The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars

2467. Semi-nationalization of Kuat Power Dockyard

After suffering two consecutive defeats, the Galactic Empire's military seemed to feel that its six-month preparations had not produced any results, so it attributed the responsibility to the constraints of the domestic military-industrial complex.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Imperial Emperor Palpatine signed a decree requiring that all military-industrial complexes within the Empire must be nationalized and controlled by the Empire.

Under Palpatine's instructions, the three largest military-industrial complexes in the Empire, including Xina Fleet Systems, Corellia Engineering, and Kuat Power Dock, were all under tremendous pressure. Second-tier companies, including Nubian Interstellar Dynamics, Incom, and Blastic Technologies, were also under even greater pressure.

The current Kuat of Kuat, Little Kuat, tried his best to resist the pressure from the emperor. He began to bribe officials of the Imperial Industrial Supervision Committee and went to Dunn Wessex through the relationship of Chief Engineer Lila Wessex, trying to resist the pressure through the power of the military.

For Little Quart, getting close to Dunn-Wessex and directly handing over half of the company to Palpatine are two completely different things. Because between him and Dunn-Wessex, it can be said that it is mutually beneficial, but for Palpatine, it is a complete occupation and plunder!

Little Kuat was very determined. He told Lila Wessex bluntly in a secret communication: "I would rather see the Kuat Power Dockyard, the legacy of my ancestors, and the efforts of countless generations of Kuat's Kuat before me completely destroyed and turned into ruins! Only then can the Empire own it."

Afterwards, he ordered that all of the more than 117,000 connections on the industrial ring of the planet Kuat be installed with huge amounts of explosives. As long as the planet Kuat was occupied by the empire's military, he would detonate these explosives, completely destroying the Kuat Power Dock and the huge industrial ring.

The Galactic Empire also responded directly, and the Kuat Planet Councillor Gideon Danu was arrested by the Empire. However, the Empire did not dare to really take the matter to the extreme, and they only asked to station a full-time investigator at the Kuat Power Dockyard to monitor all the company's actions, and the investigator also had the right to interfere with the company's decision-making.

The investigator is a dark seer, Jedgar.

Dark Prophet is the name of the members of the Dark Force, a dark side cult. The Dark Force was founded thousands of years ago by Darth Millennial, the fourth generation of Bane Sith Lord. They refused to follow the way of the Sith, so they were separated from the Sith heritage at the beginning of their creation.

After Darth Sidious established the Galactic Empire, the Dark Forces submitted to the Emperor of the Empire and became the Emperor's dark advisers under the leadership of their current leader Kadann. Because most members of the Dark Forces are proficient in Force foresight, they basically surround Darth Sidious and provide the Emperor with their own predictions and judgments.

This time, it was also the first time that the Dark Prophet appeared in the secular world.

Little Kuat had no way to deal with the dark prophet, and Dunn Wessex also hinted to him that if Kuat Power Dockyard really turned to the North, it might lead to a more serious blow.

After a long period of thinking, Little Kuat had no choice but to accept it, which was equivalent to making Kuat Power Dockyard semi-nationalized. But after making this decision, problems arose within Kuat Power Dockyard.

In fact, Kuat Power Dockyard had already had a very serious internal struggle during the time of the previous Kuat of Kuat, Onana Kuat. Onana Kuat, who advocated power and dictatorship, had a very deep conflict with Gideon Danu, who advocated freedom and democracy. In addition, many people within Kuat Power Dockyard did not support Onana Kuat's policy of constantly moving closer to the Galactic Republic, which made Onana Kuat feel great pressure. As a result, she took a risk and forcibly attacked the Model Sector of the Kingdom of Dawn, which led to a disastrous defeat.

That disastrous defeat almost led to the demise of Kuat Power Dockyard. Later, under the leadership of Little Kuat, they survived by using the relationship between Lila and Wessex and binding their interests with the King of the North, Dunn Wessex. As a result, the internal conflicts were temporarily suppressed.

But suppressing it does not mean it disappears. Although Little Quart's style of doing things is smoother and more rational than Onana Quart's, his act of surrendering to Dunn Wessex is still unacceptable to the liberals within Quart.

The liberal democratic faction headed by Gideon Danu prefers to grow stronger through market-oriented development. They believe that if the interests of the Galactic Empire are deeply tied together, although it will bring considerable benefits in the short term, in the long run, the company that loses its independence will either be annexed or fall into the internal struggle of the Empire and be crushed by other forces.

Therefore, in the face of the Galactic Empire's coercion, Gideon Danu chose to fight to the end and never compromise. He denounced the Empire's wolfish ambitions and its anti-market and anti-law practices in the parliament, which eventually angered Palpatine and led to his arrest.

Even after Little Kuat accepted the compromise, the liberal democrats continued to resist. Little Kuat was worried that their resistance would give the Galactic Empire more excuses to occupy the Kuat Power Dockyard militarily, so he had to suppress the liberal democrats by force.

He reorganized the Quarter Presbyterian Church and expelled all the liberal democratic elders.

However, this series of actions finally put the Kuat Power Dockyard in a precarious situation, and their industrial production was also affected to a certain extent. However, the biggest impact was on the design and construction of new warships.

In August of 10 BBY, a vicious defection occurred on the planet Kuat.

The Liberal Democrats kidnapped Willix Blissex, the father of Kuat's chief engineer, Lila Wessex, and then fled from the planet Kuat and disappeared.

Of course, "kidnapping" was just an external excuse. In fact, according to surveillance, Willix Blissex voluntarily followed those people away.

The Galactic Empire Intelligence Department tried to intercept Willix Blissex at the border of the Kingdom of Dawn, but failed. He did not escape towards the Kingdom of Dawn, but went somewhere else and disappeared.

However, the loss of the real warship designer of Kuat Power Dockyard did not make Little Kuat and Lila Wessex panic or depressed, because they knew...

The problem of Kuat Power Dockyard now is far more than whether or not a new type of warship can be designed!