355. Battle of Naboo (seven)
Sheev Palpatine, who was attending a political rally on the Pelemi Orbital Space Station, had to end the rally early and return to Coruscant. Although he wanted to stay at the rally, a series of emergencies on the planet Naboo forced him to conduct remote control, at least so that the two idiots Newt Gunray and Rune Harkor would not really mess things up.
Because just yesterday, after he gave the order for Newt Gunlay to kill the two Jedi Knight who went to Naboo to mediate, Newt Gunlay never mentioned it again, including when they later occupied the entire territory of Naboo and captured Queen Amidala, nor did they mention it when they sent him the good news.
Das-Sidious just thought that the two Jedi Knight had been killed, just like what he had done before with Yinchorr's remote-controlled mercenary Vilma. Killing Jedi Knight was not a difficult task for his layout.
Now that Naboo has been occupied, all that is left is for Queen Amidala to sign a surrender treaty as soon as possible, so that he can overturn the situation in the parliament and legalize Trade Federation's occupation.
"Newt Gunray, since you have captured Queen Amidala, she must have signed the surrender treaty now, right?" Darth-Sidious asked in the communication.
"Well... that...Lord Sidious..." Newt Gunray's expression was frightened, and he lowered his head and did not dare to look at Sidious's expression, "Queen... she disappeared..."
"What did you say? She disappeared?!" Das-Sidious was stunned for a moment. Even if the city was as well-mannered as he was, he was almost furious with the news, but he couldn't lose his composure, so he could only suppress the anger in his heart and stay calm.
"Yes, when we escorted Queen Amidala to the concentration camp, the two Jedi Knight suddenly attacked the escorting team, rescued Queen, and also snatched a Naboo royal spaceship, broke through our blockade and escaped..." Newt Gunray lowered his head and said.
He also understood that what he did was really stupid. Even if Queen was rescued, he actually let them seize the spaceship! Even if they grabbed the spaceship, the blockade of 60 Luukri-Hok-class freighters was actually broken through by a Naboo royal spaceship?!
This is really a shameful failure that would be shameless to tell anyone!
Newt Gunray kept making excuses for himself in his mind. For example, the spaceships in the blockade were all cargo ships, and only 10 of them were equipped with turrets, and the coverage of the installed turrets was very unsatisfactory. Moreover, all the Vulture droid fighter they carried escorted the C-9979 landing ship into the atmosphere of Naboo, and were not in the blockade.
However, the expected thunderous fury of Darth-Sidious did not come. He just said coldly, "I want you to find Queen, capture her and come back to sign the peace treaty! The time I can delay in the parliament is limited!"
"But... we have no idea where her spaceship went..." Newt Gunray's voice became smaller and smaller.
"Sith, omnipotent!" Das-Sidious said through gritted teeth. He waved, and Das-Maul came over and stood behind him. The fierce god He looked at the two idiots in front of him evilly, "This is my apprentice Das-Maul. He will help you find Queen and kill those two Jedi Knight!"
The communication was shut down, and Rune Harkor looked at Newt Gunray in horror and said, "Things are starting to get out of control! How come I didn't know there was a second Sith! How many of them are there?! We should never have made a deal with such a terrifying existence from the beginning!"
"Don't mention this matter again! At least they can help us sit in a high position and control the entire Trade Federation!" Before the terrifying figure of Sidious, Newt Gunray had regained some of his majesty. He said sternly, "The most important thing now is to find Queen Amidala as soon as possible! Otherwise, if time drags on for too long, Republic Senate will really cause trouble for us!"
He looked at Naboo outside the porthole and said, "Disperse our entire fleet! Search for traces of Queen Amidala in all the surrounding galaxies. Be sure to catch her!"
"But what about Naboo?" Rune Harkor asked.
"The battle here at Naboo is over! We have occupied the planet, so naturally there is no need for a blockade. Moreover, we still have an army of 2 million robots on the planet. Naboo cannot have any force that can compete with them! We will leave our flagship as a robot control ship, and other spaceships will set off immediately!" Newt Gunray said decisively, "And this can also reduce some of our political pressure."
At the same time, with the help of Qui-Gon-Jin and Obi-Wan-Kenobi, Queen Amidala and his group, who miraculously escaped, also encountered trouble.
When they broke through the blockade, the spacecraft engine was hit by the firepower of the Trade Federation blockade fleet, and the hyperspace engine was damaged. They had to fly to a nearby planet to seek help, and their chosen target was Tatooine.
"Tatooine broke out an armed conflict comparable to a civil war a year ago. Going to this planet now is definitely the most dangerous." said Security Minister Panaka who escaped with Queen Amidala.
"In this case, our enemies will not think that we will come here. In short, Tatooine is located in Hutt Space. As long as we don't provoke Hutt, we won't have much trouble, at least it won't be worse than now." Qui-Gon-Jin said, "Before we repair the hyperspace engine, we cannot open the communication, otherwise we will be tracked by them."
"There are two big cities on Tatooine, Mos Eisley City and Mos Espa Port. Where are we going?" Obi-Wan-Kenobi asked.
"Mos Espa Port, the chaos there can just protect us." Qui-Gon-Jin made a decision.
The spaceship landed at Mos Espa Port. Qui-Gon-Jin and Obi-Wan-Kenobi decided to try their luck in this city that could be described as a refugee camp, slum or simply a ruin. A maid under Queen Amidala also insisted on going with them.
In the chaotic alleyways of the city, Qui-Gon-Jin suddenly saw some Caladanians in black uniforms among the crowd patrolling around. They were extremely ferocious, punching and kicking local residents if they disagreed. The residents dared not speak out in anger. Whenever they saw these Caladanians, they bowed their heads and left.
"Be careful, don't be noticed by those Caladanian." Qui-Gon-Jin pulled Obi-Wan and whispered, "Before I heard Ji-Adi-Master Mundi said that they appeared in Cerean civil war, which is Caladanian of Titan Security. They belong to Fourth Group and are in the same group as Trade Federation."
"Cerea...Fourth Group...Titan Security..." Obi-Wan-Kenobi was hiding in the shadows. Looking at the ferocious Caladanian, some bad memories came to mind.
But the good thing is, because these Caladanian are too ferocious, as the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake, no matter what they want to do in Tatooine, they are struggling. Those residents do not buy their account at all, and Qui-Gon-Jin and the others have not been discovered.
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[Easter egg chapter attached picture: Newt Gunray and Rune Harkou in Battle of Naboo.]