The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2333, The conflict of interests of the Imperial Navy

Lila Wessex's words made Dunn Wessex fall into deep thought, and as time went on, his expression gradually became fierce, greedy and ferocious.

"That's right! We can't fall into the trap of those people! The future of the Imperial Navy should be defined by us!" Dunn Wessex said fiercely, "The shameful defeat of the Imperial Navy on the planet Kira must not be thrown on the performance of the warships by them! You are right, we need to take advantage of the victory to launch an attack, and we can't give those people the opportunity to slander us in front of His Majesty!"

This matter is not just a dispute of will, but involves an extremely huge interest! Both economic and political interests are extremely huge!

In fact, during the Clone Wars, Lila Blissex had set her sights on Dunn Wessex, who had just been appointed as the new governor of the Ninth Army of the Galactic Republic. Because Dunn-Wessex is not only young and handsome, but also has a huge family power and has a profound influence in the Republic military. At that time, Lila-Blissex was a senior engineer at the Kuat Power Dockyard. The support of the military was crucial to her.

As a result, Lila made the right move. With her beautiful appearance and petite figure, she soon won the favor of Dunn-Wessex at a military review meeting for battleship design. Who would have thought that Dunn-Wessex really liked this one very much. Lila-Blissex, who is only 1.5 meters tall, just hit the XP of this dead loli control!

Dunn-Wessex, who was in love, doted on his girlfriend in every way. Using his power, Lila-Blissex also began to expand his influence in the military. Moreover, because the famous first-generation battlecruiser of the Galactic Republic, the Hunter-class battlecruiser, was signed by her, she was already shrouded in the star aura of a super battleship designer.

With the blessing of this halo and the support of the military, Lila Blissex launched the Knight-class Star Destroyer and the Archon-class Star Destroyer at the end of the Clone Wars, and soon passed the review of the military's warship supervision committee and became the next generation of the main battleship of the Galactic Republic.

However, at this time, the Archon-class Star Destroyer began to be criticized for many design problems. After all, the Archon-class Star Destroyer was designed by Lila herself, not her father who had defected. However, Dunn-Wessex, who had already begun to rise to prominence by fighting against the Geth, directly mobilized the power of the military to suppress all these voices.

The turning point was that Onana Kuat later faced political pressure from all sides and forcibly launched a raid on the Model Star Zone, which resulted in a disastrous defeat. The huge force of more than 400 battleships was almost wiped out.

Afterwards, Onana Kuat committed suicide, and the Kuat Power Dock was controlled by Little Kuat. In order to help the company survive the crisis, Little Kuat extended an olive branch to Lila Blissex, allowing Lila to become the chief engineer of Kuat Power Dockyard and letting Dunn Wessex hold shares in the company as a condition in exchange for the support of the military.

From this time on, Dunn Wessex's interests began to be firmly tied to Kuat Power Dockyard. Whether it was later renamed the Praetor-class Star Destroyer to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, becoming a symbol of the Galactic Empire's army, or designing and building the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, these actions were all behind the shadow of the Imperial Military's Northern Interest Group headed by Dunn Wessex.

So under the influence of Dunn Wessex, the Imperial Military gave more than 70% of the capital ship orders to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. On the one hand, this was because the Imperial-class Star Destroyer was designed by Lila Wessex, who had become his wife, and on the other hand, it was to include all these orders in the production system of Kuat Power Dockyard.

Of course, there is another relatively hidden reason. Kuat Power Dockyard has concentrated almost all its factories on the planet Kuat, so the cost of repeating the production of the same warship will be very low. Compared with the widespread production model of Rendili Interstellar Dynamics and Corellia Engineering, Kuat's model is more suitable for centralized production rather than diversified production.

Therefore, under the influence of Dunn-Wessex and Kuat Power Dockyard, the large-scale construction of Imperial-class Star Destroyers has actually become the development direction of the Imperial Navy. What does it mean to be able to define the development direction of the Imperial Navy?

This means that Dunn-Wessex and Kuat Power Dockyard will reap huge benefits in the process of building a large number of Imperial-class Star Destroyers. This benefit is not even a matter of 100 million or 200 million credit points. The cost of building an Imperial-class Star Destroyer of 150 million credit points involves hundreds of billions and trillions of funds!

But the problem is that Emperor Palpatine is not a fool. He can't just watch Kuat Drive Dockyard expand and monopolize without limit. So he moved his fingers and let the Xina Fleet System begin to rise. At the same time, he let Kuat Drive Dockyard outsource the construction of many Imperial-class Star Destroyers to other industrial enterprises including Corellia Engineering Corporation.

That's why, this time, many people in the Imperial military took advantage of the disastrous defeat of the Kira Planet Battle to attack the existing development plan of the Imperial Navy. They began to think that they needed to build warships specifically for dealing with large groups of fighters, and at the same time expand the production of Vindicator-class heavy cruisers.

Because to build a warship dedicated to fighting fighters, what is the most important thing? Naturally, it is the fire control system. And who is the best fire control system provider in the Galactic Empire now? Xina Fleet Systems. Just look at the name of their company, "System". That's right, they started out as a warship control system, and they are naturally familiar with the design and manufacturing of this aspect.

The Damorian Manufacturing Company was able to come up with the design of the Tartan-class air defense patrol ship in a short period of time. It is absolutely impossible to say that there is no software support from Xina Fleet Systems behind it. No one believes that such a small company can suddenly design a fire control system that can quickly track and lock a large number of small targets moving at high speed.

This matter is also a struggle for interests. The Imperial military is not a monolithic entity. There are also many factions with many completely different interest orientations. In addition to the Northern Interest Group of Dunn-Wessex, there are also factions headed by Governor Wilhuff-Tarkin, factions headed by Darth-Vader, factions headed by Orman-Tag, and so on. It is very complicated.

The Galactic Empire has only so much money every year. How to spend this money and who will get it? This is the core of the struggle between these factions.

So once the development of the Imperial Navy begins to change, there is no doubt that a large number of orders will fall into the hands of the Xina Fleet System and Corellia Engineering. You must know that Corellia Engineering has also accumulated a lot of experience in manufacturing DF-20 anti-aircraft gunboats.

In addition, part of the profits of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer will be divided by the Xina Fleet System. The reason is very direct-the main reactor used by the Imperial class, the L-A2B solar furnace, is produced by the Xina Fleet System.

In this way, it is not an exaggeration to say that the interests of Dunn-Wessex and Kuat Power Dock were directly cut in half.

Therefore, this time the great victory of Lieutenant General Mis-Ro-Nurudo-Thrawn of the Chiss in the Chis Territory made Dunn-Wessex think about this...

That's right!

The cake that you have already eaten will never be allowed to be touched by others! !

After understanding this, Dunn-Wessex agreed with his wife's plan... Indeed, Vice Admiral Thrawn has won now. If it is left unresolved, it will not help the current situation of strengthening the construction of aviation battleships.

So in order to protect his own interests, he can only...

Increase the stakes! !