(The summary of the previous chapter was supplemented by Blade-class fighter.)
2355. Upgrade
After engaging those scaled-down warships, Admirals Gillard-Perine immediately understood that although these warships were much smaller in size, their combat capabilities had not decreased at all!
The most obvious one is the scaled-down version of Kohl-class Battlecruiser. This type of battlecruiser was once reduced from 1,300 meters in length to 837.2 meters in length, a full circle smaller, and more than doubled in size.
And according to the situation of the scaled-down version of Kohl-class currently in combat, these warships are equipped with a very huge twin-mounted Hypermatter Railgun above and below the hull, which was not available before. Moreover, the caliber of this Hypermatter Railgun has been reduced to 20 meters, but the firepower is still very terrifying. The power of the two twin-mounted cannons is naturally far greater than the single-shot axis-based cannons of the past.
The technological progress of Kingdom of Dawn can be seen from these two turrets. The former Kohl-class was made into a semi-axis base gun in order to install the huge 40-meter caliber Hypermatter Railgun. The entire launch system was more than 500 meters long! Now, the 20-meter-caliber Hypermatter Railgun has a barrel length of only 142 meters, including the turret, which is only 208 meters long, and it is also twin-mounted! The form of the turret is also much more flexible than the previous half-axis-based gun, and it can aim at the target without turning the battleship.
Without greatly weakening the firepower, directly dividing the firepower point into four will not only be more flexible, but also cover a larger area, and the firepower will be doubled.
At the same time, the front end of the battleship was replaced with a huge semi-axis laser cannon, which also had very terrifying firepower. But compared to the firepower, what is even more amazing is that in addition to being able to bear the dual-mounted Hypermatter Railgun, the scaled-down version of Kohl-class can also afford such a half-axis-based laser cannon?! Does this mean that the energy level of the scaled-down version Kohl-class has reached or even exceeded the previous 1300-meter model?!
Gillard-Perine After seeing this Company One series of astonishing numbers, he now understood. This is Kingdom of Dawn's upgrade and improvement of the battleship!
And it is obvious that the upgrade and improvement work is the research and development and construction completed by Kingdom of Dawn on the side of Northern Territory. Compare Kingdom of Dawn main fleet among Planet Kira Campaign and you will understand that the main battleships in that direction are Divinity-class battleship, Hell Angel-class, and Doomsday Battlefield class, Calamity-class, Paladin-class battlecruiser, there are also Kohl-class, Durov-class Battlecruiser, but they are all Normal Class.
This shows that this upgrade and replacement has not yet been equipped to Southern Territory, where Kingdom of Dawn is located. In contrast, Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser and Calamity-class battlecruiser are rarely seen in the fleet on Northern Territory, and Divinity-class battleship and Consul-class aircraft carrier are not seen at all. This also shows that the origin of these warships is not in Northern Territory.
This phenomenon of clearly distinguishable warship models in two directions fully illustrates that Kingdom of Dawn has not completely completed the upgrading work of the navy. Many warships were built but had not had time to be deployed, and Galactic Empire came to the door.
But now, these words will not help the battle situation at all. General Gillard-Perine looked at the battle situation, and his expression gradually became serious.
Although his fleet occupies the advantage in quantity and size at the moment, Admiral Mar-Tuk's fleet, which consists of cruisers as the main force, can already compete with his Star Destroyer! But according to intelligence, Admiral Maltuk's Commerce Guild Fleet has a total of more than 200 battleships and more than 5,000 small and medium-sized warships!
If those small and medium-sized warships that have not yet arrived are also these new warships, then when follow-up reinforcements arrive, this Commerce Guild Fleet will definitely not be able to deal with it by itself!
The best option right now is to retreat. But Gillard-Perine also understood that he could not retreat now, otherwise he would not be able to give an explanation to Dunn-Vesex and Emperor Palpatine.
"Call the ships to continue steering forward and escape from the Ansion Planet gravity well as soon as possible!" Gillard-Perine gave the order. He decided to fight outside the planet's gravity well, so that on the one hand he could stay away from the planet's defense facilities, and as the planet rotated, Agonev-class star base above the north and south poles would not be able to threaten him. On the other hand, it also allows one's warships to start hyperspace jumps as soon as possible and leave this galaxy.
