2742, the Empire storm
Cassius-Olcott was dragged directly from the hiding place by IDA soldiers, his hands were cut behind his back, and he was caught and dragged Director of Imperial Intelligence Bureau Isanne -Isard In front of this stern-faced secret police leader, and thinking of all the atrocities that had set off a burst of white terror in Core Worlds, Cassius almost collapsed.
"Okay, I don't want to say any more. Tell me all your plans and all your accomplices. Maybe I can give you some dignity." Isanne-Isard said coldly.
Cassius opened his mouth, cold sweat slid down his forehead. After holding it in for a long time, he finally spoke tremblingly, "This... has nothing to do with my family... it's all a personal plan of me and Zaarin..."
Isanne-Isard sneered, tapped the table with his fingertips, and stabbed Cassius with his eyes like a knife, "Whether it has anything to do with your family depends on whether the answer you give me satisfies me..."
She hooked her fingers, and an intelligence officer next to her immediately stepped forward and placed a holographic projector in front of her.
After opening it, Cassius-Olcott saw that Republic Senate Building had been captured by a large number of the Empire Stormtrooper, a large number of MPs and senior All the officials, regardless of whether they participated in the rebellion or not, were arrested. And the person in charge of Republic Senate Building at the moment was none other than Imperial Marshal, Ruffan-Digorinus!
He also saw that although he had participated in the previous conspiracy, he hesitated during the rebellion and finally stood still. Hermann-S Traak was also captured from his battleship and thrown into the spaceport like a dog.
Finally, he saw that his home planet Camaas (Camaas) had been surrounded by dozens of Star Destroyers, and a large number of the Empire Stormtroopers were heading towards his family's manor on Sentinel-class landing craft.
Cassius collapsed completely, and he said loudly, "I say! I will tell you everything I know... I just ask you to let my family go..."
Emperor Palpatine's holographic projection was projected onto almost all holographic billboards on the planet through huge projectors. This live broadcast signal covered every media channel and network channel in Coruscant, and his terrifying and distorted voice spread throughout the Empire.
[... This is a despicable betrayal, a stupid act of treason created by the morons inside the Empire colluding with Separatists! But no matter how many blows, it will not shake me Determination! I will lead Galactic Empire, hold high the banner of freedom and democracy, and fight the reactionary Separatists to the end! Galactic Empire will last forever for generations to come!]
From the second satellite of Coruscant, Contax-2, a large number of transport ships took off and flew straight towards the planet. Inside the transport ship, there were countless Spaarti clone troopers. They were fully armed, with no expressions visible on their white full-coverage helmets, exuding a chilling and terrifying atmosphere.
On the streets of the planet, countless the Empire Stormtrooper took to the streets to patrol. Huge AT-AT walkers, slender AT-ST walkers, thick 2-M heavy suspension tanks, and flexible Conqueror small armored vehicles drove through the city one after another.
Almost the entire Coruscant is shrouded in the most direct military threat. Not only that, Planetary Shield, which has not been opened for tens of thousands of years, finally rises. The light blue light curtain clearly tells everyone-Emperor of the Empire will never give up this time!
At this moment, Thrawn is still cleaning up the mess. After all, he failed to catch Demetrius-Zaarin. The Light Cruiser high-speed formation sent before was frightened by the Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer for a while, thus missing the fighter plane.
Before escaping, Zaarin activated the self-destruct program of his original flagship Honor Star Destroyer, and then he and Arden Lin quickly escaped in TIE Defender fighter.
Coruscant was originally a planet with extremely developed transportation, and in order to flaunt freedom and safety, the management of this planet was loose on the outside and tight on the inside. If Zaarin wanted to escape, it would be impossible for Imperial military to seal off the surroundings of the planet.
The few remaining Star Destroyers under Demetrius-Zaarin were originally transferred from the First System Army, but were later replaced by Commander, and then became loyal to him. Now that the situation has collapsed, they have surrendered to Thrawn.
The Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer also surrendered later. After interrogating Commander on the battleship, he found out that the battleship was originally under the command of Orman-Marshal Tagg, but Demetrius-Zaarin deceived him, saying that he would take this Star Destroyer to Coruscant to directly report the development progress to His Majesty the Emperor.
