2609. Drastic changes in the Galactic Empire (3)
Scarif (Scarif), located in the Milky Way Galaxy Southeastern Territory Abrion sector. This star region is relatively isolated, and there are almost no stable hyperspace channels around it for navigation. As a result, most of the time, this star region is isolated from the world.
This planet has a diameter of 9112 kilometers and is a smaller planet. 90% of its surface is ocean. The natural scenery on the planet is extremely beautiful. If it is developed into a tourist planet, it will definitely be a place that tourists flock to.
After discovering this beautiful blue planet, Galactic Empire built a secret military base and research base here.
The reason why Scarif was chosen by Imperial military is because the planet's mantle contains a large amount of rare metals, which can be mined to meet the needs of warship manufacturing.
In addition, the hyperspace transportation here is very inconvenient, and it is impossible to reach here under normal circumstances, so confidentiality is guaranteed. Because, Imperial military uses this place as one of their secret weapon research bases.
After construction began, Galactic Empire built a hyperspace shielding device near the planet. Under normal circumstances, this device is completely useless, because there is no way to block all hyperspace channels. But Scarif is different. There is no permanent waterway here, and the hyperspace fluctuations are extremely unstable, so the hyperspace shielding device can really work.
Finally, in order to meet their own navigation needs, Imperial military built a hyperspace stabilization device here, and Scarif can only be reached through an unmanned galaxy.
This is no wonder why the Kingdom of Dawn Intelligence Department door, under the premise that Tang Xiao has provided the basic situation of the planet, took the answer to find the solution, but the result is still the reason why the location of Scarif has not been found for many years.
A Consular-class cruiser passed through Hyperspace Stabilizer, suddenly left the hyperspace channel, and appeared near this beautiful planet.
Scarif is always protected by the highest level Planetary Shield and remains on at all times. With this level of Planetary Shield, even if a whole main fleet came to bombard it, it would be able to sustain it for at least several days.
On the periphery of the planet, several armed space stations and a huge space port have been built, and more than a dozen Imperial-class Star Destroyer are docked in the circular space port.
Arriving near the planet, Consular-class cruiser immediately sent the identification code and permission code. After getting permission from the control center, it flew towards Golan M3185 space station, a station in the planet's synchronous low orbit.
A channel opened in the center of the space station, and Consular-class cruiser passed through the channel and entered the planet's atmosphere.
Flying over the blue ocean, overlooking the beautiful tropical beach scenery below, the cruiser docked at the command center of Scarif.
This is a huge military base, and you can see several barracks around it. the Empire Stormtrooper wearing white polymer alloy armor is training. You can also see a variety of armored vehicles, including AT-AT walkers, AT-ST walkers, etc. It is obvious that even the army's equipment here is of the highest level.
The central command center of the military base is a building with a height of more than 300 meters. From here, you can have a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery.
Consular-class cruiser The cabin door opened, and under the escort of a team of Clone Trooper wearing black combat armor, the people who came here were—Orman-Tagge!
Patriarch of Tagge family, the top director of Tagge Company, and the chairman of the Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, which is now in full swing.
No one came to the tarmac to greet him, but Orman-Tagge didn't care. He took the elevator directly to the top floor of the command center and arrived in front of a very luxurious office.
The door slid open silently. In the bright, clean and luxurious office, a 50-year-old man wearing white Empire military uniform, who was already bald, was standing in front of the window, with his back to the door, admiring the beautiful scenery in front of him.
Orman-Tagge adjusted his special glasses, walked into the office and said with a smile, "Governor Tarkin."
Wilhuff-Tarkin then turned around and looked at Orman-Tagge. His sinister expression softened slightly and he nodded in response. "Mr. Tagge."
"I'm here to discuss the issue of the DS-1 combat space station." Orman-Tagge said straight to the point, "The main project of the DS-1 combat space station will be completed in three months, and the hyperspace engine will be installed at that time. Now, I need to confirm the construction of the weapon system. At the same time, I have also brought a team of experts. They will cooperate with your work and improve the system interface."
