Thrawn's Defeat
"Are there always people who don't know when to quit...? You should know that any being who resists me shall be granted the same death! Hahahaha!" Tang Xiao's terrifying laughter echoed through the air.
His body dissolved directly into a stream of black mist and soared into the sky, flying toward a Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser that had entered Coruscant's atmosphere and was circling above the coronation site at the Republic Senate Building.
Then, his figure appeared on the warship's forward deck, and his cold voice reached the bridge. "Forward! Charge directly at the Imperial fleet! You may choose to retain your honor, or become corpses for me to control... Hahahaha!"
Pain appeared on the face of Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Ping, the captain of this Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser.
He had been loyal. If His Majesty the Emperor gave any order, he would have carried it out even at the cost of his life. But Tang Xiao's latter words chilled his heart completely.
A Sith Lord would never trust anyone. He would only reduce everything to coercion, temptation, and the fear of death. Just as Tang Xiao was now, he no longer believed in so-called loyalty. He believed only in threats.
Just like Palpatine.
The Dark Side had granted them incomparably powerful strength, but it had not come without a price.
And to loyal soldiers, this threat was an insult.
"Yes... Your Majesty." Zhou Ping closed his eyes, heavily stressing the words "Your Majesty." Then he suddenly opened them and roared, "Pass the order! This ship will charge at full speed toward the Imperial fleet immediately! I am the Calamity!"
"I am the Calamity!!" Amid the furious roars of over a thousand officers and crew throughout the ship, the Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser charged toward the Galactic Empire's vast and terrifying