The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2609: The Great Change of the Galactic Empire (Part )
2609: The Great Change of the Galactic Empire (Part )

Scarif is located in the Abrion sector in the southeastern part of the Milky Way. This sector is relatively isolated, and there are almost no stable hyperspace routes around it, which means that most of the time, this sector is isolated from the world.

This planet has a diameter of 9112 kilometers and is a relatively small planet. 90% of its surface is covered by ocean. The natural scenery on the planet is extremely beautiful. If it is developed into a tourist planet, it will definitely be a place that tourists will flock to.

After discovering this beautiful blue planet, the Galactic Empire built secret military bases and research bases here.

The reason why the Galactic Empire military took a fancy to the planet Scarif is that the mantle layer of this planet contains a large amount of rare metals, which can meet the needs of warship manufacturing after mining.

In addition, the hyperspace transportation here is very inconvenient and it is impossible to reach here under normal circumstances, so confidentiality is also guaranteed. Because the Galactic Empire military uses this place as one of their secret weapon research bases.

After the construction began, the Galactic Empire built a hyperspace shielding device near the planet. This device is completely useless under normal circumstances, because it is impossible to shield all hyperspace channels. But Scarif is different. There are no permanent channels here, and the hyperspace fluctuations are extremely unstable, so the hyperspace shielding device can really play a role.

Finally, in order to meet their own navigation needs, the Galactic Empire military built a hyperspace stabilization device here, and the planet Scarif can only be reached through an uninhabited galaxy.

It is no wonder that the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Dawn, even though Tang Xiao had provided the basic information about the planet, used the answer to find a solution, but still failed to find the location of the planet Scarif for many years.

A Consular-class cruiser passed through the hyperspace stabilizer, abruptly left the hyperspace channel, and appeared near this beautiful planet.

Scarif was always protected by the highest level of planetary shields, which were always kept open. This level of planetary shields could sustain it for at least several days even if a whole main fleet came to bomb it.

Several armed space stations and a huge spaceport have been built on the outskirts of the planet, with more than a dozen Imperial-class star destroyers docked in the circular spaceport.

When it arrived near the planet, the Consular-class cruiser immediately sent an identification code and an authorization code. After obtaining permission from the control center, it flew towards a Golan M3185 space station in the planet's synchronous low orbit.

A channel opened in the center of the space station, and the Consular-class cruiser passed through the channel and entered the planet's atmosphere.

Flying over the blue ocean, overlooking the beautiful tropical beach scenery below, the cruiser docked at the command center of the planet Scarif.

This is a huge military base, with several barracks around, and stormtroopers wearing white polymer alloy armor are training. You can also see a variety of armored vehicles, including AT-AT walkers, AT-ST walkers, etc. It is obvious that even the army's equipment here is of the highest level.

The central command center of the military base is a building more than 300 meters high, from which you can have a panoramic view of the surrounding beautiful scenery.

The hatch of the Consular-class cruiser opened, and the person who came here, escorted by a team of clone soldiers wearing black combat armor, was - Orman Tag!

The patriarch of the Tag family, the highest director of Tag Corporation, and the chairman of the now thriving Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance.

No one came to the tarmac to greet him, but Allman Tagg didn't care. He took the elevator directly to the top floor of the command center and came to the door of a very luxurious office.

The door slid open silently. Inside the bright, clean and luxurious office, a bald man in his 50s wearing a white imperial military uniform was standing in front of the window, with his back to the door, admiring the beautiful scenery in front of him.

Allman Tag adjusted his specially made glasses, walked into the office and said with a smile: "Governor Tarkin."

Wilhuff Tarkin then turned around and looked at Allman Tag. His sinister expression relaxed slightly, and he nodded and responded, "Mr. Tag."

"I'm here to discuss the DS-1 battle station." Allman Tag said straight to the point: "The main construction of the DS-1 battle station will be completed in three months, and the hyperspace engine will also be installed at that time. Now, I need to confirm the construction of the weapon system. At the same time, I also brought a team of experts, who will cooperate with your work to improve the system interface."

"I must remind you that this is only a stopgap measure." Wilhuff Tarkin said calmly, "The Tarkin Battle Station is a project independent of the DS-1 Battle Station. The reason I agreed to use the Tarkin Battle Station as the weapon system of DS-1 is entirely because of the mess left behind by that idiot Orson Krennic."

"If we can use the Tarkin Battle Station to complete the construction of the DS-1 Battle Station more quickly, I think it will also be of great significance to you, Your Excellency the Governor, isn't it?" Allman Tag smiled coldly, "Of course, I have also discussed the DS-1 Battle Station plan in depth with His Majesty the Emperor. The Tarkin's technology and personnel were all transferred from DS-1, but now you want to establish it as a separate project. This matter... I wonder if you have reported it to His Majesty the Emperor?"

"Hahaha..." Wilhuff Tarkin sneered, "Please remember, Mr. Tag. The DS-1 battle station, from design concept to implementation, was all carried out under my supervision. I made a mistake before and let Orson Krennic almost ruin the project, but later I corrected the wrongs and executed Krennic. So, His Majesty the Emperor found you. Do you understand? It's you, come and cooperate with me. Take your group of good-for-nothing experts back, they are not qualified to participate in this project."

"What about Galen Erso?" Allman Tag snorted, "He's the energy engineer of DS-1! Now that I'm in charge of the DS-1 project, I should take him away!"

"Galen Erso was implicated in the Geonosian riots and has been removed from the DS-1 project. So, I recruited him at his home. What does it have to do with you?" Wilhuff Tarkin smiled sarcastically. "And... it's not that I don't want to let him go. It's just that the hollow iron ball in your hand doesn't allow Galen Erso, an expert in energy, to perform well."

