The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars

2471. Death Star Project (Part 1)

However, the DS-1 Battle Space Station plan was not accepted by many senior officials of the Galactic Empire. The reason was that on the one hand, the cost and engineering workload of the DS-1 Battle Space Station were unimaginably high, and on the other hand, once this weapon was manufactured, the cost of destroying a planet would drop to a very low level.

Everyone is worried that their planet will be turned into a mine by a DS-1 bombardment one day.

Because in the past, whether it was the Galactic Republic or its enemies, including the Sith Empire, the Eternal Empire, and the Infinite Empire, they could destroy the surface of a planet, but they could not destroy the planet itself.

Especially for a standard planet with a diameter of about 10,000 kilometers, the energy required to blow it into pieces is basically an astronomical figure. And even if it can be done, with such an energy level, it is much more cost-effective to do something else than destroying the planet itself.

So few people would directly design weapons with the goal of destroying planets.

But now, under Palpatine's instruction, the DS-1 battle space station directly laid this matter out!

The DS-1 combat space station weapon itself, even if it is just a design concept, is enough to make everyone shudder.

Therefore, this plan was unanimously opposed by industrial giants including Kuat Power Dockyard and Corellia Engineering Corporation.

One of the important purposes of Palpatine's vigorous promotion of the nationalization reform of the military-industrial complex this time is to forcibly promote the DS-1 combat space station project at the national level.

In fact, it was impossible for Palpatine not to see that with the pressure of the Kingdom of Dawn on the border and the growing strength of the rebels within the Empire, the life of the Galactic Empire was numbered.

It was impossible for him to reconcile the conflicts within the country, and in fact, he had never done so. So no matter what, the Galactic Empire had only one ending - it would die miserably with all the dregs and conflicts it had inherited from the Galactic Republic over the past 25,000 years.

Just as Palpatine had expected.

The Kingdom of Dawn and the Rebellion only accelerated this process.

Therefore, Palpatine needed to complete the construction of the DS-1 Battle Space Station as soon as possible. In his opinion, the demise of the Galactic Empire was fine, but his enemies would never be able to have a good time. The DS-1 Battle Space Station was a "big gift" he gave to Tang Xiao!

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The plan for the DS-1 battle station was actually planned as early as the time of Darth Plagueis. However, Darth Plagueis only had a simple plan, which was to use some super technologies of the ancient Sith Empire to build some super weapons that could only be controlled by a few people.

In this way, Darth Plagueis's power concept can be realized - using a very small number of people to enslave the vast majority of people.

Both Darth Plagueis and Palpatine were very aware that the contradictions within the Galactic Republic were almost irreconcilable. Only through thorough destruction could these contradictions be completely broken down and a new regime be re-formed.

But they must also admit that they are not here to solve problems, but to enjoy the power dividends brought by ruling. Therefore, they must have a means to override all contradictions. And this means is various super weapons.

Why are both the Sith Empire and the Galactic Empire in the original plot so keen on developing various super weapons? Even if the costs were used to build star destroyers, they would probably have at least ten more fleets, but they still enjoy doing so?

This is the root cause.

The original design concept of DS-1 came from the design of a super star destroyer in the ancient Sith Empire. The design of this super star destroyer was only a theory until the outbreak of the Clone Wars. This theory was transformed into a real blueprint and handed over to Palpatine by the Geonosians through Count Dooku.

However, according to the later statement of the Geonosian leader, Bogel-Lower, he only asked Geonosian engineers to improve the design of the DS-1 battle station and refine it to a feasible level.

Although it is still unknown where the initial design of DS-1 came from, if we continue to extrapolate, we can understand that the design of DS-1 is divided into two parts. One is the fortress hull part, which is the part made by the Geonosians. This part should be the basic design made by Palpatine's secret client.

The other part is the huge super laser launcher. The design of this part comes from the Extractor Project, which was developed by Wookiee scientists and tested on the planet Achilles. Later, during the battle when Severance Tann raided the core circle, the technology was accidentally taken away by Tann.

According to the original plan, the initial construction of the DS-1 battle station will be carried out on the planet Geonosis, and Count Dooku will persuade the separatist super-corporations to contribute money and manpower to complete the construction of this super weapon. Including the Trade Federation and the Interstellar Banking Association, those super-corporations believe that the completion of this super weapon will help them defeat the Galactic Empire in one fell swoop.

With the front line suffering successive defeats, this option of turning the tide in one fell swoop is really tempting.

But they could not imagine that this super weapon, which they spent money and effort to build, was not for their use.

However, the construction plan of the DS-1 battle space station was strongly opposed by Tang Xiao. And as the Dawn Planet continued to grow, Tang Xiao's opposition became louder and louder, and his supporters increased, causing serious resistance to the advancement of the plan.

But later, Palpatine continued to promote the project from another angle by splitting the Interstellar Banking Association, and sent away the infrastructure of the DS-1 battle station being built outside the planet Geonosis in several sections.

Tang Xiao didn't know where it was sent to. But what he knew was that the DS-1 battle station was still absorbing a lot of blood from the separatist super-corporations such as the Trade Union, the Interstellar Banking Association, the Enterprise Alliance and the Technology Alliance, because these super-corporations were still trying to play both sides.

