2921, Kira Treaty (Part 1)
The Death Star had been destroyed. Accompanied by footage of its explosion, the news spread across the entire Milky Way Galaxy almost instantly.
Under the full operation of the Fourth Empire's massive propaganda and public-opinion machine, images poured forth one after another: Tang Xiao forcibly lifting the wreckage of a Vindicator-class heavy cruiser with his incomparably powerful command of the Force at the moment the Death Star was destroyed; refugees displaced from Chardaan Planet and Paks Planet...
Countless images and interviews came flooding in like snowflakes, nearly occupying the entire Galactic HoloNet.
For a time, the entire Milky Way Galaxy knew—DS-1, the Death Star, the superweapon the Galactic Empire had built by mobilizing the strength of the entire nation, had been destroyed!
This was no ordinary "mobilizing the strength of the entire nation," because in a sense, the Galactic Empire's national strength was equivalent to more than 60 percent of the production capacity of the entire Milky Way Galaxy!
When Chardaan Planet and Paks Planet had been destroyed, almost everyone in the Milky Way Galaxy had believed that the Death Star was invincible.
Because the Death Star was simply that unreasonable—it could endure the firepower of an entire national fleet, fly up beside a planet, and blow that planet into fragments with a single shot!
No one and nothing could stop it!
Yet before the tide of terror caused by the Death Star had even subsided, the next piece of news to arrive was that the Death Star had been destroyed!
Such an enormous contrast made almost everyone feel as though they were dreaming.
Moreover, no one knew that the Fourth Empire had destroyed the Death Star because it possessed the chain-reaction weakness provided by Galen Erso, allowing it to strike straight at the heart