After temporarily solving the problem of the Geonos rebellion, the problem of the DS-1 combat space station was not completely solved, or rather, the Geonos problem was just a trivial problem.
The biggest problem with the DS-1 combat space station is that it is confidentiality.
Because many people do not support this project, but to make the project progress smoothly, extremely large amounts of funds and materials must be raised.
For example, the main structural material of DS-1 - steel-resistant, is a high-strength alloy steel. Although the refining technology of this material is mature, it still exceeds the construction of a spherical space station with a diameter of 160 kilometers.
Existing steel-resistant production.
That is to say, in order to meet the construction of DS-1, the Galaxy Empire had to expand its steel-resistant output more than double. This means more factories, more mining areas, more smelting plants, in other words
That is, more capital investment.
The biggest engineering accident was when DS-1 came to a secret space in the Taracia Galaxy to start construction. In order to save transportation and mining costs, Orson Krennik ordered local materials to be taken.
The engineering team dragged hundreds of asteroids in the Talacia galaxy to the construction site and then crushed them on site, and began to smelve steel-resistant from the metal raw materials inside the asteroid.
As a result, after working for several months, they were frustrated to find that the metal minerals produced by the Talacia Galaxy could not smelve with steel. All the work in the past few months had become useless, and after working for a long time, they could only transport them from other places.
The materials come here.
This made the supply of DS-1 even for raw materials to be transported everywhere throughout the Milky Way. However, during this period, the rebel army was very active, and many construction materials were robbed or destroyed by the rebel army halfway, causing heavy losses.
The activity of the rebel army has further strengthened the confidentiality of the DS-1 combat space station construction plan, but often in order to keep it confidential, a project has to be disguised, re-planned a confidential transportation route, and even set up a separate one.
Departments or opening a company to carry out confidentiality work.
This led to the further prevalence of bureaucracy, and the entire DS-1 construction plan involved tens of millions of people! And in this huge number, less than one-third of the people actually used for project production.
It is equivalent to saying that this project requires huge amounts of funds and resources from major consortiums in the Galaxy and military-industrial complexes, and cannot let them know that these funds and resources are used to build the DS-1 combat space station. In order to achieve this goal,
The whole project was bent over and did a lot of useless work.
But Orson Krennik still completed his work well. By now, in August 10BBY, the main framework of the DS-1 combat space station has been completed.
Most importantly, the extremely huge supermatter reactor has been installed at the core of DS-1, and on August 14, it will officially power the entire space station.
This is a breakthrough leap. From this time on, the energy supply of the entire project becomes very convenient, without the need to be transported through those energy transport spacecraft. The extremely huge energy output of DS-1 is enough to meet the entire project.
Energy demand!
With sufficient energy, the engineering team began to build various processing plants outside the space station as planned. This allowed the construction and processing of many parts to be carried out locally, greatly accelerating the efficiency.
The main engine of DS-1 is built in the middle of the core column of the north and south poles of the space station. It surrounds the core column and extends to the surroundings, and supports the annular equatorial structure of the space station.
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At this time, the DS-1 combat space station looked like a giant gyroscope.
Then, based on the equatorial ring, three ring-shaped structures extend to the north and south poles respectively. This is the main support structure of the entire spherical space station, consisting of a huge core column, an equatorial ring, plus three rings in the northern hemisphere and three rings in the southern hemisphere.
Constituting a road ring.
Then, in the position of this seven rings, seven gravity generators with different orientations were also installed. This means that there are seven gravity forces in different directions inside the DS-1 combat space station, which will ensure the maximum possibility of the space station.
Comfort for the insider.
And in some main defense belt positions, armor with a thickness of more than 30 meters began to be installed. This will be an extremely terrifying project volume, because the surface area of the entire DS-1 combat space station has reached more than 80,000 square kilometers! The armored steel needed to be used reaches
To an extremely terrifying level!
Next, the problem that Orson Krennik's biggest worry finally began to be solved.
With energy supply and gravity generators, he can finally let those Geonos build residential areas. This is a very important progress for these Geonos, because they will no longer have to live in.
In the surrounding engineering spacecraft, they were crowded together in the narrow and crowded cabin.
After three months, the initial construction of the residential area that could accommodate 2 million people was completed, and these homeless Geonos had no excuse to launch another rebellion.
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While Orson Krennik struggled to promote the smooth progress of the DS-1 main structure project, another part of this huge project also made great progress.
Weapon system.
In fact, during the Clone Wars, the design blueprint given by the Geonos to Palpatine through Earl Duku does not include the weapon system. Because the DS-1 combat space station can directly destroy the planet with one shot.
Super laser weapon has never been designed.
Although the research direction of this super laser weapon has been determined, it is to use a large number of Kerber crystals to focus energy, and use Kerber crystals to amplify the energy characteristics to form powerful laser rays, thereby achieving the level of directly destroying the planet.
But it is still very difficult to do this.
The extractor, developed by Wookie scientists, is an attempt to miniaturize this super laser. However, during the experiment, the Alaris satellite where the project is located was raided by Sephrans-Tanne. This matter is only
It can be said that the Galaxy Empire deserves the bad luck, because Sephrans-Tann simply got the Galaxy Empire had a secret project here, and then she killed it without knowing what the project was and snatched it away.
Extractor prototype.
This delayed the Galactic Empire's research on the extractor for a long time. Fortunately, Sefrans-Tann snatched the prototype, but the experimental data was not taken away, which allowed the Empire's research to continue.
