Maltheen Divide conference

In 4 BBY, Director of Advanced Weapons Research Orson Callan Krennic hosted a secret conference between various officers and employees of the Galactic Empire at a clandestine Imperial facility on the Maltheen Divide, a Mid-Rim planet located in the Trax sector. Attended by members of the Imperial Navy, Imperial Security Bureau, Ministry of Enlightenment, and Tarkin Initiative, the conference saw the planning and discussion of how to justify and execute the planned suppression of the Colonies planet Ghorman and it's people to allow Imperial gouge mining of the planet for a rare form of the mineral Kalkite to coat reactor lenses in the Emperor's "Energy Initiative", which in reality was Project Celestial Power, a project part of Project Stardust that focused on the development of the Mk I Superlaser. Following the conference, the already running anti-Ghorman whispering campaign continued, and the suppression of Ghorman began under the command of ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero, eventually resulting in the Ghorman Massacre of 2 BBY.

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