Unidentified engineer officer

An Imperial engineer officer was a human engineering officer of the Galactic Empire with the military rank of major. In 4 BBY, the Imperial officer was one of a handful of Imperials personally requested by Director of Advanced Weapons Research Orson Callan Krennic to join the Ghorman project, an initiative by Krennic to extract vital kalkite from the surface of the planet Ghorman. Such a project would likely destabilize the planet's core, and as such, the population needed to be handled in methods created by the project.

The first meeting in a secret installation in the Maltheen Divide included representatives from the Ministry of Enlightenment, the Imperial Security Bureau, the Imperial Navy, and the Science and Engineering Division. The engineer officer, among these members, responded to ISB Major Lio Partagaz's question on the process being invasive, stating that the extraction process would present difficult challenges to the local Ghorman population as the extent of the Imperial extraction would give stress to the planet's core and render it unstable. After a pause in official business, both the science major and Major Partagaz spoke further on the subject, with the science officer stating that the mining equipment was already warehoused and ready for transport. After Partagaz asked how long was needed to begin, the officer replied that the drilling was simple, as the operation could start in several weeks.

The officer continued that it was the security and administration issues that were the issue with the project. Partagaz proclaimed that the Empire did not have a large enough presence on the planet, and the officer replied that Director Krennic already planned for that subject as the Empire would build a new armory on the city Palmo as a pretext for the larger Imperial presence.

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