2491. A futile attempt
The Imperial fleet brought by Afshin-Admiral Makati finally arrived at Tarassia when the battlefield was most chaotic, completely turning everything around.
First of all, a large number of TIE Interceptor fighter quickly defeated and dispersed the Kingdom of Dawn fighter formation, which relieved a lot of pressure on those Imperial army who were struggling inside Death Star. In fact, with the fire support of TIE Interceptor fighter, they could even launch a counterattack!
Now Death Star's interior has been riddled with holes by Kingdom of Dawn's warships. Although it failed to damage the foundation, it was still severely damaged, and those Geonosians who revolted also suffered tragic casualties.
Under multiple blows and interference, Geonosians's work of rushing to install the hyperspace engine has become increasingly difficult.
In the southern hemisphere of the huge spherical structure of the Death Star central energy core, countless Geonosis workers wearing special one-person engineering exoskeletons were busy welding parts and installing equipment. Now that the basic structure of the hyperspace engine has been installed, the internal equipment still needs a lot of time.
But time is passing.
boom! boom! boom!! The sound of explosions is endless. At the beginning, Kingdom of Dawn bombed Death Star without distinguishing between friend and foe. Although the southern hemisphere of the energy core was basically protected from shelling under the outer armor, explosions in other places still affected it.
Geonosis workers continued to be shaken down by the explosion, but more workers climbed up without fear. They worked one after another to complete the hyperspace engine at the last possible moment.
The only good news for them now is that Galactic Empire's warships do not dare to fire directly at Death Star. On the contrary, Kingdom of Dawn fleet, which has been bombing Death Star indiscriminately, has now been beaten to almost nothing by Imperial fleet. The remaining warships are now unable to cause much damage.
At the same time, on the Tarassia ground, the situation became extremely bad!
There were two Aquitenes-class light cruiser hovering over Geonosians's nest before and bombing continuously, but in any case, their main purpose was to cooperate with Orson-Krennic and Prophetess Dara in their decapitation operation of Emperor Karina, and to keep out the incoming Geonosians reinforcements.
But now, the situation has changed!
On the bridge of the the Empire support fleet's flagship, Steadfast Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the staff officer was reporting the battle situation to Imperial Admiral Afshin-Makati.
"General, we have detected that a large number of Geonosians are gathering towards a small mountain range on the surface of the planet. A rough scan shows that their number has reached more than 1 million. Even the Geonosians that previously occupied the ground shield generator and space port have also flown towards the mountain range." The staff officer clicked on a projection screen on the holographic star map and said.
"Krennic Is there any explanation there?" Afshin-Makati asked coldly.
"They said they were preparing to arrest Queen of the Geonosians - Emperor Karina. He believed that as long as she was captured, Geonosians's rebellion would be quelled immediately," the staff officer said.
"Hahahahaha!" Afshin-Makati laughed loudly as if he heard a joke, "Get calmed immediately? Just by him? Hahahahahaha! What I see now is that the DS-1 combat space station project he was responsible for was blown to pieces, almost all the workers were rioting, and almost all the robots were out of control! And what about the army he deliberately tried to seize from Governor Tarkin? They are fighting on their own in vain."
"Indeed. Facts have proven that Krennic does not have the ability to control the situation at all. Faced with such a large-scale rebellion, his response was to crawl into the cave and waste time with those bugs." said the staff officer.
"Listen to me, Colonel Roty." Afshin-Makati suddenly turned his head and looked at the staff officer, his eyes became extremely cold, "The Empire There will never be any treatment for traitors. Geonosians has betrayed, and they have once again proved that these non-Human race are uncontrollable and untrustworthy, so the Empire will not give them another chance."
"Yes, your judgment is extremely correct, general." Staff officer Colonel Roty nodded in agreement, "Geonosians not only betrayed the Empire, but also caused very serious damage to the construction of the DS-1 combat space station. And he We were still the core race of Separatists, and the reason why His Majesty the Emperor decided to spare them the fate of annihilation was to allow them to build the DS-1 combat space station project. But now... they have given up even this last chance."
