The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2332: The Conflict of Interests of the Imperial Navy

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 hideous.

"That's right! We can't fall into their trap! The future of the Imperial Navy should be defined by us!" Dunn Wessex said fiercely, "We must not let them blame the Imperial Navy for its humiliating defeat on the planet Kira on the performance of its warships! You're right, we need to take advantage of the victory to launch an offensive and not give those people the opportunity to discredit us in front of His Majesty!"

This matter is not just a dispute of wills, but involves an extremely huge interest! Whether it is economic or political interests, they 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 was not only young and handsome, but also had a huge family power and had a profound influence in the Republic military. At that time, Lila Blissex was a senior engineer at the Kuat Power Dockyard, and the support of the military was crucial to her.

As a result, Lila's move was right. With her beautiful appearance and petite figure, she soon won the favor of Dunn-Wessex at a military review meeting for warship design. Who would have thought that Dunn-Wessex really liked this? Lila-Blissex, who was only 1.5 meters tall, just hit the spot for this lolita lover!

Dunn Wessex doted on his girlfriend, and using his power, Lila Blissex began to expand her influence in the military. Moreover, because she was the designer of the famous first-generation battlecruiser of the Galactic Republic, the Jaeger-class battlecruiser, she was already surrounded by 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 Praetor-class Star Destroyer at the end of the Clone Wars. They were quickly approved by the military's battleship supervision committee and became the next generation of main battleships 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 Leela 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 military to suppress all these voices.

The turning point was that Onana-Quat, facing political pressure from all sides, forcibly launched a raid on the Model star zone, which resulted in a disastrous defeat, and the huge force of more than 400 battleships was almost wiped out.

Afterwards, Onana Quart committed suicide, and the Quart Power Dockyard was controlled by Quart Jr. In order to help the company survive the crisis, Quart Jr. extended an olive branch to Lila Blissex, making her the chief engineer of the Quart Power Dockyard and letting Dunn Wessex hold shares in the company 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 the later renaming of the Praetor-class Star Destroyer to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, which became the symbol of the Galactic Empire's military, or the design and construction of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, these actions were all backed by the shadow of the Imperial Military's Northern Border Interest Group headed by Dunn-Wessex.

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 his wife, Lila-Wessex, 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 almost all its factories concentrated on Kuat, so the cost of repeatedly producing the same warship is 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, the mass construction of Imperial-class Star Destroyers, under the influence of Dunn-Wessex and Kuat Power Dockyard, actually became 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 profits in the process of building a large number of Imperial-class Star Destroyers. This profit is not even a matter of 1.5 million or million credit points. The cost of building an Imperial-class Star Destroyer of million credit points is as high as hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars!
But the problem is that the Imperial Emperor Palpatine is not a fool. He cannot watch the unlimited expansion and monopoly of Kuat Drive Dockyard. So he moved his fingers and let the Shina 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 in the Battle of Kira Planet and began 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 the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser. Because to build a warship dedicated to dealing with fighters, what is the most important thing? Naturally, 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 battleship control system, and they are naturally familiar with the design and manufacturing of this aspect.

It is absolutely impossible that the Damorian Manufacturing Company could come up with the design of the Tartan-class air defense patrol ship in such a short time without the software support of the Xina Fleet System. No one believed that such a small company could suddenly design a fire control system that could quickly track and lock a large number of small targets moving at high speed.

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

The Galactic Empire has a limited amount of funds each year. How is this money spent and who gets it? This is the core of the struggle between these factions.

Therefore, 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 Xina Fleet Systems 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 up by the Shina Fleet System. The reason is very direct - the main reactor used by the Imperial-class, the L-A2B solar furnace, is produced by the Shina Fleet System.

As a result, it is no exaggeration to say that the profits of Dunn-Wessex and Quart Power Dockyard were cut in half.

Therefore, the great victory of Lieutenant General Mis-Lo-Nurudo-Thrawn of the Chiss in Chiss Territory gave Dunn Wessex this idea...

That's right!

You must not allow others to take advantage of the cake you have already eaten!!

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

So in order to protect my own interests, I have no choice but to...

Raise! !