Orman-Tagge, who was troubled by Death Star's weapon system, agreed to his request and temporarily handed over the prototype ship to him.
This Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer prototype ship is only equipped with minimal armament, and according to the design, it should be equipped with a small Death Star main gun, which has not been finalized and installed. However, this prototype ship is not that unbearable, because it has indeed completed the design and installation of the energy transmission array, and is equipped with an experimental super reactor, which can briefly activate the focusing system that simulates the Death Star main gun.
In other words, if Zaarin really wants to demonstrate it, there are indeed many things that can be brought out. But if it is used for combat, then this prototype ship can only scare people.
This is no wonder why Zaarin did not set his flagship on this prototype ship. After all, there are too many operators on the battleship, reaching more than 100,000 people. It is impossible for him to replace all of them with his confidants, for fear of accidents. At the same time, this battleship has no combat effectiveness except for being rough-skinned and thick-bodied.
But what is truly terrifying is the formation of TIE-Defender fighters.
There were a total of 50 TIE-Defender fighters that appeared on the battlefield, and none of them were lost during the battle! And after Zaarin started to escape, these fighters started their hyperspace engines and escaped together!
You must know that although this battle was not large in scale, it was still very fierce. After those TIE Defender fighter squadrons destroyed the carrier-based aircraft of Imperial fleet, they also besieged Imperial II-class Star Destroyer many times. In such a hail of bullets, not one of them was shot down. It has to be said that it is quite terrifying.
With extremely powerful performance and all equipped with miniaturized hyperspace engines, this fighter formation can only be described as terrifying!
After getting rid of these Zaarin remnants, Thrawn returned the fleet command to Ruffan-Marshal Digorinus, and silently returned to his own prison in the Imperial Palace.
But this time when he returned, those Guardian looked at him with awe, and hurriedly brought food and wine, while the cell door did not dare to close, allowing him to enter and exit freely.
At this moment, the masterminds of this rebellion, Demetrius-Zaarin and Aden Lin, have been wanted by the Galactic Empire throughout the country, and each has a bounty of up to 5 billion Imperial credits. This bounty is second only to King of Dawn Tang Xiao.
By the way, the current reward for Tang Xiao has been increased to 100 billion by Palpatine.
In an unmanned galaxy outside Coruscant, Demetrius-Zaarin and Arden-Lin met with a fleet that came to meet them.
This fleet is much shabby, with only some Light Cruiser and frigates, but there are still some models that have never appeared in Imperial Navy. The flagship is a Vindicator-class heavy cruiser.
Zaarin and Arden-Lin drove TIE Defender fighter into the hangar of Vindicator-class heavy cruiser, and then came to the bridge.
On the bridge, another young Commander came over to greet them. He said loudly, "Lord Marshal! We are ready! Even if we fail for a moment, it doesn't matter. Galactic Empire and Palpatine are going against the grain and will be abandoned by the times! Our victory will definitely come!"
Zaarin waved his hand and said, "Don't call me marshal anymore. I don't mind the title Palpatine gave me."
As he spoke, he pulled off the epaulets from his shoulders and threw them to the ground.
"Next let's go to Skako. In order to coordinate our actions, Technological Alliance has declared its independence." Arden-Lin said solemnly, "But there should be another war there. We need to gather more warships from other planets."
Demetrius-Zaarin shook his head and said, "No! Technological Alliance declared independence at this time, which just attracts firepower for us. Let Watto-Tambo worry about his own planet! Those aliens have never been trustworthy, hum! Let's go to Omar Planet (Omar)."
"Omar Planet? Never heard of it." Arden-Lin frowned.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Zaarin's mouth, "Of course you don't know, or in other words, you won't pay attention to this information. Because Omar Planet is the largest TIE series fighter built by Sith Fleet Systems Company production line. Three huge fighter jet manufacturing space stations - Omar One to No. 3 - were built around the planet. From there, more than 40% of the fighter production of the Galactic Empire was supplied."
Arden-Lin nodded. She really wouldn't pay attention to this kind of scientific research and production information.
