The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2466 Nationalization Disturbance (Part )

2468: Nationalization Storm (Part )

Kuat Power Dockyard is on the brink of civil unrest, but under the strong leadership of Little Kuat, at least no major problems have arisen. Little Kuat is not like his aunt Onana Kuat, who has high aspirations but low skills. His management of Kuat Power Dockyard is still very strong and effective.

At least until now, although the liberal democrats within Quart are making trouble, they have not touched the foundation of Quart.

The situation is also different in several other super military-industrial complexes.

The simplest case is the Shina Fleet System.

Their position is very clear, because they were able to rise because of Palpatine's support, which enabled them to promote the large-scale promotion of TIE series fighters, tanks and other combat equipment, as well as L-A2B solar furnace reactors in the Imperial Army, becoming one of the new three giants of the Imperial industry.

If it weren't for Palpatine, with their industrial strength, they would have no qualifications to sit at the same table with Kuat Drive Dock and Corellia Engineering Corporation.

Although the Xina Fleet System has undertaken the manufacture of almost all fighters and bombers for the Galactic Empire Navy, and is also entering the tank, self-propelled artillery, and armored personnel carrier industries, their only real core competitiveness is the L-A2B solar furnace. Apart from that, they don't even have the ability to build star destroyers themselves.

The 600-meter-long Vindicator-class heavy cruiser designed and built by the Xina Fleet System was already the limit of their industrial strength. Even the L-A2B solar furnace was mostly built by Kuat Power Dockyard after authorization. If they were allowed to build this solar furnace themselves, it would be impossible to meet the construction needs of the Imperial military.

So when faced with the Galactic Empire's nationalization request, the Shina Fleet System agreed without hesitation, and actively cooperated with imperial officials to complete the nationalization reform, including the reorganization of the company's board of directors and allowing imperial personnel to join the board of directors.

As always, the Imperial representative to the board of directors of the Shina Fleet System is still a dark prophet.

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The resistance from Corellia Engineering was much more intense, even more intense than that from Kuat Power Dockyard.

Since the establishment of the Galactic Republic 25,000 years ago, Corellia Engineering has maintained a relatively stable market share. They are the largest civilian spacecraft manufacturer in the galaxy, and also have a large number of small and medium-sized spacecraft, mainly frigate-class spacecraft.

Don't underestimate this market share. Corellia Engineering sells millions of 50- to 100-meter-class spacecraft every year! In addition, the maintenance and upkeep of spacecraft, and the production and replacement of parts are all almost monopolized.

Not to mention that they also have a huge manufacturing business of combat aircraft, shuttle aircraft, transport aircraft, and various types of engineering machinery.

It can be said that there are hundreds of thousands of planets with intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way. When you go to a planet, it is hard to say about other things, but it is absolutely impossible not to see a spaceship painted with the Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC) logo.

If we really compare industrial manufacturing capabilities, Corellia Engineering Corporation is far larger than Kuat Power Dockyard!

However, because of its share of small and civilian spacecraft, Corellia Engineering did not want to put too much effort into military orders. So whether it was during the Galactic Republic or the Galactic Empire, their attitude towards the military was always - if you give it to me, I will take it, no matter how big or small it is, we can handle it. But we are too lazy to care about the capital power struggle behind it. For example, in the current large-scale military expansion of the Galactic Empire, Corellia Engineering has only undertaken the OEM business of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer and the Victory II-class Star Destroyer. Kuat Power Dockyard authorized them to produce these Star Destroyers, and then they just earned some OEM fees.

As for developing our own Star Destroyer? Sorry, go ask Kuat, we're too lazy to do it.

Such a relatively independent military-industrial complex, which in fact possesses the strongest strength, is now being forced by the Galactic Empire to be nationalized. One can imagine how fierce their resistance will be!

The representative of the Corellian Sector, Gam-Bel-Iblis, directly and fiercely opposed the Empire's action, almost pointing his finger at Palpatine and scolding him. The investigators sent by the Empire were also driven away, as they simply did not accept any form of nationalization.

The fierce resistance of Corellia Engineering Company made the Galactic Empire somewhat embarrassed, but in the end they did not dare to deal with them as they did with Kuat Power Dockyard. Therefore, they could only send representatives to negotiate with them, at least wanting Corellia Engineering Company to belong to the Galactic Empire in name.

After very difficult negotiations and tug-of-war, the two sides finally reached a consensus.

The Corellia Sector sent representatives to Corellia Engineering to exercise supervisory authority on behalf of the Galactic Empire. Since the sector representatives were appointed by the Empire, Corellia Engineering was indeed semi-nationalized by the Galactic Empire.

But in reality, this action is equivalent to taking off your pants and farting.

Because the Corellia sector is a relatively independent sector in terms of economy, politics and even military, the appointment of their officials and representatives is just a matter of going through the procedures and reporting to the Empire. The Empire cannot influence the personnel appointments in the Corellia sector.

The Corellian Sector, also known as the Corellian Corridor, is a narrow strip of land covering about 1200 habitable planets connected by the same hyperspace channel. It was a colony that was established more than 30000 years ago when the Great Expansion Movement just began, which is equivalent to a colony that was established before the Galactic Republic.

The Corellian system has five habitable planets. This unique advantage allows them to move much faster than other planets during the expansion period, and the area they occupy is also the richest and most resource-rich planet.

Later, as one of the founders of the Galactic Republic, the Corellian galaxy joined the Republic with their expanded colonies, which was equivalent to bringing capital into the group. Naturally, they also retained the autonomy of their own colonies. This is the Corellian Corridor.

For a long time, the Corellian Corridor has been equivalent to a country within the Galactic Republic, and has always obeyed orders but not declarations from the Coruscant government.

Now the Galactic Empire requires the nationalization of Corellia Engineering, which undoubtedly shakes the foundation of the Corellia sector. There are many companies in the Corellia sector, and Corellia Engineering is the largest and most representative one among them.

This action was regarded as an aggression by the Corellia sector.

Although the two sides finally reached a certain degree of consensus, both the Corellia Sector and the Galactic Empire knew that the matter was far from over.