583. The door is open
At this time, Sarapin system, Satellite 426 outer orbit.
Confederacy of Independent Systems's fleet has suppressed Galactic Republic's defense fleet with its powerful firepower. Because the large battleships have basically been transferred to other places, most of the defense fleets in these places are small boats.
This is mainly because the hyperspace engines of large battleships have higher levels, which means they can reach their destination faster with fewer jumps.
But now, these small warships left behind are no match for Confederacy of Independent Systems fleet, not to mention, the person commanding this fleet is Sefrans-Tann!
Under the command of Tann, Confederacy of Independent Systems's fleet seemed to have every battleship come alive. Through their flexible movements and constantly changing group formations, Republic warship was distracted by one thing and the other, and always inadvertently caused Galactic Republic's formation to split apart during the artillery battle.
Then she immediately threw in the fastest Revelation-class light cruiser and Revenge-class light destroyer under Sublight to launch an assault, directly wedged into Republic fleet's formation, preventing them from looking at each other.
Then, 50 Diamond-class transport cruiser immediately rushed to Satellite 426 to launch landing operations.
Deflector Shield, especially the battleship-level or even planet-level Deflector Shield, actually still has many inconvenient drawbacks. Depending on the different shield generators, the manifestations of these shields will be different. In addition to being divided by functionality, such as thermal shields, Particle Shield, etc., there are also many types of divisions by generation methods, including one-way shields, two-way shields, and the like.
In order to extend the shield to cover the target, the shield generator itself is not actually protected by the shield. For fighter jets, the shield generator itself is not powerful enough and cannot cover the entire fighter jet at any time, so this does not matter.
For battleships, many shield generators are built in places that are not easy to be hit in battle.
But for planetary shields, this won't work. Because the planetary shield must be shrouded outside the atmosphere, at least 100 kilometers above the ground. In this case, a huge funnel-shaped defense hole will be formed above the shield generator built on the ground, which can be easily exploited by the attacker. (If you are interested, you can take a look at the production process of the Gungan shield generator in "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace").
Not to mention that to project the shield energy from the ground to an ultra-high altitude 100 kilometers away, atmospheric interference and additional energy consumption must be considered.
Therefore, planetary shields are often launched from large space stations or natural moons. The advantage of this is that it can generate a comprehensive shield on the planet, and it can ensure that the shield projection will never be interfered by the planet's atmosphere.
But the disadvantage is that you have to invest heavily in defending this shield generator.
And this is the current combat purpose of Sefrans-Tann!
50 Diamond-class transport cruisers began to land directly against the intensive air defense firepower on Satellite 426, and an army of 100,000 robots rushed towards Galactic Republic's defense line like a tide!
Galactic Republic's Guardian troops resisted desperately, but they could not withstand Sefrans-Tann's flexible tactics, and their positions fell one by one.
Immediately afterwards, when the outcome of the fleet battle in outer space was determined and Confederacy of Independent Systems's fleet began to provide air fire support for the ground battle, Galactic Republic's defenders finally fell into a total collapse.
Twelve hours after the attack began, Satellite 426 fell!
With a loud noise, the huge planet-level shield generator on Satellite 426 was blown up. Sarapin, the most important energy supply planet in the galaxy Core Worlds, finally lost the protection of Planetary Shield, just like a beautiful girl whose last layer of gauze was stripped away...
By the time the ground troops began to reload into Diamond-class transport cruiser, Sefrans-Tann had returned to the Deceiver-class destroyer, which was the flagship of this battle.
"What a wonderful battle! General Tann." A human officer in his 40s and wearing a beige military uniform came up to congratulate him.
Although Confederacy of Independent Systems's military system is still relatively chaotic, this beige military uniform shows that this person was promoted to an officer from a civilian official. His thin hair was parted in the middle and he had a light beard.
Sefrans-Tann looked at this man with some disdain, and said lightly, "The fleet set off immediately, covering the small number of Diamond-class transport cruiser that have been loaded to attack the space station outside Sarabin Planet first."
The Confederacy of Independent Systems officer maintained the utmost respect for Sefrans-Tann, but he still asked out of his own responsibility, "General Tann, what is the purpose of attacking this supply depot? Shouldn't we wait for the fleet and ground forces to rest before launching a general attack on Sarapin?"
"Zian-Phineas (Zian "Finnis, I'm embarrassed to call you that general. Can't your poor strategic thinking understand my current actions?" Sefrans-Tann mocked, "We are now at Republic Core Worlds, and Galactic Republic's reinforcements will arrive in at most 10 hours. Aren't you going to prepare for this?"
"10 hours, how do you know? We should not have such information..." Qian-Phineas was obviously very good-tempered, and he did not hide his surprise and ignorance.
Sefrans-Tann glanced at him, but still said, "Within 5 hours of my launch of the offensive, Galactic Republic's reinforcements did not arrive, which means that they have no intention of evacuating our Confederacy of Independent Systems encirclement fleet around Core Worlds's franchised planet. So in this case, they must mobilize the fleet from the front line, and the front line closest to Sarapin system is Mimban. The time to mobilize troops back from Mimban is between 18 hours and 24 hours."
While watching Qi'an-Phineas sweating profusely as he hurriedly consulted the star map, Sefrans-Tann said sarcastically, "You can't even put the basic deployment and hyperspace channel information on the star map into your mind. Instead of commanding the army, you'd better process it. It would be better to work in an electronics factory on the industrial planet. By the way, I want to attack the supply station of Sarapin because the newly collected energy reserves of Sarabin Planet are waiting for transportation. But unfortunately, they were blocked by my fleet."
Following the orders from Sefrans-Tann, Diamond-class transport cruiser of Confederacy of Independent Systems rushed directly to one of the supply space stations of Sarabin Planet. Here, Galactic Republic no longer had the defense of the fleet, and was easily launched by Diamond-class.
Then, a large number of robots began to carry high-energy energy storage devices stored in the supply station, enough for Dawn Star Planet to use for two full years, back to their spacecraft. And they are trying to occupy more supply space stations. If these space stations are looted, then Dawn Star Planet will not need to generate electricity for at least the next 30 years!
Sure enough, the plundering behavior of the robot army caused Sarabin Planet's defense Commander to misjudge. He believed that these Separatist fleet were here to rob, so he separated his defense forces and sent reinforcements to several other supply space stations.