"You!" Allman Tarkin was almost furious. He gritted his teeth and said, "You should know that I can always report you to the Emperor for interfering with the DS-1 project!"

"Keep an eye on that big hollow iron ball of yours. Maybe in a few decades, it can really grow a super laser cannon out of thin air? Hahahaha!" Wilhuff Tarkin laughed.

The conversation ended unpleasantly and Allman-Tagg stormed out of the office.

However, he saw that the dozen or so soldiers he brought with him had been surrounded by hundreds of Imperial Stormtroopers, and among them, there were dozens of soldiers wearing distinctive black armor!
Death Trooper!
The power comparison between the two sides is extremely huge. As long as Wilhuff Tarkin gives an order, these stormtroopers can shoot Orman Tag and his guards into sieves!
"Don't be rude to our Mr. Tag! He is responsible for paying the salary..." Wilhuff Tarkin's mocking voice came from the office again. The death troopers and stormtroopers made way.

Allman Tag left in a hurry with his guards.

The Consular-class cruiser quickly took off and flew towards the outer space of the planet Scarif.

Allman-Tag looked at the blue planet outside the window, clenched his teeth, and walked over to the pilot and said, "Go to H-773-TD90 area!"

"Yes!" The pilot nodded and immediately entered the coordinates of the partition into the spacecraft. The spacecraft immediately turned around and flew towards the far outer space of the planet.

All I saw was that more than 50 kilometers away from the planet, an extremely huge space station was being built!
According to the data displayed by the sensors, the height of this space station has reached 75000 meters and the length is 42000 meters. This size is amazing.

But it looks like the space station is still under construction.

There is a huge hole in the middle of the space station, and many engineering spacecraft are busy around it.

Orman Tag understood that this hole would later be equipped with a huge disc-shaped device - yes, this was the Tarkin battle space station!
The plan for this space station was originally proposed by Admiral Nord Warfield, who pointed out that if all that was needed was to destroy a planet, there was no need to build a huge spherical project like the Death Star with a diameter of 120 kilometers.

Nord-Warfield's plan is to keep only the super laser cannon of the Death Star, and then delete all other redundant systems, leaving the defense of the space station entirely to the fleet. In this way, it will only cost one-tenth of the cost to build a super space station with the same planet-destroying ability as the Death Star.

At that time, Wilhuff Tarkin and Orson Krennic were in a state of mutual conflict. They were fighting for the dominance of the DS-1 battle station project. At that time, Orson Krennic had the upper hand with his more professional technology and management ability, which made Wilhuff Tarkin feel more pressured.

He felt that he might lose control of the Death Star project, and just at this time Nord Warfield proposed his plan, so he and Nord hit it off.

Tarkin began to advise Palpatine that they could use the research results of DS-1 directly, learn and apply them immediately, and build a simplified version of the Death Star in another place. In this way, when the Death Star is completed, they will have two powerful star-destroying space stations in their hands instead of one.

Therefore, the space station, named "Tarkin Project", began construction in the Patriim system.

Later, Orson Krennic took advantage of a riot on Geonosian to expel Wilhuff Tarkin from the DS-1 Battle Station project team. Tarkin was responsible for the construction of the Eye of Palpatine, and on the other hand, he began to concentrate on the Tarkin Project, which was the Tarkin Battle Station.

As a result, the resistance of the Geonosians intensified, and Orson Krennic gradually lost control of the situation. On the contrary, the Tarkin Space Station secretly built by Wilhuff Tarkin progressed smoothly.

Eventually, the Geonosian rebellion caused a disaster, the DS-1 Battle Station project was almost completely paralyzed, and the Battle Station itself was also severely damaged. At this time, Admiral Afshin Makati, who had a close relationship with Tarkin, led reinforcements to reinforce, and he also had another purpose, which was to take away Orson Krennic's classmate, the energy expert Galen Erso.

With the help of Galen Erso, the weapon system of the Tarkin Battle Space Station has progressed very rapidly and has reached the stage where preliminary testing can be carried out!

On the other hand, although Allman Tag took over the DS-1 combat space station project, this project is no longer the popular one it used to be. On the contrary, it is just a hot potato and a bottomless pit of money!

Allman Tag spent billions to rebuild the expert and engineering teams and began to build the DS-1 combat space station project. But when he was about to build the weapon system, he found that many of Orson Krennic's former team had been taken away by Wilhuff Tarkin and were building the Tarkin space station!

Not only that, the Tarkin battle space station was also moved to the planet Scarif for final installation and testing work.

However, Emperor Palpatine had very strict requirements on the progress of the DS-1 battle station project. He required Allman-Tag to complete the construction of the Death Star within this year. In such a short time, it was impossible to build another weapon system.

The only way is the Tarkin battle station.

As long as the Tarkin battle space station is combined with the main body of the DS-1 battle space station in Orman Tag's hands, then we will have a weapon system and it will be a complete Death Star.

So at this time, the project that was originally started after Tarkin's death was accidentally started ahead of schedule and became the key to building the Death Star.

But the problem is that this requires asking Wilhuff Tarkin for something.

Tarkin was no fool, he certainly knew what Allman Tag was planning. Although Wilhuff Tarkin had only an average relationship with Darth Vader, he did not have a big conflict with Darth Vader's mortal enemy, Allman Tag. However, there was an essential contradiction in the DS-1 battle station project!

What Wilhuff Tarkin wanted was the command of the Death Star after its completion, and this command was also what Allman Tag had coveted for a long time.

It was impossible for Tarkin to lend out the Tarkin Battle Station so that Allman-Tag could combine the two stations into a complete Death Star. What he wanted was for Allman-Tag to come and beg him!

If you want the Tarkin, you can, but only if you don’t block my way!

A hideous smile appeared on Wilhuff Tarkin's lips.