While making this decision, General Gillard-Perine also acquiesced that he could not achieve his strategic goals.
At the same time, Commerce Guild Fleet flagship, Neimoidia super aircraft carrier.
"General, Imperial fleet is maneuvering in the opposite direction of the planet's revolution." T-series tactical robot said to Admiral Mar-Tuk.
"They want to escape! Don't give them this chance! Let me catch up and entangle them!" Admiral Mar-Tuk touched his smooth chin and said sternly.
"Our troops are still insufficient. In the past three hours, 40 more Victory II-class Star Destroyers have arrived on the battlefield. If we continue to pursue them now and lose the fire support of the planetary defense facilities, we may face greater battle losses." T-series tactical robot said, "According to the current strategic deployment, excessive losses of the new warships we originally planned to allocate to Dawn Star Planet will affect our combat plan."
"Hmm..." Admiral Mar-Tuk looked serious, fell silent and began to think.
This tactical robot was right, it really couldn't bear too much loss. Because of the Commerce Guild Fleet in his hand, why is the battleship ratio so unbalanced? Like Gillard-Perine's judgment, it was because the war broke out too hastily that the deployment of new warships had not been completed.
According to the original plan, Kingdom of Dawn should provide a batch of Hell Angel-class, Paladin-class, Calamity-class, Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruiser and other battleships, and then send a batch of Kohl II-class, Marauder II-class, Minotaur-class and other new warships from here. Later, it became the third task force here at Makito.
However, this plan was interrupted by the outbreak of the war, so Mal Took, under the urging of current trader Alliance Chairman Lott Dude, and InterGalactic Banking Clan co-chairman San Hill, organized all the current warships here to form Commerce Guild Fleet and then participated in the war.
However, such a hasty formation naturally resulted in a strange formation with cruisers as the main focus and not many battleships. Although the combat effectiveness is still very strong, without the thick-skinned battleships to attract frontal firepower, relying solely on cruisers to confront the opponent's Imperial-class Star Destroyer head-on, even if they can win, they will definitely suffer a lot of losses.
To put it another way, isn't this the reason why Kingdom of Dawn is building Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser in large quantities?
After thinking for a while, Admiral Maltuk waved his hand and said to the other direction, "Call 'Skywalker' over."
"Roger." The tactical robot responded, and then its electronic eyes flashed for a while and sent out the command.
After a while, a girl walked over from the other side of the bridge.
This girl is young, only about 10 years old, and her blue skin and red eyes clearly indicate that she is Chiss. Behind her, there are two adult Chiss women, attendants who specialize in taking care of this girl.
"When will our reinforcements arrive?" Mar-Tuk asked directly.
Chiss The girl clasped her hands together and closed her eyes, and started to meditate. After a long time, she opened her eyes, shook her head and said, "The sky road has not been opened, the 'tangle' is still chaotic, and it is still unnavigable. I need to do the induction again after half a day."
She seemed a little weak, and the woman behind her quickly supported her.
"Half a day... and you still can't be sure?" Mar-Tuk frowned.
"Yes." Chiss girl nodded and replied, her voice becoming weak.
"Go down and rest." Mar-Tuk waved his hand and asked the girl to leave and rest.
These girls are all Chiss's 'Skywalker', Chiss's unique hyperspace navigators.
As we all know, in Unknown Regions, because the hyperspace channels are very chaotic, some channels can even change in an hour or two. Therefore, traditional hyperspace navigation technology cannot be used at all in Unknown Regions. Therefore, it can be seen that the vast majority of civilizations living in Unknown Regions have never been able to take a step outside their own planet throughout their lives.
Only a few civilizations that can master the navigation of this super chaotic hyperspace channel called the "Tangle" can develop and grow into a huge country with multiple planets.
For example, Biological Battery Technology of Ssi-ruuvi Imperium, Grysk Hegemony's telepathy, and another example, 'Skywalker' of Chiss territory.
