Chapter 2421 Thrawn’s Pliers (Part 1)
2422. Thrawn's Pliers (Part 1)
The day of judgment!
The doomsday weapon shot at the Steel Moon of the Palin-Minor planet for the third time. This time, nothing can stop the arrival of the Day of Judgment!
The sea of fire completely spread to every part of the satellite, completely igniting the satellite's atmosphere! Almost everything that could burn on the satellite's surface burned violently. The entire fortress-like satellite with a diameter of 700 kilometers has now turned into a fireball with a diameter of 700 kilometers!
Terrible flames are constantly burning on the satellite. There are a large number of factories, energy facilities, power plants, fuel factories, and ammunition reserves built by the Galactic Empire on the planet. These are all high-quality flammable materials. At extremely high temperatures, even metal begins to burn!
The fire will continue to burn until it gradually dies out over the course of several months!
At this moment, everyone on the planet Palin-Minor watched helplessly as the largest barrier on their planet was completely destroyed in just a few hours! !
If it were in the past, the Steel Moon suspended in the sky would always emit a faint blue light. On Boxing Day, the huge holographic projection device built on this side would also project some holiday greetings. Sometimes when Governor Dunn is in a good mood, he will perform some holographic projection performances.
Not only that, as a fortress-like satellite, Steel Moon has a diameter of 700 kilometers, a powerful planetary shield, and a huge orbital defense cannon. These are all telling the people of the Palin-Minor planet that here, as strong as Rock! The official media of the Galactic Empire indeed promoted it this way.
According to those media, the defense force of Steel Moon alone can withstand the concentrated attack of at least 200 Empire-class Star Destroyers! Even if you don't count the mobile defense fleet, relying on the power of the Iron Moon and the mutually competing Palin-Minor planet defense system, at least 1,000 Imperial-class destroyers are needed to capture the northern core of the Galactic Empire. Starship!
The King of the North's fleet stationed on the planet Palin-Minor is not a vegetarian. An Executor-class super Star Destroyer is stationed here at all times, and there are hundreds of the most advanced capital ships. This fleet The power is enough to smash the head of any fleet that dares to attack here!
But now, where is the Super Star Destroyer? Where is the fleet? Where is the planet's defense system? Why...the Steel Moon that was blown into the sky was destroyed in front of everyone?
The burning satellite remains faithfully floating in planet-synchronous orbit, just as it has been for hundreds of years. Under the adjustments of the Galactic Republic engineers, the tidal force between the satellite and the planet Palin-Minor reached a perfect balance, allowing the satellite to always face the planet and remain in the synchronous orbit of the planet's capital.
And such a perfect defense system is now also perfectly capable of displaying the death-like fireball of the Moon of Steel after its destruction in front of the residents of the planet Palin-Minor, especially the residents of the capital. Day and night, all the time, I will never leave.
The satellite is constantly burning, and the jumping flames can be seen even on the ground, and everyone can easily conclude that there is no way any living thing can survive on the satellite.
Steel Moon includes 150,000 army personnel, 500,000 logistics and civilian personnel, in addition to three towns and more than 6 million residents. Among these people, those who can leave alive may not exceed four figures. And many of them are relatives and friends of the residents of the planet Palin-Minor...
The fear brought to them by the doomsday weapons of the Angel-class Titan battleship is always displayed in front of everyone!
Even if people close their eyes in fear, when they open their eyes, the death fireball is still hanging in the sky, unchanged.
Countless people have even suffered from traumatic stress disorder because of this, and one of these people is the King of the North and the Governor of the Ninth Army—Dunn Wessex!
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At this moment, in the array of the Northern Fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn, a large amount of white smoke is being emitted around the Titan battleship Divine Envoy. This smoke condenses in a weightless environment and does not disperse. It has been floating around the Titan battleship, giving this extremely powerful The battleship was shrouded in a veil of mystery.
All this smoke is the heat dissipation medium of the Titan battleship. This is a liquid with an extremely high heat absorption coefficient, which can discharge the ultra-high temperature generated when the doomsday weapon is launched. But now, this kind of heat dissipation liquid, which is stored in an environment below minus 100 degrees, is scattered around the Titan battleship, and the temperature can even reach thousands of degrees!
