1580. The Extermination War of Feida (Part 1)
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We won a victory, except Nothing else to gain. ——Girard Pellaeon, Marshal of the Galactic Empire, "Memoirs of Conquest", Imperial Calendar Year 22.
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War… war never changes.
In fact, if someone looks back at the history of human wars, they will find that the development of wars is actually wave-shaped.
When primitive humans learned to tie stones to branches, the first thing they did was to smash the stone hammer into the heads of their compatriots. The war at that time was very simple. It was about who was stronger and who could swing a bigger stone hammer.
In the following years, humans learned to bow and arrow, hung wood chips and leather on their bodies for added protection, and learned to tame horses, camels and elephants, allowing them to participate in wars.
Wars at that time began to gradually become more complex, and humans began to study how to fight with higher efficiency. With horses and elephants, how can we maximize the power of these animals? With bows and arrows and armor, how can we make these equipment better achieve their goals?
However, with the gradual development of the times, the emergence of muskets made bows and arrows withdraw from the stage, leaving armor no longer useful; the emergence of trenches made cavalry a display; and the invention of machine guns and cannons made all Strategies have become the simplest addition and subtraction.
So at this stage, the war began to subtract. One after another, the weapons that once dominated the war have withdrawn from the battlefield, and machine guns, cannons and trenches have become the absolute protagonists of the war.
But human wisdom is infinite, so countless talented war scientists once again threw more weapons into the battlefield. The emergence of tanks has restrained machine guns, the emergence of aircraft has prevented cannons from roaring unbridled, and the emergence of rockets and missiles has expanded the space of war to an unprecedented breadth.
The war has taken the road of addition again. More and more weapons appear on the battlefield, and often when a war breaks out, there are hundreds or even thousands of different weapons and equipment, each performing their own duties.
But the core of war remains unchanged - killing.
In the interstellar age, space battleships appear on the battlefield. They can launch attacks covering the entire planet directly from outside the planet. In front of the battleships, cannons, missiles, and machine guns have all become decorations.
So the war at this time began to become simple again-the battleship's exchange of fire decided everything. Whoever can drive away the opponent's warships and gain control of the outer orbit of the planet will have the power to control the entire planet.
At this time, the fighting on the ground was more due to political factors than war factors.
After all, there are only so many habitable planets in the entire galaxy. If you blow up one planet, you will miss one. If you really have to let go of the bombing, in a few years, everyone will have to live in spaceships.
Some people may think that such a starship civilization is very romantic and effective, but in fact, if you make a little analogy, you will know that if people live on a ship all year round, even if it is a luxury cruise ship, Then within a year, this person will be depressed.
The limited space of the cabin on the spaceship is incomparable to the boundless earth down to earth.
So at this time, the mode of war is often that the fleets of both sides engage in battle, and then seize the opportunity to directly deliver the army to the other party's political center, and then achieve political results through military means. The most typical one is to subvert the existing regime and establish a new puppet regime.
The clone army of the Galactic Republic was established based on this war concept. The same is true even for their warship design - for example, the huge hangar capacity of the Jaeger-class is actually more for ground support rather than for fleet bombardment.
So at this time, even though the Galactic Republic and the Confederation of Independent Systems have been at war for more than two years, and both sides have had their brains beaten out, they still have not mobilized as a whole - because in front of the space battleship, your millions There is actually not much difference between a large army and an army of tens of millions.
The reason why the Principality of Dawn repeatedly used small means to make the Galactic Republic suffer in wars is because they were at the forefront of the times and made the war more complicated.
A composite fleet with multiple functions that cooperate with each other, and a composite army with multiple arms. This makes it difficult for the Galactic Republic Navy and Army to resist with a single arm and at most some long-distance support arms.
Therefore, the Galactic Republic is also learning now and exploring how to make its war model more complex and diversified.
All of this is actually traceable, and this is the trend of history.
However, now in the northern part of the Milky Way, the war here has taken on a different look - a more cruel and direct form, which makes the Galactic Republic even more at a loss as to what to do!
War of Extermination! !
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Planet Phaeda.
This is a remote planet located in the northern part of the Milky Way's planar star map, in the outer ring. There is no large hyperspace channel passing through it. The surrounding environment is complex. It has two geotechnical satellites that are very far apart. Recently, the planet's tidal climate has become unpredictable.
For a long time, this place has been a paradise for various gangs, bandits, smugglers, and criminals. Here you can see almost every adventurous race in the galaxy - Rodians, Bothans , Gran people, humans, Ishtibu people, etc., almost everywhere is filled with the smell of sin.
There is a saying: In front of Feida, Nashada (the Smuggler's Moon) looks so elegant. ("This was Phaeda, after all. Onabad day it made Nar Shadda a look classy.")
To understand it in 21st century terms, Nar Shadda is the hometown of the Mafia in Sicily, and Fieta is the dirty slum of Assana.
"Fuck you! You better get out of my bar, you drunkard! Otherwise, I want you to look good!" Deka, a sturdy Rodian, pointed at a drunkard with his beloved modified blaster. His head roared loudly.
"A corpse puppet is coming! Hehehehehe... Corpse puppet! Haha, we are all dead! The Geth are eyeing this place, hahahaha..." The drunkard stood up unsteadily and put He picked up the half bottle of bad wine that had just fallen to the ground, pulled out the cork, and drank several sips.
"Get out of here!! If you continue to talk nonsense here and affect my business, I will blow your mind right now!" Deka was furious and pulled the gun bolt fiercely. He added another weapon and exploded. The overloader on the energy rifle's charging device began to operate, and the barrel of the gun began to light up with a dazzling light of energy.
With this shot, even a hover car can be blown up.
"Don't...don't shoot, don't shoot..." The drunk man quickly backed away and staggered out.