"I must remind you that this is just a temporary measure." Wilhuff-Tarkin said calmly, "Tarkin's battle station is an independent project from the DS-1 combat space station. The reason why I agreed to use Tarkin's battle station as the weapon system of DS-1 is entirely because of the mess left by this idiot Orson-Krennic."
"If Tarkin's battle station can be used to complete the construction of the DS-1 combat space station faster, I think it will also be of great significance to you, the Governor, isn't it?" Orman-Tagge smiled coldly, "Of course, I will also follow His Majesty the Emperor discussed the DS-1 combat space station plan in depth. Tarkin's transferred both technology and personnel from DS-1, but now you want to establish it as a separate project. I wonder if you have reported it to His Majesty the Emperor?"
"Hehehehe..." Wilhuff-Tarkin sneered, "Please remember, Mr. Tagge. The DS-1 combat space station, from design concept to implementation, was all carried out under my auspices. I misjudged the wrong person before, and asked Orson-Krennic almost ruined the project, but he later put Krennic to death. So, His Majesty the Emperor found you. Do you understand? Come and cooperate with me. Bring back your team of experts, who are not qualified to participate in this project."
"What about Galen-Erso?" Orman-Tagge snorted, "He is the energy engineer of DS-1! Now that I am taking over the DS-1 project, I should take him away!"
"Galen-Erso has been removed from the DS-1 project because he was implicated in the Geonosians riot. So, I recruited him at his home. What does it have to do with you?" said this, Wilhuff-Tarkin showed a sarcastic smile, "And... it's not that I won't let him go, it's actually the big hollow iron ball in your hand that has no room for Galen-Erso, an energy expert."
"You!" Orman-Tarkin was almost furious. He gritted his teeth and said, "You have to know that I can sue you directly to His Majesty the Emperor at any time for interfering with the advancement of the DS-1 project!"
"Keep an eye on your big hollow iron ball. Maybe in a few decades, it can really grow a super laser cannon out of thin air? Hahahahaha!" Wilhuff-Tarkin laughed.
The conversation ended unhappily, and Orman-Tagge walked out of the office angrily.
However, he saw that the dozen soldiers he brought had been surrounded by hundreds of the Empire Stormtrooper, and in the middle, there were dozens of soldiers with distinctive black armors!
Death Trooper (Death Trooper)!
The power comparison between the two sides is extremely different. As long as Wilhuff-Tarkin gives an order, these Stormtrooper can directly shoot Orman-Tagge and his guards into a sieve!
"Don't be rude to our Mr. Tagge! He is responsible for paying wages..." Wilhuff-Tarkin's sarcastic voice came from the office again.
Only then did those Death Trooper and Stormtrooper make way.
Orman-Tagge left in panic with his guards.
Consular-class cruiser quickly took off and flew towards Scarif's outer space.
Orman-Tagge looked at the blue planet outside the window, gritting his teeth. He walked over and said to the pilot, "Go to area H-773-TD90!"
"Yes!" The pilot nodded and immediately entered the Group One partition coordinates into the spacecraft. The spacecraft immediately turned around and flew toward the distance of the outer space of the planet.
I only saw that there was an extremely huge space station being completed in this place more than 500,000 kilometers away from the planet!
According to the data displayed on the sensor, the height of the space station reached 75,000 meters and the length was 42,000 meters. This size is amazing.
But it looks like the space station is still under construction.
There is also a very huge hole in the center of the space station, and many engineering spacecraft are constantly busy around it.
Orman-Tagge understands that this cavity will later be installed with a huge dish-shaped device - yes, this is Tarkin's battle station!
The plan for this space station was first proposed by Admiral of the Navy Nord-Warfield. He pointed out that if it was only necessary to destroy a planet, then there would be no need to build a huge 120-kilometer-diameter spherical project like Death Star.
