1570.Dark Master——Windu
When Mace-Windu flew his fighter jet back to his fleet flagship, Endurance Hunter Class Battlecruiser, he was almost shot down by his own anti-aircraft firepower.
Although the fire control system and IFF transponder are still working, if communication is lost and the nervous turret operator is highly nervous, he will still subconsciously fire on every target that appears on the radar.
You know, this is a huge battlefield with a battlefield area of more than 200,000 kilometers. At this scale, a fighter jet is really as small as a grain of sand in the sea. And under normal circumstances, it is impossible to see anything on the interstellar battlefield through visual inspection. Even if you want to see a large battleship, it is not easy.
In fact, after the communication system was cut off, the hardest hit area among the Second Systems Army main fleet was their fighter formation!
Fighters are too small to install large and advanced radar systems and communication systems. In many cases, they need their own take-off mothership for command and guidance. But now that communications have been cut off, all fighter jets have become headless flies.
In intuitive terms, after the communication is cut off, the pilot of every fighter jet will find himself in the vast space, surrounded by darkness, with sporadic light points flashing from time to time, and you don't even know whether these light points are starlight or a capital ship that has just been blown up.
The most terrible thing is that the Turbolaser beams and missiles are flying from nowhere. They are impossible to guard against! And these things are most likely the firepower launched by one's own warships.
If the communication system is normal, the communication will continue to provide commands, sometimes directly sending data to the navigation robot. For example, which area is our warship covering with firepower, where is the main gun firing, and in what direction is the enemy fighter jet... all the information is clear at a glance and can be seen.
But now, without this data, fighter pilots have no choice but to fly towards where there are spaceships - the bolder ones fly towards the enemy warships, wanting to fight for their lives; the less timid ones fly towards their own warships, wanting to return to the mothership. The closer you get to these warships, the easier it is to be hit by your own or the opponent's firepower.
Because every battleship is surrounded by countless firepower, whether it is launched to hit others or fired by others to hit itself.
In the previous battles, Second Systems Army took off a total of more than 5,000 fighter jets, and no more than one-tenth of these fighter jets were able to return to their mothership safely! And they did not dare to take off more fighter jets until communications were restored.
Therefore, most of the 20,000 fighter jets carried by the main fleet Second Systems Army became more fragments that flew out when the Hunter Class Battlecruiser they parked was blown up.
Mace-Windu jumped off his fighter jet before it could stop, and then quickly rushed to the bridge.
However, what he saw inside the bridge was not the busy and neat military appearance as he imagined. On the contrary, officers and staff officers at all levels, including Fleet Commander Admiral Sopronos, sat in their seats dejectedly.
"You! What are you doing!" Mace-Windu was furious. He walked up and waved his hands. A wave of Force wave immediately blew these decadent officers off their feet. "The battle of the entire fleet is in your hands. Look what you are doing now!!"
"It's useless... it's useless..." Sopronos sat up from the ground and said dejectedly, "The communication was cut off. We can't do anything. We can only watch Sefrans-Tann wiped out our fleet bit by bit... Hehehe, we should feel honored to lose to Sefrans-Tann, right? Master Windu..."
The anger in Windu's heart could no longer be increased. He raised his hand and grabbed Sopronos. The Force grabbed his neck out of thin air and lifted him up. "Second Systems Army, there is no such thing as you!!"
However, Sopronos was already disheartened. He struggled instinctively, but still said, "Master Windu... Plague's second ship is on the way. Give up, you can't win..."
"Disturbing the morale of the army! Death penalty!" Mace-Windu's hand gradually tightened, and a faint golden light appeared in his intact eye.
There was a click, and Sopronos's neck bones made a crisp sound, and then his whole body drooped down, making no sound anymore.
At this moment, everyone on the entire bridge looked at Mace-Windu with fear in their eyes. They didn't look like they were looking at the once respected Jedi Master. On the contrary, they seemed to see nothing more than a bloodthirsty beast.
Dark Side Force spurted out from Mace-Windu. The moment he killed Sopronos, he had completely given up his belief in light.
Ever since he was seriously injured by Archangel of Death and Depa-Barris on Haruun Kal, causing him to become a high-level paraplegic. He could only regain his mobility through mechanical transformation. Mace-Windu has been wandering between darkness and light.
His belief in the light was once so firm that no matter how tempting he was, he could not be shaken in the slightest. That's why he can use Vaapad lightsaber form - a swordsmanship that uses Dark Side's emotions to strengthen the power of swordsmanship, but never lets Dark Side affect his heart.
People who practice Juyo, whether they are Depa-Barris or Sola-Balk, are now fallen to the Dark Side. Only Mace-Windu still adheres to the light, which shows the firmness of his heart.
However, Chancellor of the Republic Sheev-Palpatine was confirmed to be Sith Lord Das-Sidious. This information almost destroyed his faith. As the person who has the deepest political entanglement with Galactic Republic among Jedi Order, Mace-Windu suffered a greater blow than others imagined.
The thought that the speaker he once served and loyal to turned out to be a disgusting Sith Lord was absolutely unacceptable to him.
After that, the constant failures on the front line made his behavior gradually go to extremes. In the first few Orbital Bombardments, the reason why several Jedi Masters who accompanied the army agreed to sign was actually because of his approval behind the scenes.
From this moment on, although he is still the guardian of Light Side, he is inevitably getting closer and closer to Dark Side. He was willing to accept fallen to the Dark Side's base-Adi-Master Mundi as his right-hand man to jointly command the Second Systems Army fleet. Such an approach would have been impossible for him who once hated evil so much.
Then came the break between him and Master Yoda. Master Yoda failed to assassinate Palpatine alone, and then disappeared. This was followed by the betrayal of Anakin-Skywalker and Order 66.
The complete destruction of Jedi Order became the straw that broke the camel's back.
At this moment, Second Systems Army's tragic defeat finally made it all happen - Dark Jedi Master, Mace-Windu!
How firm his belief in Light Side was, how quickly he fell at this moment.
Mace-Windu stood in the center of the bridge, kicked Sopronos's body to the corner, glanced at the surrounding officers with golden eyes, and said coldly, "Go back to your post! Fight to the last man!"