2652. Raid on Scipio
InterGalactic Banking Clan was founded by Muun, and their original accumulation of funds also came from the ice and snow gems produced by their most important colony-Makito. For a long time, Muun has played a core role in the InterGalactic Banking Clan. According to the management mechanism of the association, whether it is the co-chairman or Core Five, they are all Muun.
But here's the problem.
Muun is a race of Outer Rim Territories, and their home planet is Muunilinst of Northern Territory. Although the civilization developed very early, it did not have much influence at the beginning. Until later they occupied Makito. This planet covered with ice and snow all year round produced a large number of high-quality gems, which gave Muun a huge amount of capital accumulation.
Then Muun played a large role in the newly established Galactic Republic through a large amount of credit, exclusive currency, funds, etc., but that's not all. They still failed to integrate into the Core Worlds circle.
Until later, Muun was supported by Scipio and Aargau (Aargau), especially Aargau, which is located in the center of the galaxy Core Worlds and is also the most prosperous planet in the entire galaxy.
Only then did Muun move the headquarters of the InterGalactic Banking Clan to Aargau, and then set up the treasury at Scipio, and then barely integrated into the Galaxy Republic Core Worlds circle.
But it is inevitable that if you want to integrate into this circle, you must deal with Human race, because after the rise of Galactic Republic, the race with the most Core Worlds is human. For example, Aargau is actually a planet dominated by humans. The total population of the planet is 4.8 billion, most of which are humans.
Therefore, human power began to gradually rise among the InterGalactic Banking Clan, and because Muun had all the resources of the association in its hands, human power began to conflict with Muun.
On the basis of this contradiction, 12 years ago, in the late period of Clone Wars, InterGalactic Banking Clan, which was very prosperous for a while, began to split under the conspiracy of then Chancellor of the Galactic Republic Sheev-Palpatine. Sheev-Palpatine began to secretly support Human faction in the association, challenging the authority of Muun.
(After Palpatine became the emperor, he abandoned the surname Sheev, so during his emperor period, he was only called Palpatine.)
Representatives of human forces Rush-Clovis originally followed the stance of the InterGalactic Banking Clan during the Clone Wars period, and stood with Confederacy of Independent Systems's side, but later his collusion with Confederacy of Independent Systems was exposed. Seeing that his future might be ruined, he simply fell into the arms of Sheev-Palpatine.
After that, the struggle between Muun and Human faction intensified, and eventually got out of hand.
Seeing that Clone Wars is about to fail, InterGalactic Banking Clan and Mega-corporations will also be liquidated. In order to save this most important financial company, Kingdom of Dawn instructs Geth raided Scipio through the secret channel provided by Muun, which gave Muun a chance to completely break up, and then moved Scipio's vault.
After that, InterGalactic Banking Clan officially split into the InterGalactic Banking Clan (M) with Makito as its headquarters and InterGalactic Banking Clan (S) with Scipio as its headquarters. Both parties also became state-owned banks of Kingdom of Dawn and Galactic Empire respectively, losing their independence.
Since the Scipio was raided, Galactic Empire has attached great importance to the hyperspace channel that Geth secretly passed through before. They deployed a huge number of Interdictor in this direction, and extended forward, deploying blockers in hundreds of unmanned systems along the way.
At the same time, hundreds of hyperspace outposts are also monitoring this direction at all times to ensure that Kingdom of Dawn will not attack through this direction.
Not only that, Scipio is also stationed with a powerful fleet of more than 200 capital ships. After the outbreak of Northern Territory Campaign, Imperial military even deployed Reaper Executor-class Super Star Destroyer here.
This place can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai.
However, this time, Scipio, after 12 years, the piercing alarm sounded again!
On the outskirts of the galaxy, something is destroying and cleaning up those Interdictor! And the location is very close!
First System Army Grand Commander Oswald-Tessik, who had just been promoted to Imperial-class Fleet Admiral, immediately ordered Scipio Defense Fleet to take the initiative to discover and destroy the fleet.
