The Zane Consortium is a very mysterious consortium, so mysterious that not many people even know about it.
In fact, the original name of this consortium was Zann Remanufacturing, and its history was not long ago, about 40 years ago.
Originally, Zane Remanufacturing Company's main business was to recycle some equipment that had been eliminated by the Galactic Republic's military and police, refurbish it, and then sell it to the civilian market - yes, they would not even sell these items to the black market.
Although there is a strong interest in these military rejects on the black market.
The main customers of this company are relatively backward planets, some formally registered mercenary groups and security companies.
The person who founded Zane Remanufacturing Company was old Zane, a conscientious businessman.
Zane Remanufacturing Company's business gradually reached its peak with the outbreak of the Clone Wars, and a lot of military equipment was recycled. Even due to the continuous replacement of the Galactic Republic, warships including the Karak-class light cruiser began to be recycled by Zane
The remanufacturing company obtains it, performs downgrade modifications, and lowers the weapons and shields to civilian standards before selling them.
Even as the combat performance of the Jaeger-class battlecruisers continued to receive criticism, Zane Remanufacturing Company even recovered some damaged Jaeger-class battlecruisers! Of course, the recycling of this kind of capital ship must be officially approved
Permit, and the flow of parts after disassembly must also be the officially designated customer.
And such a company that is not large in scale, but has a wide range of connections and connections, and also has a certain industrial foundation, and is currently prosperous, has undergone a 180-degree change because of one person.
Because of this man, the Zane Consortium once grew into a very troublesome existence for the Galactic Empire. While maintaining a relationship with the Rebel Alliance as both enemies and friends, they even dared to directly compete with the Galactic Empire's fleet!
After blooming with dazzling light, the Zane Consortium was finally defeated, leaving this short history behind and disappearing into the long river of the universe.
Due to a series of changes caused by the rise of Tang Xiao, the development trajectory of the Zane Consortium began to become different from the original plot.
However, the same as the original plot, the person who brought Zann Remanufacturing Company to a turning point in history has remained the same. He is still... old Zann's son - Tyber Zann!
Because Tiber Zane started two years before the founding of the Galactic Empire, he became the apprentice of Darth Tenebrous, along with Jon Shen!
Although Tiber Zane's talent in the Force is very bad, the reason why he is valued by Darth Tenebrous is because of his other trait-the talent for crime!
Tabor Zane can be said to be a born criminal. When he was sent to college by his father as a child, he began to gather people to gamble. He also ran a gambling machine similar to a card flop machine and made a lot of money.
Expelled from school.
After being discovered by Darth Tenebrous, Tenebrous directly let Tiber Zane kill his parents through constant hints and inducements! Then he inherited the Zane Remanufacturing Company,
Reorganized into Zane Consortium.
During the initial period, Tiber Zane needed to learn from Darth Tenebrous, so the management of the Zane Consortium was carried out by Darth Tenebrous and Shen Qiaoen.
Especially Darth Tenebrous. When he was active in the galaxy, his other identity was a famous spaceship designer. When he taught Darth Plagueis, he was also playful about the company's management methods.
Perfect.
Therefore, the Zane Consortium developed rapidly, and after acquiring some of Darth Tenebrous's hidden connections and resources, it quickly emerged as a huge industrial group in the three-in-one zone of the outer ring star region.
Moreover, Darth Tenebrous hid the Zane Consortium very well. The Zane Consortium changed its previous practice of not getting involved in black market transactions at all. He kept to himself, maintained the empty shell of Zane Remanufacturing Company, and constantly resold the Galactic Empire.
The scrapped warships handed over by the military for dismantling.
Because after the establishment of the Galactic Empire and large-scale military reforms, a large number of Jaeger-class battlecruisers were decommissioned. However, the retired battleships naturally cannot be thrown away. The battleships need to be dismantled. The main purpose is to dismantle the engines on the battleships.
Remove, empty the fuel, clean the reactor, and empty the ammunition depot to avoid the leakage of these dangerous substances over time. In addition, there are critical information such as chips, databases, and control cores on the battleship host, as well as turbolaser cannons and the like
Military products that cannot flow into the black market also need to be dismantled.
Then some of the remaining parts, some of which were recycled by Kuat Power Shipyard, were used to build the Chaser-class aircraft carrier.
These tasks are too tedious, and very time-consuming and manpower-consuming, so super large companies such as Quat Power Shipyard and Xina Fleet Systems do not bother to complete them. Therefore, they are basically outsourced to other small companies. As for the pay, they are average.
The rates are very low, but the small dismantling companies sell some of the less important parts after dismantling, and the relevant departments turn a blind eye, receive red envelopes, and pretend it didn't happen.
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After all, even if those small parts are taken back by those big companies and the military, they are of little use. It is better to make new ones. This is an accounting problem. You recycle an old part and renovate it and continue to use it, and produce a new part.
On paper they are completely different things, and the latter is obviously more profitable.
Therefore, it is also a gray area to tell the Galactic Empire officials which parts should be recycled, and which parts should be reported as damaged, and then new parts should be produced and paid for by the Imperial military.
So the profits of companies like Zane Remanufacturing Company actually come from reselling these parts.
Due to the reputation and connections Lao Zan had accumulated in the past, Zan's consortium got a lot of work dismantling military warships, which made their business bigger and bigger. And Das Tenebrusk is no better than the honest and friendly Lao Zan
Well, he even more unscrupulously bribed, bribed, and even kidnapped and threatened regulatory officials to hide some more sensitive and advanced parts.
The worst case scenario is that when these officials report something like an explosion occurred during dismantling, or that the part has been damaged by a separatist ion cannon, etc. In short, there is a gray area that can be operated in the process of dismantling a warship. It’s too much!
As a result, the strength of the Zane Consortium has also skyrocketed, and it has begun to extend its tentacles into the Hutt space, secretly selling those refurbished warships to the two major Hutt families, Besadi and Desiligic, who are undergoing large-scale conflicts.
Since Darth Tenebrous conducts most of his black market transactions through underground dark brokers, even if the business is very large, the Zane Consortium is still unknown.
This has become an important force for Darth Tenebrous to lay out the galaxy!
After the death of Darth Tenebrous, Shen Qiaoen began to hand over some of the operations of the Zane Consortium to Tiber Zane and let him manage it directly, while he was only assisting in secret.
And Tabor Zane, a young man who has just turned 20, immediately showed his talent. His methods were more extreme and cruel!