Year 1 of the Fourth Empire, June 6, 5:00 PM.
The Death Star was still three light-minutes away from effective firing range! It had already begun decelerating, and the superlaser was entering the final stage of charging.
This meant that Kira planet had less than three hours left!
Skrand Sharp-Bick ordered the final offensive!
The drones and fighters from the previous wave had completed another round of resupply and maintenance, seizing this final window to launch their attack.
The final assault was sheer madness. Skrand Sharp-Bick committed every force he had!
One hundred thousand drones, more than four thousand fighters of various types, and eight hundred Asteria Spectre fighters wreaked havoc across the Death Star!
These fighters had destroyed every turret on the Death Star's surface. Even though those turrets were protected by immensely thick armor, they still could not withstand the relentless bombardment of countless drones and fighters.
There was now nothing left on the Death Star's surface capable of firing back.
The Turbolasers had been destroyed, the point-defense lasers destroyed, the missile launch arrays destroyed, the tractor beam generators destroyed... Even the Vindicator-class heavy cruisers hidden within the Death Star's Equatorial Trench and used as fixed turrets were being destroyed one after another.
It could be said that, aside from its incomparably sturdy armor, the Death Star's surface no longer had any means of retaliation.
Then countless fighters and drones began attacking the Death Star's main cannon—the immense dish-shaped structure mounted upon Tarkin's space station.
However, the attacks were completely ineffective.
The entire dish-shaped apparatus of the charging Death Star superlaser, along with the surrounding area, was enveloped in a layer of destructive energy! Any attack—whether missiles or lasers—was annihilated before it could even approach that energy field!
The Death Star superlaser's energy level was comparable to that