I, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine, generally referred to as Darth Sidious, am proud right now to current to you a Nationwide Protection Technique so highly effective, it will make even Darth Plagueis the Sensible shiver in his robes.
Safeguarding the Empire is of the utmost significance. With out a guiding technique, the complete galaxy would devolve into chaos. That’s what the insurgent scum need, to see us all dwelling just like the savages within the Outer Rim. All of the progress we’ve made, all the things that has transpired, has achieved so in keeping with my design.
Due to this fact, I’ll define the tenets of my Nationwide Protection Technique: Government Order 66.
1. Withdrawing from the complicated community of navy industrial complicated planets. The arms sellers on these planets have profited by unscrupulously promoting weapons and spacecraft to each us and the insurgent alliance, whereas declaring no allegiance to both facet. They’re loyal to nothing however foreign money. No extra will we pay them; no extra will we depend on them. As an alternative, I’ve moved to create a Galactic Army Analysis Laboratory to invent and area our personal weaponry. Self-reliance is the important thing to establishing a brand new world order.
2. Deterring strategic assaults towards a brand new planet killer. This has been an issue for us prior to now, however we’ve got discovered from our pricey errors. In a fiscal yr a protracted, very long time in the past, we spent $192,000,000,000,000,000,000 on a Demise Star vessel with an insufficient protect that was not fairly operational. Our second try, Star Killer Base, was larger and costlier however had a design flaw with its thermal oscillator. On this, our third and last try, you’ll expertise my full efficiency. In due time, I’ll reveal my latest iterative design and, after all, proceed to be clear about the associated fee overruns it can inevitably incur.
3. Constructing sustainable Joint Forces. Our troops are sadly extremely expendable and extremely finite. We’d like individuals to proceed to function insurgent cannon fodder within the type of Storm Troopers. Though in recent times, our operation to kidnap kids throughout the galaxy and program them to be embarrassingly dangerous marksmen has confirmed profitable, we can be returning to the clone trooper mannequin for long-term life cycle and sustainability functions.
4. Bolstering Command, Management, Communications, Computer systems (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Within the ever-looming battle towards the Jedi, we’ll proceed to hunt them down, root and stem. However we will’t do it with out the perfect intelligence. Any remaining Jedi should be uncovered and defeated. Their collaborators will endure the identical destiny.
4. Ushering in the usage of new expertise. By the usage of Darkish Facet of the Power as a pathway to many skills that some take into account unnatural, we’ll make the most of worry to make ourselves extra highly effective. Concern is the trail to the darkish facet. Concern results in anger. Anger results in hate. Hate results in UNLIMITED energy.
Every part is continuing as I’ve foreseen. By bringing the complete galaxy underneath one regulation, one language, and the enlightened steerage of 1 particular person, corruption won’t ever once more take root on this galaxy. A robust and rising navy will make sure the rule of regulation. Ten thousand years of peace begins right now.
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Sarah Sicard is a Senior Editor with Army Occasions. She beforehand served because the Digital Editor of Army Occasions and the Army Occasions Editor. Different work will be discovered at Nationwide Protection Journal, Process & Objective, and Protection News.
