Chapter 63 The Structure of an Empire

3rd person pov

With this plan set Dark knew he needed to plan his next move but he knew he had 21 years before the republic begins is journey to destruction with the first true conflict that divided the corporate giants from the republic causing those outer rim worlds that rely on those same giants to slowly be unknowingly pushed out of the politics by Shev Palpatine leading to the formation of the Confederation of System and the start of the clone wars.

Dark came to the realisation that he can not plan everything himself he needs others who are able to do so but his team have no ability to scheme they are not good in this aspect of planning sure they can plan something small but this is a galaxy wide scale clones are not gonna work either he needs someone who can handle all the pressure of politics.

The reason for this is he does not plan to conquer every system since he knows better than anyone this kind of regime is guaranteed to breed rebellion just like how the empire of the future had the rebel alliance.

Dark has no intention of making the same mistake as Palpatine ruling with fear is asking for trouble although Dark will rule it will still contain democracy allowing for a person to be elected to make decisions alongside the emperor but all ellected officials will be checked for corruption with dire consequences if proven.

With this end goal in mind Dark knew he would need to make a start as soon as possible by implementing a think tank that will be able to govern his future empire which he still had yet to name as for who is apart of this most of the positions will be held by clones like chief of research or chief of Military Affairs Since one can be trained in simulations and the other well the researchers could select a leader among themselves.

As for other more important positions he would want his team members to take them up but the only one suitable would be Lucy as he already plans for her to be the intelligence director since she was very good at handling information and as it turns out she carries the same skills the other members of the keys family do the ability to be a leader since both her father and sister have been captains making her a good choice and a trustworthy one too.

Although Red suggested Lucy go through some simulation to let her get used to what the job entails so she will be able to handle what her job will be Red also had some Clones begin production that will be trained for intelligence work once trained they will be given a newly designed cloaking device that will help them gather Intel from outside the blocked systems Dark needs to know what's going on at all times if he is to keep up with how far Darth Sidious and his master have gotten on their plan since his actions may have aided their plan in causing dissatisfaction with the republic.

Even with the trade fleet gathering intel as they trade but it's far from enough they need to know what the sith are doing and how far they are along with their plan since he needs time to complete his own at least with a think tank he can at least have more time to implement other plans while he has each head handle plans for their respective department as for the chief who lead the think tank and reports to Dark that has yet to be decided but Dark is leaning to having the think tank elect someone every 10 years only allowing them to be in power for a single term.

As for why 10 years and only one term it's to prevent someone from having power for too long and each person will be checked for any corruption although at the moment corruption is not possible in future no one knows.

The vote is majority so the one who has the most votes will lead the think tanks and the candidates cannot vote for themselves otherwise everyone will vote for themselves.

Also any major decisions require a vote from Dark himself this is to prevent someone from putting something ridiculous forward and gathering support then passing the bill that could effects the entire empire.

Dark also took the time to establish business department to allow and encourage clones who were made have ideas of their own to register companies so stimulate the economy while also building banks that can handle a currency that Red had created called Dark Credits.

Dark had also started to pay the clones in his military while also giving each clone who is not currently working for the empire 10 thousand while also putting some land up for sale for people to buy to start business.

Dark also finally gave his empire a name going with what the clone already called it the Darkadian Empire once this was announced the people of the empire as Dark began to call them instead of clones since thanks to Red the clones were not all identical they all looked different began to celebrate.

A month has passed and after introducing a currency and making it possible to build companies many have started to appear for different things such as clothes, gadgets and even transport however all vehicles and ships equipped with weapons are controlled by the empire itself but transport freighters have begun to appear all designed by companies that were set up by the people they had adapted very well.

Due to this on red suggestion Dark implemented tax on what the people earned taking only 10% of whatever they earned putting it into the empires treasury Lucy assumed it would be similar to earth where the more you earn the higher the percentage but Dark was adamant that 10% was what they would take regardless of what was earned yes it would mean less money in the treasury but that was made up on the business side of things since business had to pay double that from their account in tax that's 20% Dark also made sure that there was no way to claim tax right offs a business had to pay 20% of what they made no excuses would prevent that.

Dark also made sure to implement laws similar to human rights from earth but made sure to iron out any loop holes even though it did not effect him but he knows that for an empire to succeed he needs to make the people happy so ensuring they can live happily without being treated badly or being used than tossed away was a necessity to prevent rebellion.