned to eventually form a crushing advantage over the Kingdom of Dawn fighter jets after the replacement is completed.
In the field of battleships, Galactic Empire has also made great achievements.
In addition to Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer, which has been researched with no results, Galactic Empire is also developing several new types of Star Destroyer.
The first is the Bellator-class Dreadnought (Bellator-class dreadnought), a 7,200-meter-long dreadnought that is a follow-up model to the Commander II-class Dreadnought.
This type of dreadnought has been completely redesigned from the Executor series Dreadnoughts. On the basis of reducing its length by 800 meters, it emphasizes high-speed assault as its main feature. It is called "Fast Dreadnought" within the project team.
Then there is the Assertor-class Command Dreadnought (Assertor-class Command Dreadnought). This dreadnought is 15,000 meters long, and its weapons and equipment can only be very ordinary compared to the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer. However, this kind of dreadnought is equipped with a large number of sophisticated command and communication systems such as Hyperspace communication system, Sector-grade long-range sensor array, War zone combat simulation system.
At the same time, among the 125,000 crew members, there is also an entire strategic analysis team and senior staff team, equipped with the most advanced combat analysis computers to command the entire battle situation.
Only one Assertor-class Command Dreadnought is needed to command and coordinate the simultaneous operations of multiple main fleets in an entire sector.
The emergence of the Assertor class has solved the situation where Sector Governor can only sit in the command center of his own planet and stare blankly during every large-scale battle, allowing Sector Governor to also go to the battlefield in person to conduct combat command.
Obviously, Bellator-class Dreadnought was designed and built to deal with Divinity-class battleship, and Assertor-class Command Dreadnought was obviously prepared for the twelve Imperial Marshal that followed.
Coupled with the increasing production of Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, Imperial military believes that it is still capable of competing with the battleships of Kingdom of Dawn. Not to mention the confrontation of equal forces, at least with superior forces, the victory of the battle can be guaranteed.
For the development and construction of a series of new weapons, Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance of Orman-Tagge can be said to have contributed most.
Although many of these new weapons were created by the Galactic Empire's original project team and then reassigned to the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, Orman-Tagge only served to organize, coordinate, and provide funding. But after all, with so many research results, Orman-Tagge naturally received praise from His Majesty the Emperor.
However, no matter how much praise is given, it is all false. Orman-Tagge understands that his real hope of soaring into the sky lies in the real super weapon——
Death Star!!