The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1610. Protracted War

20BBY, ​​July 21, at 2:00 AM GST.

Dozens of logistics spaceships arrived in the Yago-Dur galaxy. Under the protection of five shield ships, they were connected with the logistics spaceships that arrived earlier, and jointly formed functions including spaceship maintenance, field hospitals, and ammunition processing. logistics base.

During this process, the main fleet of the 20th Army of the Galactic Republic only maintained a fleet of 30 Jaeger-class battlecruisers, 10 Knight-class star destroyers, 1 Commander II-class dreadnought, and 70 small and medium-sized warships. Composition of troops.

These battleships kept firing at the defenders of the Yago-Dur galaxy at a distance of 10 light minutes, but all of them had little effect. Even if they aimed at the planet Yago-Dur, considering the powerful planetary shield on the planet, such firepower was simply not enough.

But at this time, suddenly dozens of bright light beams lit up instantly, shining on the shield ship's expanded shield!

Almost at the same time, the powerful shields deployed by the five shield ships disintegrated instantly! After these powerful light beams were extinguished, a thin red straight light beam and a spiral light beam were still left on the trajectory entangled in it.

"General! It's the opponent's particle light spear!" On the bridge of the Commander II dreadnought, the adjutant came over and said to Gideon Tarkin, "The number is 20! The opponent has at least 20 disaster-class battlecruisers!"

Gideon Tarkin was not intimidated by such a force, he just snorted coldly and said: "Separatism still has a lot of money... 20 disaster-class ships. That's okay, in this way, our other front The pressure will be much better.”

Unlike his elder brother, Gideon Tarkin is a very traditional soldier, and he pays far more attention to the military than to politics. But because of this, his climb is far inferior to that of his brother. Although he has achieved good results in previous wars, he now has to rely on his brother's relationship to become the admiral of the Republic. , commanding a powerful fleet alone.

He then ordered, "Let the shield ship replace the capacitor immediately, and start to keep moving! Don't let the opponent's particle light spear hit us too easily!"

"yes!"

"The replaced capacitors are directly sent towards the planet with the mass launcher! Waste utilization is also pretty good." Gideon continued, "There must be separatist hyperspace probes in the airspace near us to help them Aim at your particle lance! Send fighter jets to clean up! Deploy our own hyperspace detectors at the same time!"

"yes!"

For such a situation, Gideon Tarkin had already expected it before departure. After all, the disaster-class battlecruiser equipped with particle light spears has long been listed as one of the most dangerous warships by the Galactic Republic Navy.

And the supply ships accompanying the shield ships have already prepared a large number of shield capacitors for replacement. And on the umbrella structure of the shield ship, the position of the umbrella handle is where the shield capacitor is installed. There is not much protection in these places where capacitors are installed, and several loading and unloading ports are even directly exposed.

This way, changing shield capacitors is very quick.

Moreover, the overloaded shield capacitors that were replaced were all high-temperature objects with temperatures reaching tens of thousands of degrees. As Gideon Tarkin said, these high-temperature waste capacitors are directly loaded into the mass launcher and launched towards the Yago-Dur galaxy.

In the vacuum of the universe, there is no way to dissipate heat at all, so no matter how far and how fast you fly, these shield capacitors still maintain that super high temperature. This is equivalent to a large number of high-temperature incendiary bombs!

At the same time, the five shield ships also began to move, and the logistics spacecraft under the protection of the shield ships also moved along with them. This movement speed is not fast, it just keeps moving and will not stay in place to be the target of the particle light spear.

And from the hunter-class battlecruisers, more than 2,000 fighter jets took off. These fighter jets carried detection scanners and began to conduct detailed scans of the surrounding airspace. They will seek out and destroy hyperspace probes that the Separatists probably presuppose nearby.

As mentioned before, because the particle light spear is an ultra-long-distance light-speed attack, to aim, you must rely on the hyperspace detector to achieve real-time target feedback. It's hard to aim.

For example, in the current battlefield, the particle light spear has to fly for 10 minutes to reach the target. If the conventional detection method is used, even if it is a light-speed sensor, it will take 10 minutes to scan the other party's information and send it back. Then fire the particle light spear again, that's another 10 minutes, and once again, it's 20 minutes, the particle light spear is point-to-point attack again, in 20 minutes, the opponent can wash their face and brush their teeth before avoiding it.

So as long as the hyperspace detectors deployed by the Separatists are cleaned up, then the power of the particle light spear can be limited to the greatest extent!

This is the countermeasure researched by the military experts of the Supreme Strategic Command of the Galactic Republic against the particle light spear!

Compared with the Ankron-class Titan battleship, which is composed of multiple systems, there is only a single system of particle light spears. There are still many ways to target it.

Just like how to fight the Titan battleship Xuanwu now, the Supreme Strategic Command has been arguing for several months without any result.

According to Gideon Tarkin's instructions, the Republic's 20th Army Fleet continued to maintain a distance of 10 light minutes, and continued to shoot at the Yago-Dur galaxy, and also fired the replaced waste capacitors there. In short, it is disgusting no matter what, but always keep a distance and never take the initiative to attack.

And he also built a simple logistics base, which keeps moving at any time, and clears out the surrounding hyperspace detectors to reduce the hit rate of the particle light spear.

The main function of this logistics base is to serve as a material transfer station, and he has established two such material transfer stations in the unmanned galaxies around the planet Yago-Dur!

The base of the unmanned galaxy is used as a second-level transit, sorting out a large amount of materials transported from the rear and sending them to the front-line first-level transit.

In this series of material transfers, the sufficient supply of logistics materials is guaranteed to the greatest extent.

That's right! After Gideon Tarkin studied the results of Octavian-Grant's previous attack on the Yago-Dur galaxy, he came up with the combat policy after careful consideration-protracted war!

Instead of sitting in the back office and thinking about how to deploy a fleet to launch an attack in this three-body galaxy with very complicated gravitational and electromagnetic fields, why not just go there, stand firm on the spot, and slowly think about how to fight!