Various functions of the Titan battleship have been offline, and engineers and technicians are nervously checking every instrument and equipment of the Titan battleship. After all, with such a high-intensity continuous fire, it is necessary to ensure that each system will not malfunction due to overheating.
Severance Tann and Admiral Trench discussed in front of the holographic battle star chart.
"This is my gift to Dunne Wessex. I hope the Governor likes it." Severance Tann said proudly.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk... The Steel Moon turned into a ball of fire. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk... There is nothing more mocking than this..." Admiral Trench was also very satisfied.
The reason why the Angel Titan battleship did not directly bomb the Palin-Minor planet is because according to their calculations, if they want to directly destroy the planetary shield of Palin-Minor planet with the power of the Angel Titan battleship alone, It's almost impossible.
Because the Palin-Minor planet is no longer an industrial planet, it also has a complete industrial system and a large number of factories on it. When being bombarded by doomsday weapons, it can be repaired and supported at the same time. The production capacity and resources of an entire planet are enough to sustain it under the bombing of doomsday weapons.
Therefore, such a protracted bombing of the Palin-Minor planet will not have a shocking effect at all.
But... Severance Tann and the others discovered the existence of Steel Moon! This 700-kilometer satellite is almost a perfect target. With the power of the doomsday weapon Judgment Day, this satellite can be destroyed in a short time!
A 700-kilometer-diameter fortress-like satellite may be a despairing existence in front of other warships, but in front of the Divine Envoy, it is just fish on the chopping board!
This is like an extremely strong bastion. In the era of front-loaded artillery, it was also extremely despairing. Without 10 times the strength, it is not even worthy of taking a look at it. But at this moment, its opponent took out a ground-penetrating tactical nuclear weapon...
And if the Steel Moon is destroyed and the ruins of this satellite are allowed to float over the planet Palin-Minor, the shocking effect will be enough to make everyone on the planet frightened! At this point, no matter how many experts tell them that such firepower is not enough to destroy the entire planet, these terrified residents will not believe it.
"In this way, we can... wait, tsk tsk tsk tsk... wait for Dunn-Wessex to send Thrawn's fleet over... tsk tsk tsk tsk..." Admiral Trench said proudly.
However, Severance Tann shook her head and said: "No, this is still not enough. Thrawn will not come." "Oh? Could it be that the pressure is not enough?" Admiral Trench slapped him with his pointer. He clapped his hands and at the same time stroked his chelicerae at the corner of his mouth.
I have to say that having six hands is convenient and you can do a lot of things at the same time.
"We bombed the Iron Moon, but not the planet Palin Minor. This technique is okay to scare ordinary people, or it should also be effective against idiots like Dunn Wessex. However, for For someone like Thrawn, he can see our purpose clearly at a glance," Severance Tann said, "From the first shot I fired at Iron Moon, he knew that I would not attack Pa. Lin-Minor Planet ”
General Trench stopped several movements on his six hands, and he asked doubtfully: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk... In that case, why did you fire the second and third cannons?"
"Because even if Thrawn doesn't come here, I still have to put enough pressure on Dunn Wessex. Let Dunn, this idiot, turn into a magnet and firmly attract Thrawn...here." France Tann clicked on a planet on the holographic star map.
Planet Isol!
That's right, the Northern Fleet set out from the planet Oud-Mantel and passed through the planets Kinasa and Isol before entering the Palin-Mantel system.
After they launched their operation, Thrawn's Imperial Fleet also adopted the same tailing strategy as when it fought Admiral Mal-Took's Merchant Combined Fleet. They stopped just after they captured the planet Dolin and the planet Oud-Mantel.
Therefore, before Severance Tann bombed the Iron Moon, the fleets of both sides faced each other between the planet Palin-Minor and the planet Oud-Mantel. Between them were the planets Kinasa and Isol.
