Chapter 2825: The Fall of Charos IV (Part 2)
Amid piercing alarms, Charos IV's orbital defense platforms exploded one after another, and the outer defenses had begun to suffer bombardment from General Grievous's fleet.
Blinding fire tore through the pitch-black sky as the wreckage of orbital platforms fell into the atmosphere like meteors. More warship debris scattered in every direction with the explosions, much of it plunging directly into the atmosphere.
On Charos IV, anyone standing on the planet's surface would despair at the sight of countless fiery rains falling from the sky. It was a scene of apocalypse.
That was right. Lieutenant General Ramon's fleet was simply no match for General Grievous!
Although the Imperial fleet here had as many as 200 Imperial-class Star Destroyers, it was nothing but a battered remnant force! Fearing that his own lair, Lantilis Planet, would come under threat, Governor Seben had transferred all 150 Imperial-class Star Destroyers originally stationed on Charos IV back to Lantilis Planet.
Yet those 150 Imperial-class Star Destroyers should have been the strongest force at his disposal, because Wilhuff Tarkin had sent them as reinforcements from the Fourth Army. Not only were they all newly commissioned vessels, with numerous unreasonable aspects of the older Imperial-class models corrected, but quite a few of them were Imperial II-class Star Destroyers.
Furthermore, all the officers and crew operating those 150 Star Destroyers were talented graduates of Naval Academies in the Inner Rim and Core Worlds. They possessed exceptional quality, and the Fourth Army's ample military budget ensured their pay, allowing them to train constantly and maintain high morale. Most importantly, these officers and crew from the Inner Rim and Core Worlds had their families and property here. As members of the vested-interest class, their loyalty was extremely high.
But in order to