A Faint Trace
The war on the ground no longer needed any further reinforcements. The millions of Corpse Puppets on Valk Planet posed no threat to the Clone Troopers. With integrated air-ground firepower and support from Acclamator-class assault ships, these Corpse Puppets, only slightly stronger than zombies, had no ability to resist.
Jedi Master Sass Tiin led the fleet to the location where they had found Barloi's ship, and the horrific scene there left them all stunned.
The wrecked hull of the Aquitenes-class light cruiser floated there at an angle, surrounded by fragments of the warship and a large number of corpses.
"Too many fragments," Jedi Master Sass Tiin said.
"Indeed. If there had only been one Aquitenes-class light cruiser, there couldn't have been this many fragments. There must have been another ship here," the Clone Trooper Commander said.
"The simulation is complete. We simulated the Aquitenes-class light cruiser's current condition and the breaches in its hull. The results show it wasn't hit by Turbolaser fire or large-scale kinetic weapons. Judging by the damage pattern, the explosion that destroyed this light cruiser had an extremely wide blast radius and occurred at very close range," the technician said.
"Combined with the large number of fragments from another ship nearby, this light cruiser was destroyed by that ship's self-destruction," Sass Tiin said, frowning. "But why did they approach a ship that was about to self-destruct?"
"Self-destruction alone could not have produced such power. It was likely a Reverse-Reaction Bomb, installed on the ship's reactor to concentrate the reactor's energy in reverse and create an immensely powerful explosion," the technician said.
As they spoke, reconnaissance ships had already been dispatched to search for every possible trace.
The search lasted three days.
But they had no other choice. They could only keep looking.
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