It would have been cool if they had been overseeing construction of the Imperial Fleet, consisting of thousands of Star Destroyers and support craft. Something like this:
except that the planet would clearly be a non-Coruscant world such as Corellia.
JEDIT: Looks like Bingowings beat me to it by about 8 years: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Prequel-Radical-Redux-Ideas-Thread/id/9911/page/15