837. The Lost Fleet (8)
This news shocked Galactic Senate, because the Givin has been very firm in declaring its status as a neutral galaxy from the beginning of the war until now. They did not allow Confederacy of Independent Systems's spaceship to pass by, nor did they allow Galactic Republic's spacecraft to pass by.
It is precisely because of this that the Yag-Dur galaxy has become a wall between the jurisdictions of the Galactic Republic 18th Army, 19th Army and 20th Army.
But now, it is revealed that the Givin is building warships on a large scale in the Yag-Dur system?
Faced with Galactic Republic's questioning, members of the Givin stated that they built warships entirely for self-protection, and they guaranteed that the warships they built had never been used in war.
However, Speaker Sheev-Palpatine, who had already smelled it, refused to give in. He sternly requested to send an investigation team to investigate what the Givin had done in his own galaxy. If it was to produce warships, what warships were produced and how many were produced?
The Givin was naturally unwilling to kill him, claiming that Galactic Republic's behavior trampled on their sovereignty, and they resolutely resisted it. Moreover, this behavior of Galactic Republic is tantamount to a slap in the face of all neutral planets, ignoring Galactic Republic Constitution and carrying out power and dictatorship in the name of war.
The two sides were quarreling in the parliament, but the Givin was obviously in the wrong on this matter. The representative of Trade Federation, Lott Dude, had just experienced Plague's raid on Nubian Planet, and now he could not protect himself and did not dare to speak up to support. Only the representative of the InterGalactic Banking Clan came out to argue a few words, but his voice was quickly drowned out.
At this time, 20th Army Governor Octavian had no time to continue quarreling with the Givin. He led a fleet of 15 Hunter Class Battlecruiser across the Jager-Dur system and continued to move towards Halm system.
But at this time Fourth Civilization took the lead. They responded earlier than Galactic Republic and were closer to Halm system. Fleet C led by General Trench had arrived here two days ago. There were only a few small colonies on the planet Halm, and they surrendered immediately without any resistance.
Halm system was originally the jurisdiction of the Galactic Republic's 19th Army. After the destruction of the 19th Army, Fourth Civilization was too lazy to pay attention to this planet. They simply declared neutrality. But now, the administrative officials of Halm Planet have never imagined that their own, a remote and indifferent planet, could actually attract such a huge fleet to arrive?
After General Trench occupied the planet Halm, he immediately commandeered the only spaceport on the planet, and began to deploy a defense line, build Gauss weapon platform, and arrange Space Mine Array ground, waiting for the arrival of Republic fleet.
At the same time, he also summoned the best pilots and wanted to send the three Luukri-Hok-class battleships filled with Gran Marines to Blade Fleet.
21BBY, January 14th, Galaxy Governor of the 20th Republic Army Octavian-Grant led the fleet to Halm system and exchanged fire with General Trench's defense fleet. Facing the iron barrel array arranged by General Trench, Republic fleet returned without success. Neither side had an advantage. After a melee, Octavian withdrew the fleet to the asteroid belt of Halm system for repairs.
On January 15, Fourth Civilization leader Tang Xiao arrived at Halm system on Cun Te's Astro-class frigate. However, he did not participate in this offensive and defensive battle. After meeting General Trench, he returned to Cun Te's spaceship and began to think of a way to reach the location of Blade Fleet through this area that was not connected to the hyperspace channel but was 11.7 light years away.
In fact, strictly speaking, it is not that there is no hyperspace channel connection here, but that the hyperspace here is very unstable and intermittent. If the hyperspace connection is suddenly interrupted during the jump of the spacecraft, in order to prevent accidents, the protective equipment on the hyperspace engine will force the spacecraft to exit hyperspace and appear in the void of the universe, waiting for the next connection.
Because when the hyperspace channel is sailing, although it has to avoid the mass projections of those stars and planets, the coordinates of the hyperspace channel are also determined based on these mass projections. But Blade Fleet is in a void without any stars, so it is naturally more difficult to locate.
Fourth Civilization The escort fleet that was sent there before was to seize a good opportunity of hyperspace connection and then fly over.
As for Shen Qiaoen, he uses the Force for navigation, so even if there is no hyperspace channel, he can keep the spacecraft in hyperspace and sail at a relative speed exceeding the speed of light.
At the same time, on the Blade Fleet side, the battle between the fleet led by Sefrans-Tann and the fleet of Isi-Kos has been extremely fierce.
Unlike Halm system, who are still testing each other and are unwilling to lose too much strength, Sefrans-Tann and Isi-Kos are completely unyielding in front of the huge cake of Blade Fleet.
However, now the balance of victory has begun to tilt towards Sefrans-Tann. Republic fleet was attacked by a sudden appearance of a large group of Z-95 fighter jets, and soon fell into chaos. All warships were almost fighting independently, and were hit by a large number of Proton Torpedo. The shield was in danger.
Then they were attacked by Fourth Civilization fleet, and soon the shields of two Hunter Class Battlecruiser were penetrated, and then they were severely damaged and caught fire under more attacks, and they had to flee in a hurry towards the rear of the line.
The situation of the other three Hunter Class is also very bad. This battle has reached the edge of failure. They are slowly retreating and want to evacuate the area where Blade Fleet is located.
At this moment, Shen Qiaoen finally couldn't sit still anymore. He connected to the communication of Isi-Kos and said loudly, "Stop retreating! We should continue to stay in the formation of Blade Fleet!"
"Don't you know that the Hangar Platforms of those battleships Blade Fleet are all occupied by Separatists?" The situation was urgent, and it was even more impossible for Yisi Kos to give Shen Qiaoen a good look.
"No! They just occupied the hangar! They did not control the warships! Immediately send Marines to land on those Blade Fleet warships. They can control every one!" Shen Qiaoen said.
Only then did Isi-Kos wake up from a dream, and quickly commanded all the fighters to withdraw and cover Marines's landing on Blade Fleet.
The biggest advantage they have is that they can get the keys to the battleships Blade Fleet. They can start the battleships directly without cracking them!
"After starting the engine, give priority to supplying energy to the turret! This will allow the battleship's turret to fire within 20 minutes!" Shen Qiaoen continued.
"Okay!" Is-Kos immediately made arrangements.
A large number of Clone Trooper took the shuttle and began to land Blade Fleet's Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser under the cover of V-19 Torrent fighter.
Seeing this scene, Sefrans-Tann smiled coldly, "Haha, putting the cart before the horse! Ignore those shuttles! Continue to attack Hunter Class Battlecruiser with all your strength!"
"If this continues, we will still lose." Shen Qiaoen looked at the battlefield situation map and kept calculating the outcome of the battle, "There is only one way!"
"What can I do?" During the communication, Isi-Kos didn't care about anything else and asked quickly.
Shen Qiaoen looked at Plague's broken body and said harshly, "Kill Sefrans-Tann!"