2677, humiliation
[Galactic Empire Admiral, Garrosh-Tarkin, among our flagships. If we are attacked, we will not be able to guarantee the personal safety of General Garrosh!!]
[Galactic Empire Admiral, Jia Luo...]
Galactic Empire Former Thirteenth Army administrative capital, planet Oder-Paldoran, outer space. Death Fleet main station, flagship, Ravager Imperial II-class Star Destroyer.
The warning message was broadcast over and over again, but the terrifying figure covered in black armor remained motionless, just listening quietly, and the heavy breathing under the helmet sounded rhythmically.
At this time, a message came from the communication soldier nearby, "Lord Vader, Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin sent an emergency communication!"
Das-Vader didn't speak, just waved his hand.
A thin figure was projected in the holographic projection in front of him, with a sinister look in his eyes, and he was almost bald. Surprisingly, it is the current Governor Galactic Empire Fourth Army, Wilhuff-Tarkin! Imperial military The person with an important position!
But at this moment, Wilhuff-Tarkin's expression was full of anxiety. He said to Darth-Vader: [Lord Vader, I received a report that my son Garrosh-Tarkin was kidnapped by the rebels and is now in the rebel fleet. I hope you can handle this matter with caution, and I will set off immediately.]
"You should know what happened here." Das-Vader said coldly in a dull voice.
[He is my only son.]Wilhuff-Tarkin said in a deep voice, [The only one who can bring him back now is you. If you want me to give you any price, I will satisfy you.]
Huchi... Huchi... Huchi... Das-Vader's heavy breathing sounded continuously, and then the scene fell into deathly silence.
After a full minute, Das-Vader said slowly, "I will bring him back to you, Your Majesty the Governor."
[Please accept my sincerest gratitude.]Wilhuff-Tarkin unexpectedly bowed their heads in a rare salute.
Das-Vader didn't care. He waved his hand and closed the communication directly.
At this time, the captain of the battleship came over and said respectfully, "Lord Vader, the hyperspace engine is ready and can be started at any time."
"How many people know this news?" Das-Vader asked directly.
The captain shook his head and looked very distressed, "As far as I know, this news has been spread to Imperial Supreme Strategic Command. It spread so quickly. Someone must have done it deliberately. I just don't know if this person is Governor Tarkin or someone else."
He paused and looked at Darth-Vader's body movements, but he didn't see anything, and Darth-Vader didn't answer immediately. So the captain asked carefully, "So... should we order an immediate attack on the rebel fleet, or should we go and bring back Admiral Garrosh-Tarkin first?"
"Let's go." Das-Vader said coldly, "Go to Iskalon planet."
"Yes." The captain breathed a sigh of relief and gave the sailing command to the hyperspace navigator next to him with relief. "The fleet will set off immediately! Target, Iskalon planet!"
Fortunately, Lord Vader agreed to rescue General Garrosh-Tarkin. For officer Imperial Navy, this is the best outcome.
Otherwise, if Dath-Vader decides to stand by or open fire directly, resulting in the death of General Garrosh-Tarkin, he would be a high-ranking official and no one would dare to deal with it, but the following people might take the blame.
The battleship's porthole window was immediately shrouded in countless elongated light bands, dazzling and monotonous. The battleship entered the hyperspace channel and began to move towards Iskalon planet.
This planet is indeed very remote. Even though Dath-Vader's fleet is within the jurisdiction of the Thirteenth Army, it took a day to reach this planet.
At this time, Deep Sea Fleet of Gial-General Ackbar had been surrounded by a fleet of more than 80 Imperial-class Star Destroyer, as well as more than 400 Light Cruiser and frigates.
In fact, if a direct battle breaks out between the two sides, there is no doubt that Deep Sea Fleet will win the final victory. However, this kind of partial victory is meaningless, because the main force of Death Fleet is still eyeing it. Once the main fleet arrives, in the face of the absolute strength advantage, Deep Sea Fleet can still only meet the end of the entire army being destroyed.
Now if you want to keep this fleet for the Rebel Alliance, your only hope is Garrosh-Tarkin.
