Chapter 905: Corellia’s New Star
904, Corellia’s New Star
The time has entered 21BBY, March.
The war ignited in the entire galaxy intensified again...
On March 15, the Interstellar Banking Association and the Fourth Group suddenly launched an attack in the northern part of the galaxy. They assembled 30 Behemoth-class ships A powerful force of battlecruisers and more than 50 Generosity-class communication frigates suddenly launched a surprise attack.
The fleet of the 8th Army of the Galactic Republic surrounding the planet Mequito was almost collapsed in the face of such a powerful force. Jedi Master Sars-Tin personally led a fighter squadron to raid the flagship of the Separatist fleet when the battle situation collapsed. .
The Dark Jedi Knight Uru-Ulix who was in command was almost killed by Sars-Tin. When he fled in panic, the Republic fleet finally seized this only opportunity to take advantage of the chaos of the Separatist fleet. Evacuated the battlefield.
Immediately afterwards, Ulu-Ulix, who had recovered from his fatigue, led the fleet and marched straight in, beginning to attack important nodes in the hyperspace channel leading to the 8th Army headquarters Oud-Mantel planet—— The planet Janfathal.
When the planet was surrounded, the long-oppressed workers on the planet launched a strike and refused to produce any products for the planet's government to resist the invasion of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
After analyzing the war situation, the Supreme Strategic Command of the Galactic Republic believes that the offensive in the north cannot be ignored, because this is likely to lead to the loss of the relatively stable northern territory of the galaxy again after both the western and southern battlefields were hit. of control.
But now the fleets in all aspects are stretched thin, and the manpower and commanders are also very short. After discussions with the Jedi Order, the Jedi Order said that now that Master Windu is seriously injured, the Jedi Order cannot provide more manpower to help. Northern battlefield.
As a result, the Republic's Supreme Strategic Command found a splinter Jedi sect-the Altis Sect.
This sect refused to accept the leadership of the Jedi Order, but continued to serve the Galactic Republic as a semi-independent group. The leader was a male human Jedi named Dijnn Altis.
Jein Altis readily agreed to the Republic's call. He led a team of Jedi Knights from the Altis sect to the planet Coruscant and participated in the discussion of the war situation.
Afterwards, Speaker Sheev Palpatine of the Galactic Republic personally issued an administrative order and dispatched a fleet from the Corellia system to reinforce the planet Zanfatar.
The joint fleets of the Interstellar Banking Association and the Fourth Group deployed half of their forces on the planet Janfatar, and the other fleets went to surrounding systems to expand their results. At this time, the fleet led by Jain Altis launched a surprise attack on them.
Many of the fleets of this Galactic Republic are small spacecraft produced by Corellian Engineering Company, plus some Jaeger-class battlecruisers under Master Sars-Tine. Although they are large in number, The situation is still not optimistic.
The Behemoth-class battlecruiser showed great power in this battle. The semi-axis-based shaped plasma cannon-Yamato Cannon equipped on the bow of the ship was extremely powerful, causing extreme damage to the large battleships headed by the Jaeger-class. Big damage. In the face of those small warships, the air-to-air scattering laser cannon arrays on both sides of the Behemoth class also played an excellent role.
The emergence of this kind of battleship forced the Galactic Republic fleet to use a large number of fighter groups to hit the Attack Behemoth-class battlecruiser, and in this way, the suppression of the Generous-class communication frigate was relaxed.
Although the Generous class communications frigates are already a very backward warship, the twin heavy turbolaser cannons installed at their bows are also extremely powerful. Now without the restraints of the Republic fighter group, the Generosity-class communications frigate was able to give full play to its firepower, causing even greater damage than in the previous battle. Seeing another failure, at this time, the flagship of the Republic fleet suddenly received a communication.
This communication came from a cheerer-class assault landing ship called the 'Leveler'. The young captain of this battleship provided some combat suggestions. He carefully analyzed the battlefield situation. It is recommended that the fleet commander adjust the formation, divide the fleet into ten squads to harass and delay in batches, and then allow the army to land on the planet Janfatar as soon as possible.
He said to the fleet commander: "The explosive use of energy by a new behemoth-class battlecruiser like the Separatism will definitely require a longer charging cycle. The cooling time of this cycle is our It’s time to launch a counterattack. And, because of the gap in fleet strength, I suggest launching a landing operation as soon as possible to quell the strike action on the planet and regain the support of the planet.”
The fleet commander carefully evaluated his suggestion. Nodding in agreement, "Your battle plan makes sense, and I will adopt it. Since you are the captain of the Cheer-class assault landing ship, you may be more familiar with the landing battle, and then the ground battlefield will be left to your command."
"Yes!" The captain gave a military salute.
The fleet commander looked at the young general who seemed to have just turned 30, then looked at his military rank, nodded and asked, "What's your name, Captain?"
"My name is Gila Gilad Pellaeon [Note 1], it is an honor to serve in your fleet, sir," the captain replied.
The fleet commander waved his hand to close the communication, and then he adopted Captain Gilad-Pellaeon's suggestion.
I saw that the Republic fleet was immediately divided into ten formations, giving full play to the flexibility of the small Corellia Engineering Company ships to maneuver around in a wide range to avoid a head-on battle with the powerful Separatist fleet. .
At the same time, with the Correctional Cheer-class assault landing ship as the core, they sent all landing ships to conduct landing operations on the planet Zhanfatar.
The Jedi warriors who participated in the battle were also divided into two groups. In other words, they were originally two waves and could not urinate together from the beginning.
Sass-Tin was more adept at piloting fighter jets for interstellar combat, so he stayed on the space battlefield to continue fighting.
Jine Altis will lead the Jedi Knights of the Altis sect to participate in ground operations. They will reinforce Atal City, the capital of the planet Zanfatar, stabilize the ruling government of the planet, and pacify the workers. Strike the rebellion, then activate the planet's defense system as soon as possible and take off fighter jets to reinforce the space battlefield.
No matter what happens, they can still provide supplies to their fleet and drag the battle into a protracted war.
As Gilad Perrine expected, once it is dragged into a protracted war, the weaknesses of the Behemoth-class battlecruiser will be revealed.
Two days after the battle, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano led two Jaeger-class battlecruisers to the planet Zanfatar for reinforcements.
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[Note 1: Gilad Pellaeon was born in 51 BBY, which is exactly 30 years old. The battle on the planet Zanfatar was the first battle of this legendary star of the generation. . It's a pity that I can't find any pictures of him when he was young. 】
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