The Empire: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 699

New Nightmare

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694. New nightmare

Fang-class battleship finally crashed into Lundaria planet.

After the warship's hyperspace engine was blown up by Jedi Knight, General Grievous felt that the situation was irreversible, so he escaped from the warship in his fighter jet 'Soulless One', but still commanded Malevolence through communication remote control to make the final struggle.

After Jedi Knight destroyed the hyperspace engine, he had no intention of getting entangled with the robots rushing over like a tide, and quickly ran out of the battleship's loading and unloading platform.

I don't know if it was his fate, but after Jedi Knight ran away, the robot repairmen swarmed over and repaired the hyperspace engine in a few minutes. Fortunately, Anakin-Skywalker had kept an eye on it and modified the data of the navigation computer before. When Malevolence was about to start the hyperspace jump, the calculation made an error and eventually crashed directly into the deserted Lundaria planet.

If General Grievous was still on the battleship at that time, there might be a chance to correct this error and save the precious super battleship Malevolence.

It's a pity that General Grievous is already on the way to escape at this moment.

For Galactic Republic, the crisis of Malevolence has finally been lifted, but another, bigger haze continues to shroud everyone's hearts...

Plague!

I don't know which link went wrong. Even though Dath-Malthael did not spread the news to Galactic Republic, the news of this terrible battleship and the Trigaliss planet tragedy still spread throughout Galactic Republic.

This tragedy, in which more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and injured, was deliberately exaggerated by thoughtful people and struck a chord in the hearts of every Galactic Republic citizen. The 14,100-meter-long super ship shrouded the Galactic Republic like a nightmare. The slowness and weakness shown by Galactic Republic 15th Army in the face of the sudden attack by Plague has also become the target of criticism.

'How to defeat Plague? 'Galactic Republic's largest media, Republic HoloNet, used the somewhat blurry image of Plague and the flash of light at the moment when the battleship destroyed the Trigaliss planet spaceport as the background to publish a large front page headline. The title of just a few words was shocking.

Chancellor of the Galactic Senate Sheev-Palpatine urgently convened a meeting of Jedi Order, the three major industrial giants and Republic Supreme Strategic Command, and announced that the issue of Plague would be discussed by the whole parliament one day later.

Different from the people's panic, the three major industrial giants were not as nervous about this 14,100-meter-long ship as they were when they faced Malevolence.

"Just maintain the original design direction." Kuat Drive Yards Chief Engineer, Lila-Blythex pushed the information in front of them aside and said coldly, "According to Judging from the current design, the 17,500-meter Super Star Destroyer plan we proposed can easily defeat this battleship. If it can deal with the Malevolence, it can naturally deal with the Plague."

The engineers Rendili StarDrive and Corellia Engineering Company on the side also nodded expressionlessly. Anyway, the order was not with them, so they naturally took it easy. No matter what, it would be best if the ship designed by Kuat was shot to pieces by Plague.

"It seems that in your eyes, this Plague is not as threatening as Malevolence?" Palpatine asked with interest.

"This is just addition. It is nothing more than continuously superimposing calibers and energy levels. As long as it is larger than this battleship, it can be easily defeated. On the contrary, Malevolence's EMP will cause unimaginable damage to the shield. We must consider this when designing. Preventing EMP is naturally more complicated than guarding against a big iron lump." Lila-Blythex said.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Palpatine's mouth, "I understand, then in that case, you should hurry up and design this Super Star Destroyer."

"But our battle situation cannot wait until this time." Master Windu said, "Plague's weakness is more obvious than Malevolence. Without the cover of the fleet, it is very possible to get rid of Plague."

"We will improve our defenses, Separatists. We will not attack alone, after Malevolence is destroyed." Master Yoda said.

"But at least, Malevolence's battle showed the power of Jedi Order. I believe that Plague will have the same fate." Palpatine said with a smile, "Now we need to be more vigilant. As long as Plague appears again, we must catch it and don't let the tragedy of Trigaliss planet happen again."

After the meeting, Sheev-Palpatine secretly came to the deserted industrial area of Coruscant and took out the communicator.

The holographic projection of Count Dooku appeared. He knelt on one knee and said respectfully, "My Lord, regarding Malevolence, it was my mistake that allowed Jedi Knight to seize the opportunity. I will never make such a mistake again next time."

"What makes you think you have another chance?" Das-Sidious's distorted and greasy voice seemed to carry a chilling chill.

"Next, I will reorganize the fleet with Plague as the core, which will deal a fatal blow to Galactic Republic! And I believe that more Jedi Knight will die in the process of fighting against Plague... uh..."

Before Count Dooku finished speaking, Das-Sidious strangled his neck directly with the Force! Das-Sidious's terrifying Dark Side Force directly crossed the endless starry sky and acted on Count Dooku, then threw him far away with a wave of his hand.

"I remember I told you, Plague, destroy it!" Das-Sidious said through gritted teeth.

"But Lord, we have lost Malevolence..." Count Dooku stood up from the ground and explained quickly.

"Do you want me to say the same thing a third time?" Das-Sidious said coldly.

"I don't dare... I will arrange things related to Plague immediately." Count Dooku quickly lowered his head and agreed, "But I also hope that the Lord will make it clear that after Plague is destroyed, Confederacy of Independent Systems's strategic direction. Now Malevolence and Plague are famous among the people here at Confederacy of Independent Systems. In that case, they will both be destroyed... The war will probably end early..."

"When the war will end, Galactic Republic's words don't count, Jedi Order's words don't count, Confederacy of Independent Systems's words don't count! When the war will end, it's only up to me! In a moment of thought!" Das-Sidious grasped the void with both hands, Count Dooku only saw the things around him shaking violently.

Then his tone changed and became kind again, "As long as Plague is killed, I will naturally find a way to get Confederacy of Independent Systems back elsewhere."

"It's just, why..."

"I just don't like this name."

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