It was not until later, at the end of the Clone Wars, that those super corporations recognized Palpatine's true face and turned to Tang Xiao, but it was too late.

However, at this time, Tang Xiao did greatly hinder the construction progress of the DS-1 battle station, and his goal was basically achieved. As for how the Galactic Empire would promote construction in their own country in the future, he had no control over it.

However, there was one thing Tang Xiao had not taken into account.

That is, in the original plot, the construction time of DS-1 Battle Space Station, that is, the Death Star, was about 20 years, but this time is not a reflection of the real industrial capacity of the Galactic Empire. The real industrial capacity of the Galactic Empire is reflected in the original plot. After the destruction of Death Star I, the Empire quickly launched the plan for Death Star II, and completed more than 80% of the construction of Death Star II, which is about half the size of Death Star I, in 4 years!

In other words, what restricts the construction progress of the DS-1 combat space station is not the industrial capacity of the Galactic Empire, but the research and development of key technologies and the corruption within the empire.

Tang Xiao did delay the progress of the main structure of DS-1, but it was far from enough. At the same time, his intelligence agency also found Galen Erso, the energy scientist who perfected the super laser launch system of the Death Star in the original plot, but Tang Xiao understood that Galen Erso was actually a useful person for him because he would leave a fatal weakness in the structure of DS-1.

In order to buy a life from the Galactic Empire at the end of the Clone Wars, the Techno Union undertook a large part of the design and construction of the DS-1. However, Porgel-Underling betrayed even more thoroughly, kidnapping the Queen of the Geonosians, Emperor Karina the Great!

The Geonosians are a race similar to bees, and all their reproduction work is done by Emperor Kalina alone. Therefore, Emperor Kalina is equivalent to the god of the Geonosians and the foundation of their race. This kidnapping case also shows the determination of Bogle-the-low-class people to sell out their race for glory.

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For Tang Xiao, this kidnapping case meant that his monitoring of the DS-1 battle station had completely failed. From then on, he could no longer grasp the construction status of DS-1.

That is to say, in the first confrontation of DS-1, Tang Xiao scored a point first by virtue of his familiarity with the plot, but was quickly countered by Palpatine with his superior wisdom and powerful power, and the two sides returned to the starting point.

Next, let’s return to the perspective of the Galactic Empire.

The foundation of the DS-1 battle station was previously completed on the planet Geonosis, with a huge core column 160 kilometers long and 3 kilometers in diameter. This is also the foundation column that runs through the north and south poles of DS-1. After that, the framework of the equatorial ring was completed.

This part of the project was then split up and secretly transported to Thalassia, a remote star system in the outer northern rim of the Milky Way, for further construction. After Porgel-The Lesser betrayed Count Dooku, the Geonosian Emperor Carina was placed here.

The planet of Thalassia is an undeveloped planet, and before this, only the Thalassians lived here. This race has a small population and almost no productivity of its own, and only engages in bounty hunting and slave trading everywhere.

After the planet was chosen, almost all of the Tarasi were exterminated, and the rest became slaves. It was ironic that these slave traders ended up becoming slaves. The planet became the second home of the Geonosians.

The Galactic Empire transported a large amount of supplies to the planet of Talasia, and Emperor Carina began to lay eggs under the pressure of the Empire. These eggs hatched and grew into adult Geonosians in just a few years, and then became laborers to continue building the DS-1 battle space station.

In order to complete the construction of DS-1, Orson Krennic served as the director of the entire project. Under his organization, the project was divided into hundreds of thousands of projects, from toilet and drainage design to ventilation design, and even the design of armored connectors were separated and then handed over to different companies for OEM.

These companies do not know what the projects they are working on are for, as they could be used to build star destroyers, colonies, or civilian spacecraft projects.

When they completed the design, the design results were summarized and returned through different secret channels to the core project team established by Orson Krennic for integrated design, and then handed over to Geonosian workers for construction.

The entire construction process involved hundreds of thousands of Geonosian laborers and millions of engineering robots, so the construction process was also full of various difficulties.

The first is the Geonosian laborers, because the Geonosians are a hive race but not a hive consciousness, that is, their individuals have independent consciousness. These Geonosians born from the planet Talasia did not accept the fate of being enslaved immediately after they were born, so many of them stood up and resisted.

This is inevitable, because Bogel-Lower kidnapped Empress Kalina, but he could not bring over the Geonosian race's series of things surrounding the queen, including holy places, sacrifices, political structures, and so on. These ideological things cannot be compensated by any amount of supplies provided by the Galactic Empire to the planet Talasia.

In other words, the Geonosians born on the planet Talasia lack traditions. At this time, forcing them to work in outer space for a long time in protective clothing has made their resistance reach its peak.

Therefore, the problem of rebellion of Geonosian laborers continued to break out, which made Orson Krennic very annoyed. He could not leave the entire construction work to robots. Geonosian laborers were the best tools.

Because Bogel-Lower also brought a large number of Geonosian scientists and engineers, these senior talents became the core middle point of the construction organization. They commanded the newly born Geonosian workers through the Geonosian's unique synaptic nest, allowing these workers to quickly complete the growth and education process and quickly become qualified workers.

It is precisely because of these characteristics that the Geonosians have become the best engineers and builders in the galaxy.

Therefore, Orson Krennic had to meet the demands of the Geonosians and provided them with an entire luxurious logistics team.