"Omar Planet is highly confidential, because it is a newly built industrial world after the establishment of the Empire. Only a few people know the coordinates of the planet, and even Kingdom of Dawn's intelligence system has not penetrated it." Zaarin said, "We directly We will raid there, pack up and take away the core components of the TIE fighter production line, and then go to Outer Rim of the galaxy to build our own fighter production line and mass-produce TIE-Defender fighter jets. With the TIE-Defender fighter here, Imperial Navy cannot defeat me!"
He waved his hand suddenly and said loudly, "Rest where you are and let more spaceships come and gather! Our next target, Omar Planet!"
"Yes!" Young Commander was extremely excited and immediately stood at attention and saluted.
They are all secretly trained confidants of Zaarin. Although there are not many in number, they all hate Galactic Empire and are extremely loyal to Zaarin.
Demetrius-Zaarin rested here for a day, and one after another, the TIE-Defender fighter formations also came here to meet, and some battleships and transport ships provided by other planets and nobles Noble House who were openly or covertly involved in the rebellion also came here sporadically.
In one day, the fleet in Zaarin's hands increased to 4 Imperial-class Star Destroyers, 2 Vindicator-class heavy cruisers, 30 Light Cruisers of various types, more than 200 frigates, and more than 100 large transport ships.
What's a bit funny is that there are actually 20 Grey Horse-class escort carriers in this fleet! These were purchased by Zaarin from the black market and modernized using his super technical strength.
TIE-Defender fighter jets are all placed in the hangars of these Escort Carriers. The modified hangars can provide complete maintenance services for these most advanced fighters, but the number of aircraft carried by each modified Gray Horse-class has also dropped to 40.
Now these Escort Carrier are basically empty, but the same is true for Demetrius-Zaarin's plan. He wants to use Galactic Empire's resources to fill all the hangars of these aircraft carriers!
One day later, following the orders from Demetrius-Zaarin, the fleet quickly entered the hyperspace channel and galloped towards Omar Planet.
This rebellion started by Demetrius-Marshal Zarin caused extremely bad consequences.
Led by the Technological Alliance, hundreds of planets publicly declared their independence from the Galactic Empire and all fell to Zaarin's forces. There were also dozens of Core Worlds nobles Noble House involved!
However, as the rebellion of Zaarin and Cassius was defeated within one day, these planets and nobles who had just declared their independence instantly fell into panic. But now that the matter was over, they could only bite the bullet and continue to resist.
Because they understand that this rebellion can be said to have touched the bottom line of Emperor Palpatine. As long as they have participated in it, the only thing waiting for them is death!
After Cassius-Olcott was arrested, these planets also lost their unified coordination, so they just fought on their own. They either asked for help from Kingdom of Dawn, or asked for help from the Rebel Alliance, or even spent a lot of money to hire mercenaries to support themselves.
However, what greeted them was the anger of the Empire!
The headquarters of the Technological Alliance, which is also the home planet of Skakoan, Skako, is currently surrounded by Imperial fleet sent by Das-Vader.
This is a planet covered by an atmosphere full of gases that are harmful to humans, but it is the paradise of Skakoan. There are 350 billion people living on this planet. Skakoan, which is difficult to adapt to the environment of other planets, almost all live here, and the entire planet has been completely urbanized.
It has a very terrifying industrial production capacity, and the astronomical environment around the planet is also very harsh, so even Death Fleet of Das-Vader does not dare to launch an attack on this planet rashly.
The orbit of the planet is densely covered with automatic defense platforms and forts hidden in the asteroid belt. Any approaching fleet will be devastated. Skakoan relies on its local advantages to build the entire planet into a solid fortress.
At the same time, the leader of the Technological Alliance, the foreman Watto-Tanbo, also frantically sent a message to Kingdom of Dawn, asking Kingdom of Dawn to send troops for reinforcements.
At this moment, in the frontline zone where Northern Galaxy and Galactic Empire fight against Kingdom of Dawn - Palanci Planet.
An extremely huge figure advanced slowly. Its huge size and disc-shaped front end flew unreasonably among the ruins, knocking away countless fragments - fragments of the battleship!
Not far away, a raging fire was burning on the surface of Palanci Planet, which could be clearly seen even from space.
One warship after another is cruising around the planet unscrupulously, and there is no longer any resistance here.
On the sides of these battleships, a very eye-catching Milky Way symbol with four cantilevered arms is spray-painted--
Mark of Kingdom of Dawn!