Chapter 2060: Desperate and Powerful Empire (Part 2)
2061. Desperate and Powerful Empire (Part 2)
In the current military-industrial system of the Galactic Empire, the most important components are three industrial giants - Kuat Power Dockyard, Xina Fleet Systems, and Corellia Engineering Corporation.
Among these three industrial giants, Corellia Engineering Corporation is relatively independent, because they are mainly responsible for the construction of a large number of civilian spacecraft, industrial and commercial spacecraft. Therefore, although they are very large in size, they basically do not undertake the task of research and development in the Imperial Army.
Corellia Engineering Corporation is currently mainly engaged in OEM. After obtaining the blueprint, it helps the other two industrial giants to produce and OEM their warships. Because what Corellia Engineering Corporation undertakes is actually the dredging of the lifelines of all walks of life in the Milky Way, because a large number of industrial, commercial and civilian spacecraft are built by them, so even the militaristic Palpatine did not completely incorporate them into the military war machine of the Empire.
However, Corellia Engineering Corporation still has its own military production line, and the various types of frigates and gunboats they produce are still active in the Galactic Empire Navy with good performance. In addition to their own DP-20 anti-aircraft gunboats, CR-90 frigates and other small warships, the main OEM warship of Corellia Engineering Company is the Victory II-class Star Destroyer obtained from Rendili Interstellar Dynamics.
Xina Fleet Systems, formerly known as the Republic Xina Systems, is a huge industrial enterprise reorganized by Reiss-Xina with the support of Palpatine's confidant, Wilhuff Tarkin, after the establishment of the Galactic Empire.
When the Galactic Empire began to readjust the industrial system derived from the Galactic Republic, one of the biggest changes was to eliminate Rendili Interstellar Dynamics, which had defected to the Principality of Dawn, and replace it with Xina Fleet Systems. And now in the industrial system of the Galactic Empire, the division of labor is clearer. Xina Fleet Systems is responsible for fighters, engines, and operating AI.
Xina Fleet Systems presided over the development of the most important upgrade of the Galactic Empire Navy-the TIE plan. This plan directly delineated the main fighter and bomber models of the future Imperial Navy, all of which were TIE series fighters developed by Xina Fleet Systems.
In addition to the first generation of TIE fighters, the TIE series now has models including TIE/LN air superiority fighters, TIE/RB heavy support fighters, TIE/SA bombers, and is also researching more powerful TIE interceptors to counter the new fighters including Sabre and Broadsword that have been put into service by the Principality of Dawn.
Not only that, the TIE series also includes transport aircraft, landing ships, shuttles and other models. The Shiner Fleet System, which made a lot of money in this series, even developed several TIE series tanks! If it weren't for the protest by Rossana Heavy Engineering Company, a subordinate of Kuat Power Dock, which is mainly responsible for the armament of the Imperial Army, Shiner Fleet System might have made a few TIE series walkers!
In addition, the most important product of Shiner Fleet Systems is the L2B cationic reactor they designed and manufactured. This reactor has excellent performance and huge power. Reis-Shiner has even publicly stated more than once that the L2B cationic reactor is the Galactic Empire's own artificial star!
All large battleships of the Galactic Empire are designed and built based on this reactor. The most typical one is the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Some people joked that the design of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer is to add armor around the L2B cation reactor and install a turret.
Finally, as the name of the Xina Fleet System suggests, they also designed the operating system of all the warships of the Imperial Navy and the navigation system of the pilot robot.
In the military industry system of the Imperial Navy, the core is still the Kuat Power Dock.
Compared with the Corellian Engineering Company, the Kuat Power Dock has less background and is more convenient to control; compared with the Xina Fleet System, it has enough size and strength to support the huge military industry needs of the Galactic Empire.
The current Kuat Power Dock has experienced the tossing of the predecessor Kuat of Kuat, Onana-Kuat, and almost lost most of its assets in the raid war invading the Model Star Zone. Later, the little Kuat who took over the position of Kuat of Kuat showed his strong hand in the face of this mess.