Nord-Warfield's plan is to retain only the super laser cannon Death Star, and then delete all other redundant systems. The protection of the space station is completely left to the fleet. In this way, a super space station with the same ability to destroy planets as Death Star can be built at only one-tenth of the cost.
At that time, Wilhuff-Tarkin and Orson-Krennic were in a state of conflict with each other. In order to compete for the dominance of the DS-1 combat space station project, the battle between them was completely life-and-death. And at that time, Orson-Krennic once had the upper hand with their more professional technology and management capabilities, which made Wilhuff-Tarkin feel even more pressure.
He felt that he might lose the dominance of Death Star project. At this time, he met Nord Warfield and proposed his plan, so he hit it off with Nord.
Tarkin began to advise Palpatine, saying that the research results of DS-1 can be directly used, and a simplified version of Death Star can be built in another place. In this way, when Death Star is completed, they will have two powerful star-destroying level space stations in their hands instead of one.
Therefore, the construction of this space station named "Tarkin Project" started at Patriim system (Patriim).
Later, Orson-Krennic took advantage of a riot caused by Geonosians to drive Wilhuff-Tarkin out of the DS-1 combat space station project team. On the one hand, Tarkin was responsible for the construction work of the Eye of Palpatine, and on the other hand, he began to concentrate on the operation of Tarkin Project, which is also Tarkin's battle station.
As a result, Geonosians's resistance intensified, and Orson-Krennic gradually lost control of the situation. On the contrary, the Tarkin's space station secretly built by Wilhuff-Tarkin is progressing smoothly.
In the end, Geonosians's resistance led to a catastrophe. The DS-1 combat space station project was almost completely paralyzed, and the combat space station itself was also seriously damaged. At this time, Afshin-Admiral Makati, who was closely related to Tarkin, led the reinforcements to reinforce. He also had another purpose, which was to take away Orson-Krennic's classmate - energetic expert Galen-Erso.
After getting help from Galen-Erso, the weapon system of Tarkin's battle station has made rapid progress and has reached the stage where preliminary testing can be carried out!
On the other hand, Orman-Tagge, although he took over the DS-1 combat space station project, this project is no longer the hot potato it was before. On the contrary, it is just a hot potato and a bottomless pit of money!
Orman-Tagge spent hundreds of millions to rebuild the expert team and Engineering Corps, and began to continue the construction of the DS-1 combat space station project. But when he was about to build the weapon system, he discovered that many of Orson-Krennic's former teams had been taken away by Wilhuff-Tarkin, who were building the Tarkin's space station!
Not only that, Tarkin's battle station was also transferred to Scarif for final installation and testing.
However, Emperor Palpatine has very strict requirements on the progress of the DS-1 combat space station project. He requires Orman-Tagge to complete the construction of Death Star within this year. In such a short period of time, it is impossible to build another weapon system.
The only way is Tarkin's battle station.
As long as the main body of the DS-1 combat space station in the hands of Tarkin's battle station and Orman-Tagge is combined, then it can be regarded as having a weapon system, and it will be a complete Death Star.
So at this time, the project that was started after the death of Tarkin in the original plot was started in advance by accident, and became the key to the construction of Death Star.
But the problem is that you need to go to Wilhuff-Tarkin to get something.
Tarkin is not a fool, of course he knows what Orman-Tagge is planning. Although the relationship between Wilhuff-Tarkin and Darth-Vader is only average, there is no big conflict between him and Darth-Vader's mortal enemy - Orman-Tagge. But there is an essential contradiction in the DS-1 combat space station project!
What Wilhuff-Tarkin wants is the command authority after Death Star is completed. And this command power is also something Orman-Tagge has coveted for a long time.
It is naturally impossible for Tarkin to lend out Tarkin's battle station so that Orman-Tagge can combine the two space stations into a complete Death Star. What he wants is for Orman-Tagge to come and beg him!
If you want Tarkin's, you can, as long as you don't block my way!
A ferocious smile appeared on the corners of Wilhuff-Tarkin's mouth.