The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2358, Willing to Sacrifice Everything

The sudden betrayal of the planet Gler-Anselm has thrown part of the Galactic Empire fleet into chaos.

Although the attack on the orbital defense facilities and the self-explosion of the transport ships that were carrying supplies could not pose much threat to the powerful Imperial-class Star Destroyers, this sudden change made the Imperial fleet, which was already under great pressure on the front battlefield, even worse.

However, some unlucky warships suffered even more severe blows.

Because at this moment of battle, there are still warships coming in and out of the transport ships. Why? There is only one reason - that is, they are seriously damaged and need urgent repair. Therefore, these warships suffered even more serious damage in this wave of self-explosion from the inside out. There is even an Imperial-class Star Destroyer and a Victory II-class Star Destroyer that were directly hit hard by such attacks. After losing power, they were captured by the planet's gravity circle and hit the planetary shield hard!

This sudden change made some warships of the Imperial Fleet at a loss for a while. The warships that were relatively closer to the planet turned their heads and wanted to deal with the planet that suddenly betrayed Gler-Anselm, bomb the planetary shield, and destroy the spaceport that was constantly firing.

This made the formation of the Imperial Fleet somewhat scattered. How could Admiral Mal-Tuk, the supreme commander of the Commercial Union Fleet, miss such an opportunity? He immediately ordered the whole army to attack!

Even with Gilad Pellaeon's calmness and restraint, he was furious at this moment. He ordered people to escort the governor of Gler-Anselm planet, Darsana, up.

This time, facing the traitor, the Imperial Stormtroopers were not so polite. They dragged Darsana over, threw her on the ground with a plop, and kicked her in the stomach.

Darsana curled up in pain, shouting, "General! General! It's unfair, it's unfair!!"

"What do you have to be wronged about? Your previous surrender was a complete deception! You've been waiting for this moment, right!" Gilad Pellaeon shouted angrily.

"It's unfair... I surrendered sincerely! I said that everything on the planet Gra-Anselm belongs to the Empire! It all belongs to the Empire!!" Darsana said, her expression suddenly became a little weird, turning her head and looking straight at Pellaeon with her eyelidless eyes, "But... I didn't say that these things wouldn't explode? Hehehehe... woo!"

She was laughing, but was stepped on by the stormtroopers, bleeding from her mouth and nose, but still grinning.

Gilad Pellaeon was so angry that he trembled all over. "What on earth are you doing this for?! You are obviously the supreme ruler of an entire planet, with countless wealth and supreme power! And you gave up all this just to disrupt us for a few minutes?"

That's right, the sudden betrayal of the planet Geller-Anselm only caused a short period of chaos in the Imperial Fleet, and it soon regained its footing under the very efficient command of Gilad Pellaeon.

After all, Geller-Anselm is not an industrial planet, and the Interstellar Banking Association has not built this planet for a long time, so even if this planet suddenly betrays, the defensive turrets on the spaceport and the orbital defense system are seriously insufficient in firepower and quantity.

Except for those extremely unlucky warships, the other Imperial warships did not suffer much damage.

"A few minutes? Hahahaha! That's enough! Enough to risk my life! Hahaha!" Dalshana's mouth was full of blood, and her appearance was extremely hideous.

"You will undoubtedly be executed!" Gilad Pellaeon said viciously.

"So what?" Darsana asked back, "What do you think we, the Notulans, can get from the Galactic Empire? Sovereignty or respect? No! We will get nothing! Your Galactic Empire will only discriminate against our race, exploit our wealth, squeeze our labor, and then throw us aside like garbage!"

"This thing is something that your Galactic Empire can never give us! And for this thing, we are willing to sacrifice everything!!" She trembled as she reached into her clothes. The stormtroopers next to her thought she was going to take something out, so they went up and hit her hard with the butt of their rifles, knocking out two of Darsana's teeth. She was knocked unconscious immediately.

Girard-Perrine looked down at her, then squatted down and pulled out a piece of paper from her clothes, which was still stained with blood. When he unfolded it, he saw that it was a poster. The background of the poster was a beautiful beach full of sunshine, and in front of it was a Notulan woman holding a child and smiling happily.

Blood splashed on this warm poster was somewhat ironic.

Gilad-Pellaeon's expression was a little complicated at this time. He knew that he could not refute it. The Galactic Empire's discrimination against non-human races and its exploitation of the Outer Ring and the Central Ring are all real. Dalsana is not exaggerated at all.

Under the rule of the Galactic Empire, the scene on this poster will never appear.

"General, are you going to execute her?" the stormtrooper asked.

Gilad-Pellaeon waved his hand a little irritably and said, "Keep her in custody and make a decision after the trial of the Imperial Court."

"Yes!" The stormtrooper saluted at attention, and then dragged the unconscious Dalsana away like a dead dog.

A long bloodstain was left on the floor, but it was soon cleaned up by the cleaning robot.

Girard Pellaeon took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down his disturbed mood, and then ordered sternly, "Reorganize the formation! Ignore the direction of the planet Gler-Anselm, and fight the Separatist fleet with all your strength!"

In such a battle, the frontal firepower of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer is still extremely powerful. Even facing the unreasonable large group of Undertaker-class light cruisers that rushed directly from the Commercial Union Fleet, the 60 powerful XX-9 heavy turbolaser cannons of the Imperial class can still destroy them in large numbers.

Countless destroyed Undertaker-class light cruisers exploded into countless fireballs in space, gorgeous and tragic.

Girard Pellaeon wanted to give full play to the characteristics of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer as much as possible, so that his fleet could kill the enemy at a long distance as much as possible.

Now there is no tricky Disaster-class battlecruiser in the Commercial Union Fleet. Although the Yamato cannons fired by more than 200 Minotaur-class heavy cruisers are still a huge threat, it is relatively good not to have to face the particle light spear head-on.

However, Gilad Peraune found that the current situation was already very bad.

Due to the brief chaos caused by the sudden betrayal of the planet Gler-Anselm, the more than 1,500 Undertaker-class light cruisers had the opportunity to directly enter the formation of the Imperial Fleet! !

In the long-range battle, the Imperial Fleet destroyed more than 400 Undertaker-class light cruisers in total, but this was far from enough!

Although the Undertaker-class light cruiser was used as cannon fodder by Mal-Tuk, don't forget that it is still a 310-meter-long cruiser! It is not the kind of frigate that will be shattered by one shot!

Coupled with the deliberately strengthened frontal armor, even the Imperial-class Star Destroyer can't stop the Undertaker-class assault!