The Empire Rises: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 1431

The Final Blade

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Boom! Boom! Boom!!

Amid a series of violent explosions, the two proton cannons were reduced to rubble. These cannons were essentially tubes over thirty meters long, four meters in diameter at their widest point, with muzzles roughly 800 millimeters across, mounted on four mechanical legs. They were incredibly ugly.

Yet it was precisely this weapon that possessed enough firepower to directly destroy an Acclamator-class assault ship!

In fact, if the major corporate giants within the Confederacy of Independent Systems had not all harbored ulterior motives, and these highly effective weapons of war had been mass-produced in a centralized manner, the Galactic Republic would be in even worse shape now.

Fortunately, in order to balance the interests of its corporate giants, the Confederacy of Independent Systems distributed its weapons orders among them. This allowed large numbers of inefficient, overpriced weapons manufactured by the InterGalactic Banking Clan, Corporate Alliance, and Trade Federation to enter the Confederacy's military.

At the same time, corporate giants like the Technological Alliance, which possessed extremely advanced engineering technology, were unwilling to mass-produce low-profit weapons such as the J-1 proton cannon.

And now, the only two remaining J-1 proton cannons on Dexen Satellite had both been destroyed in Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano's raid.

Anakin Skywalker walked over and embraced his old comrades Rex, Echo, and the others tightly. "It's truly wonderful to fight alongside you again on the battlefield!"

"It really wasn't easy getting in and surviving those initial offensives that were like meat grinders," Rex said. "We were lucky. The Separatists only used their genetic weapon on us once at the beginning. When they saw that everyone coming in was a natural-born soldier, they gave up and didn't use it again."

"Even so, you shouldn't have taken such a risk. You could have died without dignity,"

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