The Stardust Project, a national project in which the empire invested enormous resources and effort.
It was performed under the water until it was completed and entered the operational stage.
Faced with more technical challenges than expected, it took time to complete.
Naturally, the period of confidentiality designation related to Death Star has been extended. It will become confidential, and eventually the definition of confidential designation will become complicated, which will interfere with the information preservation system. National projects for the empire were becoming harmful to the empire. Death Star-related secrets cannot be disclosed, preventing the progress of other operations and projects.
In other words, it is impossible to treat a large-scale weapon like Deathstar confidential from the beginning.
In the end, Deathstar was destroyed by the rebels and many secrets were released.
Although destruction is a loss for the empire, it benefits from the normalization of the information preservation system.
Perhaps if the Empire examined the Stardust Plan, it would come to the conclusion that the definition of confidentiality was lacking in stricterness. In other words, it is the period of confidentiality designation.
Confidentiality is naturally required within the empire. However, if the period is prolonged, it will be more confidential and will not be able to be contained. You can set a time limit from the beginning.
And the scale of the confidentiality itself can be considered. The Empire intensively built a unified large-scale cannon called Death Star by mobilizing all its national power. It was a huge secret. Of course, it takes a lot of effort to protect it, so it's exhausting. Death Star was the burden of information preservation. It was the burden of the empire.
In order to reduce the burden, decentralization and subdivision will be required, not unification.
Limitation of the confidential designation period, decentralization and subdivision without unification.
It is contrary to the imperial doctrine at that time. In other words, it fundamentally denies the nature of the Stardust plan. The Empire begins to build the second Death Star, but has not been able to overcome it.
The First Order Plan after the collapse of the empire fundamentally redefined the empire with Stardust as a lesson.
In other words, it is the courage to execute the first order itself under the water without being noticed.
Instead of expensive weapons like Death Star, technologies that can be operated efficiently at low cost are being born one after another. Spur the limitation of the confidential designation period.
First-order governance is decentralized, national power and resources are distributed, and huge secrets are not structurally created.
Above all, the information preservation system is being improved. Intelligence activities can be activated so that the new republic does not notice.