The Geonosians had firmly seized control of the Death Star's interior. The two Galactic Empire legions defending the Death Star had suffered grievous casualties. They were respectively trapped in the barracks district and the spaceport within the Death Star, utterly unable to join forces. They could only fight separately, completely pinned down.
This was because the Geonosian uprising had erupted too suddenly at the start. When communications were cut off, the Imperial Defense First Legion had already been surrounded in the barracks district by tens of thousands of Geonosian laborers. Orson Krennic later sent the Imperial Defense Third Legion as reinforcements, but lacking unified command, the Third Legion was blocked by the Geonosians after landing at the spaceport.
Moreover, unlike on a ground battlefield, the Death Star contained large numbers of engineering droids. After Ganzo Daoso cracked their programming, these engineering droids also became a deadly threat to the Imperial army!
Afterward, Orson Krennic led the Death Guard in an attack on the energy core, but he paid no heed to the Third Legion's desperate battle. He simply smashed through the Geonosian blockade and charged in. The predicament of the Imperial defense forces fighting separately remained unresolved!
This resulted in the Death Star's interior rapidly falling under Geonosian control after Orson Krennic left the Death Star to attack Queen Karina the Great on the surface of Tarassia.
Now, the Geonosians had swiftly organized huge numbers of laborers and engineering droids to urgently install the Death Star's hyperdrive. Facing this crisis of extinction, every Geonosian laborer displayed far greater drive than usual, working as though burning away their very lives.
The Death Star's hyperdrive was installed in a massive space spanning hundreds of thousands of square meters near the energy core. It consisted of fifteen independent hyperspace acceleration units. To send