Afshin-Admiral Makati waved his hand and said, "In that case, there is no need for mercy. Directly target all targets on the ground, Orbital Bombardment! Telegraph the ships to fire with all their strength without controlling the firepower!"
"General, there are Orson-Krennic on the ground..." the staff officer asked with a frown.
"For committing such a serious crime, it is the greatest mercy for me to let them die on the battlefield instead of being arrested and returned to Imperial Center to receive Judgment." Afshin-Makati said coldly.
Staff officer Colonel Roty had a knowing smile on his lips. He stood at attention, saluted, and said loudly, "Yes! General Makati!"
In fact, even within Imperial military, there are many different factions. Typical examples include technical officers. Most of them were civilian officials and gradually rose to the top during the war due to the arms race with Kingdom of Dawn. Because Galactic Empire was defeated by Kingdom of Dawn's advanced warships many times during the war, Galactic Empire also greatly increased its investment in scientific research, which also increased the status of these technical officers.
Moreover, many technical officers were actually members of some technology companies and the military-industrial complex before joining the military. The representative among them is Orman-Tagge. After he founded Cutting-Edge Technology Alliance, because this alliance was assigned to the military, Orman-Tagge also became military personnel.
The same is true for Orson-Krennic. He gradually grew up from Galactic Republic Engineering Corps, and then joined Special Weapons Group from Republic Strategic Consultative Office. His entire military career has nothing to do with the frontline battlefield. Naturally, he is the technical officer who is most looked down upon by those frontline officers.
The traditional officer class is those serious officers who have graduated from military academies. And there is a difference between this officer class, that is, the difference between officers who come from the Noble House nobility, and those lower-level officers who work from the bottom soldiers.
Currently, those who hold the dominant position among Imperial military are those Noble House noble officer class. The representatives are naturally King of the North Dunn-Vesex, and Wilhuff-Tarkin. They all graduated from military academies and had strong family backgrounds, and then quickly rose up in the military and became important powerful figures in the military.
Afshin-Admiral Makati also comes from this noble officer class, so he actually has a good relationship with Wilhuff-Tarkin and belongs to the same faction. And because the Empire invested a lot of money and strength into technical officers to develop cutting-edge weapons, leaving traditional officers with far fewer resources, the conflict between the two factions was very acute.
Then there is Dark Followers, headed by the magistrate and Dark Prophet. They are all Force-sensitive. With the support of Emperor Palpatine, they are above the ordinary military and administrative systems and become an independent system. And in recent years, Dark Followers has begun to participate more and more in political and military affairs.
Such behavior also made those traditional officers feel a huge threat, so they were also unpretentious towards these Dark Followers, and tried their best to exclude them from the army.
But these Dark Followers are supported by the Emperor of the Empire. Das-Sidious wants to establish a theocratic system, so these Dark Followers are so unscrupulous.
These Dark Followers, headed by Das-Vader, Emperor's Advisor Blackhole, and Dark Prophet Kadann, exert influence in the military, intelligence, and bureaucracy departments respectively.
At the same time, due to Dark Followers's unique attributes, they have become very close to those unpopular low-level officers. Especially Das-Vader, who had a lot of contact with the people at the bottom in Tatooine during his childhood, so he has always promoted a large number of low-level officers to the top, so he has a great influence in the military. This influence mainly comes from lower-level officers.
Back to the current situation on Tarassia's side, for the traditional aristocratic officer class, Afshin-Admiral Makati, they are now trying to behead Emperor Karina Prophetess Dara and Orson-Krennic, one is Dark Followers who wants to seize power, and the other is a nerd who doesn't understand anything. Naturally, he will not show mercy.
"Don't worry so much, just open fire! Putting down the rebellion is the first priority." Admiral Makati emphasized the order again.