However, after Iron Moon came under direct attack, Thrawn's fleet took action. According to the reconnaissance plane report left by Tann, Thrawn's fleet crossed the planet Kinasa without stopping and entered the Isol system.
It's obvious that Thrawn is under tremendous pressure from Dunn Wessex at the moment! The King of the North, Dunn Wessex, is now said to be the second person in the military after Emperor Palpatine of the Galactic Empire. There will be no doubt at all! Even Palpatine's apprentice Darth Vader needs to seriously consider Dunn's opinions many times!
Now Dunn-Wessex is in deep fear. One can imagine the pressure that his hysteria puts on Thrawn!
"So, here is the cemetery I chose for Thrawn - the planet Isol!" Severance Tann laughed ferociously, "He will not take the initiative to come to the planet Palin Minor in front of me. .So, I need to take the initiative to find him!”
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"However, he is likely to continue to escape, tsk tsk tsk tsk... Once we withdraw our troops, the pressure on him from Dunn-Wessex will be less." Admiral Trench said.
"Then let him escape!" Severance Tann said, "The Titan battleship Angelus has the most advanced jump engine. If it really runs, they can't escape."
She clicked on the hyperspace channel marked on the star map, "Thawn can only escape back to the turtle shell of the Birbrin planet. And we hunt all the way from the Isol planet to the Birbrin planet, how much can we destroy?" Where are the imperial battleships? I'm looking forward to it...hehehehe..."
Tann grinned and licked his lips, then waved his hand and said loudly: "Send the order! The First Squadron immediately turned around and returned to the planet Isol to fight the Imperial fleet! Remember, after leaving hyperspace, the first squadron will Deploy the hyperspace disruptor! ”
"Yes! Execute immediately!" Adjutant Ma Guocheng immediately stood at attention and saluted.
The hyperspace disruptor is a widely used technology in "Sins of a Solar Empire". It has a similar purpose to the hyperspace blocker widely used in this universe, but the method is different.
The function of a hyperspace blocker is similar to a roadblock, used to block spacecraft that are making a hyperspace jump. To be effective, it is best to deploy it in the middle of the channel. Because if deployed at the starting point, the opponent's spacecraft can easily bypass the scope of action, or simply destroy the blocker.
However, the hyperspace jammer is different. This device is equivalent to a fog, making it difficult for others to see the road ahead. Simply put, it will disrupt the fluctuations of hyperspace and increase the pressure on the hyperspace engine, causing the spacecraft to require a greater amount of calculations to enter hyperspace, which will greatly delay time. And because the hyperspace disruptor directly generates hyperspace fluctuations, the entire galaxy will be affected!
Severance Tann believed that the First Squadron only needed to return to the planet Isol with the hyperspace disruptor to completely entangle Thrawn's fleet. The First Squadron has a lot of troops, including 50 capital ships and all 5 Apocalypse-class battleships of the Northern Fleet!
Although this force is only one-sixth of the Imperial fleet in Thrawn's hands, the fight and run can still delay a lot of time. As long as it can be delayed until the Titan battleship Archangel arrives, then this will be Thrawn's end! !
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About an hour after the departure of the First Squadron, the Titan battleship Hercules also completed its cooling cycle, and all systems that were overloaded and offline due to the launch of doomsday weapons were restored. Severance Tann waited for another hour to ensure that the Titan battleship was in the best condition and also waited for the hyperspace channel to calm down. After that, she ordered the Titan battleship Archangel to lead the second squadron to set off immediately to Iraq. Planet Sol! !
In the Isol galaxy, after a burst of white flash, the huge figure of the Titan battleship God's Envoy appeared in the empty space.
Along with the Angel, there were 25 capital ships and 160 small and medium-sized warships. The main reason is that the hyperspace channel between the planet Palin-Minor and the planet Isol is not very "wide", so the fleet needs to pass through it in batches.
Before Tann launched the attack, he spent a day gathering and organizing the fleet.
However, after arriving in the Isol system, Severance Tann was completely shocked!
The Isol galaxy is empty, nothing! !
Where's Thrawn? What about the First Squadron? ? ?