The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2476 A Project Full of Flaws

2477: Projects Full of Loopholes

Bogel-the-Inferior's expression instantly turned gloomy. He knew that this was the situation Nova was talking about.

The entire DS-1 Battle Station project is highly corrupt, redundant, and bureaucratic. For the sake of so-called confidentiality, every link often needs to be packaged and reviewed layer by layer.

For example, if a batch of resistant steel materials for Death Star armor are to be transported to the planet Talasiya, a tender notice will first be issued through a shell company registered as a planetary construction company. The content of the tender may be "high-strength alloy building materials required for super-high-rise buildings on the planet Korra". Then another shell mining company will win the bid and start providing the required raw materials.

But the mining process is fake, and the mining company will also transfer the raw materials to another metallurgical company under Kuat Power Dock through a fake project. The metallurgical company began to refine, but the project they were carrying out at this time was a project to provide armor steel for the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, which had nothing to do with this construction project.

After that, when the resistant steel and fake building materials are manufactured, the metallurgical company will outsource the transportation of the materials to another transportation company, which is disguised by the military. The transportation company will first transport this large batch of materials to the planet Korra, and then the shell construction company will return the materials on the grounds that the materials are unqualified or there is excess material.

However, the transport company would refuse to accept these materials, arguing that the transportation cost was too high. In the end, these materials would be scrapped, or the original contractor would donate the materials to the imperial government out of kindness. In the end, they would be received by a garbage disposal company or military personnel.

Afterwards, the materials were taken to the planet Talasia on the pretext of separate processing.

This formed a closed loop of material transportation, and the source of this batch of resistant steel was whitewashed in the empire's accounts. Because first of all, the mining of this batch of minerals and the smelting of resistant steel cannot be created out of nothing, and accounts must be left in order to disguise it.

Otherwise, how can we conceal the existence of so many people in the entire production and transportation process? Under what name should their wages be paid? Under what form should their company exist? There is no way to solve this problem.

Finally, during this process, miners, transport ship drivers, and smelter workers all thought they were working on other projects. And in the whole process, many false or wrong transport chains were created to cover up the truth.

On the surface, this process seems to be a good cover-up for the transportation and confidentiality of materials needed to build the Death Star, but in fact, you have to think about it, it was the Galactic Empire that completed this entire process!

In this process, there were too many places for people to enrich themselves, with approvals, exploitation, and bribery at every level. Especially in order to keep it secret, many bribes were even made by the official Galactic Empire!

For example, giving a customs administrator a chance for promotion, or paying him an extra bonus to turn a blind eye to material transportation, and so on. Such things happen all the time.

That's why Nova said that although the entire process of the Galactic Empire's construction of the Death Star was indeed kept secret, as long as one gets hold of the final destination of all materials - the planet Talasia, one will find that the entire process is full of loopholes!

The Military Intelligence Department of the Kingdom of Dawn still received help from the rebels. With the help of the rebels, their agents found an informant who worked for the rebels. This informant was actually a broker. He had some connections in the officialdom and politics of the Galactic Empire, as well as in the business circles of the Central and Outer Rings. He was a very versatile person. So this informant helped the agents of the Kingdom of Dawn to easily disguise themselves as a confidant of a senior official from the center of the empire, and then contacted a material supplier and successfully gained their trust. At this time, as long as we grasp the point of the planet Talasia and start with the transportation routes near the coordinates of the planet, we can immediately eliminate all the false routes.

And because all the materials transported to the planet of Talasia were subcontracted, changed hands, and disguised in order to keep it secret, the transportation methods were all kinds of strange. We could see resistant steel being transported in refrigerated spacecraft, and tens of thousands of tons of frozen fish mixed in, not to mention other strange things.

So it became possible to sneak in.

Of course, both Saratan Moss, the Minister of Military Intelligence of the Kingdom of Dawn, and Nova, his top agent, must admit one thing, that is, Governor Wilhuff Tarkin is not here. This is the biggest reason why they were able to sneak in!

Through the rebels' connections in the upper echelons of the Galactic Empire, they learned that Governor Wilhuff Tarkin had been sent to an interstellar mine in the Central Rim to supervise a "civilian space station construction project" because of an unexplained "management error."

Because Wilhuff Tarkin was not there, they dared to carry out this infiltration operation so boldly, directly and quickly.

Because who is Wilhuff Tarkin? He has been in the military for a long time and has deep military experience. And look at what he has done. When he was the deputy governor of the star region, he colluded with Sheev Palpatine, who was still a senator at the time, and planned a very bad terrorist attack at the economic summit on the planet Eriadu!

When it comes to smuggling and infiltrating, Wilhuff Tarkin is a true expert! If he were still there, the security of the planet Talasiya would not be so lax.

Now, Wilhuff Tarkin has been squeezed out, and Orson Krennic is in charge of the work. If it is the early stage of the construction of the Death Star, it is still easy to say, many construction contents are frame structures, which can basically be solved on the spot. But the current construction stage involves the construction and supply of many precision instruments and parts, all of which need to be manufactured and transported from outside.

But Orson Krennic is now under direct pressure from Emperor Palpatine because of the delay in the construction of the Death Star! The reason why Palpatine made the existence of the Death Star public in the parliament is actually a disguised pressure.

Because when the time comes, when he really wants Orson Krennic to take out the Death Star and fire it in front of the parliament, and Krennic can't do it, then he will be beheaded.

Therefore, Orson Krennic could only speed up the progress as much as possible.

Why was it that when the Death Star was only to be equipped with a sublight-speed engine, a minor project that required no technical expertise, he excitedly asked the Dark Prophet Kadang to come over to watch the ceremony? He wanted to prove to the Emperor that he was still in control of the construction progress of the Death Star project.

So he relaxed the review mechanism and sped up the input of those construction materials.

The final result is that at this moment, Ganzo Doso and Nova are standing in front of Bogel-the inferior! !