"Death Star... Death Star..." Tang Xiao muttered to himself, leaning back on the sofa.
After a long while, he suddenly rose to his feet. After informing his assistant, he headed for his private spaceport. Moments later, the twenty-meter-long, dagger-shaped Sith fighter Red Comet flew out of the spaceport, quickly escaped the gravity well, and entered hyperspace.
Hoth Planet was a world covered in ice and snow, located in a remote region at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, near Bespin.
In the original storyline, this planet was famous because the Battle of Hoth had taken place here. The Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance had fought fiercely here, with the Empire deploying large numbers of ground troops, including AT-ATs, to land on the planet and ultimately destroy the Rebel Alliance base.
The famous scene of X-wings using tow cables to trip the long legs of AT-AT walkers had taken place during the Battle of Hoth.
But now, this still-desolate planet was destined never to host a Rebel Alliance base. At the same time, perhaps Hoth Planet would one day be remembered in a different way.
The Red Comet was stopped by an Interdictor. Tang Xiao entered his authorization code into the navigation system, and only then was he permitted to resume hyperspace travel.
Anyone else could only have been stopped here, unless they destroyed the Interdictors. But that would also have given the people on Hoth Planet sufficient warning.
The Red Comet arrived at Hoth Planet. The coordinates displayed in the navigation system had been changed to the Duchy of Dawn Natural Science Expedition Team, Polar Research Institute.
Following the navigation data, the Red Comet entered the atmosphere. The spacecraft flew through an extreme environment with an average temperature of minus sixty degrees Celsius. Blizzards raged almost everywhere, and