The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

656.: Agonev

22BBY, morning of August 11, planet Bespin.

A team of 20 V-19 Riptide fighter jets escorting 5 Y-wing bombers is flying at full speed, heading towards the planet Bespin.

This huge gas giant planet has a diameter of 118,000 kilometers, but in fact, the turbid atmosphere that overflows around it has a wider range. If this part is counted, the diameter of Bespin's planet can even reach 130,000 kilometers! In comparison, the 12,000-kilometer-diameter Earth is like a marble next to a basketball.

Now, in the middle of this cloudy atmosphere, a terrible battle is breaking out.

Countless lasers and missiles flew by like raindrops, some from the enemy and some from our own side. This team of fighter jets is like swifts flying up and down in the storm, it's thrilling!

In fact, if you don't look at the instruments, you can't actually see anything around, because the scope of the two sides' fighting is so large that it is completely impossible to see by sight.

But even so, the dense laser beams and the constant explosions still showed the cruelty of this battle.

This fighter squadron passed by a Gauss artillery platform at high speed. Two 500mm caliber heavy artillery on this 50-meter-high small armed firepower platform were firing continuously into the void, and two 8-unit missile launchers also fired 16 Three missiles were launched at one time and shot directly in the direction of the Republic fleet behind.

But the fighters of these republics didn't bother at all, their goal was something else.

The two close-in defense laser cannons on the Gaussian firepower platform fired wildly at the fighters. The lasers were all blocked by the shields of the fighters. Then, from nowhere, a powerful turbo laser cannon directly hit the Gaussian firepower platform! Immediately after the second and third rounds, after withstanding nearly 10 rounds of turbo laser cannon fire, the shield of the Gauss firepower platform finally collapsed, and then the main structure and armor also disintegrated during the shooting!

During the violent explosion, the fighter squadron flashed past, passing through layers of turbid clouds, suddenly the front suddenly opened up, and the surrounding scenery suddenly became clear.

All I could see was the huge disc-shaped body of Bespin Cloud City floating in the distance, more than 20 warships and countless fighter jets and frigates were fighting fiercely in this airspace, and countless lasers and missiles were flying across the air.

However, this is not the point. After this group of fighter jets passed through the clouds, what lay directly in front of them was another terrifying creation!

An incomparably huge armed space station!

No, this can no longer be described by a space station. This huge mushroom-shaped space station with a trapezoidal top and a slightly thinner bottom has a side length of 8,000 meters! The height is as high as 6000 meters!

Such a volume is clearly a fortress! Star Fortress!

Thick armor is spread all over the whole, densely packed near-fire cannons are everywhere, and the vertical missile launchers arranged on the edges are constantly launching various types of missiles. What's even more frightening is that on the four corners of the edge of this fortress, an extremely huge double-mounted heavy laser cannon is installed respectively! The launcher of this laser cannon alone is bigger than a frigate!

With the slow rotation of the interstellar fortress, the heavy laser cannons at the four corners are also firing rhythmically, and each irradiation lasts for about 2 seconds, which will bring devastating damage to the battleship.

It can be seen that this interstellar fortress has not yet been completed, and the frame structure in many places is still exposed, and it is being assembled by some large engineering ships with a length of more than 900 meters.

There are already thousands of fighter jets fighting fiercely around the fortress, and the Republic naturally understands the threat of this fortress, and dispatched a large number of fighter jets to bombard it.

After discovering this newly joined fighter squadron, the interstellar fortress split out a part of the near-fire force to fire wildly, densely packed lasers and artillery shells came over, and immediately destroyed several fighter planes in the fighter squadron.

But these brave fighter pilots of the Galactic Republic still marched forward without fear. They launched all the missiles and proton torpedoes on the fighter jets as soon as they found the target. Facing this side, the length is 8,000 meters and the height is 6,000 meters. The super-giant fortress that doesn't even need to aim!

Under the cover of V-19 fighter jets, the Y-wing bomber finally rushed to the place close to the fortress with firepower. Looking for a space to hide from among the firepower, they only relied on the assistance of the navigation computer and their own random evasion movements.

However, even so, the Y-wing bombers couldn't get too close to this interstellar fortress, because the surrounding firepower was really frenzied. After 3 Y-wing bombers were destroyed, they had to launch all the heavy proton torpedoes and then turn around. just run.

The firepower at close range became more and more crazy. More than a dozen heavy-duty proton torpedoes were intercepted, but more than 20 still hit the target, causing ripples on the energy shield of the interstellar fortress.

At this moment, the escorting V-19 fighter jets were already fighting with a group of ghost fighter jets who came to protect them. The V-19 Riptide fighter jets fell into a comprehensive disadvantage when facing the stealth fighter jets, and one by one was shot down. The Y-wing bombers had to make a wide circle, preparing to leave in the other direction.

However, at this moment, a Martha-class heavy cruiser flew around the interstellar fortress at an extremely fast speed. Facing groups of Republic fighter jets rushing towards it, all missile launchers were deployed, and hundreds of missiles were launched like raindrops! !

After the explosion of this unique missile, a large cloud of deadly radiation will be formed. This salvo directly covers an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers! Among them were at least 100 Republic fighters disintegrated to pieces by the radiation cloud.

Among them, this team of Y-wing bombers was also included.

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At the same time, Bespin Cloud City, the command center of the Fourth Civilization.

The commander-in-chief of the battle, Igor Zavalov, is commanding calmly, issuing orders one after another, and each battleship and fighter squadron perform their duties, doing their best to resist the Galactic Republic as many as 80 Jaeger-class battlecruisers and tens of thousands of battlecruisers. The crazy attack of fighter jets.

Beside him, a Vathian was holding a portable terminal to report the situation, "General, the Agniev-class interstellar fortress is not yet fully completed, and after all, it was transformed from the industrial floating city Shefa City, so the structural strength cannot be guaranteed." , should try to avoid the shield of the interstellar fortress from being penetrated."

The Vathian are a four-legged, carapace-covered insectoid race of immense strength, hard work, and engineering talent. This point should be in line with their distant ancestors, the Kilik people. After all, the Kilik people are also a race that is keen on various giant structures.

But this time, the Vathian people have made great contributions to transforming Shefa City into an Agniev-level interstellar fortress in just two months. In addition, the Jiwen people also prepared sophisticated components such as the weapon system of the interstellar fortress early on, and then secretly sent them for direct assembly, which allowed the interstellar base to play a role in this defensive battle.

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[Easter Egg Chapter Attachment 1: Argonev-class interstellar fortress, Gauss defense platform on the left, hangar platform above, and Sowa-class aircraft carrier, Gray Horse-class escort aircraft carrier, Cole-class battlecruiser, military research centers, space docks, and more. 】