2325. Occupy Kira planet
The "Ant Colony" project can be said to have filled the last shortcoming of Operation Zero. Using these proliferation-controllable B. O. Ws to carry out destructive work, both in terms of concealment and casualties, is far less than that of Orbital Bombardment. For example, for this time Kira planet, a total of 800,000 "ant colony" larvae were invested, of which about 400,000 found hosts, and most of the rest died halfway.
Then these 400,000 hosts plus the killings caused by mutation will not exceed 5 or 6 million in total, and they are also very scattered. Compared with the situation where Orbital Bombardment destroyed a city when it exploded, and a continent when it exploded again, it is not easy to attract attention in any aspect.
The most important thing is that its help in landing on a planet is actually no less helpful than the undifferentiated Orbital Bombardment. Often a dozen monsters can paralyze a military base.
Therefore, the most critical aspect of this project is the controllable spread. Those mutated monsters will not spread the virus after causing killings. After the battle, Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group can just send specialized personnel to recover it.
But there are hidden dangers in both the recycling work and in ensuring that the virus will not spread or mutate. After all, according to the original plan, there will be at least one or two years before a war breaks out, and there is still enough time to make improvements.
And from Alexia's perspective, she believes that "ant colony" can do more. This kind of biological weapon can even change the environment of a planet forever! And just to create chaos? This is a complete waste of natural resources!
Therefore, her pursuit of the continuous evolution and improvement of the "ant colony" has never stopped.
This is why on Chalseden Planet, Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group invested huge efforts in hunting down the escaped Adapter Zero - the Cerean girl named Anna. But in the end, he was disturbed by the Rebel Alliance's secret actions.
After that, although under the genius and wisdom of Alexia-Ashford, the "Ant Colony" project was still successfully completed, but it was still one step away from the perfection in Alexia's heart.
Therefore, Alexia wants to obtain more test samples through actual combat data, trying to find a second adapter, or find another way to solve several defects of "ant colony".
But for Ling Liang, she only needs an "ant colony" that can cause chaos. As a very traditional soldier, she believes that the army will still have to rely on the army to solve all this.
At this moment Kira planet, the army has indeed reached the last moment to solve the problem.
The deployment was completely disrupted by the 400,000 T-Veronica mutant monsters scattered all over the planet, and then under the targeted attack of GA-TL1 Sword-class Aerial Fortress, Kira planet's orbital defense system quickly collapsed. All 40 sets of V-150 Planet Defender orbital cannons were destroyed, as were countless other anti-aircraft positions.
Without the cover of the ground air defense system, Kira planet's surface air superiority was quickly firmly controlled by Duchy of Dawn fleet. After three consecutive days of bombing, almost most of Kira planet's ground troops were cut off from each other and became isolated armies.
Immediately afterwards, the Duchy of Dawn ground troops first assembled an armored cluster composed of 200 Scorpion tank vehicles and quickly tore apart the frontal defense line of the capital area, opening a gap of more than 70 kilometers long. Immediately afterwards, with 5,000 Indjori Vengeance 103 as the guide, they directly entered the city to engage in street fighting.
Moreover, the mutated organisms that mutated from the "ant colony" also began to move towards the capital area under the guidance of Umbrella technicians.
Facing these monsters transformed by biotechnology, the Kira planet defenders, who were preparing to deal a heavy blow to Duchy of Dawn in street fighting, quickly collapsed.
In less than 3 days after the Duchy of Dawn Army launched its attack, the planet's capital area was completely captured!
On August 11, Kira planet surrendered!
After this battle, starting on August 6, Duchy of Dawn completely captured Galactic Empire's heavily guarded fortress planet - Kira in just 5 days!
In this battle, Galactic Empire fleet was completely wiped out. A total of 982 thousand-meter-class battleships were sunk or severely damaged or surrendered, half of which were expensive Imperial-class Star Destroyer, and even included one Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, one Commander II-class Dreadnought and three Commander-class Dreadnought.
2,487 small and medium-sized warships of the Light Cruiser class were lost, and more than 17,000 combat aircraft such as TIE fighter, V-wing Alpha-class Starfighter, and ARC-170 heavy-duty multifunctional fighters were lost.
1.72 million naval officers and soldiers died, and more than 20,000 were injured or captured. The army suffered more than 900,000 casualties and more than 7 million prisoners.
Duchy of Dawn Navy lost more than 140 battleships, most of which were caused by Victory II-class Star Destroyer, while 29 Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser were sunk, and 3 of Divinity-class battleship were severely damaged. Others, including the most powerful battleships Ankollon-class Titan warship and Divinity-class battleship, were generally only damaged without affecting their combat effectiveness. Consul-class aircraft carrier was unscathed!
For the Army, the 800,000 "ant colonies" are disposable items. They were all recovered after Kira planet surrendered, and then crushed and turned into biomass to produce other B. O. W. More than 12,000 Indjori Vengeance 103, a total of more than 3,000 were killed.
The regular ground troops suffered about 20,000 casualties.
It can be said that with such a slight loss, a fortress planet was almost completely occupied! This is simply a miracle!
On the surface, 70% of the industrial facilities and almost all agricultural facilities in Kira planet occupied by Dawn Star Planet have been preserved and have not been damaged. Except for the landing site and the capital area, which were severely damaged by the war, other cities were also almost undamaged.
The only huge loss was the complete destruction of the planet's orbital defense system, the complete destruction of Planetary Shield, and the destruction of all the armed space stations and space ports on the periphery of the planet.
However, there are a large number of factories on the planet, and it is not difficult to rebuild these facilities.
Now, a large number of Raloz-class Heavy Constructor are ready behind Duchy of Dawn. This 800-meter-long giant engineering ship has begun to transport parts of the large space port. It is expected that a large space port that can accommodate 200 battleships will be assembled within a week.
And more spaceports are being shipped, manufactured and assembled.
In a month at most, Kira planet can operate at full capacity and become the most critical base of advancement for Duchy of Dawn fleet!
Due to the occupation of Kira planet, Galactic Empire's control over Hydian Way has almost been opened, and the capital of the 16th Legion - Chardaan Planet (Chardaan) located in Inner Rim, will be directly threatened!