The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1766. Taboo Experiment (Part 1)

Pah brought three other dark masters - the forty-year-old human male master Mulumba, the younger Farin female master Bolingi, and the man who had felt Cricket's despair before and almost fell into madness. Weequay Master Banjara, a total of four Dark Masters, plus their 10 Dark Jedi Knights and 5 Dark Jedi Apprentices, are preparing to enter the previous bombing center.

They mobilized a huge HAVw A6 Juggernaut (Clone turbo tank), and also carried 100 fully armed clone soldiers and 8 reconnaissance drones.

The Idol-class turbine tank was developed and built by Kuat Power Shipyard. It is a very huge armored personnel carrier, 49.4 meters long, 22 meters high, and 19.6 meters wide. It lives up to its name and is indeed a giant. And it is one of the few army units that is directly built by Kuat Power Dockyard, rather than being delegated to their subsidiary, Rosana Heavy Engineering Company, which specializes in producing army equipment.

This is also the largest armored vehicle used by the military from the Galactic Republic to the current Galactic Empire, except for the huge SPHA-T self-propelled artillery.

This turbine tank is driven by 5 pairs of huge steel wheels and is equipped with a huge and powerful suspension device. Although it is huge, the maximum speed on flat ground can even reach 160 kilometers per hour! And some ordinary obstacles will be crushed directly by those five pairs of huge steel wheels!

The Idol-class turbine tank is equipped with a heavy laser cannon, a high-speed close-defense laser cannon, two anti-infantry blaster cannons, and two 20-unit rocket launchers with 480 rounds of ammunition. The firepower is also very powerful.

It can carry up to 300 soldiers, and its huge body can also carry some small airspeed boats, hover motorcycles, and can also be used as a drone platform.

Once the idol-class turbine tank appears on the battlefield, it will be a crushing presence, and nothing can stop its progress.

It's just that this armored unit is still too bulky, not because it's not fast, but because of its huge turning radius. Coupled with its high cost and inflexible combat deployment methods, this powerful equipment, which was delivered for use in the early days of the Clone Wars, gradually became unpopular with the military as the war progressed.

To put it simply, although the God-class turbine tank can carry up to 300 soldiers, on the other hand, you really need 300 soldiers to fully realize its value. Otherwise, why would I use such a huge unit if I only need to carry 50 soldiers?

What's more, although the idol-class has powerful firepower and even has a special close-range laser cannon, it is still very powerless when it is hit by an air attack. Once it is destroyed, it basically means that a company of soldiers will go to the sky together. Who can bear such a huge loss?

What's more, on the battlefield, whether it is the Confederation of Independent Systems, the Principality of Dawn, or the current Geth, they all like to attack such huge units first.

But now that Pah is leading these dark masters and a team to rescue Cricket, the turbine tank is the right choice.

Anyway, this place has just suffered a powerful orbital bombing, and many terrains have been plowed, making it easier to pass. And it is basically impossible for geth to suddenly rush out from all directions.

Pach and the others rode the turbine tank and quickly advanced for more than ten kilometers. Along the way, they could see scorched earth everywhere, and even a sea of ​​​​fire in many places. The air is filled with harmful gases, which are harmful substances produced by the explosion after being fired by the turbolaser cannon.

Turbolasers use explosive gas as a medium. It would be fine if it was just an ordinary blaster rifle. After all, it only contains a very small amount of explosive gas. But as a ship-borne weapon, the turbolaser cannon has an amazing explosive gas content! If it explodes, it will react with the surrounding air and cause serious damage to the environment.

This is one of the huge hazards caused by orbital bombing. Because of this, the Galactic Republic previously banned orbital bombing in order to protect the limited habitable planets from being destroyed in unrestricted wars.

Of course, it was the Galactic Republic itself that was the first to break this rule.

The idol-class turbine tank's steel wheels and huge body simply ignored these things. Even if it drove through the sea of ​​​​fire, it would not have any impact. But now due to orbital bombing, the surrounding electromagnetic environment is very chaotic, communications have been greatly affected, and even radar is unreliable.

There was too much smoke around, which really affected the vision, so Pah asked Bangala to enter the watchtower and raised the watchtower. In such an environment, thermal imaging, infrared, radar waves and other detection methods are not suitable, and visual inspection is the only way.

In order to expand the field of vision, the turbine tank has a retractable watchtower that can rise to a maximum height of more than 8 meters. With the 22-meter-high body, it can overlook the surroundings from a position of 30 meters. In fact, this design is just a remedial measure to make up for the fact that the turbine tank is too large and difficult to adapt to the complex battlefield environment.

High-power searchlights were also lit around the car body, barely illuminating the surroundings. Dark masters such as Pach also enter a meditative state, using their perception of the Force to find their targets.

Burning flames, incomplete fragments, melted ground, and even lava flowing... Under the extremely high temperature, you can even see some metal fragments burning that can no longer distinguish their original appearance! No wreckage or larger parts could be seen nearby, and everything was reduced to nothing in the orbital bombardment.

In this hell-like environment, it is impossible for anyone to enter under normal circumstances. However, they can only choose to come in at this time. If they continue to delay, they don't know what Krickit's condition will become, and more Geth reinforcements may arrive and drag them into the quagmire again.

They searched in this hell-like environment for a day, and even flew reconnaissance drones to explore the surroundings, but they found nothing and could only rest in the tank temporarily.

At this time, Pah and the others did not know that far away in the Endor galaxy, a bright red dagger-shaped exclusive fighter jet rose into the sky, jumped into hyperspace, and flew in this direction.

The next day, Pach and the others searched everywhere again. But there were flames and smoke everywhere and still nothing.

Pah frowned, thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "Fire and bomb!"

"What are you going to do? Pah." asked the Dark Master Boringi.

"We also lost track of Cricket in the induction of the Force, but I'm pretty sure he's still alive. Maybe he was temporarily hidden... I don't know why." Pah said, "If we fire bombardments everywhere, Maybe it will disturb him and make him reveal his traces.”

"I don't think this is a good idea... If Cricket is really important to the geth, then the geth will undoubtedly send troops to respond now. This is tantamount to exposing our own position." Bolingi Shaked his head.

"It doesn't matter! Even if the Geth reinforcements come, just crush them!" Dark Master Mulumba said with a ferocious expression.

"Fire!" Pah ordered decisively, "Let Bangarra keep an eye on me! They all once studied under Windu, and the Force and Cricket have a deeper bond!"