Tang Xiao, who obtained the extractor prototype, also began to reverse engineering the extractor project, and then developed the extractor cannon and installed it on the Thor Mecha. Then, no further research was conducted. The extraction of the Dawn Kingdom
The technology of the Technologies is only at the size of the Thor Mecha.
But the Galaxy Empire has invested heavily in this area and has gradually begun to grow the technology of the extractor.
It was also at this time that the entire DS-1 project was placed under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Military. Senior Governor of the Star Zone, Wilf Tarkin, joined in and became another leader of the project.
In name, Wilhoff Tarkin was joined to help Orson Krennik coordinate the relationship between the military and the engineering regiment, but in fact, it was just another way to play with the checks and balances of the Imperial Emperor Palpatine.
The result - he does not want to see anyone take full advantage of the DS-1 combat space station project.
It is not impossible to give credit and reward, but it must not be given to the same person.
Of course, as Palpatine expected, Wilhive Takin and Orson Krennik really began a very fierce infighting.
Wielhef Tarkin hopes to make him the commander of the DS-1 combat space station. As long as he can do this, he will have enough capital to be with the King of the North.
Sex competed.
Orson Krennik also hopes to become the only real person in the Galactic Empire after His Majesty the Emperor with the halo of "Father of the Death Star", and truly reach more than ten thousand people.
As a result, the struggle between the two became fierce from the beginning, and even reached the point where they undermined each other and even caused accidents by man-made accidents!
But overall, Orson Krennik still supervises the DS-1 construction plan first, and his control over the entire project is still higher than that of Wilhoff Tarkin.
After Tarkin entered the leadership of the project, a serious accident occurred soon in the weapon system under Tarkin. Some Geonos suddenly launched a riot, destroying the previous months of work, and thus triggering
The conflict caused hundreds of deaths.
Taking this opportunity, Orson Krennik sent Wilhive Tambi to the edge to take charge of the raw material supply.
Later, Orson Krennik found his former classmate, Garen Erso, an energy genius, to assist him in the research and development of the DS-1 super laser cannon.
However, he also knew very well that Garen Erso was a pacifist and liberal, and it was absolutely impossible for him to join the development of DS-1, a weapon specifically used for massacre.
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Therefore, he disguised this super laser project as a research topic called 'space-based energy transmission', which on the surface was to study how to directly supply energy to facilities on the planet from large space stations or large warships.
He told Garen Erso that once this project is completed, it will be able to solve the energy supply problem of some lagging planets. Once there is sufficient energy supply, the economic and livelihood development of these planets will grow at a great rate, allowing those
People who are behind the planet live a good life.
Garen Erso happily agreed to the project, but he still kept a fuss and secretly sent his daughter Qin Erso and his wife to the outer ring star area to hide.
Orson Krennik didn't know that Garen Erso's addition did not provide much help to the development of the DS-1 super laser cannon. Because under his organization, the development of the super laser cannon has actually been close to that of the development of the super laser cannon.
Finished. The unknown imperial engineers and scientists completed the work well, but Orson Krennik was not confident that such a huge project was going so smoothly.
Garen Erso used Orson Krennik's trust in his professional knowledge to gradually improve, and finally successfully entered the core management of the project.
At this time, he realized that Orson Krennik was lying to him. What he had been studying was a super laser cannon that was enough to destroy the entire planet!
When he questioned Orson Krennik, the latter shamelessly told him that both sides and vertically sent energy to the planet from the space station. Apart from the different powers, there was no difference between the two.
Now, it was the time when Orson Crennik was full of pride that he had no time to pay attention to Garen Erso's mouth-filled truth.
Because in 10BBY, in a parliament in August, the Empire Emperor Palpatine directly announced the existence of the DS-1 combat space station and named it the "Death Star"!
This news was like dropping a giant bomb on the Imperial Council! Everyone was stunned in surprise, especially after they heard that the construction of Death Star had been completed by 60%, they felt extremely frightened.
Palpatine directly ordered that the entire empire immediately concentrate all resources and strive to complete the construction of the Death Star within one year.
He also said that the nationalization plans of major military-industrial complexes that were previously implemented were carried out to promote the construction of Death Star.
He ordered Allman Tagg and his cutting-edge technology alliance to invest all resources in the construction of Death Star.
This instruction is actually very meaningful, because the cutting-edge technology alliance is just a technology research and development institution and does not have the ability to build super projects like Death Star. The reason Palpatine issued this instruction is actually to let Allman
-Tag Company led by Tagg contributes money and efforts.
Allman Tucker is Palpatine's number one dog licking dog. He immediately understood it and turned around and let the Tagg family gather almost all the resources to supply them to the construction of Death Star to accelerate the progress of the project.
At the same time, Orson Krennik, who has received great help, has now begun to install Death Star's hyperspace engine. It is expected to be completed within two months, and then, Death Star will be moved to the next destination-
Planet Scarif, performs installation and testing of weapons systems.
However, Orson Krennik never expected that when everything was moving in the best direction, a small Geonos almost ruined everything!
...
Planet Geonosis, the site of the holy land.
In this holy land abandoned because of the kidnap of Karina, a short Geonosian walked in with a container.
Ganzo Doso - Chief Engineer of the Gionos, and the person in charge of the B-1 combat robot project.
He shook his wings and flew to an altar in the center of the holy land. He opened the container and found a head of a Geonosian!
He put his head on the altar, and soon, the altar emitted a ray of light, shooting straight to a certain direction in the universe!
Ganzo Daosuo looked at the sky and murmured: "I found you... a traitor..."