754. Raid Kato-Neimoidia (Part 1) [2-in-1]
"Hahahaha!" Das-Lilim laughed and said, "I know! I know! Why did you propose the plan to raid Kato-Neimoidia at that time. You..."
She came up to Sefrans-Tann and said teasingly, "You... are actually trying to figure out what is best. You are thinking about what kind of strategy the master likes... Hahahaha! Raid Kato-Z Neimoidia, this action must be supported by Trade Federation. If it were based on your own personality, you would never propose this strategy! But... you are thinking that the master will be very happy if you propose this strategy."
Silky arms climbed up Sefrans-Tann's neck, and the orchid-like breath blew in her ears, "... you... know, the master has been trying to pull Trade Federation over completely..."
Sefrans-Tann pushed Das-Lilim away and said coldly, "What do you think you have seen through? As a senior military general, I naturally need to think about strategy from an overall perspective. And among the entire Fourth Civilization, the one with the highest position is naturally the governor. It is normal to think from his perspective."
"Actually... I like you very much." Das-Lilim licked his lips.
"Then make yourself more useful. Until now, you are still just a vase." Sefrans-Tann snorted coldly and continued to issue instructions to the other side, "Take off 100 Vulture droid fighter! Take the initiative to attack the enemy fleet!"
"Yes!"
Plague does not have many carrier-based aircraft, but Tann does not want to gain air superiority. After 100 Vulture droid fighter took off, they immediately flew straight towards Republic fleet.
After Republic fleet's flagship was destroyed by one blow, he immediately exploded and rushed towards Plague.
7th Fleet's fighter group bore the brunt, and thousands of fighter jets rushed over like locusts. Although there are still a large number of backward Z-95 fighters inside, such a huge number is still a very terrible threat.
"Revenge for General Rivers!!"
"Kill! Charge forward! No matter how powerful it is, it is just a battleship!!"
"Fighter squadron follow!!"
"Dax! Full firepower! Fire at will!!" Republic fleet's combat communications were filled with all kinds of angry roars, blood debts were repaid with blood, tooth for tooth.
But there is anger, revenge, and sadness in combat communications, but there is only one thing missing - tactics.
After the flagship of 7th Fleet was destroyed, another Commander-class Dreadnought immediately took over the command, but the newly appointed Commander did not know all the arrangements of the previous admiral Rivers, so he could only go through all the processes again.
Find Intelligence Department and ask for Plague's data, send a signal for help, reorganize the formation, and arrange a counterattack strategy according to the battle situation.
But all this takes time!
At this time, 7th Fleet's fighter groups and warships had already rushed forward. After Plague took off 100 Vulture droid fighter, they immediately rushed towards these fighters and opened fire wildly.
In the opinion of the new Commander, such behavior has little impact on the battle situation. After all, the opponent only has one battleship. Maybe this battleship does have powerful firepower, but after all, they have enough battleships. That kind of super cannon can be clicked 100 times even if they are named one by one, right?
However, the information sent by the Intelligence Department for the second time poured a bucket of ice water directly on Commander!
He threw himself in the direction of the radar group and shouted loudly, "Enlarge the enemy ship's sensor image for me immediately!!"
The radar soldier immediately operated, and an enlarged image of Plague appeared on the screen. Now this huge warship was under attack all over its body, and the light of countless energy shields flickered on its body.
But that was not what Commander was paying attention to. He looked at Plague's four super giant rails that formed the super super super cannon. Sure enough, the front of the four rails opened slightly, forming a trumpet shape!!
"Quick! Notify all fighter formations to disperse! Disperse!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Plague once again emitting a dazzling light like a star!
Almost at the same time, the status of each fighter formation displayed on the screen nearby instantly turned red!!
Plague main cannon, scatter!
Countless projectiles and explosions instantly covered an area of thousands of kilometers, turning everything here into a dead zone!
At least more than 1,000 fighter jets were destroyed by this cannon, and more than 10 small warships were also seriously damaged by this scattering.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Plague moved on. The four rails of the main gun began to close and recharge. Obviously, this time, it was ordinary projectiles.
And at this time, Plague took off the main fighter group.
