925. Western Reaches Campaign: Overlord Plan (2)
21BBY, April 4th.
The actual controller of Salust, Sothropp Corporation (SoroSuub Corporation) Chief Executive Officer Oola Beolars Bribbs secretly went to Gerrenthum Planet and met with Governor of Dawn Star Planet Tang Xiao. The two parties finalized the final details of the campaign.
On April 5, Fourth Civilization dispatched dozens of small outpost fleets. These small outpost fleets were composed of small and medium-sized warships such as Revenge-class light destroyer and Javelin-class missile frigate. These fleets attacked everywhere and began to massively destroy the outposts Galactic Republic and Interdictor set between Gerrenthum Planet and Eriadu.
On April 6, the planet Nothoiin (Nothoiin) surrendered, and the portal of the hyperspace channel 'Nothoiin Corridor' between Gerrenthum Planet and Eriadu opened.
On April 10, Fourth Civilization fleet destroyed the outpost and 20 Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser arrived at Dolla Planet (Dolla).
But Dolla Planet refused to surrender. This fairly developed planet was even equipped with Planetary Shield, ready to fight to the end.
20 Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, protected by 40 Javelin-class missile frigate and 10 Garda Flak Frigate, began to launch Orbital Bombardment against Planetary Shield of Dolla Planet.
At the same time, Fourth Civilization's other outpost fleets also entered the Dolla galaxy and began to clean up Interdictor and the empty minefields.
Galactic Standard Time That night, a fast fleet consisting of 10 Aquitenes-class light cruiser and 5 Kallak-class light cruiser departed from Eriadu and entered the Dolla system in an attempt to disperse the outpost fleet of Fourth Civilization. A firefight broke out between the two sides.
Among Republic fleet, Aquitenes-class light cruiser relied on its powerful firepower to quickly destroy several Javelin-class missile frigate. But soon, Revenge-class light destroyer and Revelation-class light cruiser among Fourth Civilization fleet joined the battle, and a melee broke out between the two sides.
At the same time, Javelin-class missile frigate began to distance itself, hiding behind an asteroid, and bombed it with powerful long-range missiles. Two Kallak-class light cruiser were hit by missiles and caused heavy damage. Republic fleet could only take off all the limited number of fighter jets it carried to drive away those Javelin-class missile frigate.
There was another melee between the fleets of both sides. Fourth Civilization's combination of Revenge-class and Apocalypse-class was no match for the advanced Aquitenes-class light cruiser. After Javelin-class missile frigate was entangled by fighter jets, they could only ask the main fleet for help.
The main fleet that besieged Dolla Planet detached three Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser ships to help. Republic fleet saw that the situation was not good, and after some harassment, they turned around and retreated.
The fleets of both sides were chasing each other to win or lose, and battles of varying intensity took place at dozens of outposts set up by Galactic Republic among Nothoiin Corridor.
These outposts are small in scale. In addition to hyperspace channel monitoring facilities, they are also equipped with Concussion Missile and Turbolaser cannons. Some even have air mines placed around them to make the attack more difficult.
At the same time, another front, April 8th.
Fourth Civilization Navy Admiral Matt-Hona led Fleet A 30 Kohl-class Battlecruiser and 5 Martha-class heavy cruiser went to Mustafar (Mustafar) and asked this volcanic planet controlled by the Technological Alliance and already joined Confederacy of Independent Systems to provide energy for the fleet.
On April 9, Technological Alliance foreman Watto-Tambo agreed to this request after a video call with Tang Xiao. Mustafar, which has huge geothermal energy, will provide energy supply for Fleet A, and the robot factory on the planet will also provide robots for this battle of Eriadu.
Then Fleet A kept moving forward, heading straight in. Altavis, Sumavar, Rog-Antar couldn't wait to announce their departure from Galactic Republic and join Confederacy of Independent Systems even before the fleet arrived.
The progress on Fleet A's side is beyond imagination. In less than 5 days, a large star field starting from Terminus Planet to the south of Eriadu has fallen into the arms of Confederacy of Independent Systems.
Regarding this, Tang Xiao also sent a special communication to express his gratitude to Count Dooku, because this was all Count Dooku's diplomatic work.
With the addition of more than 10 planets in this star area, Fleet A has greater strategic space. Matt-Hona began to lead the fleet to clean up the outposts and Interdictor set up by Galactic Republic. However, due to the development level of Terminus Planet, Matt-Hona was destined to be unable to undertake the main attack mission.
On April 13, Fleet A dispatched 10 Kohl-class Battlecruiser into Eriadu system, launched 10 50-meter caliber Hypermatter Railgun at the planet at a distance of 20 light minutes from Eriadu, and then turned around and left.
On April 14, 10 projectiles launched by Hypermatter Railgun were intercepted by the orbital defense system as they approached Eriadu without causing any damage. However, these 10 projectiles also became the first batch of firepower fired by Fourth Civilization at Eriadu.
To this end, the Fourth Civilization Propaganda Department even held a grand holiday commemoration event for these 10 shells, with superstars Ailiya-Isabella singing on stage. During this holiday commemoration event, Fourth Civilization's propaganda machine trumpeted the reactionary nature and perverse behavior of Galactic Republic, constantly emphasized the justice and legality of the current war, and once again pushed the people's war enthusiasm to a peak.
At the same time, on the front of Salust, on April 11th, the battle heated up!
Because this is not the first time that Salust has launched an offensive against Agomar under the rule of Sothropp Corporation. Both Salust and Galactic Republic are familiar with each other's offensive and defensive battles.
Sothropp Corporation is a quite powerful industrial giant. When he was with Galactic Republic, he even participated in the manufacturing of Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. However, what they participated in was the old model Dreadnought-class. Otherwise, there would be no need to find Rendili for repairs of Blade Fleet at that time.
They repaired the 35 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers brought over by General Ling last time. Except for 2 of them that needed to continue to be repaired in the dock due to serious damage, the other 33 Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers all set off and cooperated with other warships and fighter jets produced by Salust to launch an attack on Agomar.
The Commander of Salust is Miim Te'Suub, the senior representative of Sothropp Corporation. After receiving so much help from Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, he was in high spirits and couldn't wait to launch an offensive against Agomar.
Republic 18th Army immediately dispatched a fleet to assist, and a large number of fighter jets originally stationed on Agomar immediately took off for combat.
The fleets of both sides opened up their firepower almost as soon as they came up and fought head-on. With the firepower of 33 Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, Galactic Republic only had 6 Hunter Class Battlecruiser and 5 Aquitenes-class light cruiser, so they could only retreat to the outer orbit of the planet for defense.
Six Hunter Class carrier-based aircraft, plus more than 3,000 fighter jets taking off from Agomar, became the protagonists of the battle.
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[Easter Egg Chapter Attached Picture 1: Sothropp Corporation Chief Executive Officer, the actual ruler of Salust, Oola Si-Bulbus.]