The Crippled Death Star
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
Explosions rang out without pause, and the ground shook continuously. Inside the Death Star, those TIE Interceptor fighters had begun bombing the outer armor of the Death Star control center.
Not only that, more and more Imperial Stormtrooper soldiers from the reinforcing Imperial-class Star Destroyers were boarding Sentinel-class landing craft and beginning their landings.
The Sentinel-class landing craft was a newly developed Imperial landing vessel intended to replace the old LAAT assault landing craft. It sacrificed much of its firepower in exchange for greater speed, flexibility, and adaptability. Each Sentinel-class landing craft carried seventy-five soldiers. They swiftly flew through gaps in the Death Star's internal structural framework, launching landings from hundreds of locations at once and unleashing a full-scale assault on the rebelling Geonosians.
Unlike the Imperial-class Star Destroyers of the garrison fleet, which had remained stationed here all along, every Imperial-class Star Destroyer Admiral Afshin-Makati had brought as reinforcements was fully staffed and equipped!
A fully staffed Imperial-class Star Destroyer carried 9,700 Imperial Stormtrooper soldiers—the equivalent of one legion. It also carried twenty AT-AT walkers and thirty AT-ST walkers. However, considering the circumstances of this operation, Afshin-Makati had not brought along the cumbersome AT-AT walkers. Those heavy walkers were utterly useless here.
Instead, these landing forces were equipped with large numbers of TX-225 Occupier combat assault tanks!
This light tank was 7.5 meters long and 2 meters tall, with no turret. Its front sides were each equipped with a twin laser cannon. Its armor was extremely thick, with virtually no blind spots. On an open battlefield, Kingdom of Dawn Scorpion tanks, with their superior mobility, could kite these tanks with ease. But in ordinary security operations, they shone brilliantly.
And this time, after landing inside the Death Star, the relatively narrow and