2299. The disappearing fleet
11BBY, August 3rd. Duchy of Dawn Capital Dawn Star Planet, Supreme Operations Command, Conference Room No. 03.
"Rendili Planet! It's Rendili Planet!!" Minister of Defense Cheng Shitao poked hard on the holographic star map and said in a deep voice, "We can't detect Galactic Empire's military movements because their current fleet is all gathered at Imperial Center!!"
"This matter has basically been determined. But the question is, how do they plan to fight? And how many battleships have they mobilized?" Acting Commander of the Navy Carl Si-Walton frowned, "Is there any response from the hyperspace outpost?"
Head of Military Intelligence Salatan-Morse said, "It is very difficult to monitor the hyperspace fluctuations of Imperial Center. Fortunately, Imperial Center has a population of one trillion, so we still have a lot of informants inside. According to the information we currently have, there is no sign of a large-scale fleet gathering around Imperial Center."
"Where did the fleet that withdrew from Trade Federation go?" Governor of Modell Sector Volgograd-Kanidi asked.
"After completing the renovation at Imperial Center's shipyard, he left immediately. The severely damaged warship also went to Quat Planet for repairs, and left immediately after the completion. There was no sign of gathering at all." Salatan-Morse looked very ugly. As Intelligence Department Minister, it was a major dereliction of duty for him to lose control of Empire main fleet's position.
"So, where did their fleet go? The Empire recently reduced the strength of the border garrison. Where are the warships that withdrew?" Army General Xian Hui rubbed the bridge of his nose and put out the cigarette butt on the ashtray.
The ashtray was filled with cigarette butts.
"It could be anywhere. But... it's certainly not among the currently known military bases." Salatan-Morse replied.
"Where is Rebel Alliance? How many the Empire battleships are participating in the extermination of the Rebel Alliance?" Ling Liang asked.
"Rebel Alliance is not willing to share military intelligence with us. We can only calculate based on the existing intelligence. Currently, there are about 14 the Empire main warships participating in suppressive operations in various places. 00 ships. The number of Northern Territory resisting Geth warships has been reduced, about 2500 Fondor Planet and Kira planet respectively. There are 1,000 warships in the garrison. There are about 3,900 warships being used for training and being repaired. There are about 1,800 warships in garrison status. Therefore, the number of warships that have been lost is about 3,000." Salatan-Morse replied, "Even excluding the inaccurate part of our monitoring, the Empire is afraid that at least 1,000 battleships are missing now."
Chief of Staff Qi Jian shook his head, then looked at Sefrans-Tann who had come to Dawn Star Planet to attend, and asked, "What do you think? General Tann."
"If I were in charge, my fleet would have already started attacking while you were suspicious." Sefrans-Tann said coldly, "And the commander-in-chief of the opponent is Darth-Vader. With his style, he will make the same choice. Attack, then attack."
"If the Empire has launched an attack, then where are they?" Qi Jian knocked on the table, feeling very irritated. "How far are Rendili Planet's defense preparations?"
"General Trench has arrived at Rendili Planet, and all warships and defense systems have entered combat mode." Cheng Shitao replied, "The remaining question now is where the enemy is. I have asked General Trench to expand the detection range."
Sefrans-Tann suddenly said, "Continue to expand! Expand the detection range to several unmanned galaxies around Rendili system!"
Cheng Shitao nodded, "Okay. I'll make arrangements."
On the afternoon of August 4, Rendili Planet command center.
"I need... the reconnaissance team to report every hour! Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk..." General Trench stroked the chelicerae next to his mouth with both hands, while the other hand held a pointer and tapped his palm lightly, "Hyperspace outpost, report every 10 minutes... Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk..."
Sometimes his actions always make people feel that having six hands means being willful.
"Yes!" A Duchy of Dawn Navy officer stood at attention and saluted, and then immediately made arrangements.
"Hmm..." General Trench squinted his eyes, looked at the holographic battle star map, and became thoughtful.
Rendili Planet, ever since Rendili StarDrive betrayed Galactic Republic and joined Fourth Civilization, this planet has been heavily fortified. The outermost edge of this line of defense is the huge number of Interdictor.
These Interdictor first block all major hyperspace channels connected to the planet. All spacecraft that want to enter Rendili Planet must first leave hyperspace in front of Interdictor. After applying, they will be temporarily authorized to enter the blocker range. Then make an ultra-short jump to the outer reaches of the planet.
Moreover, in order to prevent enemy fleets from emerging from some temporary hyperspace channels, more than 10 billion blockers were deployed on the periphery of the entire galaxy, almost surrounding the entire galaxy.
Coupled with the deployment of more than 70,000 hyperspace outposts around it, it can be said that any fluctuations will be difficult to escape monitoring.
These peripheral defense facilities can buy Rendili Planet at least three to seven days, and can make the enemy unable to hide.
Then inside the galaxy, there are patrols of as many as 150,000 Vulture droid fighter equipped with special reconnaissance equipment. These robot fighters do not have hyperspace engines and rely entirely on the Sublight engine to slowly fly to patrol positions. They are all robots anyway, and time doesn't matter at all.
After that, there are monitoring facilities and defense facilities built on those planets.
Rendili system has a total of 9 planets, of which Rendili Planet is the third. Monitoring equipment and even certain orbital defense weapons have been built on the six outer planets.
At the end, is the final defense system around Rendili Planet.
It can be said that among the various defenses, Rendili Planet is completely indestructible. It's impossible to imagine any fleet capable of capturing this place! And under the combined effect of these defense systems, Rendili Planet will always have sufficient preparation time.
But the thing is... the enemy is out there...
General Trench looked at the defense system of the galaxy over and over again and thought about it over and over again.
Suddenly, his eyes fell on the Vulture droid fighter who were patrolling the galaxy with the Sublight engine. His eyes suddenly shrank, he slapped the table and shouted loudly, "No! Imperial fleet, the attack is not through the hyperspace channel!! Notify Dawn Star Planet immediately!!"
At the same time, in an unknown space, an extremely large fleet was sailing silently.
This fleet is extremely large in number, and all of them are capital ships, reaching a terrifying 700 ships! At least half of them are the extremely powerful Imperial-class Star Destroyer, and there are also battleships such as Pursuer-class aircraft carrier and Victory II-class Star Destroyer. There is even Commander II-class Dreadnought among them, and an extremely large flat battleship - Executor-class Super Star Destroyer!
On the extremely luxurious bridge of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, a man wearing jet black armor and a black cloak stood quietly in the center. Under the completely closed helmet, heavy breathing could be heard...
"Huh... chih... huh... chih... huh... chih..."