Gial-Akbar only felt extremely humiliated, because as the highest Commander of the fleet, in the end he could only save the life of the fleet by relying on a young man full of passion and hope to sacrifice himself. This situation is even more difficult to accept than direct defeat!
But humiliation is humiliation. Now, Gial-Akbar can only push Garrosh-Tarkin out as a hostage to protect his fleet.
"Don't worry, General Ackbar. I have informed my father of the news through a private encrypted channel, and he will not sit idly by." Garrosh-Tarkin comforted.
Gial-Akbar nodded and closed his eyes in pain.
At least, compared to the precarious Rebel Alliance, it would be easier to survive by returning to the Empire and accepting the protection of a powerful family. Ideals and beliefs can only be discussed if you survive first.
I will go to Coruscant and pick you up personally. Gial-General Ackbar once again strengthened his determination deep in his heart, but he did not say it out loud, because such an illusory promise has no meaning now.
"General! Large-scale hyperspace fluctuations have been detected!" the hyperspace sensor controller shouted.
Are you here...Gial-Akbar straightened his military uniform, stood up straight in the center of the bridge, waiting for the fate to come.
If we can't reach an agreement, then let's fight to the death! Akbar's eyes became sharp.
Dozens more Imperial-class Star Destroyer ships left the hyperspace channel and arrived in Iskalon planet outer space under the dazzling white light.
A communication was directly forcibly connected to flagship Indomitable. The screen flashed, and a demon-like figure appeared - pitch black armor, pitch black helmet, and the rhythmic sound of heavy breathing.
Darth-Vader, Galactic Empire are the most powerful and cruel minions!
[Hand over Garrosh-Tarkin immediately. ] Das-Vader said straightforwardly.
Gial-General Ackbar raised his head and said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone, "Until the safety of our fleet is ensured, I will retain control over Imperial Admiral Garrosh-Tarkin."
[You are not qualified to negotiate terms with me, hand over Garrosh-Tarkin. ] Das-Vader repeated again.
"I said, unless we can ensure that our fleet can leave here!" Gial-Akbar was tit for tat and refused to give in. This is his bottom line.
At this moment, on the Devastator Star Destroyer bridge, the communications soldier came over and whispered, "Lord Vader, Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin is requesting another call."
Das-Vader waved his hand to signal him to go away. He stared at Gial-General Ackbar on the screen and said coldly, "Let Garrosh-Tarkin board a frigate. He will stay here. You can leave."
On the screen, Gial-General Ackbar's expression and tone did not change at all. He nodded and said: [I will arrange this. Then, please lift the restriction of Interdictor.]
"Do what you should do first." Das-Vader said coldly.
Independence On the bridge, he had tidied up his Galactic Empire Navy military uniform and put the Admiral's insignia he had thrown away before back on his chest. Garrosh-Tarkin straightened his military cap, gave a solemn military salute to Gial-Akbar, and said, "General Ackbar, no matter where I am, I will do my best to help our cause keep moving forward. I look forward to the day of victory."
Gial-General Ackbar sighed, returned the military salute and said, "I'm sorry."
"This is what I should do. Then, say goodbye." Garrosh-Tarkin nodded, turned and walked in the direction of Hangar Platform.
He took a shuttle plane to an MC-30 frigate. The frigate was heavily surrounded by Deep Sea Fleet. Unless a strong attack was launched, it would be impossible to take the frigate away by force.
He then sent a public channel communication to Ravager, but only the captain of Ravager answered the communication, and Dath-Vader did not appear.
After the captain confirmed the identities of Garrosh-Tarkin, he temporarily let go of Interdictor's interference according to the instructions.
Deep Sea Fleet, who had already started the hyperspace engine, entered the hyperspace channel and left one after another as if they had received an amnesty.
For a time, white light flashed continuously. Every time a ray of light flashed, it meant that a Deep Sea Fleet warship had escaped from this desperate situation.
At the same time, the warships of Death Fleet are constantly approaching the frigates where Garrosh-Tarkin is located.
After they fully included the frigates for protection, almost at the same time, all the the Empire battleships turned their guns and opened fire directly on those Deep Sea Fleet battleships that had not had time to escape!
