First order was planning to make a blow to the new Republic which is complicit in resistance.
Since we signed a ceasefire agreement in the era of the empire, we have to realize with limited people, materials and wealth.
The galaxy people who saw the empire who signed the ceasefire agreement were hawking that the appearance of weapons like Death Star and Excavator would never be possible.
The dark side was hiding in the shadow and hearing the opportunity
of resurrection. It is the rise of first order.
Many weapons and shipbuilders were in deficit due to the demise of the empire. These companies were desperate to find an orderer as well as destroying the military and industrial complex. It is the emperor's negative legacy.
It is the first order that became this orderer. Instead of becoming a customer I promise to restructure the military-industrial complex top secretly. Thus various illegal projects will progress.
One of them is the star killer base.
Empire's descendants had not forgotten the time risk once completed by the first Death Star over 20 years. I did not know that the designer Geilen Aso had prolonged it. So I could not imagine why the second Death Star was completed in such a short time. Therefore, a plan to effectively utilize limited resources emerges. Rather than generating energy from scratch using Kyber Crystal, it is a way to convert solar energy into planetary weapons. If you can realize it can be developed in a short time with a small planet and few people. Everyone said that it was theoretical narrative, but it was made possible by the development of technology. Although it was a planet, there was a drawback that it could not be moved, but the star killer base was completed earlier than I thought. Of course, you should destroy targeting the capital of the new Republic soon. However, from the upper order of the first order the launch goin was not. I wanted to raise the morale of all the stormtroopers expected to launch a star killer base and make it the last trump card in the battle against resistance. In addition, maintenance will be thoroughly carried out by engineers so that shots will not fail. First of all it's experimental technology.
Finally destroy the core capital of the core at once and play a review of your wishes!
Since the star killer base became public at the time of shooting to the core, it was absolutely impossible to fail.
There was also a warm calculation of the first order in the selection of this target.
I left Coruscant. Would you like to put Coruscant under control and decide to revive the political power again? It is easy if Coruscant had former Republic.
The highest leader of the shadow who formulated and supported this plan is not at this base. He was supporting it remotely.
Perhaps the snork was in Coruscant?