The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2146: Behind the War

"Smoothly? No! Not enough! Not enough!" Palpatine's expression suddenly became extremely ferocious. He waved his fist vigorously. "We need more experiments to ensure the success of the plan! This requires more funds! And we also need more Force-sensitive people as test subjects!"

Sant Pestag said quickly: "After Arden Lin returned to the Empire, the Grand Inquisitor's team acted very smoothly. They captured seven escaped former Jedi Knights... All of them have been secretly sent to the planet Byss for experimentation. But there is indeed a big gap in funding. The Empire's finances are already overwhelmed, and we have intercepted a considerable portion of the fiscal revenue. If the proportion is increased, it may accelerate the collapse of the Empire's finances."

"Then let the families in the core circle pay!" Palpatine growled, "They have been lying under the protection of the Empire and sucking blood for a long time. I don't have time to continue playing games with them! Now I just need money, more money! As long as the plan is completed, they will be useless! They can do whatever they want! Hahahaha!"

"Yes... yes..." Sant-Pestachi huddled up again. In front of Palpatine, he was afraid to say a wrong word, because that might mean the end of his life.

"I heard...the patriarch of the Tag family, Sonya Tag...had secretly been to the planet Dawn?" Palpatine asked suddenly, changing the subject.

Sant Pestaci was startled. He looked up and said in disbelief: "Your Majesty, is this true?! If so, the consequences may be very serious!"

"Sonya Tag is in poor health and is no longer suitable to continue to lead the Tag family. Let her sons make an offer... The one with the right price will become the next head of the family. Hehehehe..." Palpatine laughed strangely.

"Your Majesty, wise..."

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The planet Tatooine in the outer ring of the Milky Way.

There was a flash of white light, and an inconspicuous-looking G-9 cargo ship left hyperspace and flew straight to this chaotic, barren, yet transportation hub planet.

The spacecraft did not fly towards the only two cities on the planet - Mos Espa Harbor and Mos Eisley City, but instead flew towards the depths of the endless desert.

We flew to a Gobi desert with a very complex terrain. There was a huge rift valley caused by the movement of the earth's crust. The rift valley was thousands of kilometers long and 2-3 kilometers wide. Even if the spacecraft flew at high speed, it would be no problem.

The spacecraft landed in a very hidden canyon, and saw an extremely huge monster lying quietly at the bottom of the canyon. The complex terrain here combined with the signal shielding device made it impossible to discover that there was such a huge thing in this desolate Gobi.

It was a super huge land-based aircraft carrier, 568 meters long and 237 meters wide! The Kapisi class!

Twenty-three years ago, it was the existence of this land-based aircraft carrier that allowed the Hutt Gadullah Besadi to fight back, launching a war against the Hutt Jabba Desilijich, successfully defeating Jabba and occupying the planet Tatooine.

It was this land carrier that ignited the 20-year-long dispute between the Hutts, which has evolved into a civil war until now.

But after that, the land-based aircraft carrier disappeared. Even in the subsequent disputes, no matter how hard the Besadi family and the Desiligic family searched, they could not find it.

  After all, on the desert planet of Tatooine, having such a huge land-based aircraft carrier has a huge strategic advantage!

Land-based aircraft carriers are not afraid of attacks from small and medium-sized warships, and large battleships are unlikely to visit places like Tatooine. Moreover, they can attack or defend, and their concealment and durability are far greater than those of cruisers. After all, land-based aircraft carriers can mine, produce, and fight at the same time.

Therefore, it can be said that whoever controls the land aircraft carrier controls the situation on the planet Tatooine.

But no one knew that this powerful land-based aircraft carrier was actually hidden here! The G-9 cargo ship parked next to the land-based aircraft carrier, as small as an ant at the foot of an elephant. The hatch of the ship opened, and a middle-aged man, Quinto, walked down. He was the first local resident to enter the Glory mothership, and later he was semi-forced to join the team of Cun Te, and then he followed Cun Te wholeheartedly until now.

And he is naturally very familiar with the owner of the current Capisi-class land aircraft carrier.

Quinto got off the spaceship and saw a few Jawas running over and pointing at his spaceship. Quinto knew what they meant and waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, the cargo in the spaceship is yours. But first, you have to repair my spaceship!"

The Jawas cheered and swarmed toward the ship.

Quinto rode a small hovercraft into the interior of the land-based aircraft carrier.

When he arrived at the living area, before he even entered the door, Quinto could already hear the deafening music and the cheers of men and women.

Quinto smiled and walked in.

The living area has been transformed into a huge bar, where expensive audio equipment and the best holographic projection devices are installed, as well as a circular bar and countless fine wines.

Countless young women in scantily clad clothes were twisting their seductive bodies and dancing wildly. In the middle of the dance floor, a beautiful Twi'lek woman tore off her underwear and threw it toward the audience, which immediately erupted into a deafening cheer!

The air was filled with alcohol, spices, and an indescribable lewd smell.

Quinto parted the enthusiastic crowd and walked towards the depths of the bar. He was blocked at the door of the most luxurious private room. What blocked him were two T-850 Terminator robots! These two robots were not covered with bionic skin, but directly exposed the metal skeleton in the form of a skeleton, which looked hideous and terrifying.

But this kind of skull-like endoskeleton is surprisingly in tune with the atmosphere in such a frenetic bar.

A beam of light shot out from the electronic eye of the Terminator robot and swept across Quinto, then it moved aside to let him in.

Inside the luxurious box, Quinto finally met the real host of today.

A middle-aged man in his 50s, with a hairline that almost reached the top of his head and a little bit fat. In this bizarre environment, he was wearing sunglasses, leather pants, and a naked upper body, only a white fur scarf. There were more than a dozen beauties of different shapes around him flirting with him.

The quality of the beauties here is at least several levels higher than those mediocre beauties outside. They are truly one in a billion.

The middle-aged man laughed loudly, and he was overwhelmed by the grapes handed to him by the beauty on his left and the wine brought to him by the beauty on his right.

Seeing Quinto come in, he reluctantly lifted his hand from the beautiful woman's breasts beside him and waved, saying, "Hey! Isn't this Quinto? Long time no see! How's Cun Te? Hahahaha... Come on, don't look at it. Whichever one you like, take it away! For all your expenses here, just tell me my name! Hahaha! What's my name?"

He took a big gulp of wine, burped and said, "Isn't my name Santa Claus? Hahahahaha!!" (End of this chapter)