2140. Battle of Rosha
12BBY, July 13th, Dath-Vader can't wait for more fleets to arrive.
Because now the competition between the Galactic Empire and Trade Federation for those spaceports and major industries has reached a state of breaking out. Everything that can be snatched has been snatched, and what cannot be snatched has been destroyed. Some smart people have already run away.
Now the two sides are exchanging fire everywhere in Core Worlds and Mid Rim Territories. Galactic Empire wants to occupy Trade Federation's spaceport or some colonial cities, while Trade Federation organizes self-defense forces to fight back.
Such exchanges of fire occurred almost simultaneously in thousands of places, with large scales involving thousands of people and small scales involving only dozens or hundreds of people.
Although Neimoidian is timid and cowardly, Trade Federation does not belong to the Neimoidian family. They also have many other races under their banner. Maybe a certain spaceport is not even small change to Trade Federation, but to a certain kind of operation team that hosts this spaceport, this may be their lifetime savings.
In order to protect their property, these people will naturally fight to the death with the Galactic Empire's Stormtroopers!
Not only that, Trade Federation also spent a lot of money, hired many mercenaries, and offered a high price for every Stormtrooper that was killed. Not to mention, Trade Federation also used his influence to forcefully open prisons on some relatively remote planets and release a large number of death row prisoners!
Those mercenaries and death row prisoners are all desperadoes. For money and freedom, they also fight Imperial Stormtroopers to the end with their heads twisted.
What's more, the source of many death row prisoners is actually Rebel Alliance! These people originally had a deep-seated hatred for the Galactic Empire, but now that they have been released, they have unleashed all their anger!
But such a battle is of no importance to the Galactic Empire. Galactic Empire's troops are indeed stretched thin, but they are large battleships used for frontal combat, and the billions of Clone Trooper and tens of billions of ordinary soldiers in the Empire's hands can all be transported by simple transport ships for bloody suppression.
As for Darth-Vader, he was not interested in such scattered firefights at all. After gathering the strength of 200 capital ships and 1,700 small and medium-sized warships, he immediately launched an attack on Trade Federation's Rosha in Core Worlds!
Among these 200 capital ships, 120 are Victory II-class Star Destroyer, 40 are the Empire I class, 30 are Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, and 10 are Pursuer-class aircraft carrier.
In fact, this troop composition also reflects the puffiness of Galactic Empire Navy.
Victory II-class is certainly a very excellent Star Destroyer, but after all, the 900-meter-long body is there, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the 1,600-meter-long Imperial II-class Star Destroyer. The volume difference between the two is more than three times, and the technology used is also inferior.
Basically, starting from Clone Wars, if Hunter Class Battlecruiser and Kohl-class Battlecruiser are considered first-generation battleships, then Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser and Imperial I-class Star Destroyer are second-generation battleships. Victory II-class is roughly in the transition period between the two, about 1.7 generations. It has obvious advantages over the first-generation battleships, but is not as good as the second-generation battleships.
By the way, according to this standard, the third-generation battleship should be Divinity-class battleship from Duchy of Dawn. Imperial II-class Star Destroyer can be regarded as the 2.5th generation at most.
Now among Galactic Empire Navy, a large number of Victory II-class Star Destroyer are installed. In fact, this has also caused the average quality of Imperial Navy to drop. Because their opponents, Duchy of Dawn Navy are basically based on second-generation battleships, supplemented by a small amount of previous-generation battleships and third-generation battleships, so they are in a very healthy state.
Victory II-class Star Destroyer Duchy of Dawn is also equipped with a lot of them, but they are rarely used in the first-line fleet. In other words, in a battle with the same number of fleets, Duchy of Dawn still firmly holds the absolute advantage.
This is the main reason why even though he was extremely crazy, Emperor Palpatine still didn't take advantage of Tang Xiao's absence to attack Duchy of Dawn directly.
On July 14, with bursts of dazzling white flashes, Galactic Empire fleet left the hyperspace channel and entered the outer orbit of Rosha!
What greeted them was intense firepower! The armed space stations around Rosha opened fire wildly. Not only that, Gauss Defense Platform and missile defense platforms imported from Duchy of Dawn by Trade Federation also built a considerable number here.
Almost in the first second after Imperial Navy left the hyperspace channel, tens of thousands of Gauss shells and anti-matter missiles were launched!
But for Das-Vader, this is just a small scene. Under his command, Imperial fleet was already prepared to deal with the first wave of raids, otherwise he would not have directly chosen to leave hyperspace in the outer orbit close to the planet.
The densely packed laser cannons and Turbolaser cannons formed a deadly fire net, intercepting most of the shells and missiles. Even a small number of fish that slipped through the net either flew aside due to electronic interference, or fell on the solid Deflector Shield of Star Destroyer, causing a wave of insignificant energy ripples.
At the same time, Star Destroyer's powerful scanner began to conduct comprehensive detection around Rosha. Now, more than 160 armed space stations are deployed outside Rosha. The largest of these space stations are about 3,000 meters in size, and the small ones are more than 400 meters in length. They are densely covered with a large number of Turbolaser Turret and missile launchers.
And around Rosha, a light blue light curtain is clearly visible.
Planetary Shield!
Although the escort fleet around the planet is missing, such a defensive force cannot be underestimated.
Das-Vader gave a direct order, and Imperial fleet immediately took Imperial II-class Star Destroyer as the vanguard and launched a powerful and determined offensive against Rosha's peripheral defense line.
When Imperial-class Star Destroyer is facing the enemy head-on, it is when it can best use its full firepower. The firepower of the 60-seat XX-9 double-mounted heavy-duty Turbolaser cannon and the 60-seat plasma cannon is unimaginably powerful. Dense beams of light were launched from the direction of Imperial fleet, fell on the armed space station, and landed on Planetary Shield.
Countless explosions, countless flames, and countless pieces of debris flashed on the battlefield almost at the same time.
A small armed space station is composed of four ring-shaped firepower points. More than 20 Turbolaser cannons are firing rhythmically. Plasma explosive gas with terrifying energy is fired one after another. Each Turbolaser cannon shot is equivalent to a tens of millions of tons of nuclear bombs!
What greeted them was the even more powerful Turbolaser of Imperial fleet!
Soon, the armed space station was hit by continuous attacks. The first few shots were blocked by the energy shield, but in the following round of shots, the shield was penetrated. In the violent explosion, a huge gap was blown out of the originally complete armed space station.
Gravity Generator was destroyed, the space anchor failed, and the entire space station rotated uncontrollably under the shock wave of the explosion. Countless fragments of debris and twisted corpses erupted from the gap.
Immediately afterwards, more than ten rounds of Turbolaser hit the space station. The remaining parts of the space station were finally completely destroyed and turned into countless fragments in the explosion and flames.