The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2299. The disappearing fleet

11BBY, August 3rd. Dawn Planet, the capital of Dawn Principality, Supreme Combat Command, Conference Room 03.

"Planet Lundili! It's Planet Lundili!!" Minister of Defense Cheng Shitao poked at the holographic star map and said in a deep voice: "We can't detect the military movements of the Galactic Empire because their current fleet, all Gather at the Empire Center!"

"This matter has basically been determined. But the question is, how do they plan to fight? And how many warships have they mobilized?" Acting Navy Commander-in-Chief Carls Wharton frowned, "Is there any response from the hyperspace outpost? ?”

Minister of Military Intelligence Saratan Moss said: "It is very difficult to monitor the hyperspace fluctuations in the center of the empire. Fortunately, the center of the empire has a population of one trillion, so we still have many informants inside. According to the information we currently control Judging from the news, there are no signs of large-scale fleet gathering around the center of the empire.”

"Where did the fleet that withdrew from the Trade Federation go?" Model Sector Governor Volgograd-Kanidi asked.

"After the renovation was completed at the shipyard in the center of the empire, he left immediately. The severely damaged warship also went to the planet Kuat for repairs, and left immediately after the end, with no sign of gathering at all." Saratan Moss's face was very ugly. As the Minister of Intelligence, it was a major dereliction of duty on his part to lose control of the location of the Empire's main fleet.

"So, where did their fleet go? Recently, the empire reduced the strength of the border garrison. Where are the warships that were withdrawn?" Army Commander-in-Chief Xian Hui rubbed the bridge of his nose and put out the cigarette butt on the ashtray.

The ashtray was filled with cigarette butts.

"It could be anywhere. But...it's certainly not among the currently known military bases." Saratan Moss replied.

"Where is the rebel army? How many imperial warships are participating in the suppression of the rebel army now?" Ling Liang asked.

"The rebels are not willing to share military intelligence with us. We can only calculate based on the existing intelligence. Currently, there are about 1,400 main imperial warships participating in suppressive operations in various places. The number of warships stationed in the north to resist the geth is The reduction is about 2,500 ships. There are 1,000 warships stationed on Fondo planet and Kira planet respectively, and about 3,900 warships are in garrison status. Therefore, there are currently about 1,800 warships lost. The number of traced battleships is around 3,000," Saratan Moss replied, "Even excluding the inaccurate part of our monitoring, I am afraid that at least 1,000 capital ships are missing."

Chief of General Staff Qi Jian shook his head, then looked at Severance Tann, who had come to Dawn Planet to attend the meeting, and asked: "What do you think? General Tann."

"If I were in charge, my fleet would have already started attacking while you were suspicious." Severance Tann said coldly, "And the commander-in-chief of the opponent is Darth Vader. With him, style, we will make the same choice: attack, attack again.”

"If the empire has launched an attack, then where are they?" Qi Jian knocked on the table, feeling very irritated. "To what extent are the defense preparations for the planet Rendili?"

"Admiral Trench has arrived at Rendili Planet, and all warships and defense systems have entered combat mode." Cheng Shitao replied, "The remaining question now is where the enemy is. I have asked Admiral Trench to expand the investigation range.”

Severance Tann suddenly said: "Continue to expand! Expand the scope of exploration to several unmanned galaxies around the Rendili galaxy!"

Cheng Shitao nodded, "Okay. I'll make arrangements."

…

On the afternoon of August 4th, Rendili Planet Command Center.

"I need...the reconnaissance team to report every hour! Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk..." Admiral Trench stroked the chelicerae near his mouth with both hands, while the other hand held a pointer and tapped his palm lightly. , "Hyperspace outpost, report... every 10 minutes. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

Sometimes his actions always make people feel that having six hands means being willful.

"Yes!" A naval officer of the Principality of Dawn stood at attention and saluted, and then immediately made arrangements.

"Hmm..." Admiral Trench narrowed his eyes, looked at the holographic battle star map, and pondered.

Rendili Planet, since Rendili Interstellar Power Company betrayed the Galactic Republic and joined the Fourth Civilization, this planet has been heavily fortified. And the outermost edge of this line of defense is a huge number of hyperspace blockers.

These hyperspace blockers first block all major hyperspace channels connected to the planet. All ships that want to enter the Rendili planet must first leave hyperspace in front of the hyperspace blockers, and they will only get it after applying. Temporary authorization to allow entry into blocker range. Then make an ultra-short jump to the outer reaches of the planet.

Moreover, in order to prevent enemy fleets from emerging from some temporary hyperspace channels, more than 10 billion blockers were deployed on the periphery of the entire galaxy, almost surrounding the entire galaxy.

Coupled with the deployment of more than 70,000 hyperspace outposts around it, it can be said that any fluctuations will be difficult to escape monitoring.

These peripheral defense facilities can buy Rendili planet at least three to seven days, and can make the enemy unable to hide.

Then inside the galaxy, there are patrols of up to 150,000 vulture robot fighters equipped with special reconnaissance equipment. These robot fighters do not have hyperspace engines, and they rely entirely on sublight speed engines to slowly fly to the patrol position. Anyway, they are all robots, so time doesn't matter at all.

After that, there are monitoring facilities and defense facilities built on those planets.

There are a total of 9 planets in the Rendili galaxy, of which Rendili is located on the third one. Monitoring equipment has been built on the 6 outer planets, and there are even certain orbital defense weapons.

At the end, there is the final defense system around Rendili.

It can be said that in this ring after ring of defense, Rendili is completely indestructible. I can't imagine any fleet being able to capture this place! And with the joint effect of these defense systems, Rendili will always have sufficient preparation time.

But the problem is... where is the enemy...

Admiral Trench checked the galaxy's defense system over and over again, thinking over and over again.

Suddenly, his eyes fell on the vulture robot fighters that were patrolling the galaxy with sublight engines. His eyes shrank suddenly, and he slammed the table and shouted loudly: "Not good! The Imperial Fleet is not attacking through the hyperspace channel! Notify the Dawn Planet immediately!!"

...

At the same time, in an unknown space, an extremely large fleet was sailing silently.

The number of this fleet is extremely large, and all of them are capital ships, with a terrifying number of 700 ships! At least half of them are extremely powerful Imperial-class Star Destroyers, and there are also warships such as the Tracker-class aircraft carrier and the Victory II-class Star Destroyer. There are even Commander II-class dreadnoughts, and an extremely large flat battleship-the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer!

On the luxurious bridge of this Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, a man in black armor and a black cloak stood quietly in the center, and under the completely closed helmet, there was a heavy breathing sound...

"Hu...chi...hu...chi...hu...chi..." (End of this chapter)