2140 The War of the Two (2)
First, there was Shiv Palpatine. When he was still a councilor on Naboo, he had been in close contact with the higher-ups of the Kuat Power Dock, but the Battle of Naboo changed everything.
After the Battle of Naboo, Count Dooku lost all hope in the Republic and the Jedi Knights, and withdrew from the Jedi Knights. Then, he went to Laskers IV and raised the flag of Separatism. This movement of Separatism almost instantly swept through half of the galaxy, and even the higher-ups of the Kuat Power Dock were shaken. They began to contact the Separatists, and even accepted a batch of warship orders from the Separatists.
At the same time, Palpatine took advantage of this battle to ascend to the position of chairman of the Galactic Council. He began to deliberately pull the Kuat Power Dock and pointed out to them that the Separatism was just a political conspiracy. So, the Kuat Power Dock stopped at the brink, and cut off all ties with the Separatists.
Under Palpatine's indirect instructions, Newt Gunley, the governor of the Trade Federation, plotted a murder during an internal summit of the Trade Federation. He killed many of the Trade Federation's higher-ups and seized more power. Among the higher-ups who were murdered were people from the Kuat Power Dock. By the way, before the Battle of Naboo, the Kuat Power Dock was a member of the Trade Federation, but the two sides were allies.
This incident united the minds of the entire Kuat Power Dock, and they began to firmly oppose Separatism, and firmly stood on the side of Chairman Shiv Palpatine. This became political correctness. And in return, Palpatine began to vigorously support the Kuat Power Dock, and secretly suppressed the Lendili Interstellar Dynamics Company.
Then there was Lila Blissex. She was the daughter of Wilix Blissex. Like many of the super geniuses who left their names in history, Wilix Blissex had a very strange habit — as a warship designer born in the interstellar era, he did not know how to use a computer! And he was very against it!
So, from a very young age, his daughter began to help him with warship design. Of course, most of the time, it was Wilix who said and Lila who did. But over time, Lila Blissex also developed a strong interest in warship design and became an excellent designer no less than her father. Of course, judging from the extremely low efficiency of the Imperial-class Planet Destroyer, which could even be said to be a waste of the Empire's resources, Lila obviously could not compare to her genius father.
But the biggest difference between Lilla and her father was ambition and desire. Wilix designed the battleship to realize his own value and generate peace through deterrence, but Lila's only goal was to reach the pinnacle of power. She stayed behind even after her father left the Kuat Kinetic Dock. She even started to bribe the officials of the Republic, bribing them from top to bottom, smoothing their relationship, and even sacrificing her own body. In this way, under the joint efforts of Lila and Palpatine, the balance of the Republic began to tilt in favor of the Kuat Kinetic Dock.
Using the materials left by her father, Lila successfully designed the Hunter-class Cruiser, a very classic Planet Destroyer. (At this time, Palpatine began to promote the reform of the army, and the classification of warships became stricter, so the Hunter-class was classified as a Cruiser.) Then, under the promotion of officials at all levels and Palpatine, the Hunter-class Cruiser successfully defeated the Victory-class Planet Destroyer of Lendili Interstellar Dynamics and won the order from the Republic.
As a result, the poor Lendili Interstellar Dynamics Company became a victim of political struggle. The Victory-class Planet Destroyer, which cost trillions of credits to design and build, only received a few sporadic orders. This was because the Republic did not want to appear too ugly. The little that slipped through their fingers was only a fraction of the order of the Hunter-class Cruiser.
The failure of the Victory-class Planet Destroyer dealt a heavy blow to Lendili Interstellar Dynamics Company. The factory and dock stopped production on a large scale, and a wave of unemployment swept through the entire company. Moreover, trillions of funds were lost, almost putting them in a desperate situation. But after all, it was a super industrial giant with ten thousand years of history. They still survived the difficulties and began to plan the next step.
Wilix Blissex was no longer trusted because many people in Lendili also thought that he was a commercial spy sent by Kua. Although they did not do anything to him, he was put in the cold palace. Wilix also seemed to have suffered a great blow and lived in seclusion since then.
After all, Lendili Interstellar Dynamics Company was full of talents. Soon, someone came up with a very effective plan to turn the situation around – improve the Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser! Before the appearance of the Cheerleader, the Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser was the main battleship of the Republic Judicial Fleet. However, there was a huge shortcoming, that is, each battleship required 16000 officers and soldiers to operate normally. Although the Republic Army recognized the performance of the Dreadnaught-class, after all, it was a huge burden, so there were not many orders.
So, Wilix Blissex made a final effort. Under his genius design, the Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser could reduce the number of members to 2,200. And this kind of battleship just happened to be in line with Lendili's development ideas. They were not interested in the kind of all-around battleships that could transport troops, take off fighter jets, and have very strong firepower. Therefore, in their view, the Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser with a crew reduced to 2,200 people would be a very perfect firepower output platform, at least it would be a very beneficial supplement for the fleet. They no longer had extravagant hopes of winning against Kua Power Dock. They only hoped to get a piece of the pie.
But once again, fate played a joke on Lendili Interstellar Dynamics Company. After Lendili gathered the last of his funds and resources to build 200 improved Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers and formed the Vanguard Fleet, due to an oversight, the crew of the Vanguard Fleet brought the brain plague virus on board. Then because of the sudden outbreak of brain plague, the entire fleet was flown to an unknown place by the navigator and disappeared from then on.
This was Lendili's last hope! Because because if the improved Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser could not get orders, then it would be difficult for this company that had lasted for ten thousand years to continue. They originally planned to move the military and Palpatine with the Blade Fleet's actual achievements, but this fleet just disappeared!!
This was why in the original plot, Lendili Interstellar Dynamics Company would flirt with the Independent Star System Confederacy — because they could no longer survive in the Republic.
This was why Tang Yu was very sure that they would not do anything bad to him in this matter. Because although Lendili Interstellar Dynamics Company had not yet despaired to the point of wanting to defect to the enemy, the situation was already very bad, and they were even facing the threat of survival.
Banjira Ulan wanted the background data of the Blade Fleet. To put it bluntly, he hoped that Tang Yu would command the Blade Fleet to fight all over the place and make great achievements. It would be best if they could defeat the Republic fleet and make them flee. Only then would they be able to use reality to tell the upper echelons of the Republic that the Star Destroyers were just flashy without substance, and that professional battleships like the Dreadnaught-class were the real future development direction!
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