The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2561 The Change of Hands of the Planet Losar
2561: The Change of Hands of the Planet Losar

Kyle-Marr is an elected governor. Before him, during the brief period when Lothal was occupied by the Galactic Empire, Arihnda Pryce served as the planetary governor.

Alinda Price is the eldest daughter and heiress of the Price family on the planet Lothal, and is also a senior manager of the family's Price Mining Group. After the end of the Clone Wars and the collapse of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Price family quickly changed their allegiance and joined the Galactic Empire, and then actively participated in the politics of the Galactic Empire.

In a series of political struggles, Alinda Price conspired to bring down the former Governor Ryder Azadi for treason, and then relied on the support of Wilhuff Tarkin to directly parachute into the position of Governor of the planet Lothal.

With the help of her family, Alinda Price soon discovered a large number of precious mineral veins under the planet Lothal, which even produced Kyber crystals. Therefore, she began to intensify the exploitation of the people on the planet and planned to build the planet into an industrial center in the eastern part of the Galactic Empire.

However, her high-handed policy was immediately opposed by the people of Lothal, and uprisings began to break out. In addition, the Galactic Empire had limited control over Lothal, which was located on the edge of the Eastern Territory, and Alinda Price had no ability to suppress the uprising.

As a result, at this time, the Jiwen people came.

Under the leadership of Kobori, the leader of the Given people, they began to secretly contact Alinda Price and expressed their willingness to support her in promoting industrialization on the planet Losar, but the condition was that the Given people wanted to establish a permanent settlement on the planet Losar and immigrate about 100 million people.

The population of Lothal was less than 3 million at its peak, so it was a sparsely populated place with a vast land area, so it was not a big problem to establish some permanent settlements. Alinda Price was also overwhelmed by the uprising at this time, and she also hoped that new forces could join in to help her put out the flames of the uprising.

So she agreed.

The Given Governor Kobori immediately and readily sent a fleet of 10 Aquitens-class light cruisers to the planet Losar.

Why the Aquitens class? Although the Aquitens class light cruisers were not sold on the civilian market by the Galactic Empire, the war between the Kingdom of Dawn and the Galactic Republic/Galactic Empire lasted for so long that there were naturally many captured warships. It was not difficult to repair 10 Aquitens class ships from them.

The composition of this fleet also lowered Alinda Price's psychological defenses and gained her approval. She believed at the time that this group of Givens might have traveled thousands of miles to the other side of the galaxy to avoid the Kingdom of Dawn because they could not bear the oppression of the Kingdom of Dawn.

Because in the battle not long before, Darth Vader had just invaded the planet of Yago-Dur and blew up a quarter of the home planet of the Jiven people. Kobori also told Alinda Price that they planned to stay away from the war.

Then, Alinda Price, who was eager to make achievements in the governor's position that she had conspired to seize with great difficulty, believed it!
The Givens were indeed very powerful. They quickly suppressed the uprising on the planet Lothal, and they also began to build industrial areas and interstellar docks on a large scale.

During this process, the Givens and Alinda Price cooperated very well and jointly fought against the rebels. For a time, the people on the planet Lothal suffered double exploitation and oppression.

Alinda Price could now look up to her superior, Wilhuff Tarkin, to express her achievements in suppressing the rebellion. She concealed the part about the Givens, only saying that she had found a mercenary army from Hutt space to solve the problem of insufficient manpower in this remote area of ​​the Galactic Empire.

Wilhuff Tarkin affirmed her actions and told her that when the management of the planet Lothal was effective and yielded initial results, he would not be stingy with his rewards and would promote her to a higher level. Alinda Price was overjoyed, and at this time, Governor Koberi of the Given people also flattered her to the utmost. In addition to a large amount of bribes, he also tried his best to complete any of her orders. He even built a cruiser-class private spaceship specifically for her!
Alinda Price, who was in high spirits, began to relax her vigilance. When the Givens told her that they were going to build a giant stellar energy collection device, she approved it immediately.

Because according to the feedback from the Jiwen people, once this giant stellar energy collection device is completed, it will be able to generate more than ten times the energy of the current energy supply system of the Losar planet! With sufficient energy support, the industrial capacity of the Losar planet will increase exponentially.

Moreover, an extremely luxurious space city will be built on this stellar energy collection device, and she and all the nobles on the planet will be moved to the space city.

Alinda Price has already begun to imagine the grand occasion of entertaining those bigwigs from the core circle with a luxurious dinner in the magnificent space city. By then, she will no longer be a country bumpkin from a remote planet, but a military and industrial leader in charge of a region!

Therefore, she directly approved the Givens' large-scale material transportation needs, and turned a blind eye to the large number of industrial ships, including the Raz-class heavy engineering ships, that the Givens soon sent.

The Jiwen people also kept reporting to her on the progress of the project and listed in detail the uses of the materials and industrial vessels they brought.

It was not until more than three months later that Alinda Price realized that something was wrong. She did not go through Kobori, but took her guards on a spaceship to check on the "stellar energy collection device".

However... what she saw was a circular structure whose main construction was about to be completed.

At that moment, Alinda Price's already gloomy face turned pale, her mind went blank, and her whole body froze there.

In this galaxy, there is only one giant interstellar structure that is ring-shaped...

Stargate.

And her spaceship was immediately surrounded by the Given warships. The Given Governor Kobori sneered and told her that the planet Lothal was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Galactic Empire, and her position as governor was no longer legal.

Alinda Price did not dare to disobey at all. After being arrested by Kobor, she was even imprisoned. In the following months, she kept sending false information to the Galactic Empire, making the Empire still believe that everything on the planet Lothal was under control.

By the time the Galactic Empire realized that something was wrong, it was already too late.

The stargate of the planet Losar has been completed.