2493. Crippled Death Star
Boom! boom! boom!!
Explosions kept coming, and the ground was shaking. Inside the Death Star, those TIE Interceptor fighter have begun bombarding the outer armor of the Death Star control center.
Not only that, among the Imperial-class Star Destroyer who came with reinforcements, more and more the Empire Stormtrooper began to land on the Sentinel-class landing craft (Sentinel-class landing craft).
Sentinel-class landing craft was just developed by the Empire to replace the landing equipment of the previous LAAT assault landing craft. On the basis of greatly reducing firepower, it has the characteristics of faster, more flexible and stronger adaptability. Each Sentinel-class landing craft carried 75 soldiers. They quickly flew in through the gaps in the building structures on the inside of Death Star, launched landings from hundreds of places at the same time, and launched a full-scale attack on the uprising Geonosians.
Different from those garrison fleets Imperial-class Star Destroyer that have always been stationed, this time Afshin-Admiral Makati brought reinforcements Imperial-class Star Destroyer, each ship is fully equipped!
The fully configured Imperial-class Star Destroyer carries 9,700 the Empire Stormtrooper, which is the establishment of a legion. And there are 20 AT-AT walking machines and 30 AT-ST walking machines. However, considering the combat situation this time, Afshin-Makati did not carry a bulky AT-AT walker. This heavy-duty walker is of no use here at all.
On the contrary, these landing forces are equipped with a large number of TX-225 Occupier light assault tanks (TX-225 GAVr "Occupier" combat assault tank)!
This light tank is 7.5 meters long and 2 meters high. It has no turret and is equipped with a twin laser cannon on both sides of the front end. Its armor is very thick and has almost no blind spots. If it is on a wild battlefield, this kind of tank will be fished and beaten by the Scorpion tank, which has better maneuverability than the Kingdom of Dawn, but it shines in peacetime security operations.
But this time, after landing inside Death Star, the relatively narrow and straight environment made the occupier's light tank, which only had to face the enemy head-on, become an invincible force!
A large number of occupying tanks keep advancing, and even if Geonosians uses his flesh and blood to block it, it will be of no avail!
The Empire Stormtrooper, who followed the tank, moved forward through the green blood and wreckage of Geonosians on the ground, quickly occupying all the buildings and cabins in its path.
Even if Geonosians has more than two million workers and soldiers inside Death Star, and even if there are hundreds of thousands of engineering robots to help, it still cannot stop Imperial army.
Now there are 7 legions and more than 60,000 the Empire Stormtrooper entering here, and more and more soldiers are coming down from the Star Destroyer outside.
The situation is already precarious.
In the control center, Emperor Karina said nothing, just staring at the Death Star profile in the holographic projection. In this extremely huge projection, there are more and more red icons representing signal loss, which shows that the peripheral Geonosians's defense line is being continuously compressed.
And every time a building or cabin is lost, it means thousands of Geonosians fighting to the death.
Finally, when Imperial army had advanced to a building less than 500 meters away from the command center, Emperor Karina finally spoke.
She turned her head and stared at the Geonosians Commander, and asked slowly, "How long will it take for the hyperspace engine to be installed?"
Commander shook his head and said, "After the Empire discovered our actions, they blew up several material warehouses, and the subsequent bombings made our installation work very slow. Now, even if the engineers have tried their best, there are still three sets of hyperspace engines that have not been installed, and the status of the other sets of hyperspace engines is difficult to guarantee..."
"There is no time, start the hyperspace engine immediately!!" Emperor Karina said sharply.
"But calculations still need to be done..." Commander said.
"Start the engine!!" Emperor Karina said word by word.
"Yes! Start the engine!!" Commander immediately asked the engineer Geonosis on the other side who was responsible for the control to start the hyperspace engine.
At the same time, on Afshin-Admiral Makati's flagship Steadfast Star Destroyer, a technician loudly said, "General! It has been detected that the energy core of Death Star is increasing energy output!!"
"What do they want to do? Immediately assess their possibility of destroying the energy core!!" Admiral Makati reacted immediately. He remembered something again, waved his hand and said, "Bring their Chief Engineer up."
Soon, several Stormtrooper brought over a man wearing gray Empire military uniform with handcuffs on his hands.
It is Galen-Erso, energy expert, DS-1 project Chief Engineer.
He raised his eyes and glanced at Admiral Makati, and said calmly, "The energy core has been completely sealed and protected by more than ten meters of neutron star material armor. It also uses more than 400,000 compartments. It is absolutely indestructible."
Afshin-Admiral Makati came to him and said in a cold tone, "I heard that you and Orson-Krennic were classmates?"
"He killed my wife." Galen-Erso replied calmly with no expression on his face.
Admiral Makati showed a ferocious expression. He got close to Galen-Erso's face and said viciously, "So, you should want to take revenge, right? Then... completely destroy the DS-1 combat space station project that Orson-Krennic has high hopes for, and can even be said to be the only goal in this life. In this way, your wife's great revenge will be avenged, and you can rest in peace, right?"
Galen-Erso's heart beat suddenly, but his expression remained unchanged and he asked coldly, "What do you think?"
"Hahahaha!" Afshin-Admiral Makati laughed, "I think that for a nerd like you... a real scientist like you, it would be impossible to complete such a masterpiece as the DS-1 Combat Space Station. The glory of Orson-Krennic is far beyond anything else. Now, you are the only one who can carry this project to the end."
Galen-Erso said nothing, just stood there, staring at Makati expressionlessly.
"Okay, now tell me the specific situation of Death Star." Afshin-Admiral Makati said. He waved his hand, and a Stormtrooper came from behind and unlocked the handcuffs on Galen-Erso's hands.