Those Deep Sea Fleet warships that wanted to escape simply could not resist such a surprise attack, and several warships were destroyed in an instant! Moreover, Imperial fleet was also pursuing them fiercely. They wanted to keep as many Allied warships as possible.
A total of eight MC-80 and MC-75 battlecruisers were destroyed, but under the cover of Garrosh-Tarkin, most of the Deep Sea Fleet battleships successfully escaped. Those unlucky ones who couldn't leave in time were just venting their anger to the unwilling Imperial fleet.
A transport plane flew into the MC-30 frigate, and a group of Death Trooper wearing black armor came down. They grabbed Garrosh-Tarkin without any explanation, and forcibly escorted them back to the transport plane and left.
Immediately afterwards, the frigate was blown into pieces by a direct shot from the Imperial-class Star Destroyer next to it.
Witnessing this cruel scene in the transport plane, Garrosh-Tarkin gritted his teeth and looked extremely ugly.
He was taken to the bridge of Devastator Star Destroyer, and Dath-Vader stood there, paying no attention to him. Garrosh-Tarkin came behind Vader. Facing this terrifying figure, he was extremely frightened. He gritted his teeth and whispered, "Lord Vader..."
Das-Vader ignored him, just turned his back to him, and said to himself, "Iskalon planet, harboring the rebel fleet is equivalent to participating in the rebellion. Sanctions will be imposed."
"Yes!" Captain Ravager immediately stood at attention and saluted, turned around and shouted to the Communications Department, "Inform the third, Fourth Sub-fleet, to bomb Iskalon planet immediately! Seventeenth Frigate Squadron is responsible for filming the entire bombing process and making it public!"
"Yes! Execute immediately!"
"Execute immediately!"
Hearing this cold-blooded order, Garrosh-Tarkin struggled violently. He pointed at Das-Vader and roared at the top of his lungs, "What are you doing!! Why do you sanction Iskalon planet!! There are tens of millions of people up there! What are you going to do?!"
"If you harbor the rebels, you should be punished." Das-Vader still didn't look back, he just said with meaning.
Death Trooper next to him immediately held down Garrosh-Tarkin. However, he was so tall and powerful that the three soldiers could not hold him down.
At this time, Das-Vader just raised one hand, and an invisible force immediately pressed down, suppressing Garrosh-Tarkin! No matter how hard he struggled, he was like a fish on a chopping board, unable to move at all.
Garrosh-Tarkin raised his head tightly, with veins popping out on his neck. He kept roaring, "Stop! Stop it!! We forced them! They can't refuse! We forced them!! It's none of their business!!"
But Das-Vader still just stood with his back to him, saying nothing.
The two squadrons, a total of 40 Imperial-class Star Destroyer, immediately flew towards Iskalon planet, entered the attack posture, and the heavy Turbolaser cannon opened up with full firepower!
Suddenly hundreds of beams of destruction fell from the sky!
Iskalon planet was not protected by Planetary Shield at all. The ocean was directly bombarded by the beam of Turbolaser, causing countless water vapor to rise immediately! Steam and water mist even spread to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters!
Suddenly there was lightning and thunder in the sky of the planet, heavy rain poured down, and more than ten huge storm cyclones began to form. Just this Orbital Bombardment has already begun to form a devastating climate disaster!
And as the bombing continued, large amounts of seawater were blasted directly to the outer reaches of the atmosphere, and then spilled into space.
Viewed from a distance, a tail thousands of kilometers long is pulled out behind Iskalon planet along its orbit. It is all evaporated seawater!
The people on the planet could only hide in the deep sea as much as possible, but to no avail, they still died in large numbers.
And this is the tragic scene Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin saw when they arrived at Iskalon planet.
Wilhuff-Tarkin, who was sitting on Lambda-class shuttlecraft, just glanced at the planet that was about to be destroyed. There was no expression on his face, and he didn't care at all.
The only thing he cares about is whether his son is well.
The shuttle entered the hangar of Devastator Star Destroyer, and Wilhuff-Tarkin quickly rushed into the bridge. They saw Garrosh-Tarkin lying on the ground, and Das-Vader, who was standing in the bridge with his back to them.