Scipio Defense Fleet immediately dispatched 50 battleships to destroy them. They found a small Geth fleet at the edge of the galaxy. After a not very fierce battle, this Geth fleet was completely destroyed.
But the matter was not over yet, another alarm came from the periphery of Scipio system, this time the location was further away, and another Geth fleet was destroying Interdictor.
After destroying this Geth fleet, Galactic Empire's fleet Commander began to realize that something was wrong. This might be Geth's conspiracy.
Sure enough, alarms were heard from three places on the outskirts of the galaxy at the same time!
And during the whole process, there was no signal at all from the hyperspace outpost! There is only one possibility - Geth is repeating its old tricks again, using long-term curvature navigation to sneak attack Scipio.
In fact, in the past few years, Geth's behavior of harassing Imperial frontier through curvature navigation has never stopped, which also put almost everyone in Galactic Empire's Northern Territory in danger. It was not until later that General Gillard-Perine deployed a deep defense line.
Moreover, Geth rarely directly attacks planets close to Core Worlds, because these planets have very strong defenses, and Geth's spaceship has long been outdated. In addition, the distance is long, and it sometimes takes several months or even half a year to reach the target using curvature navigation. The efficiency of such a sneak attack is actually very low.
But now, Geth fleet dares to come over and tease Scipio?!
This is the financial center of the Galactic Empire! How could Geth's backward spaceships be able to shake them!
But no matter what, the appearance of Geth in Scipio definitely has some purpose. Oswald-Marshal Tessik gave the order again to continue the pursuit and be sure to annihilate all invading Geth warship.
Not only that, in order to prevent Geth from falling into the trap of diverting the tiger away from the mountain, Marshal Tessik also sent 80 additional battleships to support.
In his opinion, luckily it was just Geth who came over. After all, Geth warships could still maintain an advantage against Hunter Class Battlecruiser in the past, but in front of Imperial-class Star Destroyer, it was just a pile of junk.
At present, only Geth can pass through Northern Territory's defense line and directly threaten its own First System Army through curvature navigation.
However, something went wrong!
the Empire Fleet Commander, who commanded this squadron to pursue Geth, was Major General Mosh Barris. For this mission, he only regarded it as a warm-up before the real war.
He had just destroyed a small fleet of Geth, destroying 10 600-meter-long Geth Heavy Cruiser and 30 300-meter-long Geth Light Cruiser. These warships were completely vulnerable to Imperial-class Star Destroyer, and the battle ended quickly. This Geth fleet destroyed about a hundred groups of Interdictor.
But there are at least more than 100,000 groups of Interdictor deployed in this direction! If Geth plans to use such battle damage in exchange for Interdictor, that would be great. If you get more, you will destroy as many as you come.
Marshal Tessik's order has also been conveyed, requiring him not to worry about Scipio's defense, but only to use all his strength to destroy all invading enemies.
This order made Moss-Barris overjoyed. These military achievements were all for nothing!
The alarm sounded again. According to the report, the size of the incoming fleet was still small, and Moss-Barris immediately ordered a pursuit. The 50 Imperial-class Star Destroyers he led performed a short hyperspace jump and appeared directly at the location of the attack.
I saw more than a dozen Geth warships bombarding the Interdictor floating in the space. Geth fleet's unique plasma energy balls kept falling on the blocker, triggering bursts of violent explosions.
"Crush all these bugs to death." Major General Moss-Barris gave the order coldly.
Imperial-class Star Destroyer immediately entered the attack posture, the bow of the ship was slightly depressed, and the 60-door double-mounted heavy-duty Turbolaser Turret instantly poured out a large number of beams, shooting at those Geth warship like raindrops.
The powerful firepower was completely unavoidable and irresistible. The energy shield on Geth warship was broken almost instantly, and then the artillery fire fell on the armor, causing countless explosions of fire. And one Geth warship after another burned and caught fire amidst the continuous explosions, broke into several sections, and then was blown to pieces during the continuous attacks.
Moss-Barris looked at this scene of destruction and felt extremely comfortable. He hummed happily and watched one Geth warship being destroyed one after another, his eyes filled with joy.