Deka spat fiercely at his back, "What a fucking unlucky guy!"
"Hey, Deka, is what that guy said true? A corpse puppet really showed up to kill him. Did your wife get eaten?" asked a human drinker nearby. "This guy drank all day long and made his wife angry. Then he came here and started spreading rumors! What a fucking bastard! His wife is probably lying on the bed of some wealthy Muun businessman now, huh!" Deka snorted. ,
"I said, what if a corpse puppet really appears? Doesn't that mean that the Geth is really coming?" A Gran man was a little frightened, "I heard about it last month, The Geth captured the planet Rakkakaro... There is not a single survivor on the planet!"
"That's what you're talking about!" Deka said, "You really want one! There are no survivors. How did you get this news? It was not released by the Galactic Republic so that we could obey them and pay them taxes, and then they would station troops here! Being garrisoned? ”
he asked loudly across the bar.
"Fuck the Galactic Republic! Fuck Palpatine!" A burly human black man over there, at least two meters tall, raised his middle finger.
"Hahahahaha!!" The friends who were with the black man shouted loudly, and then picked up the large wine glass in their hands and drank it all in one gulp.
"Listen to me, three-eyed boy." Deka turned back and leaned on the bar, and said to the Granite (the Granite has three eyes), "What does Feida have? There are death row prisoners here. , there are spices, there are slaves, there are fine wines...but there will be no geth! What can those killing machines like about the female slaves kept in the basement by the Muuns?"
"The geth are nothing. Interested in the factory!" Another mercenary also said, "There is no factory in Feida... If the water purification plant in Jipeng's house can be considered a factory, hahahaha!"
The smugglers and mercenaries laughed one after another, drank and drank together, and would not return until they were drunk.
"Hey!! Camille! Come out and dance!!" Someone shouted, asking the only dancer in this shabby bar to come out and perform a striptease as soon as possible.
Soon, a human woman with an average appearance and a somewhat out-of-shape figure walked out from the backstage wearing revealing clothes, twisted to the wine table, and started her vulgar dance.
"Hahahahahaha! Respect to my beauty! Hahahahaha!!" The mercenaries laughed.
No wonder they are so happy. In a place like Fiida, where people lick blood anytime and anywhere, they have the luxury to go to the bar for a drink and stuff a roll of banknotes into the underwear of those vulgar dancers in exchange for it. Those who wink or blow kisses are basically people who have made several deals.
They would congratulate themselves for living another day and making some money to enjoy.
In other words, those who can come over to drink are the winners on this day. As for the losers, they should be in the jungle outside the city of Feida, their bodies being eaten by wild beasts.
However, at this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound from the bar door! Only a figure was seen breaking open the wooden door and staggering in.
Bang! ! The wooden door that was knocked open fell directly to the ground.
Although this wooden door was just a decoration, being vandalized like this still made the bar owner Deka furious. He picked up his modified blaster rifle and walked over, only to see that the person who hit the door was the same person as before. Get rid of that drunkard!
"I'll fuck you! George! I'm going to break your legs today! Right now!!" Deka cursed angrily and walked over to catch the drunkard.
"Yes! Break his legs! Hahahahaha!!" Some drinkers were booing inside.
However, before Deka could catch the drunkard, the man fell to the ground with a thud!
At this time, everyone saw that the drunkard’s back was dripping with blood, and there was a huge wound that was deep enough to show the bone! Even the spine can be seen!
“Ah~~~!!!” The dancer stood higher and could see more clearly. She jumped down with a scream and ran back towards the backstage.
The bartender in charge of the music saw that something was wrong and walked over to turn off the loud music, leaving the surroundings in silence.
"Hoo..." An inhuman gasp came from outside the door, and then, a person walked through the darkness outside the door and stepped into the bar.
I only saw that this ‘person’ could not be said to be a human at all except that it was still barely human!
It has no clothes on, and all the moisture has been drained from its body, like a mummy that has been buried for hundreds of years! Moreover, it has a large number of bright energy nodes on its body, and its eyes have no eyelids or pupils. They are completely spherical luminous bodies with pipes crisscrossing each other, protruding from a hole in its abdomen, all over the body!
This twisted and terrifying look makes people feel chills all over their bodies after seeing it, and the meaning behind it makes people even more desperate!
Corpse puppet! !
Bang! ! The modified blaster in Deka's hand fired! The overloaded blaster beam exploded instantly, and the powerful power directly blew the corpse puppet away!
"It's... it's a corpse puppet! It's a corpse puppet!!! The Geth is coming!!" The drinkers who saw it clearly screamed loudly.
"No! No!! My wife is still at home!!" A smuggler shouted, picked up his weapon and ran towards the door.
However, not long after, there was a burst of gunshots outside the door, and soon there was a scream!
"Asshole! Come with me to see the situation!!" Deka greeted loudly.
Immediately, several bold mercenaries came over with guns in hand. They cautiously stepped out of the bar to check the situation outside the door.
I only saw that the street where the bar was located was already silent. Most of the houses opposite were dark, and in the few houses with lights on, there were strange shadows shaking from time to time.
"What exactly happened here?" a mercenary whispered.
Before, the music was played loudly in their bar, and everyone was immersed in wine and spices. Who cares about what happens outside the door. But now that they came out, they realized that something had happened in this place!
A few steps further, I saw the mercenary who ran out just now lying on the ground, and a corpse puppet squatting on the ground tearing at his body.
Not only that, there seems to be something moving in the surrounding darkness.
"There is more than one corpse puppet! Go back! Hurry!!!" When Deka said the last word, he shouted almost hysterically.
"Hiss~~~~~~" A roar came from the darkness, and then several corpse puppets appeared and rushed towards them! ! (End of this chapter)