Skywalker are basically young girls, usually no more than 13 years old, and they are all Force-sensitive. According to Chiss's research, Force-sensitive, a female who is no more than 13 years old, can develop a very wonderful sense of hyperspace channels after training.
Through this induction, these girls can guide the spacecraft to make a successful hyperspace jump and pass through the unpredictable 'tangles'. And this kind of induction is called "Third Sight" by Chiss.
The reason why Admiral Mar-Tuke was able to lead Commerce Guild Fleet to Ansion Planet in just three days was because of the power of these "Skywalker".
Kingdom of Dawn did build the star gate in Northern Territory, but unlike Galactic Empire's panicky judgment, Kingdom of Dawn's construction of the star gate was far from being able to build it at will and then form a network.
Because the phase cores of these star gates can only be manufactured by Phase Engineer of Vasari, and because Vasari has not fully recovered its previous technology, the output is not high, but the cost is terrifyingly high.
A total of two star gates were built at Northern Territory and Kingdom of Dawn, both at Makito. One star gate leads directly to Dawn Star Planet, while the other star gate leads to Chiss territory.
As for the question that Gillard-Perine has been worried about, whether there is a stargate on the planet Oud-Mantel, the answer is - not at all. At least one of his judgments was correct, that is, the industry on the planet Oud-Mantel was not developed, so it was indeed very difficult to build a star gate there.
It's just that once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the rope for ten years. Among Planet Kira Campaign, Galactic Empire was severely deceived by the mobility of the Stargate, and almost 1,000 battleships and the entire Southern Galaxy were deceived.
Therefore, everyone in the empire has changed their minds when talking about star gates. They even think that Kingdom of Dawn has built star gates everywhere!
Gillard-Perine really didn't expect that even though he had considered the Star Gate issue very seriously, it would still be the Star Gate that deceived him this time!
But now he is still in the dark.
Mar-Tuk did not choose to go from the planet Oud-Mantel to Ansion Planet via Namadii corridor. Not to mention the long journey, you can even think with your toes that Imperial fleet must be heavily fortified along the road, and it is simply impossible to reinforce Ansion Planet.
So he directly sent his fleet to Chiss territory through the star gate, and then brought the "Skywalker" who were already in place there, and then passed the hyperspace channel directly from Chiss territory to Ansion Planet.
With the help of Third Sight from Skywalker, his fleet passed through the 'tangle' very quickly, making this roundabout operation very successful. As expected, he arrived at the battlefield before Ansion Planet fell, giving Imperial fleet a small shock.
But there is still a problem, because the scale of Commerce Guild Fleet is too large, so even with the navigation of Skywalker, after the first batch of fleets pass, the hyperspace fluctuations are extremely violent, making the tangle even more chaotic, and no navigable channel can be found at all.
So Admiral Mar-Took now found his backup fleet delayed.
After thinking for a while, Admiral Mar-Tuk said to T-series tactical robot, "Stop the pursuit and recover all the warships! Tell Geth to stop chasing them and return them all to the Ansion Planet gravity well range and follow the planet's revolution."
"Roger!"
Admiral Mar-Tooke looked at the holographic combat star map coldly, touched his chin, and smiled coldly, "So, now that I am showing weakness, how should you choose? Gillard-General Perine..."
After the two sides engaged in battle, all kinds of encrypted and unencrypted communications were flying all over the sky, so the code-breaking departments of both fleets were able to decipher some of the other party's communications. At least you can do it if you know the number of the opponent's fleet and the name Commander.
The problem posed by Mar-Tuke really stumped Gillard-Perine. He looked at Kingdom of Dawn fleet who was retreating and fell into deep thought.
"Why didn't they pursue? What about the momentum when the battle first started?" Gillard-Perine murmured to himself, "Is this to lure the enemy deeper? Or do they have an ulterior motive? Or... are they waiting for reinforcements?"
An intelligence officer came over at this time and said to Gillard-Perine, "The intelligence from the planet Oud-Mantel confirmed that Separatist fleet is not there. This shows that Mal-Tuk may have indeed brought all the battleships here."
"So that means he is indeed waiting for reinforcements?" Gillard-Perine's face became solemn.