The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2231. New plan

"Do you feel, Captain, that the Trade Federation's defenders are getting weaker and weaker?" Echo held a telescope and looked at a crashed cargo spacecraft over there from a distance.

Just before, they raided an anti-aircraft missile position and then launched missiles to shoot down several Trade Federation cargo ships, with remarkable results.

Crosshair said from the side: "This is natural. Of course, the imperial fleet's blockade will not be ineffective. Now the weapons and supplies of the Trade Federation can only be sent through some secret channels, and they have to break through the imperial fleet's patrols. The number is naturally getting smaller and smaller, and the sabotage actions of those elite teams, including ours, have also made their already scarce supplies even worse."

"For the defenders of the Trade Federation, the only ones that are more troublesome are the mercenaries from the Titan Security Company. The other crooks can't even make up the numbers. They have mobilized so many troops, but in the end the most reliable ones are the combat robots. ." The hunter sneered.

"Captain, the intelligence analysis is complete." The technician came over and said, "The Trade Federation will have a deal with a mysterious seller. They will transport an unprecedented batch of weapons and equipment to the planet Cato-Neimoidia. "

The hunter looked at the intelligence data, frowned and asked: "Mysterious seller, where did such large-scale weapons and equipment come from? There is even an Aquitens-class light cruiser in it! With such a scale, it can't even be ordinary. It is entirely possible that the company is an industrial giant, but the question is, are there any industrial giants who dare to help the trade alliance? "

"That batch of weapons should be outdated equipment retired from the Galactic Republic." The technician said: "At the beginning of the empire's reorganization, several military upgrades were carried out, and many of the obsolete equipment flowed into the black market."

"It must be those local officials who colluded with military industrial enterprises..." Hui Sheng said coldly: "As long as the weapons are updated, these military industrial enterprises will always have new orders. And the obsolete weapons will flow into the black market, making the empire's security environment even worse. Damn it, they will get more orders. Otherwise, it is impossible for these weapons to flow into the black market through normal destruction and approval procedures!”

"This is not something we need to care about." Crosshair said coldly: "What we need to know now is who was the one who pulled the strings and sent this batch of weapons."

"I don't know the details, but I found out that the person who organized this series of arms trade is called 'Santa Claus.'" the technician answered.

"Send the information to the Imperial Intelligence Department and let them worry about it." The hunter waved his hand and said, "Is it possible for us to sabotage this arms deal?"

The technician shook his head and said: "It's completely impossible. Well, I won't even use an adjective like 'almost impossible', I mean, completely, impossible. This arms trade is even very likely to be It's a trap that lures snakes out of their holes. As soon as we start taking action, a large number of hidden troops will come over and surround us. "

The hunter pondered.

At this time, the echo said: "I received an encrypted message from Team No. 197. Do you want to see it? Captain."

The hunter took the communicator and checked it. His expression suddenly changed, "This is crazy!"

"What's the plan?" The obstacle removal king came over and asked.

"Team 197 discovered the command center built by the Trade Federation in a secret location. Their plan is to attack the power supply system of the command center and paralyze the command." The hunter frowned and said: "The function of this command center is... Specialized in commanding and arranging defensive operations of armed space stations.”

"In other words, once the command center is powered off and paralyzed, all the densely packed armed space stations in outer space will temporarily lose contact?" The technician suddenly realized.

The hunter nodded, "But this is not easy. The command center has seven backup power systems, plus the people attacking the main system, which means we need to gather at least eight teams. I don't even know about airborne Of the 200 teams, are there still eight that are still alive? Anyway, Team 197 is planning this. How about joining?"

Ye Zi said: "You have to think clearly. Although the number of our surviving teams is unknown, it is definitely not many. If this operation fails, it will be equivalent to the failure of our entire special operations plan. And now we bring it to the Trade Alliance The attack on the planet is far from enough to reverse the balance of power. In other words, if General Vader fails this time, he will have to wait at least half a year to occupy the planet Cato-Neimoidia."

"The primary purpose of everything is to complete the mission. As for the mission being difficult? Humph. Do we need to take action for tasks that are not difficult?" Crosshair snorted coldly.

"Then in that case, let's start preparations." The hunter said in a deep voice.

…

11BBY, January 16th.

After more than ten days of planning and preparation, the Galactic Empire's special operations forces on the planet Cato-Neimoidia finally launched an attack.

Along with the violent explosions, the Trade Federation's air and space command center suffered a series of attacks. The seven lines supplying power to the command center were destroyed almost simultaneously. Not only that, the communication antenna of the command center was also hit by a missile and was directly destroyed. Explode!

At the same time, Darth Vader, who had already begun preparations after receiving the plan, immediately ordered his fleet to launch an attack.

At this moment, the Galactic Empire fleet has increased to more than 320 battleships and more than 5,000 small and medium-sized warships. Such a large force also gave him the confidence to launch an attack.

Taking advantage of the paralysis of the command of the outer space defense system of Cato-Neimoidia, all armed space stations were disconnected and could only fight on their own. Not only that, the extremely large number of Gauss defense platforms, after losing human command, could only rely on pre-loaded defense programs to fight, becoming very rigid.

Darth Vader ordered the fleet to defeat each one, firmly and quickly clearing the defense facilities in the outer space of the planet. And in this process, the few defense fleets and fighter formations of the Trade Union did not dare to take off to fight, because without the coordination of the aerospace command center, in that chaotic air battle, they would not receive any help from those defense systems at all!

On February 7, the outer space defense line of Cato-Neimoidia was completely breached!

The Galactic Empire's fleet began to besiege the planet's planetary shield!

…

At the same time, a black Lambda-class shuttle arrived at Tatooine and landed in an inconspicuous desert.

The hatch opened, and a woman in black tight combat uniform came out with several companions in the same outfit.

The woman pressed the communicator and said lightly: "This is the Arden-Lin team. We have found the whereabouts of 'Santa Claus' and are currently positioning him accurately."