The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2335, Secret Weapon (Part 1)

Octavian Grant is usually a very calm person, but even he is horrified by such a scene. He rushed over, grabbed the communicator, and screamed hysterically: "Tell me what happened! Tell me!!"

Admiral Gideon Tarkin, who was now commanding the enemy on the flagship Morak, was also out of control. At this moment, he was shouting to the sensor department, "Where are the scan results! Give me the scan results immediately! Quick!"

"I don't care what it is, I must find it out immediately and organize a counterattack immediately! This kind of attack must never happen again!!" Octavian Grant shouted without waiting for the answer.

He was really a little scared just now. Such a huge armed space station was destroyed directly like this! You must know that it is not an ordinary armed space station, but a large armed space station array connected by several Golan I and II armed space stations!

Like the Kingdom of Dawn, the Galactic Empire also widely uses armed space stations for defense, but the development direction of the two is different.

The fixed defense system of the Kingdom of Dawn is based on a small but huge number of interstellar bases as the core, and a large number of Gaussian artillery platforms as auxiliary. Compared with interstellar bases whose single side length often exceeds 10,000 meters, the Gaussian artillery platform is only 45 meters long, which is very small and can only play a role of containment in battle.

The fixed defense system of the Galactic Empire is based on a large number of medium and large armed space stations with a length of 1,000 to 3,000 meters. The main model they use is the Golan series armed space station designed and manufactured by Golan Construction Corp.

This kind of armed space station does not actually have much technical content, that is, a group of reactors and some turbolaser cannons. However, because of the size, it can still exert very powerful firepower.

Of course, because of this, the profit margin of this space station is not high. In the past, there were armed space stations produced by Rendili Interstellar Power Company to compete. After Rendili defected, super industrial giants such as Kuat Power Dock were not very interested in this, so Golan Company basically included most of the armed space station construction in the Galactic Empire.

Now the Golan series of armed space stations have been from Type I to Type VIII, with many different models.

Ever since the battle between the Galactic Republic and the Dawn Planet during the Clone Wars, they have deeply felt the lack of firepower of fixed defense facilities. Therefore, sometimes, in order to strengthen the defense, the defenders will connect some space stations to form a super-large space station array with a span of 10,000 to 20,000 meters.

And this time, what was destroyed by the mysterious attack was an array of three Golan I and two Golan II space stations connected in series. Such a loss is of course terrifying, because this is an attack! If such attacks come a few more times, then this battle will not have to be fought directly!

"General... The scan is complete. It is... a nuclear bomb. A super-large nuclear bomb..." An officer in the sensor department looked pale, raised his head from the screen, and said to Admiral Gideon Tarkin.

"Nuclear bomb?" Gideon Tarkin felt incredible, "How could a nuclear bomb hit us?!"

Nuclear bombs are an old and inefficient weapon. They are old because they have been around for tens of thousands of years. They are inefficient because simple explosive nuclear bombs have no practical significance. In terms of power, nuclear bombs are not as good as proton torpedoes, and in terms of energy focus, nuclear bombs are not as good as turbolaser cannons.

And to project nuclear bombs, you need a sufficiently advanced carrier. Otherwise, it is an advanced missile, or an advanced fighter, but no matter which one, using a nuclear warhead is an insult to that carrier.

But nuclear bombs also have their advantages. Turbolasers focus energy into a very small range, which can effectively counter deflector shields, and the explosion produced by explosive gas also has a high lethality to armor; proton torpedoes produce a collapse of a proton cloud, which has terrible destructive power on armor; only nuclear bombs, whose explosion is diffusive, are not suitable for attacking warships.

However, they are very suitable for orbital bombing!

In addition, nuclear bombs can be easily stacked up. When the equivalent is stacked to tens of billions of tons, it already has the power to destroy the surface of the planet. Of course, even if this level of nuclear bomb is manufactured with the current cutting-edge technology, its size will be very bloated, and it is basically worthless to go to the battlefield.

But the problem is...

Gideon Tarkin punched the console hard and shouted: "The question is... how can this nuclear bomb hit our armed space station! Is the detector eating shit?"

"The detector has no response!" said the officer, "but we tested it, and our sensors have no faults and can detect targets normally. Even stealth fighters can detect it."

"Where is the technical analysis?!" said Gideon Tarkin.

A technician immediately came over and said: "We observed the images sent back from the optical sensors of some warships at the time and analyzed them. We got this..."

He turned on the holographic projection, which contained dozens of photos. This was a video screenshot that had been magnified countless times. It was a video shot at that moment by the unlucky Imperial-class Star Destroyer that was near the space station when it exploded and was directly blown away 3,000 kilometers by the explosion.

By the way, more than 7,000 officers and soldiers inside this unlucky Star Destroyer were killed, all of whom died when they rolled over. Some were killed by collisions, some died because of long-term high-speed rolling overload, and some were killed by flying debris...

In these video screenshots, it can be clearly seen that a huge dark cone-shaped object suddenly appeared out of thin air with a burst of white light, and then it directly hit the space station, and then exploded.

"This thing that looks like a cannonball is about 80 meters long and 15 meters in diameter after calculation. After analysis, it should be a nuclear bomb, the simplest fusion nuclear bomb, and the reaction material should be polonium. The explosion equivalent is about 10 billion tons." said the technician.

"The point is not the nuclear bomb, but how this thing appeared! It appeared out of thin air, is it invisible?" Gideon Tarkin asked.

"It is definitely not invisible, it seems to have jumped from hyperspace." The technician said uncertainly.

"Before the explosion, our hyperspace sensors did alarm. But just a few seconds after the alarm, the explosion occurred." The officer said.

"But hyperspace jumps also have problems. First of all, how did this thing pass through the countless hyperspace blockers? Even if it can be transmitted, it has long left hyperspace after entering the gravity circle of the planet. How could it appear only a few seconds before the impact? And with the size of this thing, it is impossible to install a hyperspace engine of too high level. Besides, using a hyperspace engine to exchange for a nuclear bomb attack? Is the Separatism too rich or is it stupid?" The technicians also seemed very anxious. This unknown weapon gave them too much pressure.