He turned to the war reporter on the side and said, "Record it for me, this is another glorious victory."
He walked to the porthole and said to the adjutant, "Pull the battleship over, let the others slow down a little, and leave one Geth warship. I want the destruction of this battleship to be the backdrop for my front-page headlines."
"Yes!" The adjutant immediately made arrangements and ordered the operators to move the warship towards Geth warship, which had been severely damaged and almost lost its combat capability. At the same time, adjust the angle so that the battleship appears just outside the porthole.
Moss-Barris put on what he thought was the most handsome pose, and then ordered an attack.
The bombardment that had just stopped for a while started again, and countless Turbolaser beams hit Geth warship, causing a violent explosion! Because it was too close, the flames of the explosion even shook the Deflector Shield flagship of Major General Barris with violent ripples.
The war reporter used a drone to film this spectacular scene from multiple angles, and placed Major General Barris in the center of the picture. With his superb shooting skills, Major General Moss-Barris almost waved his hand and wiped out the powerful enemy. How high-spirited it was.
Rear Admiral Moss-Barris ordered the fleet to temporarily stop and rest. He asked the war reporters to complete the report as much as possible here, and then when the report was sent out and caused a sensation, he would conduct a live broadcast of the battle to thoroughly record his heroic battle.
Although the other two places were still calling the police, Major General Moss-Barris was not in a hurry at all.
However, while he was staying here, a sudden change occurred!
"General! Space fluctuations detected!!" A scream came from the sensor department, "A warship is approaching through curvature navigation!"
Curvature navigation is almost impossible to detect, but it is not completely impossible. For example, some clues can be found by detecting the stability of the universe. However, such detection distance is not far, and the data obtained is also very vague, and it can only serve as a rough warning.
"Those Geth, are you bringing food again?" Major General Moss-Barris waved his hand and said to the war reporters, "Get ready for live broadcast!"
"Okay sir." The reporter nodded in agreement and began to play with the drone.
At this moment, a strange fleet quietly appeared from the space bubble like a ghost and rushed towards Imperial fleet at high speed! The location of this fleet's appearance is very close, less than 1,000 kilometers away from Imperial fleet's formation!
This fleet has a total of only 30 warships, with a length of 1083 meters. It is roughly a catamaran hull, and the front end is very huge, like a huge pistol.
"Capital ship?" Rear Admiral Moss-Barris frowned, "And it's an unfamiliar model. Be careful! Enter combat status immediately! Fire immediately!"
As soon as he gave the order, Imperial fleet immediately turned its guns and opened fire on these unfamiliar warships.
However, Moss-Barris soon felt something was wrong - these battleships were too fast! Extremely fast! It's so fast that it's not commensurate with their huge size!
In fact, all large-volume warships are very fast. Their straight-line speed is actually much faster than that of fighter jets, but the difference in maneuverability is mainly reflected in acceleration and turning radius.
And the 30 warships that came this time had very terrifying acceleration! They left the curvature navigation state and immediately approached at high speed, with acceleration exceeding 100G in a short period of time!
At this distance and at this speed, Imperial fleet only had time to fire two rounds of salvos!
What surprised Moss-Barris even more was that these battleships were not only fast, but also very hard! After two consecutive rounds of salvos, only one battleship was destroyed. The other battleships quickly passed through the explosion of fire and rushed directly in front of Imperial fleet!
These strange warships did not fire during the whole process, but just approached at high speed. And after they rushed over quickly, a row of flames lit up on both sides of the battleship!
They opened fire at extremely close range!
Moss-Barris has never seen such a violent attack! The battleship's shield kept sounding the alarm, and the shield was almost broken in less than a minute!
Those battleships fired extremely fast, and they seemed to use kinetic energy weapons, but it didn't look like it. The huge cannon with a caliber of more than 400mm had the speed of fire of a small turret. The dense shells rained down at them, and Imperial-class Star Destroyer couldn't resist it at all!!
Less than 5 minutes after the two sides engaged in battle, Imperial-class Star Destroyer began to be sunk!