The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1029. Frozen World

"Planet Jabul... is another planet that has been poisoned by war." Darth Masail said slowly, "4000 years ago, the Galactic Republic and the Mandalorians launched a tragic war, This is the Mandalorian War... and in order to prevent the invasion of the Mandalorians, the Galactic Republic built a defense line on several resource worlds that are close to each other."

He clicked on the universal tool a few times, and checked the few official records about the Jabul planet, and more came from his own memory.

"This is the Jabul-Vago-Tarnit line of defense. A large number of hyperspace blockers and countless outposts are set up on this line of defense. There are four mobile fleets ready for battle at any time. The purpose is to protect the outside world at that time. The commercial and economic center of the ring is known as the planet Taris in the outer ring of Coruscant." Darth Masail shook his head mockingly, "History has shown countless times that the stronger the line of defense, the more problems will arise. .”

"The planet Taris was destroyed, causing a chain reaction, and a gap appeared in the defense line. The Mandalorians immediately dispatched their Mandalore Armada, and quickly destroyed the popular Jabul-Vago-Tarni The special defense line, and successively occupied the planet Jabul and the planet Taris." Darth Masail spread his hands and said, "Then, there is no more... All the records end here, about this Mandalore The recorded direction of the war has turned to other fronts. But according to my judgment, the planet Jabul is in danger."

"Moore's amulet has the ability to easily destroy the order on a planet...but you have never taken this taboo monster seriously." Lucien Del Rey said.

Darth Malthael sneered and didn't speak.

The spacecraft broke away from the hyperspace channel, and the dark and deep universe reappeared outside the window, and what caught their eyes was a not-so-big planet.

According to the scanning results, this planet is located in the sixth star of this star system, and the distance from the star is relatively far away, so the whole planet is a frozen planet.

The main reason why records can be left here is because the geological environment of this planet is relatively stable, and it has a complete atmosphere. The overall average temperature is between minus 20°C and minus 50°C where life can still survive.

And because the ice on Jabul planet contains a variety of rare elements, many companies come to dig the ice here and transport it back for refining. People who specialize in this life are called 'ice diggers'.

In the Jabul-Vago-Tarnit defense line built by the Galactic Republic back then, the output of Jabul planet just complemented the large-scale mine of another resource world, Vago planet, and the ice shipped from here would be in After melting, the rare elements inside are refined, and then processed into high-strength resistant steel armor plates used by warships on Planet Vago.

However, after this line of defense was completely captured by the Mandalorians in the war between the Galactic Republic and the Mandalorians 4,000 years ago, this planet has completely lost its records, and it is impossible to know what happened.

The planet Taris was destroyed by the orbital bombing of the Sith Empire, and then it was occupied by the Mandalorians. What happened to the planet Jabul?

Although no one knows, the current state of this planet seems to indicate something.

Because this frozen planet... is black.

The scene seen after the spacecraft entered the planet's atmosphere also confirmed this point-the entire planet was covered by a black layer of ice, black, black everywhere.

Black ice, black clouds, black dust.

Not only that, with the end of the planet scan, Darth Malthael and the others looked at the rounded appearance of the planet, and they were also silent.

That's right, this planet is very round, with no peaks, no highlands, and some only an endless ice cover.

Presenting such a scene, there is only one possibility...

"This planet also suffered a devastating orbital bombing. The orbital bombing caused the global ice to completely melt. Therefore, this planet became an ocean planet for a long time. Then in thousands of years It gradually cooled in the time, and then was frozen again." Xerakas said.

"Then these black..." Darth Malthael frowned.

"That's right, the remains of the Rak Ghoul virus." Xerakas said, "The Rak Ghoul virus is very contagious, they can even infect microorganisms in the air. And because of the power of Moore's amulet Under the action of unknown force technology, this virus can survive for a long time. At this time, it was killed by the high temperature of the orbital bombing. These viruses mixed with the dust in the sky, and it became this kind of virus that has not dispersed for thousands of years. The black dust... These dusts dyed the seawater black, and the seawater was frozen, and this place became such a world of black ice."

Darth Malthael sneered, "Orbital bombing again... It seems that after the Mandalorian Crusaders got Moore's amulet, they also brought the Rak Ghoul virus here."

"And when they found they couldn't control the spread of the virus, they destroyed the planet with orbital bombardment," Xerakas added.

"But it also caused us great difficulties! Every part of this planet is the same, except black ice is still black ice. Is there any result from the planetary scan?" Darth Malthael asked.

"The regular scan is over, with no results. The deep scan that was originally used to scan the planet's mineral veins is being started, but this scan may take a few hours." Xerakas said.

Darth Malthael looked at the radar screen of the spacecraft and said coldly: "I don't think we need to wait so long..."

He looked at a small dot that appeared on the screen, "It seems that the industry of ice diggers has not disappeared because of the destruction of Planet Jabul."

It was a signal from a small cargo ship.

"This spaceship is not armed," Xerakas said.

"Then knock him down."

The protoss transport ship suddenly began to accelerate, and soon approached the spaceship that seemed to have undergone several owners and several modifications, and could no longer distinguish the original model of the spaceship, and then rushed over without any explanation!

A panicked voice came from the public communication channel, "Hey! Who are you! What are you trying to do?! Stop! Stop!! Going to hit..."

Bang! ! The two spaceships collided directly!

The protoss transport ship was unscathed, while the cargo ship's left wing was directly broken, and the spaceship shook. If it wasn't for the effect of the anti-gravity device, it would have fallen down long ago.

On the cargo ship, several crew members dressed as smugglers were frantically controlling the spaceship, but at this moment, a voice appeared in their minds, "Stop the ship."

"What?" The spaceship pilot asked subconsciously, but soon found that no one was talking around.

"You should have heard it, land." At this moment, a gloomy voice suddenly appeared beside him, it wasn't the voice in his head, but the voice that sounded directly!

All the crew members were taken aback. Only then did they realize that there was a man wearing a black cloak who looked sinister in the cockpit at some point.

"You are..." Before the driver finished speaking, he was choked by the blood-red lightsaber that was suddenly placed on his neck.