Chapter 357: The Battle of Naboo (Seven)
355. The Battle of Naboo (Seven)
Sheev Palpatine, who was attending a political rally on the Pelemi Orbital Space Station, was not allowed to He did not end the assembly early and return to Coruscant. Although he wanted to stay in the assembly, a series of emergencies on the planet Naboo forced him to conduct remote control, at least for Newt Gunray and Rune Harkou. A fool can't really screw it up.
Because just yesterday, after he gave the order for Newt Gunray to kill the two Jedi who went to the planet Naboo to mediate, Newt Gunray did not mention this matter again, including Later, when they occupied the entire planet Naboo and captured Queen Amidala, they did not mention it when they sent him the news of success.
Darth Sidious only thought that the two Jedi Knights had been killed, just like what he had done before on the planet Inchori, the remote-controlled mercenary Velma, killing the Jedi Knights, It's not that difficult for his layout.
Now that the planet Naboo has been occupied, all that's left is for Queen Amidala to sign a surrender treaty as soon as possible, so that he can overturn the situation in the parliament and legalize the occupation of the Trade Federation.
"Newt Gunray, since you have captured Queen Amidala, she must have signed the surrender treaty now, right?" Darth Sidious asked in the communication.
"Well... that... Lord Sidious..." Newt Gunray's expression was frightened. He lowered his head and did not dare to look at Sidious's expression. "The Queen... she disappeared. "
"What did you say? She disappeared?" Darth Sidious was stunned. Even if he was as well-mannered as he was, he was almost furious at the news, but he couldn't. If you lose your composure, you can only suppress the anger in your heart and stay calm.
“Yes, when we escorted Queen Amidala to the concentration camp, the two Jedi suddenly attacked the escorting team, rescued the queen, and also robbed a Naboo royal ship. The spaceship broke through our blockade and escaped..." Newt Gunray lowered his head and said.
He also understood that what he did was really stupid. Even if the queen was rescued, he actually let them seize the spaceship! Even if they grabbed the spaceship, the blockade of 60 Rookery Hook-class cargo ships was actually broken through by a Naboo royal spaceship? !
This is really a shameful failure that would be shameless to tell anyone!
Newt Gunray kept making excuses for himself in his mind. For example, the spaceships in the blockade were all cargo ships, and only 10 of them were equipped with turrets. The coverage of the installed turrets was very unsatisfactory, and they carried vulture robots. All the fighter planes escorted the C-9979 landing ship into the atmosphere of the planet Naboo and was not at the blockade.
However, the expected thunderous fury of Darth Sidious did not come. He just said coldly: "I want you to find the queen, capture her and bring her back to sign the peace treaty! I can delay it in the parliament Time is limited! "
"But... we don't know where her spaceship went..." Newt Gunray's voice became smaller and smaller.
"Sith, omnipotent!" Darth Sidious said through gritted teeth. He waved, and Darth Maul came over and stood behind him, looking at the two idiots in front of him fiercely, "This is me. Your disciple Darth Maul, he will help you find the queen and kill the two Jedi Knights!"
The communication was closed, Rune Harkor looked at Newt Gunray in horror and said: " Things are getting out of hand! How come I didn’t know there was a second Sith! How many of them are there? We shouldn’t have made a deal with such a terrifying existence in the first place! Let’s not mention this again! At least they can help us get a high position and control the entire Trade Federation!” Before Sidious’s terrifying figure, Newt Gunray had regained some of his dignity, and he said sternly: "The most critical thing now is to find Queen Amidala as soon as possible! Otherwise, if time drags on for too long, the Republic Council will really make trouble for us!"
He looked at the planet Naboo outside the porthole. , and then said: "Disperse our entire fleet! Go to all the surrounding galaxies to look for traces of Queen Amidala, and be sure to catch her!" "But what about the planet Naboo?" Rune Harkou asked.
"The battle on the planet Naboo is over! We have occupied the planet, and naturally there is no need to blockade it. Moreover, we still have an army of 2 million robots on the planet. It is impossible for the planet Naboo to have any force that can match it. ! Leave our flagship as the robot control ship, and the other spaceships will set off immediately!" Newt Gunray said decisively, "And this will somewhat reduce our political pressure."
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At the same time, with the help of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Queen Amidala and her party, who miraculously escaped, also encountered trouble.
When they broke through the blockade, the spacecraft engine was hit by the firepower of the Trade Federation blockade fleet, and the hyperspace engine was damaged. They had to fly to a nearby planet to seek help, and their chosen target was the tower. Planet Tuin.
"An armed conflict comparable to a civil war broke out on the planet Tatooine a year ago. It is definitely the most dangerous to go to this planet now." The security guard who escaped with Queen Amidala Minister Panaka said.
"In this case, our enemies will not think that we will come here. In short, Tatooine is located in the Hutt space. As long as we do not provoke the Hutts, we will not have much trouble, at least not more than now. Oops." Qui-Gon Jinn said, "We cannot open communications until we repair the hyperspace engine, otherwise we will be tracked by them."
"There are two big cities on Tatooine. Si Eisli City and Mos Espa Port, where are we going?" Obi-Wan Kenobi asked.
"Let's go to Mos Espa Port, the chaos there can just protect us." Qui-Gon Jinn made a decision.
The spaceship landed in Mos Espa Port, and Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi decided to try their luck in this city that can be described as a refugee camp, a slum, or simply a ruin. One of Queen Amidala's maids also insisted on going with them.
In the chaotic alleyways of the city, Qui-Gon Jinn suddenly saw some Cali men in black uniforms patrolling among the crowd. Fighting and kicking, the residents dared not speak out in anger. Whenever they saw these Kali people, they bowed their heads and left.
"Be careful not to be noticed by those Kali people." Qui-Gon Jinn pulled Obi-Wan and whispered: "I heard Master Ki-Adi Mundi say before that they were on the planet Seriya. They appeared during the civil war. They were the Kali people of the Titan Security. They belonged to the fourth group and were together with the Trade Federation."
"Planet Seriya...the fourth group...the Titan Security... ..." Obi-Wan Kenobi hid in the shadows, looking at the ferocious Calis, and some bad memories came to his mind.
But fortunately, because these Kali people are too ferocious, as the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake, no matter what they want to do on Tatooine, it is difficult, and the residents do not buy their account at all. , Qui-Gon Jinn and the others were not discovered.
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[Easter egg chapter attached picture: Newt Gunray and Rune Harkou during the Battle of Naboo. 】
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