2336. Secret Weapon (Part 2)
"Let's not talk about it for now! Now we have determined that Separatists has a secret weapon that can make a huge nuclear bomb appear on the battlefield without warning and hit one of our space stations very accurately!" When Gideon-Tarkin said this, he felt that his voice was trembling.
Bang! He punched the table again and knocked an unplaced cup onto the ground. The juice inside spilled all over the floor, forming a large stain on the expensive carpet.
General Gideon said viciously, "If the opponent is targeting the space station this time, what about next time? Is it our flagship? This time it launched a nuclear bomb. What if it launches Proton Torpedo next time?"
Everyone present took a breath.
Indeed, the 19,000-meter-long Executor-class Super Star Destroyer and Morak they were sitting on were much larger than the space station array that had just been blown up!!
And if Separatists really wants to shoot a super giant Proton Torpedo that is 80 meters long, then Morak really can't hold it! You know, even the Super-heavy Proton Torpedo launched from Ogre-class Siege Cruiser is only 30 meters long, and 25 meters of it are thrusters and electronic components. The proton warhead is only about 3 meters long.
However, this 80-meter-long thing doesn't look like it has propellers. In other words, this whole thing is a complete, insanely large warhead!!
"Immediately... let the battleship maneuver to avoid it! Don't stop for a moment!" The captain of Morak quickly turned around and gave the order loudly.
At the same time, Planet Three outer orbit, Kingdom of Dawn fleet station.
On the bridge of the flagship Taowu Titan warship, a senior engineer wearing a black military uniform came to the fleet Grand Commander Sefrans-Tann and said in a low voice, "General Tann, the first launch of Novalith Cannon failed. It did not hit the target..."
The existence of Novalith Cannon is the top secret even within Kingdom of Dawn. Among this fleet, only this senior engineer knows about Novalith Cannon. In addition, he also has a technical team to provide Novalith Cannon-related technical support and collect actual combat data for Sefrans-Tann.
"What do you mean you didn't hit the target?" Sefrans-Tann was a little strange.
Novalith Cannon is currently Kingdom of Dawn, a top-secret super weapon. This is a weapon that can launch super-large nuclear bombs to directly attack planets tens of thousands of light-years away. This 70-kilometer-long launcher is currently located at Hoth Planet.
Because of its extremely long range, this weapon is almost impossible to counter. However, because the range is so far, Novalith Cannon can only be used to target Crosshair ball-level targets. After all, the orbit of the planet is fixed, and it is so big that it cannot hit targets even if it is small.
The engineer in black sighed and said, "This first launch accidentally hit a space station of the Galactic Empire. It failed to explode Planetary Shield. Therefore, we are still not sure how much actual combat damage Novalith Cannon will do to Planetary Shield..."
"Hit an armed space station?" Sefrans-Tann smiled coldly, "I would like to ask you how to hit an armed space station with Novalith Cannon."
"This... can only be said to be a very low probability problem..." Cold sweat flowed from the black-clothed engineer's forehead.
Indeed, if hitting a planet with Novalith Cannon is described as hitting an apple with a sniper rifle from 10,000 meters away, then hitting an armed space station is equivalent to hitting a grain of sand. This probability cannot be said to be non-existent, it is almost impossible.
"Hmph. When is the next attack?" Tann asked.
"The charging time of Novalith Cannon is about 5 hours, and the time for the shell to be fired from Hoth Planet to Fondor Planet is about 26 hours. In other words, the second attack will not arrive until 31 hours later." said the black engineer.
"Let Novalith Cannon stop firing first." Sefrans-Tann said, "It's rare that you have created a miracle. I would like to see how those Imperial Navy people plan to react."
"Yes." The engineer in black immediately walked over and asked the technicians at Novalith Cannon to pause firing through hyperspace communication.
The entire Fondor Planet battlefield fell into an eerie silence for a while. Except for Calamity-class, Paladin-class, and Kohl-class Battlecruiser who were still bombing continuously, there was basically no movement from both sides.
Of course, Kingdom of Dawn's engineering team is not idle. They have invested a large number of engineering ships and engineering robots to build a forward base on Planet Three all the time.
Sure enough, after about 2 hours, Galactic Empire's defenders began to take action.
They separated a fleet of about 400 capital ships and 2,000 small and medium-sized warships and began to move in the direction of Planet Three.
Sefrans-Tann A sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she immediately ordered, "Call the ships to form a defensive formation and not to go into battle. Let all the warships that bombard from a long distance come back."
"Yes!"
This Imperial fleet indeed came to take the initiative to attack, because a space station was directly destroyed, which forced General Gideon-Tarkin to make a choice. He was worried that this kind of bombing would continue, so he divided some warships to take the initiative to attack, hoping to put some pressure on Separatist fleet, who had been standing still.
He believed that there must be a reason why this kind of nuclear bomb attack without warning had not been used before and was not launched until the Sefrans-Tann fleet arrived at Fondor Planet. It is likely that the opponent's fleet provided navigation for this nuclear bomb attack.
Until August 22, Imperial fleet approached Planet Three and conducted a long-distance Orbital Bombardment of the planet. Sefrans-Tann then ordered his fleet to take the initiative to meet them.
At this time, it was already the third day after Kingdom of Dawn fleet arrived at Fondor Planet, and the fleets of both sides had their first exchange of fire near Planet Three.
There was almost no suspense in this battle. Among Kingdom of Dawn fleet, Consul-class aircraft carrier took off tens of thousands of unmanned Interceptor, flying densely towards Imperial fleet. At the same time, other warships continued to fire while advancing. The first ones to bear the brunt are those 10 menacing Divinity-class battleship!
However, this Imperial fleet had no intention of engaging in a decisive battle. While they fired back, they began to turn and fly towards the other side, preparing to leave the battlefield.
At the same time, another part of Imperial fleet also began to advance, carrying out long-distance strikes on Kingdom of Dawn fleet and covering the retreat of the forward fleet.
In this exchange of fire, Galactic Empire lost 11 Imperial-class Star Destroyer ships and more than 40 small and medium-sized warships of various types. And Sefrans-Tann did not continue to pursue, but returned to Planet Three's outer space, continued to let Planet Three block the detection, and continued to stand still.
And Galactic Empire's fleet once again confirmed his determination to retreat. After returning to Fondor Planet's defense system, he never came out again.
Sefrans-Tann also ordered Novalith Cannon to continue firing and bombing. In the next few days, Novalith Cannon fired 19 shells, all of which accurately hit Fondor Planet. And this time, no unlucky space station was hit.
The continuous bombing of tens of billions of nuclear bombs made the Empire Fleet Commander Gideon-Tarkin upset.