48 fighter jets took off one after another, 36 of which were Wraith fighter, and the other 12 were heavy fighter jets with a short and stubby shape and two five-unit missile launchers on their backs.
It is exactly the same as the red fighter jet that Das-Malthael flew before, except that it is about 1 meter smaller.
This is the new generation fighter of Fourth Civilization, Viking fighter!
This is also the next-generation new fighter jet that succeeds Wraith fighter in the "StarCraft" database. The standard length is 16.5 meters, which is shorter than the 18-meter-long Wraith fighter. However, because the overall shape of Viking fighter is short and thick, its volume is much larger than Wraith fighter.
Viking fighter has much greater firepower than Wraith fighter, and is equipped with two powerful blaster laser cannons and a new type of 'turbulence' missile (Ripwave). This missile combines the anti-matter missile technology that has just been developed by Fourth Civilization, and its lethality against large and medium-sized targets is very terrifying.
It is also because of the technological leap of Fourth Civilization that the MT-50 Lanzer missile equipped with the original version of Viking fighter was not developed directly, but was skipped and directly equipped with Ripwave missile. At the same time, Ripwave missile can also be equipped on Goliath Mech to further enhance the air defense capability of Goliath Mech.
What's even more unique is that Viking fighter can transform into a robot form and be used in ground combat.
Of course, the current Viking fighter has undergone many optimizations. For example, the original two six-barreled 30mm caliber Electromagnetic Cannon were modified into two blaster cannons, which freed up the ammunition bay and made the fighter aircraft lighter. This also makes Viking fighter look bulkier, but in fact, it is faster than Wraith fighter, but its steering performance is slightly lacking.
Of course, this also makes the energy demand greater, but after fully learning from and integrating the current Fourth Civilization energy engine technology with the technology of the current "Star Wars" world, it is more powerful than the original Viking fighter engine and can fully meet this demand.
When Tang Xiao ordered the development of Viking fighter, he asked Research Department to develop both a deformable version and a non-deformable version. After all, the latter can save a lot of costs. What is now being mass-produced are also non-deformable versions.
And because the deformation function has been removed, the fighter has a lot more space to install a more powerful energy core and a shield generator to further enhance its air combat capabilities.
In other words, only the non-deformable Viking fighter can install the shield.
Tang Xiao was previously flying a customized Elite Class Viking fighter, which was larger in size and adopted more new technologies, allowing his fighter to have full functions and extremely powerful combat capabilities.
As for the deformable version Viking fighter, Fourth Civilization is also in production, but the current output is not large. But this kind of fighter will also have many opportunities to perform in subsequent battles, because in the current civil war in the galaxy, what limits the scale of the battle is not how many troops you have, but how many troops you can transport.
Under such circumstances, the Viking fighter, which can fly in the air for air combat and land on the ground for land combat, will naturally save a lot of transportation costs. After all, unlike in the game, Viking fighter can also fire blaster cannons in the sky and missiles on the ground.
The service of Viking fighter does not mean that Wraith fighter will retire from active service, because the powerful firepower configuration of Viking fighter is more suitable for attacking large targets, and for small targets such as fighter jets, Wraith fighter is better through simulation.
Wraith fighter is also constantly improving, and the technical department is currently developing a new improved model - Spectre fighter. This is a fully upgraded version based on Wraith fighter, and it can be produced without adjusting the mature production line of Wraith fighter.
In this Plague raid, the most elite naval warriors of Fourth Civilization were gathered, and naturally the Viking fighter that had just been installed was also among them.
36 Wraith fighter and 12 Viking fighter took off aggressively, flying towards the galaxy Republic's 7th Fleet's fighter group that had just been completely stunned by a scattering of Plague. At the same time, the stealth system was turned on.
That's right, Viking fighter, as a new generation fighter, is naturally equipped with a stealth system!
The flagship was destroyed, and more than 1,000 fighter jets were destroyed by a scattering just now. Now Galactic Republic's fighter group is completely fighting on its own, let alone fighting invisible fighters through the command of the battleship! Dozens of fighter jets were quickly shot down.
At the same time, 12 Viking fighters also launched Ripwave missiles against several CR-70 frigates under the cover of the stealth system! Under the advanced fire control system, Viking fighter's two five-unit missile launchers fired directly in a salvo, and 120 Ripwave missile fired directly at it!
