The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2308, A Blow to the Head

The Executor's Bridge.

The atmosphere here is as stagnant as death. No one dares to breathe, and even some timid officers are shaking slightly.

The source of this terrible atmosphere is the devil-like man standing in the center of the bridge.

Black armor, black helmet, black cloak, even the eyes are completely covered. Standing in front of him, you can only see your terrified face reflected on the smooth helmet.

Just half an hour ago, everything was going in a good direction. Although their fleet was short of supplies, energy, and officers and soldiers were exhausted, they succeeded in dragging the Separatist fleet into a fleet decisive battle.

Even though most of the middle and lower-level officers and soldiers were dissatisfied or even angry with this decision, the excellent officers of the staff and the command could still tell how wise it was to fight this fleet decisive battle now.

In other words, after this fleet decisive battle, although the outcome will not be decided immediately, they can completely stop while they are ahead. After severely damaging the Rendili defense fleet, they can return to the edge of the galaxy, drive away the other fleet, open up the rear contact, and receive supplies.

After the supply is completed, they will attack the planet again in a complete posture and conquer it in one fell swoop, without any suspense.

But... a piece of news turned all these efforts into nothing.

The planet Kira was captured!

How is this possible! Now it has only been two days since the two sides declared war on each other on August 6! Even if part of the fleet stationed in the Kira galaxy was withdrawn, there are still 1,100 main battleships and more than 3,000 small and medium-sized auxiliary warships left. In addition, with the cooperation of the armed space station and the planetary shield, how could it be captured in two days?

The capture of the Kira galaxy means that the entire Hydia Channel will be open, and the fleet of the Dawn planet will be able to directly threaten the inner ring of the Milky Way through the Hydia Channel.

(It's a bit late today, I'll draw a star map tomorrow.)

This means that the Galactic Empire must redeploy its fleets in various places. In order to prevent the main fleet of the Principality of Dawn from penetrating into the inner ring, which would cause serious political consequences, the Galactic Empire must mobilize more mobile fleets to block the advance of the Principality of Dawn's fleet.

The mobilized troops are likely to be their fleet that is attacking the Rendili galaxy!

This is why Darth Vader immediately ordered to withdraw from the battle when he received the news that the fleet of the Kira planet was defeated. Once they retreat, the Rendili planet will get a chance to breathe, and it will be almost impossible to find such a good opportunity next time.

After this lesson, the commander of the Separatist side will definitely hold his position next time, and no matter how he is provoked, he will not take the initiative to attack. What awaits the Galactic Empire will be a head-on battle!

As expected, Galactic Emperor Palpatine personally ordered Darth Vader to immediately organize the mobile fleet to return to defense, to stop the advance of the Separatist fleet, and strive to eliminate the enemy commander, Severance Tann!

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Time goes back to two days ago, August 6.

Immediately after the Dawn Principality declared war on the Galactic Empire, according to the arrangement of Operation Zero, the fleet stationed on the two most important gateways and military bases of the Dawn Principality on Eriadu and Yago-Dur was immediately organized into the First Combined Fleet and the Second Combined Fleet to attack the predetermined targets.

And as a direct threat to Malastar Planet and blocking the fleet of the Dawn Principality on Eriadu Planet, Kira Planet also immediately entered the highest level of combat readiness.

The highest commander of the fleet stationed on the planet Kira, Admiral Michael Unther of the Imperial Navy, has come to the combat command center and issued an order: "All warships, leave the spaceport immediately and enter combat formation!"

"Yes!"

The fleet stationed on the planet Kira has a total of one Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, which is also the fleet flagship-Lusankya.

2 Commander II-class dreadnoughts, 4 Commander I-class dreadnoughts, 560 Imperial-class Star Destroyers, 50 Imperial II-class Star Destroyers Experimental Models, 100 Knight-class Star Destroyers, 10 Interdictor-class Star Destroyers, 200 Victory II-class Star Destroyers, 50 Victory I-class Star Destroyers, 50 Venator-class Battlecruisers, and 5 Tracker-class aircraft carriers.

The warships of this garrison are of very high quality, and there are also 50 Imperial II-class Star Destroyers. This is an improved model launched by Kuat Power Dockyard after learning from the problems encountered by the Imperial-class Star Destroyer and the Knight-class Star Destroyer in actual combat. However, this model has not yet been fully finalized and needs further combat testing.

However, this fleet is not completely free of hidden dangers. For example, what puzzles Michel Unser the most is that one of the biggest changes to the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer is the removal of all close-in defense turrets, making energy transmission more integrated and centralized, thus obtaining more powerful artillery and stronger shields.

In other words, the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer is being improved in the direction of a battleship for fleet decisive battles. Perhaps it is to deal with the powerful battleships of the Principality of Dawn, such as the Hell Angels-class battlecruisers, and some intelligence departments have not obtained exact data, but they look very scary.

But this does not mean that the carrier-based aircraft force of the Principality of Dawn is not a threat! The combination of Ghost fighters and Viking fighters, even now, the Galactic Empire has no way to crack it.

So the way to crack the Kuat Power Dock is not to crack it?

Another hidden danger is that Michel Unser believes that the proportion of Imperial-class Star Destroyers in his fleet is a bit too high. Although the Imperial Navy keeps talking about building a diversified, comprehensive, and three-dimensional navy, in the end, a large number of orders still fly to the Kuat Power Dock, and then build Imperial-class Star Destroyers day after day.

But this is not a problem that Michel Unser needs to consider. Even if there are some hidden dangers, he is still full of confidence in the fleet in his hands. He is a very typical Imperial officer-born in a wealthy merchant family, he has excellent grades after entering the Imperial Naval Academy, and is full of confidence in the new order of the empire. Then he started as the captain of a cruiser, climbed all the way, steadily, and finally became a navy admiral guarding one side.

For Michel Unser, it is his honor to be able to command such a powerful fleet. He also hoped that under his leadership, this powerful fleet would be able to make achievements and expand the empire.

When the Galactic Empire and the Principality of Dawn declared war on each other and the war broke out again, Michel Anser was somewhat excited.

Because the time to show his value had finally come!