Little Kuat decisively chose to refuse the pressure from Emperor Palpatine who wanted the Imperial government to take over Kuat Power Dockyard directly. He won over Lila Wessex, also known as Lila Blissex, and continued to maintain her aura as a super battleship designer, so that he could get close to the real power of the Imperial Navy, the Governor of the Ninth Army, known as the King of the North, Dunn Wessex.
Wessex doted on his new love, Lila Wessex, very much. After blowing a lot of pillow talk, Dunn Wessex directly used the financial quotas of the North's Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Legions to send a large order to Kuat Power Dockyard. On the one hand, it solved the problem of cash flow interruption of Kuat Power Dockyard. On the other hand, because the North is now fighting against the Geth for a long time, the North's order for the Imperial class also indirectly shows the Imperial military's recognition of the Imperial class Star Destroyer.
With such a guarantee, Little Kuat could continue to sell his Imperial-class Star Destroyer, which had been criticized in previous battles, to the Imperial Navy in the core area. The game of Kuat Power Dockyard finally came alive again.
Later, under the planning of Dunn-Wessex, Lila's father, the real genius designer Willix-Blissex, was kidnapped. And this time, having learned the lesson that Dr. Zhang Jiarui was rescued by the agents of the Principality of Dawn and turned the planet Kuat upside down, Lila-Wessex set up many defenses and finally did not let her father be rescued again.
Of course, in order to appease the Imperial Emperor Palpatine, Little Kuat also paid a huge price to please His Majesty the Emperor. In addition to offering a large number of gifts and funds, he also gritted his teeth to complete the design and construction of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer.
After seeing this 19,000-meter-long super battleship, Palpatine finally gave up the idea of directly taking over the Kuat Power Dockyard and let them continue to be independent.
Seeing that he couldn't leave and couldn't resist his daughter's persuasion, Willix-Blissex finally softened and helped Lila to revise the design of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, and based on this, launched the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer.
So, after solving the problems of internal and external troubles, Little Kuat also returned to Palpatine. Although he maintained the independence of Kuat Power Dock, he still strengthened the control of the Imperial military over himself, such as military consultants stationed in the company for a long time and accepting Palpatine's representatives to join the board of directors, in order to dispel Palpatine's vigilance against them.
Then, Little Kuat began to completely turn Kuat Power Dock into a war machine of the Galactic Empire. The huge industrial star ring of Kuat Planet started construction at full capacity, and at the same time, 1,500 Imperial-class Star Destroyers would be started, and it is expected that this number will double in a few years!
Not only that, those small interstellar docks are also constantly manufacturing various small warships and auxiliary warships.
A steady stream of spaceships sailed out of the dock and joined the Imperial Navy, making the Imperial Navy unprecedentedly powerful. In addition, in order to meet the huge resource needs of the Kuat Power Dock, countless mining planets in the Empire are mining day and night, and huge amounts of resources are continuously sent to the Kuat Planet, making it the busiest place in the Empire.
Now, with the support of these three major industrial giants, the Galactic Empire Navy has become a terrifying military force with tens of thousands of kilometer-class battleships, hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized warships, and millions of fighters!
Compare it with the Clone Wars.
At that time, the kilometer-class battleships of the Galactic Republic, in the constant manufacturing and consumption, always remained at a level of about 2,000 ships, and tens of thousands of small and medium-sized warships. In this way, the Galactic Republic also has the ability to launch large-scale battles such as the Model Sector Raid War with more than 400 battleships participating. And in the largest-scale battle for the Salukami planet, more than 1,000 battleships participated in the battle!
Now, the Galactic Empire, with tens of thousands of battleships, can easily support a super-large battle involving 2,000 or 3,000 battleships! By then, the Galactic Empire's army may even be constrained by the overloaded hyperspace channel!
However, the Galactic Empire has temporarily dispersed these battleships to various places, mainly to suppress the uprisings that have been rising one after another, and then to monitor the Principality of Dawn.
