The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2334. The First Battle of Fangduo (1)

While Dunne-Wessex was planning a counterattack, Severance Tann launched a long-planned offensive against the industrial center of the Galactic Empire and the fortress planet that prevented the Kingdom of Dawn from invading the inner ring - Fondo ( Fondor's attack has finally begun!

At 6 a.m. on August 20th, Galaxy Standard Time, the Dawn Kingdom’s fleet set off from the planet Yago-Dur and entered a hyperspace jump state.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, with a burst of white light, the Kingdom of Dawn fleet left the hyperspace state, arrived at an area 60 light minutes away from the Fangduo planet, and began to reorganize the fleet.

Severance Tann brought almost all the main battleships of the Kingdom of Dawn's first and second task forces, with a total of 900 main battleships! Follow-up forces continued to arrive, and by 21:00 on August 20, the number of various auxiliary warships and medium and small warships had reached more than 5,000. Among them, 250 are the most advanced and powerful Minotaur-class heavy cruisers!

The first Fangduo planet battle broke out completely!

The Fondo planet is the second planet in the Fondo galaxy. The current location of the Kingdom of Dawn fleet is roughly near the orbit of the third planet. Severance Tann deployed her fleet within the gravity well of Planet Three, allowing the fleet to maintain the orbit of Planet Three.

According to the current positions between the orbits of Planet Fangduo and Planet No. 3, the two planets will be roughly in the same direction of the star in the center of the galaxy in the next two years.

The Kingdom of Dawn fleet, which also includes 20 Raz-class heavy engineering ships, began to build a space port around Planet 3. At the same time, special mining engineering ships were also dispatched to begin landing on the desolate Planet 3, and established planetary mines and some heavy-duty facilities.

It seemed that Severance Tann was determined to fight a protracted battle. But something strange is that the facilities she arranged and the permanent location of the fleet are all on the other side of Planet Three. In other words, unless you poke your head out, Planet Three is blocking her fleet and Fangduo Planet. between.

The fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn includes 2 Ankeron-class Titan battleships, 10 Apocalypse-class battleships, 10 Archon-class aircraft carriers, 20 Sova-class aircraft carriers, 450 Hells Angel-class battlecruisers, Doomsday Sand 80 Field-class battlecruisers, 50 Paladin-class battlecruisers, 60 Catastrophe-class battlecruisers, 100 Cole-class battlecruisers, 50 Dunov-class battlecruisers, and 100 Behemoth-class battlecruisers Ship!

Such a powerful and terrifying fleet is the first time the fourth civilization has appeared since it came to this galaxy! And because of the power of this fleet during the battle on the planet Kira, the commander of the Galactic Empire fleet had no intention of taking the initiative.

Octavian Grant, the governor of the 20th Army of the Galactic Empire, personally took command on the planet Fondo. At the same time, Admiral Gideon Tarkin, the younger brother of the Governor of the Fourth Army, Wilhuff Tarkin, also served as the deputy in this battle. Commander in chief.

The commander-in-chief is naturally Darth Vader, but the fleet he leads is still being repaired and assembled in the center of the empire and has not arrived at the Fondo planet.

Currently, the fleet stationed on Fangduo Planet includes 1,300 capital ships, including one Executor-class super Star Destroyer USS Morak as the flagship, and 6 Commander II-class dreadnoughts. In terms of fleet composition, it is mainly Imperial-class destroyers. The number of starships reached more than 800.

At the same time, Fangduo Planet is also ready. The highest level of planetary shield has been activated, and orbital defense systems almost all over the planet are in standby, including more than 120 sets of V-150 Planet Defender orbital cannons.

In the outer synchronous orbit of the planet, there are also a large number of space docks, armed space stations, space ports, and a large number of missile platforms.

Not only that, on Fangduo Planet, a completely factory-oriented planet, countless factories have been under construction day and night to send all kinds of war materials, including warships and missiles, to outer space.

At a distance of 5 to 10 light minutes from the planet, more than 120 billion aerial mines are deployed!

And in order to meet the huge material needs of Fangduo Planet and the navigation needs of the huge fleet of 3,000 capital ships that the imperial military is planning, Fangduo Planet has begun to build a hyperspace stabilizer.

This kind of hyperspace stabilizer was invented by Quat Dynamics Shipyard and was once used to raid the Model Sector. It is an improved version of the device that can stabilize the hyperspace channel. The improved version of the hyperspace stabilizer can already be used on ordinary hyperspace channels. Its main function is actually very simple. It uses the built-in navigation system to help the passing fleet perform navigation calculations. It can also stabilize the hyperspace caused by large-scale navigation. fluctuation.

In other words, the effect of all ships jumping through the hyperspace stabilizer is equivalent to an increase in the level of the hyperspace engine by about two levels. Hyperspace jumps are faster and farther, and the number of warships that can navigate is greater.

However, compared with Stargate Technology, this device is a beggar's version of a beggar's version. It is already the highest hyperspace technology in the Galactic Empire.

But now it is used on the Fangduo planet. This hyperspace stabilizer, which is expected to be completed within half a month, will bring an endless stream of reinforcements and supplies to the planet.

The Galactic Empire Military Supreme Command issued a death order to the defenders of Fangduo Planet: defend the planet to the death, do not retreat a single step, and completely block the separatist fleet here!

Once the planet falls, all officers above the rank of captain, from the governor of the star region Octavian Grant, will be killed! !

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At 3 a.m. on August 21, 50 Paladin-class battlecruisers and 60 Disaster-class battlecruisers began to fire at Fangduo Planet!

The dazzling light of the particle light spear began to light up, and 110 beams of light pierced Fangduo Planet and surrounding space facilities.

100 Cole-class battlecruisers also bombarded the planet with their 40-meter-caliber hypermatter electromagnetic cannons. Although the speed of the giant projectiles fired by the hypermatter electromagnetic cannons is almost a turtle's speed compared to the particle light spears, it has an unlimited range after all, and it can still play a role in bombing planetary defense facilities.

The bombardment of particle light spears and hypermatter electromagnetic cannons set off a series of violent explosions on the space facilities around Fangduo Planet! Occasionally, attacks that landed on the planetary shield would also cause a wave of energy ripples.

However, attacks of this magnitude could not shake the defense of Fangduo Planet. Almost at the same time as the bombing began, countless densely packed engineering ships took off to repair damaged parts, replace overloaded shield capacitors, and weld cracked main armor belts.

Everything was so orderly.

In the face of Fangduo Planet's huge and almost unlimited industrial production capacity, their defense power will only grow stronger and stronger!

This painless bombing continued. However, at about 15 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, something strange happened!

The hyperspace sensor of the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, the flagship of the Imperial Fleet, Morak, suddenly sounded an alarm, and then less than a minute later, an armed space station outside Fangduo Planet suddenly exploded! !

This explosion was so violent that it destroyed this large space station with a length of more than 10,000 meters in almost an instant! The diameter of the fireball produced at the moment of the explosion was almost close to 20,000 meters! The power of the explosion even affected several other space facilities around! There was also an Imperial-class Star Destroyer nearby, which was directly blown away in the explosion, and the deflector shield was directly shattered. The warship kept spinning and flying for more than 3,000 kilometers before it barely stopped!

The horrific explosion stunned everyone, including the Star District Governor Octavian Grant and Deputy Commander Gideon Tarkin.

What on earth is this? What happened? How did it happen?

No one could answer them, only the countless burning fragments and debris flew around the area where the explosion just happened.

Such a huge space station is gone just like that?