The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2350, Battle of the Mararian Alliance (Part 2)

1,000 geth warships!

This number made Gilad Perrine sweat profusely, and he immediately shouted: "Prepare for battle! Form a defensive formation!"

He had never expected that there would be so many geth warships!

First of all, he was very clear that the geth were likely to set up an ambush on every hyperspace channel. The reason is simple. They are mechanical life forms and can stay still in a desolate place forever until the enemy appears.

The geth set up hyperspace blockers in the middle of each hyperspace channel, and then ambush here with a large fleet. This tactic is something that intelligent creatures can never do. First of all, the probability of the Imperial Fleet choosing one of the channels is only one in eight, and then, the Imperial Fleet has no idea when to set off.

Therefore, the geth fleet is likely to have ambushed here a few months ago, and it is likely to have sailed at warp speed, so there will be no hyperspace fluctuations, so that the Galactic Empire's hyperspace outposts cannot detect it. At the same time, all warships shut down all engines, and all Geth individuals enter shutdown mode, so as to minimize energy consumption, and then wait for the one-eighth chance.

These places are halfway in the hyperspace channel, and there is nothing around. There are no planets, no stars, no asteroids, only an empty universe, and nothing else! Not even a cosmic dust can be found!

If it were a human fleet, waiting for several months or even longer in that dark and lonely universe that never changes no matter how you look at it? Then maybe everyone would go crazy.

In order to raid the planet Rendili, Darth Vader led the fleet to sail at warp speed for more than two months, and the morale of almost all officers and soldiers at all levels of the entire fleet was on the verge of collapse. This is because this fleet was brought up by him, and participated in the Clone Wars, the siege of the planet Salukami, and the elite troops in the final attack on the core control area of ​​the Confederation of Independent Systems.

It would be impossible to change to other fleets.

But Geth can use this tactic very casually!

Gilad Pellaeon naturally knew these tricks of the Geth, but what he really didn't know was that the Geth fleet was so large!

If there were 1,000 Geth warships in front of him now, then it could only mean that there were so many warships in other directions!

There were a total of 8 hyperspace routes from the planet Gler-Anselm to the planet Anxin, which meant that the Geth had ambushed at least 8,000 warships!

Now, Gilad Pellaeon knew what Dalsana said about the Geth appearing and disappearing all day long.

More than 1,000 Geth warships have launched an attack, and dense plasma balls are fired like raindrops, rippling violent energy ripples on the deflector shields of the Imperial-class Star Destroyers. At the same time, the counterattack of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer was also extremely powerful and resolute. The XX-9 twin-mounted heavy turbolaser cannon, powered by the L-A2B solar furnace reactor, had a devastating power in every shot.

The same model, but not at the same level as the turbolaser beam fired by the Venator-class!

The Geth warships suffered losses immediately, and more than a dozen Geth frigates were directly destroyed in this wave of attacks. However, such losses were only a drop in the bucket, and more Geth warships rushed up one after another!

Gilad Pellaeon commanded his fleet very skillfully. He was completely different from most of the generals of the Galactic Empire who relied on nepotism to gain power and were idle. He was very diligent and hardworking in studying the art of fleet command. He also learned countless examples of fleet battles and organized countless actual combat exercises.

At the same time, after meeting Vice Admiral Mis-Lo-Nurudo-Thrawn, he was impressed by the latter's talent and has been humbly learning Thrawn's command art and growing continuously.

Maybe Gilad Pellaeon is not the most talented one, but it is certain that he is definitely the hardest working one.

He deployed all the Imperial-class Star Destroyers into a spherical array, and all the warships hid their tails facing the middle of the array.

Because the maneuverability of the Geth warships is very good, they often perform various tactical maneuvers at incredible speeds on the battlefield. Even cruisers and even dreadnoughts can perform rapid acceleration, rapid deceleration, and sharp turns. During the Clone Wars, when facing the Geth warships at the beginning, the Galactic Republic fleet, which knew nothing about them, was often bypassed by the Geth warships and then directly destroyed the engines, causing the warships to lose their combat capabilities.

And Gilad Pellaeon used such a formation to directly compete with the Geth warships in firepower and volume. Not only that, he also deployed all the fighter units in the center of this formation, specifically to deal with those Geth warships that got in through the gaps.

After his frigates and light cruisers arrived, these small and medium-sized warships would also be deployed to the center of the formation, and while being protected by the Imperial-class Star Destroyers, they would clear out all the Geth warships that tried to break into the center.

When necessary, those light and high-speed warships would also launch an assault from any direction at the first time.

This tactic is called the "Pellaeon Ring". And it turns out that this is also the most suitable tactic for fighting against the Geth fleet.

After forming the Pellaeon Ring formation, the Imperial fleet finally stabilized its formation. More than 500 TIE fighters fought with more than 10 Geth frigates in the center of the formation, while the Imperial-class Star Destroyers kept the Geth dreadnoughts out.

Even if it was 80 to 1,000, Gilad Pellaeon was not afraid.

The warships in the rear were still constantly reinforcing and joining the Pellaeon Ring, making the formation larger and more complete.

On the battlefield, countless plasma groups and countless turbolaser beams flew everywhere, and the injured warships spewed a lot of flames and debris, and there were explosions and broken wreckage everywhere.

A team of TIE bombers, escorted by TIE/LN fighters, approached a Geth dreadnought, but the dreadnought was very maneuverable and began to accelerate to try to shake off the bomber's pursuit. However, at this moment, several turbolaser beams were accurately fired from a distance and hit the center of the dreadnought directly.

A dazzling light flashed, and the deflector shield of the geth dreadnought was broken. The middle of the warship was hit hard by a turbolaser cannon. In the fierce explosion, the geth dreadnought suddenly tilted. Seizing this rare opportunity, the TIE bombers rushed forward and took up advantageous positions to launch proton torpedoes!

The point defense artillery on the geth dreadnought was fired like water, forming a barrage around the warship, shooting down several proton torpedoes, but it was still directly hit by more torpedoes!

In the explosion and collapse of the light blue proton cloud, the geth dreadnought began to silently disintegrate, break, and finally be blown into three sections, flying away from the battlefield under the kinetic energy generated by the explosion.

The Pellaeon Ring formed by the Imperial fleet is like a towering mountain. Even if the geth warships have ten times the number, they are still very stable. (End of this chapter)