A Brutal Offensive and Defense
The Galactic Republic was engulfed in war...
Separatist warships ran rampant in Coruscant's outer orbit...
The vast Galactic Senate stood empty...
The Jedi Temple crumbled amid raging flames...
Death, rage, grief, despair... countless negative emotions came crashing down...
That was right. The Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order... would be destroyed!
A new order would descend!
And I...
"General Krell, our advance forces have reached the airfield and are engaging the defenders!" a Clone Trooper commander reported.
In that instant, it seemed as though all the noise around him returned.
Gunfire, explosions, shouts, screams...
Pong Krell abruptly opened his eyes. Powerful Force energy swirled around him, and a visible gleam even flashed through his eyes!
Without saying a word, he spread his four arms. Two double-bladed Lightsabers ignited at once, and he leaped high from the armored vehicle, spinning rapidly through the air as every shot fired at him was deflected back!
The instant he landed, his two double-bladed Lightsabers whirled like windmills, spinning and alternating nimbly between his four arms. Everything in their path was destroyed as easily as rotted wood!
He moved swiftly, sweeping across the battlefield like a gale before stopping in front of a UMHC self-propelled artillery vehicle—his two Lightsabers plunged deep into its cockpit, instantly burning the driver inside to charcoal!
Only then did the dozen or so Umbarian soldiers he had just swept past collapse with thuds, their bodies split in two.
"Launch the attack! Take this airfield at any cost!!" Pong Krell said grimly.
"Yes!" the Clone Trooper commander immediately replied.
Clone Troopers shouted as they charged the Umbarian defensive positions within the airfield. Almost at the same moment, countless plasma shells, missiles, and rockets came screaming down upon them!
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
Explosions erupted in rapid succession,