The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2222. The Fall of Planet Rosa

Three months have passed since the Galactic Empire decided to completely resolve the Trade Alliance and start an undeclared war.

The Trade Federation put up very determined resistance, and the situation was tragic.

At the beginning of the war, the Galactic Empire misjudged the Trade Federation's determination to resist. Therefore, when it first attacked the planet Rosa in the core circle and the Vulture planet in the deep core, it encountered fierce resistance, and the offensive was frustrated.

But soon, under the leadership of Darth Vader, the imperial army launched a more violent attack, and used all possible means!

The Imperial fleet conducted a fierce orbital bombardment of the Vulture Planet. The powerful artillery fire of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer bombed the entire planet's factories and military facilities near the equator over and over again. So much so that later on, the dense blackness and flames on the equatorial part of the Vulture Planet could be seen from outer space.

On the ground battlefield, tens of millions of robot armies were destroyed. The remains of these robots were left piled one after another, turning into terrifying metal plains.

On September 16, Arakyd Industries, a robot company on the planet Vulture, announced its unconditional surrender and withdrew from the Trade Alliance.

Darth Vader showed no mercy at all. He personally entered the headquarters of Alacord Industries, arrested more than 40 of the company's top leaders, and then publicly executed them!

Three days later, Aracod Industries announced its reorganization, and all remaining assets and industrial systems were merged into the Galactic Empire. This company with a history of thousands of years was once extremely glorious. As one of the founders of the Trade Alliance, it is also known as the three major robot manufacturers in the galaxy together with Industrial Automaton and Cybot Galactica. .

But now, only the ruins of the former glory remain. The entire vulture planet was almost destroyed in the war! This planet, which despite environmental damage due to over-industrialization, is the largest robot production center in the galaxy, has now become a metal garbage dump.

And on Planet Rosa, the situation is even more tragic!

In order to capture this planet, Darth Vader brazenly launched Order 37! According to this order, Imperial soldiers will fight under the assumption that the combat target is sheltered by a large number of civilians, and in order to ensure that the combat goal is achieved, Imperial soldiers will be allowed to fire on civilians!

Although Torreso Borre, the former leader of Planet Rosa, chose to commit suicide publicly in order to awaken the people's will to resist, this did not allow the hard-hearted Darth Vader to terminate Order 37.

After the fleet of the Galactic Empire broke through the planetary shield of Planet Rosa, they immediately began an extremely cruel landing operation. Moreover, the Star Destroyers also carried out orbital bombing. Although they did not target densely populated cities, they still carried out devastating blows to many industrial areas.

And in the subsequent street fighting within the city, even if orbital bombing was not used, the Galactic Empire's army still used bombers, small spaceships and long-range heavy artillery to carry out uninterrupted strikes. And in this process, there was no concern at all whether there were civilians in the city who could not be evacuated.

During the course of the war on Planet Rosa, the Galactic Empire carried out an equal killing! As long as something that can move appears in front of you, just shoot it!

Counting from the start of the offensive in July, the capital of Planet Rosa only lasted until August when it was captured. But the resistance in other cities on the planet continues.

It was not until October 24th that the flames of resistance were extinguished in the last city on the planet Rosa that was still resisting.

During this war that lasted for more than three months, more than 170 large cities on the planet Rosa were destroyed, almost all industrial areas were plowed to the ground, and raging fires ignited in agricultural production areas. Thousands of years of construction on this once developed planet were destroyed.

What's even more cruel is that the total population of the planet once reached 14 billion, but when the planet completely collapsed, there were only less than 6 billion left. In other words, the number of people who died directly or indirectly in this war reached a terrifying 8 billion!

And in the foreseeable future, due to crustal activity caused by famine, environmental pollution, and orbital bombing, at most one-fifth of these 6 billion people will survive in the next few years. In other words, only one out of ten people on Planet Rosa can survive in the end!

This cruel war was widely publicized by the propaganda agencies of the Galactic Empire as a typical case, hoping to serve as a warning to the monkeys. That cruel picture was constantly being spread on the holographic network, and the text next to it was marked: The fate of the rebels!

However, in order to achieve quick success in this war, the Galactic Empire invested a large number of warships in the attack. The number of capital ships participating in the battle on Planet Rosa reached 300, and the army's strength exceeded 7 million. In order to ensure the supply of this huge army, the Galactic Empire used more than 20,000 transport ships.

Fortunately, the battlefield is located in the core circle of the Milky Way. If it were in the outer star region, even the Galactic Empire would not be able to withstand such horrific consumption.

During the course of the war, a total of 27 capital ships were destroyed by orbital defense fire, more than 90 ships were injured and returned to the factory, and the Army lost more than 2 million troops.

However, such losses did not stop the Galactic Empire.

In fact, in September after the surrender of the Vulture Planet, Darth Vader immediately launched the next phase of the offensive. At this time, the ground battlefield on the planet Rosa was still fighting fiercely, but there was no resistance in the outer space, so he immediately put the huge fleet into the attack on several other planets.

The war against the Trade Union began to enter the second stage - attacking the wealth world!

The Trade Union has a total of three largest wealth worlds in the core circle, Cato Neimoidia, Deko Neimoidia, and Koru Neimoidia. Among them, the wealth on the planet Cato Neimoidia is the most considerable.

Of course, in order to protect these wealth worlds, the defense force invested by the Trade Union is simply incomparable to other places!

For example, on the planet Cato Neimoidia, in addition to installing the most advanced and largest planetary shield system, more than 3,000 orbital defense systems are deployed along the equator. There are more than 400 armed space stations in the outer orbit of the planet. And there are more than 7,000 Gaussian defense platforms built with technology imported from the Principality of Dawn!!

Facing such a hedgehog-like defense, if it is a head-on confrontation, the final loss ratio may be so great that even Palpatine will have a myocardial infarction.

Therefore, Darth Vader proposed his own combat plan - special operations!