The Imperial fleet monitoring the Principality of Dawn is mainly gathered in two places - one is the capital of the 20th Army of the Republic, Tallan, which is backed by Fondor, one of the largest shipyards in the Galactic Republic, and directly faces the northern gateway of the Principality of Dawn, Yago-Dur.
The other is Kira, which faces the most important transportation hub of the Principality of Dawn, the fortress planet Eriadu.
Kira and Tallan are both heavily armed, with 1,000 battleships stationed there to ensure that the Principality of Dawn has no chance of breaking through their blockade.
If the Galactic Empire is determined to completely solve the problem of the Principality of Dawn one day, then the fleets of Kira and Tallan will be the main force.
But at present, despite such a large fleet, even Emperor Palpatine, who hated Tang Xiao, had to admit that the Galactic Empire did not have the power to take the initiative to attack and quickly defeat the Principality of Dawn.
The reason is the current situation of the Galactic Empire's internal and external troubles.
At present, although it cannot be said to be accurate to describe the Galactic Empire as being surrounded by enemies, it is basically close to the truth.
Let's not talk about the uprisings and intrigues of the major factions and families within the Galactic Empire for the time being. The external environment alone is bad enough for the Galactic Empire.
In the northern part of the galaxy, because of the rampage of the mechanical life form Geth, the entire northern part has been plunged into war, and it has never subsided. Since the Geth has begun to use the technology of warp navigation and ignore the hyperspace channel, almost no planet in the entire northern part is safe, so the Galactic Empire has to maintain a large fleet in the northern part to ensure safety.
Although he was only the governor of the Ninth Army, Dunn-Wessex was actually the de facto controller of the entire North because of his connections and Palpatine's favor. The Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Legions, plus the Eighth Legion that was destroyed by the Geth and was preparing to rebuild, were all under the control of Dunn-Wessex.
In order to deal with the attack of the Geth, Dunn-Wessex had more than 3,000 capital ships and 150,000 small and medium-sized warships. This huge fleet was divided into more than 40 squadrons and deployed in the areas where the Geth were most rampant, almost more than 200 habitable star systems.
Not only that, Dunn-Wessex also had rising stars such as Gilad Pellaeon under his command. Dunn also admired Pellaeon very much and asked him to fully organize the battle against the Geth.
At the same time, there were super generals such as Mis-Lo-Nurudo-Thrawn. However, Dunn-Wessex is not familiar with this famous general who will surely shine in the future, and Thrawn is now just the commander of a patrol fleet.
In the eastern part of the Milky Way's plane star map, this was once the core area of the Confederation of Independent Systems. After the demise of the Confederation of Independent Systems, this area did not really return to peace.
A very direct question is, why did the Confederation of Independent Systems use the sub-planet of Laxus as its administrative capital?
It's not because this place is so unique, but simply because the separatist forces in this area are the strongest!
Here, whether it is the sub-planet of Laxus, or the planets of Felucia, Semirs, Osus, Salukami, and Dak... These planets all hate the Galactic Republic from the beginning, and they wish the Galactic Republic would die tomorrow.
Moreover, after Count Dooku followed Tang Xiao's advice and recognized Palpatine's true face, whether it was out of self-preservation or some other intention, he worked hard for a while and sincerely wanted to make the Confederation of Independent Systems stronger.
So it is conceivable that even if the Confederation of Independent Systems fell apart, these planets could not really offer their loyalty to the Galactic Empire.
Although Darth Vader led a huge fleet to capture the planet of Salukami in one fell swoop, and after that, almost all the former Confederation of Independent Systems surrendered, the problem was that these planets only surrendered on the surface, and they completely disdained the Galactic Empire.
To put it more seriously, the reason why these planets surrendered was because they saw that the Principality of Dawn also surrendered! On the other hand, when the war between the Principality of Dawn and the Galactic Empire started again, these planets would not immediately jump up to resist the Galactic Empire, but at least they would definitely have no problem in secretly hindering it.
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