Anti-matter missiles are super fast and have built-in AI programs to evade anti-aircraft firepower to increase the penetration rate.
Dozens of Ripwave missile hit the target, and the powerful power directly blew up the shield of the CR-70 frigate. Then the armor-piercing warhead penetrated the frigate's armor, and the anti-matter warhead detonated directly inside the spacecraft!
Three 120-meter-long CR-70 frigates immediately disintegrated in a violent explosion. Such backward frigates were completely unable to fight against the new generation of fighter jets.
But as time went by, Republic's 7th Fleet finally regained its organization, and Commander and the staff team on the Commander-class Dreadnought that took over the flagship began to function. After sorting out the existing intelligence, they began to effectively direct the fleet to redeploy their formations, and let the small battleship and fighter formations begin to circle around both sides of Plague.
This finally caught the weakness of Plague!
Because although the Plague is densely packed with various powerful turrets and missiles, after all, the most powerful super cannon can only fire forward. As long as it can avoid the bow of the Plague, it can avoid a devastating blow.
Moreover, they can also judge whether the next shot fired is a normal projectile or a scattered projectile by whether the current shape of the Plague cannon is trumpet-shaped.
But Sefrans-Tann didn't care about this at all. She just ordered Plague to keep moving forward and speed up! Looking at this momentum, I just want to rush directly into Galactic Republic's defense line regardless of it!
The fighter jets taking off on Plague are only acting as a diversion to prevent the fighter jets from Galactic Republic from continuously attacking the engine direction. After all, the number of these fighter jets is too small.
At this moment, the largest battleships among 7th Fleet also opened fire!
Two 8,000-meter-long Commander-class Dreadnought, one 4,000-meter-long Governor-class battleship, and three 2,500-meter-long Prosecutor-class battlecruiser are the largest main battleships of 7th Fleet. These warships are all backward warships of the previous era, and their effectiveness in launching offensive operations is far inferior to that of Hunter Class Battlecruiser. However, they are extremely large warships after all, and they are still qualified for defensive or blockade operations.
Countless Turbolaser fell on Plague Titan warship, and the reading of Deflector Shield dropped sharply.
"General! The enemy fleet's firepower is too fierce, and our shield can only last for 10 minutes at most!" The technicians in the shield department eagerly reported to Sefrans-Tann.
Das-Lilim stood aside with his arms folded and said, "Why doesn't the main gun fire? At least we can kill the opponent's new flagship again."
Sefrans-Tann glanced at her, "Use your brain. Now the opponent's flagship has concentrated most of its energy on the shield. Our main gun needs two attacks to destroy it. Instead of doing this, it is better to wait for the time to mature and then kill it with one shot."
Das-Lilim laughed again, "So, you are waiting for Trade Federation's fleet? The war has been going on for so long, but they have not moved. Are you still betting, do you believe in my master so much?"
"What I believe in is the judgment of the current situation and the battlefield." Sefrans-Tann said.
"Hehehe... I like you like this." Das-Lilim smiled charmingly, "Then, I will naturally help you."
With that said, she turned and left the bridge.
A moment later, a purple Viking fighter took off from the battleship hangar. This Viking fighter was slightly larger than the standard model, and it turned out to be Elite Class!
While 7th Fleet began to encircle and suppress Plague Titan warship, the Trade Federation defense fleet outside Kato-Neimoidia received instructions not to act rashly for the time being.
At the same time, Trade Federation Governor Newt Gunray also received another frightening communication - Darth-Sidious.
"I heard that Plague warship appeared in Kato-Neimoidia..." Darth-Sidious's distorted voice said, "It seems that they are eyeing your property, Newt Gunray."
"Lord Sidious!" Newt Gunray was still full of fear, but for some reason his fear of Darth-Sidious seemed to have lessened a lot since he had a face-to-face conversation with Darth-Malthael. "According to the battle plan, Plague warship is here to help us rescue ourselves."
"Hehehe..." Das-Sidious sneered, and then uttered a few words, "I order you to destroy Plague."
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[Easter egg chapter attached picture 1: Viking fighter.]