The Empire Rises: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 1204

The Price of Freedom (Part 1)

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The Thor Mech's massive body appeared on the battlefield, immediately bringing immense shock to the Rebel Alliance warriors.

After all, giant war machines were nothing new. For example, the Galactic Republic's AT-TE tactical assault walker, measuring 22.02 meters long, 9.57 meters high, and 5.7 meters wide, was a common sight on the battlefield.

But the Thor Mech was even larger than four AT-TEs arranged in a square!!

Of course, there were even larger ones, such as the SPHA-T self-propelled turbolaser, which was 140 meters long. But ordinary people rarely got to see one, and even the Galactic Republic produced very few of them. There was no other reason—it was simply too expensive. One of those cost more than an Aquitenes-class light cruiser, yet was not particularly useful on the battlefield. To date, the Galactic Republic had built only a hundred of them, and ordinary people had no idea such a thing even existed.

And now, standing before these Rebel Alliance warriors was a colossal machine nearly twenty meters long and wide, and twenty-four meters tall! To them, it was the largest war machine they had ever seen!

Its design radiated the cold, savage aura of industry. Its heavy armor was visible to the naked eye. Its hands held two twin-linked particle accelerator cannons, its shoulders bore two eight-cell missile launchers, and on its back were four menacing Punisher Cannons!

That was right—not the J-1 Proton Cannons mentioned in Rebel Alliance intelligence, but four 250mm Punisher Cannons!

Since General Kalani intended to set a trap for the Rebel Alliance, he naturally made every part of it convincing. After the initial few tests, the two J-1 Proton Cannons had been set aside and replaced with four Punisher Cannons. The Thor Mech's modular design made such replacements extremely simple anyway.

The Rebel Alliance

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