2335. Secret Weapon (Part 1)
Octavian-Grant is usually a very calm person, but even he was shocked when faced with such a situation. He rushed over, grabbed the communicator, and shouted almost hysterically, "Tell me what happened! Tell me!!"
Admirals Gideon-Tarkin, who are currently conducting front-enemy command on the flagship Morak, are also losing their composure. At this moment, he is shouting at the sensor department, "Where are the scan results! Give me the scan results immediately! Quick!"
"No matter what it is, you must find it out immediately and organize a counterattack immediately! This kind of attack must not happen a second time!!" Octavian-Grant said loudly without waiting for the answer.
He was really shocked just now. Such a huge armed space station was directly destroyed like this! You must know that it is not an ordinary armed space station, but a large armed space station array composed of several Golan I and Type II armed space stations connected in series!
Like Kingdom of Dawn, Galactic Empire also widely uses armed space stations for defense, but the development directions of the two are different.
The fixed defense system of Kingdom of Dawn is based on a small but huge interstellar base as the core, and a large number of Gauss Fire Platform as auxiliary. Compared with interstellar bases whose length on one side often exceeds 10,000 meters, Gauss Fire Platform is only 45 meters in length, which is very small and can only play a containment role in battle.
The fixed defense system of the Galactic Empire is deployed with a large number of medium and large armed space stations with a length of 1,000 meters to 3,000 meters. The model they mainly use is Golan Construction Corp (Golan Construction Corp) designed and manufactured by Golan series armed space station.
This kind of armed space station actually does not have much technical content, that is, it only needs a Group One reactor and some Turbolaser cannons. But because of its size, it can still exert a lot of firepower.
Of course, because of this, the profit margin of this kind of space station is not high. In the past, there were armed space stations produced by Rendili StarDrive that could compete. After defecting with Rendili, super industrial giants like Kuat Drive Yards had little interest in it, so Golan Company basically took over most of the construction of armed space stations by the Galactic Empire.
Now Golan series armed space station has many different models from type I to type VIII.
Since the battle between Galactic Republic and Dawn Star Planet during the Clone Wars period, they have deeply felt that the firepower of fixed defense facilities is insufficient. Therefore, sometimes, in order to strengthen defense, the defenders will connect some space stations to form a very large space station array with a span of 10,000 to 20,000 meters.
But this time, what was destroyed by the mysterious attack was an array consisting of three Golan I and two Golan II space stations connected in series. Such a loss is of course frightening, because this was an attack! If attacks like this happen a few more times, this battle will no longer need to be fought!
"General... the scan is completed. It is... a nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb with a very large yield..." An officer in the sensing department looked pale, raised his head from the screen, and said to General Gideon-Tarkin.
"Nuclear bomb?" Gideon-Tarkin felt incredulous, "How could a nuclear bomb hit us?!"
Nuclear bombs are an ancient and inefficient weapon. They are said to be ancient because this weapon has been around for tens of thousands of years. They are said to be inefficient because pure explosive nuclear bombs have no practical significance now. In terms of power, the nuclear bomb is not as good as the Proton Torpedo. In terms of energy focus, the nuclear bomb is not as good as the Turbolaser cannon.
And if you want to deliver a nuclear bomb, you need a sufficiently advanced carrier. Either it is an advanced missile, or it is an advanced fighter jet, but no matter which one, the use of nuclear warheads is an insult to that kind of carrier.
But nuclear bombs also have the benefits of nuclear bombs. The Turbolaser cannon focuses energy into a small range, which can be very effective against Deflector Shield. The explosion produced by the explosive gas is also very damaging to armor; Proton Torpedo produces a collapse of a proton cloud, which has terrible destructive power on armor. Only nuclear bombs have a diffusive explosion, so they are not suitable for attacking warships.
However, it is very suitable for Orbital Bombardment!
In addition, nuclear bombs can easily pile up the yield. When the yield reaches tens of billions of tons, they will already have the power to destroy the surface of the planet. Of course, a nuclear bomb of this level, even if it is manufactured with today's cutting-edge technology, will be very bloated and basically have no value on the battlefield.
But the problem is...
Gideon-Tarkin punched the console hard and yelled, "The question is... how did this nuclear bomb hit our armed space station!! Is the detector eating shit?"
"The detector didn't respond at all!" the officer said, "But we conducted tests and found that our sensor has no fault and can detect the target normally. Even stealth fighters can detect it."
"Where is the technical analysis?!" Gideon-Tarkin said.
A technician immediately came over and said, "We observed the images sent back from the optical sensors of some battleships at that time and analyzed them. We got this..."
He turned on the holographic projection, which contained dozens of photos. This is a screenshot of the video that has been enlarged countless times. It was the video captured at that moment by the unlucky Imperial-class Star Destroyer, who happened to be near the space station when it exploded and was directly blown 3,000 kilometers away by the explosion.
By the way, more than 7,000 officers and soldiers inside the unlucky Star Destroyer were killed, all of whom died when it rolled. Some were hit to death, some died due to being in a high-speed rolling overload state for a long time, and some were killed by debris flying everywhere...
In these video screenshots, it can be clearly seen that a huge dark conical object suddenly appeared out of thin air with a burst of white light, then directly hit the space station, and then exploded.
"This thing that looks like a cannonball has been measured to be about 80 meters long and about 15 meters in diameter. After analysis, it should be a nuclear bomb. The simplest fusion nuclear bomb, the reaction material should be polonium. The explosion yield is about 10 billion tons." The technician said.
"The point is not the nuclear bomb, but how did this thing appear? Is it invisible when it appears out of thin air?" Gideon-Tarkin asked.
"It's definitely not invisible. It looks like it jumped from hyperspace." The technician said with some uncertainty.
"Before the explosion, our hyperspace sensor did sound an alarm. But just a few seconds after the alarm, the explosion occurred," the officer said.
"But there are also problems with hyperspace jumps. First of all, how did this thing pass through those countless Interdictor? Even if it could pass through, it would have already left hyperspace after entering the gravitational circle of the planet. How could it only appear a few seconds before the impact? And with the size of this thing, not Maybe a too high-level hyperspace engine is installed. Besides, is Separatists too rich or stupid to use a hyperspace engine for a nuclear bomb attack? "The technicians also seemed very anxious. This unknown weapon put too much pressure on them.