The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1513. Harassment Operation (Part 2)

The planet Ze-Heth is home to the ZeHethbra, a warlike and tyrannical race that looks a lot like the Ursines, and the ZeHethbras often serve as bounty hunters throughout the galaxy and mercenaries.

It is worth mentioning that because of their powerful combat capabilities, the Zehebras were selected by Darth Plagueis as several options for the clone army. The Zehebra are so strong and powerful that their thick fur is impenetrable even by machetes. To some extent, it is a weakened version of the Wookiees, but their reproductive ability is much stronger than that of the Wookiees.

It's just that when it comes to specific choices, Darth-Plagueis later chose the Injoli with more abnormal physical abilities. After that, it was replaced by more adaptable humans.

After the outbreak of the war, the planet Ze-Hess firmly stood on the side of the Galactic Republic. In fact, it was also because the Galactic Republic judged that if the Zehebras joined the separatism, they would provide them with a large number of soldiers that could counter the clone soldiers. .

However, this time, when Rear Admiral Malcolm Granger led a guerrilla fleet composed of 6 disaster-class battlecruisers and 10 Hells Angel-class battlecruisers appeared within the gravitational circle of the planet Ze-Hess. At that time, the powerful Zehebra had to bow his head and ask for help from the 17th Army of the Republic.

But now the Governor of the 17th Army of the Republic, Lynch Houser, is explaining to Speaker Palpatine the reasons for this fiasco in Coruscant, and at the same time he is paying bribes up and down to try to reduce his responsibility. At the moment, Admiral Kourney, the commander of the 17th Army Navy, is also counting the large amount of credit points bribed to him by the Kuat Power Dockyard, and then cheating with members of their investigation team, tampering with the combat records, and making this A disastrous defeat redefined as a 'loser victory'.

It is very true that power corrupts.

The 17th Legion of the Republic was originally just a very marginalized legion. It didn't have many fleets or troops. Even within its jurisdiction, there weren't many resource-rich planets.

The only thing worthy of praise may be the Republic Naval Academy on the planet Vogel, the capital.

But now, with the progress of the war, the 17th Army has become the front line of the Galactic Republic to resist the Fourth Civilization and the Titan battleship Xuanwu, which makes Governor Lynch Houser and his subordinates suddenly have a very powerful strength overnight. , The fleet strength in their hands can even rank among the top five in the Republic.

The expansion of power also led to the expansion of desire. Not surprisingly, Lynch Houser and Admiral Kourney quickly became corrupt under the flattery and money bribes of the nobles in the inner circle.

Coupled with the unfavorable previous operations, the very urgent request for help from the planet Ze-Hess was ignored by the 17th Army!

One day later, Major General Malcolm Granger's guerrilla fleet began to blockade the planet Zehes, and seized almost all transport ships on the planet, and at the same time issued an ultimatum, demanding that the Zehebras surrender within 3 days.

The time of 3 days is very interesting, because with the strength of the guerrilla fleet in the hands of Rear Admiral Malcolm Granger, it only takes a few hours to destroy the resistance of Ze-Hess planet-you know, the Galactic Republic is very important to Zehes. Barbaric and warlike non-human races such as the Bura people have always been very unpopular, especially after the decree to cancel the local defense fleet was issued, planets such as Ze-Hess are basically undefended.

Representatives of the Zehebra people petitioned everywhere in the Congress of the Republic, trying to win reinforcements from the Republic, but how could anyone take care of them now? Speaker Palpatine is busy dealing with the impeachment of the Bail Organa faction, and the governor and admiral of the 17th Army are busy cooperating with the Kuat Power Shipyard, deceiving the upper and lower.

Therefore, the Zehebras, a race that has little say in the political arena of the Republic, were directly ignored.

So less than a day after the ultimatum was issued, the Zehebras surrendered.

Perhaps for the Galactic Republic, the planet Ze-Hess has no strategic value, but for the Fourth Civilization, after the surrender of the Ze-Hess planet, it is equivalent to the space between the Eliadu galaxy and the Marathal galaxy. A bridge has been built!

You must know that because of the previous battles between the planet Marathal and the planet Harrenkar, these two planets belonged to the fourth civilization. The transportation between the planets of Eriadu is not convenient, and the planet of Harenkar does not have a stable hyperspace channel connection.

But now after the surrender of the planet Ze-Hess, the connection between the planet Marathal and the planet Eriadu has finally been established! Because of the existence of a large electromagnetic nebula in the Malastal Fjord, there is only one direction for hyperspace navigation, and this direction is exactly facing the planet Ze-Hess!

Thus, after gaining a more stable rear, the guerrilla fleet led by Major General Malcolm Granger began to expand its range of activities, and dozens of surrounding planets were all attacked by him.

At the same time, as if in order to cooperate with Ling Liang's military action, the Prime Minister of the Fourth Civilization, Francis Underwood, suddenly made a public speech. He directly expressed his support for the Jedi Order!

Underwood said that although the Jedi Knights have always been the enemy of the Confederation of Independent Galaxies, they are full of respect for this enemy. Now that the Jedi Knights have suddenly suffered an unwarranted disaster, the Confederation of Independent Galaxies is deeply saddened.

He said that the Confederation of Independent Galaxies is an inclusive regime, and Dawn Planet has established an open academy of the Force—Holy Advent Academy. Now they very much welcome the Jedi Knights to take refuge in the Dawn Planet, and the Dawn Planet is also very willing to provide shelter for the Jedi Knights.

At the same time, Earl Dooku, the supreme leader of the Confederation of Independent Galaxies, also made a similar speech, welcoming the Jedi Knights to the Confederation of Independent Galaxies.

This is Count Dooku!

If Francis Underwood's words made waves, Earl Dooku's statement was tantamount to directly detonating a nuclear bomb!

You must know that Earl Dooku had unparalleled prestige when he was a member of the Jedi Order. Even Master Windu at that time could only be said to be a powerful figure, and his reputation could not be compared with Earl Dooku. .

Now that Count Dooku said this, he believed that many escaped Jedi knights would change their minds and join their former elders.

This behavior made Palpatine, who was in a state of desperation, extremely furious. He directly issued an order to give separatism a little color!