Chapter 1308: Trap!
Early the next morning, Sehas boarded the earliest shuttle and flew toward the Galactic Republic's large spaceport in the planet's outer orbit.
As they entered the pitch-black expanse of space, he saw Hunter Class Battlecruisers docked one after another at the berths of the massive ring-shaped spaceport. Numerous transport ships buzzed around those enormous warships like little bees, delivering supplies, ammunition, and other materials aboard.
One Hunter Class Battlecruiser was still undergoing repairs. A large engineering vessel hovered above it, removing the warship's No. D main gun turret. The turret floated in the vacuum of space while more than a dozen engineers in engineering spacesuits repaired its coils nearby.
The shuttle flew all the way to a small spacecraft berth in the spaceport and landed. Sehas stepped off, straightened his appearance, smoothed out his gray Republic Navy uniform, put on his soft cap, adjusted the rank insignia on his chest, and took a deep breath to calm his nerves before striding forward.
As he walked, he saw thousands of Clone Troopers in white polymer and gold armor forming neat square formations in the spaceport plaza on the other side. Under the officers' commands, they slung DC-15S blaster rifles over their shoulders, turned left and right on command, then split into countless squads and marched in perfect order into a row of LAAT/I assault transports parked nearby.
Those fully loaded LAAT/I transports took off in line and entered the hangar platforms extended by the Hunter Class Battlecruisers at the large warship berths, where they stood by.
Clearly, this was a sign of war!
Under normal circumstances, Clone Troopers would not remain in their combat armor at all times, nor would they take LAAT assault transports when boarding ships. There was only one purpose for boarding assault transports—forced landing