494. The growth of civilization (Part 2)
Compared with the army, the situation of Fourth Civilization Navy is much better. The current total strength of the navy is 6 million, with three main fleets and more than 30 escort fleets.
The scale of the escort fleet is very small. Each fleet is based on a Grey Horse-class escort carrier as the core, and is paired with about 10 obsolete frigates. The combination of these frigates is different, and the most important thing is to use waste. The outdated frigates Hammer-class light frigate and Pulsar-class light frigate used by Fourth Civilization Navy were all handed over to the escort fleet.
Moreover, as the war approaches, the productivity of Fourth Civilization also begins to be tight. The carrier-based aircraft on these Grey Horse-class escort carrier no longer use Wraith fighter. All Wraith fighter have been dispatched back to the main fleet. Therefore, most of the carrier-based aircraft on Grey Horse-class escort carrier use Vulture droid fighter.
More than 30 escort fleets are planned to be further expanded to 50, mainly to protect the safety of the waterways between Fourth Civilization and those peripheral resource-producing areas and industrial areas.
Now Fourth Civilization's main peripheral industrial zones include five places:
1. Semirres Planet Industrial Zone, which was built jointly by Tang Xiao and Semirians after Hiigaran Aerospace Group established Hiigaran Aerospace Group. It is also the first peripheral industrial zone of Fourth Civilization. Initially, it was mainly used to build small and medium-sized warships such as Revenge-class light destroyer and Revelation-class light cruiser. Later, with the establishment of the Cooperative Alliance, this industrial zone also began to expand and was mainly used to build Kohl-class Battlecruiser.
This industrial zone is of average scale and can only start building 20 Kohl-class Battlecruiser or 150 other small warships at the same time.
2. The industrial area near Indjori system is formed by the combination of several surrounding galaxies. Mainly located at Golden Nyss Shipyard at Nyss system, which was jointly built by Hiigaran Aerospace Group and Trade Federation. It mainly produces Hiigaran-class battlecruiser and supplies raw materials. Since Amado satellite of Chalino system, and Guardian is in charge of Mayvitch 7 military colony, the labor force mainly employed in the mining area comes from Imaria system.
This is the second peripheral industrial zone of Fourth Civilization. Golden Nyss Shipyard was occupied by Indjori during the Indjori riot in 33BBY, and was later obtained by Fourth Civilization by taking advantage of Indjori's mortgage compensation. After 11 years of operation and construction with Trade Federation, it has the ability to start building 100 Hiigaran-class battlecruiser ships at the same time.
3. Yage-Dur Planet Industrial Zone, this is a very large industrial zone that Hego-Damask II invested in the construction of the Givin in order to build Ragnarok-class Titan warship during his lifetime. It was built on an inconspicuous satellite outside the Yage-Dur planet. The scale of this industrial zone is very large. Titan warship with a height of less than 20,000 meters can be built, as well as Kohl-class Battlecruiser and Sova-class Carrier. The latest Martha-class heavy cruiser is also built here.
The Yager-Dur planet industrial zone is currently operated and controlled by Damask Holdings Group. Its radiation range includes raw materials and artificial production areas in more than 120 peripheral galaxies. It is also one of the biggest legacies left by Das-Pregas.
Moreover, the planet Yager-Dur belongs to Inner Rim of the galaxy, so the existence of this industrial zone is also highly confidential and requires heavy defense. Among the current 30 escort fleets, 18 are active around this industrial area.
And in order to protect this industrial area and prepare for the upcoming war, Tang Xiao asked the Givin to invest more than 20 Raloz-class Heavy Constructor, more than 300 small engineering ships, and more than 2,000 SCVs to build a super large interstellar base outside the dock - Agonev-class star base!
4. Onderon Industrial Zone, this is after Tang Xiao brought InterGalactic Banking Clan's co-chairman San Hill on board, and entrusted it to Tyran Heavy Industries, allowing Tyran Heavy Industries and InterGalactic Banking Clan to jointly build it. And Thorn Hill immediately exerted his huge influence as the co-chairman of the largest economic entity in the galaxy, and he directly hired the planet Onderon (Onderon).
Onderon is a planet located in Inner Rim of the galaxy, with a diameter of more than 15,000 kilometers, a suitable climate, and 4 satellites. InterGalactic Banking Clan and Tyran Heavy Industries invested in Onderon together and built a huge dock and industrial base on the planet's largest satellite Dexen (Dxun).
Although this planet is located at Inner Rim, it is very close to Separatists in terms of political leanings. The construction of this super-large industrial base has accelerated this process. A year ago, Count Dooku and San-Cir launched a coup on this planet, supporting a powerful minister named Sanjay-Rush (Sanjay Rash) and overthrowing King Ramses-Dundup.
After that, Onderon member Mina-Bontri (Mina Bonteri) began to align with Francis-Underwood. In the previous parliament, she publicly opposed Chancellor Palpatine's vote on "Military Creation Act" and left the meeting angrily.
After publicly supporting Separatists, Onderon also accelerated the construction of a huge industrial base on Dexen Satellite. This industrial base has brought millions of job opportunities to the planet and more than 1 billion credit points in fiscal taxes every year. It has greatly eased the economic situation of Onderon and made the status of the usurping Sanjay-Rush more stable.
Onderon will also become one of the peripheral industrial zones of Fourth Civilization, and Behemoth-class battlecruiser is being studied. In addition, Tyran Heavy Industries also transferred some industrial operations here to build a large number of military equipment such as Wraith fighter, Siege Tank, and Valkyrie missile frigate.
5. Orville III Planet Industrial Base. This is the industrial planet of Ayrou. In the previous war with Ayrou, Ayrou was defeated and was forced to sign an unequal treaty with Dawn Star Planet and had to pay huge war compensation. But because Ayrou's treasury was defrauded by mercenaries secretly sent by Das-Sidious, Ayrou, who had no money, had to use Orville III Planet's production capacity as collateral.
So Dawn Star Planet took over this industrial base, and worked with Trade Federation to transform and upgrade the industrial base. Although the Orville III Planet industrial base is large in scale, its technical content is very low. It can currently only be used to produce some light weapons, ammunition and some backward light frigates.
In addition to these five peripheral industrial zones, the largest production capacity of Fourth Civilization comes from Star Ring around Dawn Star Planet. With the support of Dor Planet's almost inexhaustible mineral resources, Dawn Star Planet Star Ring was built almost day and night, bringing a huge fleet of 200 battleships to Fourth Civilization!