"Call to all ships - there are no friendly units on board Tarassia. All ships should open fire with all their strength and destroy all the Empire traitors!!" Staff Officer Colonel Roty said loudly in the communication.
Boom! boom! boom!!!
Countless dazzling beams of light fell from the sky, and each beam brought a terrifying explosion that destroyed the world! The flames and shock waves spread rapidly, and there were explosive flames everywhere within a range of thousands of kilometers!
Orbital Bombardment from Imperial-class Star Destroyer, is devastating.
Even the two Aquitenes-class light cruisers that Orson-Krennic had previously sent for reinforcements were also affected by Orbital Bombardment. The two warships encountered a sudden attack and immediately panicked. The warship captain immediately concentrated all his energy on the Deflector Shield above, and kept calling the command center to ask to stop the attack.
But Orbital Bombardment still didn't stop...
Boom! boom! boom!!!
The violent Orbital Bombardment brought violent vibrations, like an eight-magnitude earthquake with no end in sight, and the ground could not even stand!
Those Geonosians who rushed over to reinforce their Queen, among such a devastating Orbital Bombardment, couldn't even be considered targets! Facing Orbital Bombardment, their bodies were instantly evaporated like dust. In just ten minutes after Orbital Bombardment started, hundreds of thousands of Geonosians died in the boundless sea of fire!
And unlike the two Aquitenes-class light cruisers that at least entered the atmosphere, the Imperial-class Star Destroyers that bombed in the outer orbit of the planet, these Geonosianss can't even be seen! They could only see the falling Turbolaser cannons and the devastating explosion...
Boom! boom! boom!!!
Emperor Karina is fleeing in panic under the protection of her last guard. She needs to leave here quickly, take a shuttle to Death Star, and then quickly leave here after completing the installation of Death Star's hyperspace engine.
However, when Ganzo Daosuo took her out of the escape tunnel, all she saw was flames in the sky and debris on the ground.
The cargo spacecraft that came here under the protection of more than a dozen TIE fighters that had been snatched had been destroyed...
In the sky, the destructive beams of light continued to fall. And inside the lair, the furious Orson-Krennic was leading Death Guard in hot pursuit.
Before Admiral Makati's reinforcements arrived, Emperor Karina seemed to be in good shape. The interior of Death Star has been captured, and the shield projector on Tarassia has also been destroyed. It only needs to be installed with the hyperspace engine, and then it will be successful.
The millions of Geonosians and hundreds of thousands of engineering robots occupying Death Star are existences that cannot be shaken!
But now, less than an hour after the Empire's reinforcements arrived, the situation has become completely desperate...
With no way out and pursuers, she had no possibility of escape.
"Galactic Empire has gone crazy! They want to kill us all! No! No!" Emperor Karina shouted, "Kill us, and who will build DS-1!! Are they crazy?! Without DS-1, what will they use to deal with Kingdom of Dawn!!"
Ganzuo Daosuo said in a deep voice, "We walked the road ourselves. We can't count on anyone! No matter Kingdom of Dawn, Rebel Alliance, Galactic Empire... In their eyes, we are always Geonosians, a race that is not trusted."
"Those... bastards! Bastards!!" Emperor Karina was still yelling angrily.
However, at this moment, there was a sudden distortion of the air in mid-air, and then a transport plane that looked like a golden beetle suddenly appeared here. At the same time, Ganzuo Daosuo's communicator also rang, "Quick! Bring your Queen! Now this is the only spaceship on the entire planet that can be used!"
"It's Kingdom of Dawn's spaceship... What kind of technology is this? Their spaceship can actually appear here?" Ganzo Daosuo was stunned. Then he quickly turned around and said loudly to Emperor Karina: "Get on the spaceship quickly! No matter what, survive first!!"
However, the Geonosis guards who were carrying Emperor Karina's body fell down one after another.
I only heard Emperor Karina say coldly, "No."