Galen-Erso moved his wrist and straightened his military uniform before saying, "Even overloading cannot destroy the energy core of Death Star. And judging from the current operation of the energy core, these Geonosians intend to start the hyperspace engine. It seems that they concealed the construction period and secretly installed a large number of hyperspace equipment."
"So, what should we do to stop these bugs?" Admiral Makati asked.
Galen-Erso The corners of his mouth turned up slightly and he said calmly, "It's very simple."
He walked to the other side and operated on a terminal. He quickly called up the internal space structure diagram of Death Star and projected it with a holographic projector. He pointed to a place and said, "The DS-1 combat space station is too large. Supporting the hyperspace jump of such a giant object can be said to be the most difficult problem in the entire project, second only to the weapon system. The main problem is how to synchronize the hyperspace fluctuations in various places with such a huge volume."
"Speak humanly." Admiral Makati waved his hand impatiently.
"To put it in easy-to-understand terms, in order to perform a hyperspace jump, the hyperspace engine must establish a hyperspace energy network to wrap the entire Death Star. But in the current state of Death Star, it is obviously impossible to do so. Therefore, those Geonosians's plan was a false proposition from the beginning. "Galen-Erso said, "I don't even want to judge how many errors and omissions they had in the hyperspace engine they installed in a hurry. Even assuming that they completed everything well, the hyperspace jump would not be successful."
"But if the hyperspace jump fails, will it destroy the inside of Death Star?" Admiral Makati asked again.
"It is true that this possibility cannot be completely eliminated. So... I suggest starting here." Galen-Erso marked several locations on the structure diagram of Death Star. "As long as the energy supply in these areas can be temporarily cut off, the hyperspace jump will fail because the basic energy network cannot be constructed."
"Act immediately!" Admiral Makati made a prompt decision and issued the order.
At this time, Geonosians Queen Emperor Karina was anxiously waiting for the start of the hyperspace engine in the command center. Now multiple error messages had started on the control system, but she forcibly ordered the engineers to continue without stopping.
On the console screen that was constantly flashing and even emitting sparks, a progress readout representing the energy supply was constantly advancing.
83%, 84%, 85%... As more and more energy was injected into the hyperspace engine, the Coaxium used to generate the hyperspace field in the center of the engine began to react under the influence of huge energy.
Using such a huge amount of energy, even the lighting system, control system and other equipment throughout Death Star cannot receive sufficient energy supply. The most intuitive manifestation is that the lights become dim and flicker violently. Death Star is not only not completed yet, but also suffered serious damage in the previous battle!
Under such circumstances, if you want to forcefully start a hyperspace jump, in fact, as Galen-Erso said, no one in their right mind would think that this would be successful.
But Emperor Karina won't care about this. This is her last chance.
The freedom Geonosians talks about is actually her freedom. Because she is Geonosians, no one else.
And Emperor Karina cannot be a servant or a vassal, not even a dog! Galactic Empire, just treat her like a livestock.
For herself and for the freedom of the entire Geonosians, she must seize this last chance!
If you enter the hyperspace engine at this moment, you can see that a miniature high-dimensional space crack is gradually forming. When Coaxium is fully reacted, this crack will completely pull the entire Death Star into hyperspace.
The advance of Imperial Stormtroopers could no longer be stopped, and artillery fire had even begun to fall on the thick automatic door of the command center, making a dull sound.
Once they break through, it will be too late!
"It's too late! Start it now! Start it!!" Emperor Karina loudly urged the busy engineer at the console.
In fact, those engineers are not so much busy as they have completed the control they should do. They are busy jumping up and down, but they are just putting out small fires caused by system errors and short circuits everywhere.
"Not yet..." an engineer shouted.
"I don't care! Press this button now!!" Emperor Karina couldn't wait any longer. She gave up on the egg sac and could only crawl over by herself, but she still went over and pressed the red start button herself.
There was a dull bang, and all the lights in the entire command center were immediately extinguished, leaving only the screens of the hyperspace control system still working.
"What happened? What happened?" Emperor Karina was horrified.
The engineer rushed to the screen and operated quickly, reading the system data, and then said loudly, "The energy transmission channel has been partially cut off! Now there is insufficient energy, and the reaction of Coaxium cannot break through the threshold!"
"What did you say...?" Emperor Karina was stunned.
"The Empire destroyed several key nodes. Now the energy system of the entire hyperspace is incomplete. Coaxium cannot react fully and is not enough to form enough hyperspace rifts to drag the entire Death Star into hyperspace. In other words... the hyperspace engine is no longer useful..." the engineer said dejectedly.
"No! This is impossible! Impossible!!" Emperor Karina roared loudly.
But what followed was a rocket that exploded on the gate of the command center. The huge explosion completely swallowed up her next series of Company One curses.
"I knew it was a meaningless struggle." Nova's slender legs were crossed on the console, half-lying comfortably. She chewed the gum, then blew out a bubble, looked at the size, and popped the bubble with a puff of satisfaction.
There was a snap.
"In the end, it's only us who will clean up the mess." She added as she sucked the bubble back into her mouth.
"What do you want to do?" Ganzuo Daosuo stood up very vigilantly. Several Geonosian warriors next to him immediately raised their Sonic Blasters and pointed at Novas.
"As I said, clean up the mess." After Nova finished speaking, he directly pressed the button of a controller with his toes.
At this moment, Ganzo Daosuo saw from the porthole that Company One exploded with fire inside Death Star! This explosion covered a very wide area, and explosions occurred almost everywhere in Death Star!
"I don't know how much Death Star will have left after this." Nova looked out the window and said indifferently.
"Death Star's energy core is very well-defended. This explosion cannot harm the root. It's over." In the empty air, a deep voice suddenly came from behind Ganzo Daosuo.