Chapter 2139 Battle of Planet Rosa
2140, Battle of Planet Rosa
12 BBY, July 13, Darth Vader could not wait for more fleets to arrive.
Because now the competition between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation for those space ports and major industries has reached a state of breaking out. Everything that can be snatched is snatched, and what cannot be grabbed is destroyed. Some clever He had already run away.
Now the two sides are fighting everywhere in the core circle and the central star area. The Galactic Empire wants to occupy the Trade Federation's spaceport or some colonial cities, while the Trade Federation organizes self-defense forces to fight back.
Such exchanges of fire occurred almost simultaneously in thousands of places, with large scales involving thousands of people and small scales involving only dozens or hundreds of people.
Although the Neimoidians are timid and cowardly, the Trade Federation does not belong to the Neimoidians alone. They also have many other races under their banner. Maybe a certain spaceport may not be considered small change to the Trade Alliance, but to a certain race operation team that hosts this spaceport, this may be their lifetime savings.
In order to protect their property, these people will naturally fight to the death with the stormtroopers of the Galactic Empire!
Not only that, the Trade Federation also spent a lot of money, hired many mercenaries, and paid a high price for every stormtrooper soldier killed. Not to mention, the Trade Federation also used its influence to forcefully open prisons on some relatively remote planets and release a large number of death row prisoners!
Those mercenaries and death row prisoners are all desperadoes. For money and freedom, they also fight with their heads against the Imperial Stormtroopers to the end.
What's more, the source of many death row prisoners is actually the rebel army! These people originally had a deep-seated hatred for the Galactic Empire, but now that they were released, they unleashed all their anger!
But such a battle is of no importance to the Galactic Empire. The Galactic Empire's military strength is indeed stretched thin, but they are large capital ships used for frontal combat, and the billions of clone soldiers and tens of billions of ordinary soldiers in the Empire's hands can all be transported by simple transport ships for bloody suppression.
As for Darth Vader, he was not interested in such scattered firefights at all. After gathering 200 capital ships and 1,700 small and medium-sized warships, he immediately launched an attack on the planet Rosa in the core circle of the Trade Alliance!
Of these 200 capital ships, 120 are Victory II-class Star Destroyers, 40 Imperial I-class, 30 Imperial II-class, and 10 Tracker-class aircraft carriers.
In fact, this force composition also reflects the puffiness of the Galactic Empire Navy.
The Victory II-class is certainly a very excellent Star Destroyer, but after all, its 900-meter-long body is there, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the 1,600-meter-long Empire II-class. The difference in volume between the two is more than three times. And the technology used is also different.
Basically speaking, since the beginning of the Clone Wars, if the Jaeger-class battlecruisers and Cole-class battlecruisers are considered the first-generation battlecruisers, then the Hells Angel-class battlecruisers, The Imperial I-class Star Destroyer is a second-generation battleship. The Victory II class is roughly in the transitional period between the two, about 1.7 generations. It has obvious advantages over the first-generation battleships, but is not as good as the second-generation battleships.
By the way, according to this standard, the third-generation battleship should be the Divine Apocalypse-class battleship of the Principality of Dawn. Empire II is at most 2.5 generations old.
Currently, a large number of Victory II-class Star Destroyers are installed in the Galactic Empire Navy. In fact, this has also caused a decline in the average quality of the Imperial Navy. Because of their opponents, the Navy of the Principality of Dawn is basically dominated by second-generation battleships, supplemented by a small number of previous-generation battleships and third-generation battleships, which is a very healthy state.
The Victory II-class Star Destroyer Dawn Principality is also equipped with a lot of equipment, but it is rarely used in the first-line fleet. In other words, in a battle with the same number of fleets, the Dawn Principality still firmly holds the absolute advantage. This is the main reason why even though he was extremely crazy, Emperor Palpatine still didn't take advantage of Tang Xiao's absence to directly attack the Principality of Dawn.
On July 14, with bursts of dazzling white flashes, the Galactic Empire fleet left the hyperspace channel and entered the outer orbit of the planet Rosa!
What greeted them was intense firepower! The armed space stations around the planet Rosa opened fire wildly. Not only that, but a considerable number of Gauss defense platforms and missile defense platforms introduced by the Trade Alliance from the Principality of Dawn were also built here.
Almost the first second after the Imperial Navy left the hyperspace channel, tens of thousands of Gauss shells and anti-matter missiles were launched!
But for Darth Vader, this is just a small scene. Under his command, the Imperial fleet was already prepared to deal with the first wave of raids, otherwise he would not have directly chosen to leave hyperspace in an outer orbit close to the planet.
The densely packed laser cannons and turbolaser cannons formed a deadly fire net, intercepting most of the shells and missiles. Even a small number of fish that slipped through the net either flew aside due to electronic interference or fell into the solid frame of the Star Destroyer. A negligible ripple of energy rippled on the deflector shield.
At the same time, the Star Destroyer's powerful scanner began a comprehensive exploration of the surrounding planet Rosa. Now, there are more than 160 armed space stations deployed outside the planet Rosa. These space stations are as large as about 3,000 meters in size and as small as more than 400 meters. They are densely covered with a large number of turbolaser turrets and missile launchers.
And around the planet Rosa, a light blue light curtain was clearly visible.
Planetary Shield!
Although the escort fleet around the planet is missing, such a defensive force cannot be underestimated.
Darth Vader gave a direct order, and the Imperial fleet immediately took the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer as the vanguard and launched a powerful and determined offensive against the outer defense line of the planet Rosa.
When the Imperial-class Star Destroyer is facing the enemy head-on, it can best unleash its full firepower. The firepower of the 60-seat XX-9 dual-mounted heavy turbolaser cannon and the 60-seat plasma cannon is unimaginably powerful. Dense beams of light were fired from the direction of the imperial fleet, falling on the armed space station and on the planetary shield.
Countless explosions, countless flames, and countless pieces of debris flashed on the battlefield almost at the same time.
A small armed space station is composed of four ring-shaped firepower points. More than 20 turbolaser cannons are firing rhythmically, and plasma explosive gas with terrifying energy is fired out. Each turbolaser cannon shot is equivalent to a tens of millions of tons of nuclear bombs!
What greeted them was the even more powerful turbo laser of the Imperial Fleet!
Soon, the armed space station was hit by continuous attacks. The first few shots were blocked by the energy shield, but in the following round of shots, the shield was penetrated. In the violent explosion, a huge gap was blown out of the originally complete armed space station.
The gravity generator was destroyed, the space anchor failed, and the entire space station rotated uncontrollably under the shock wave of the explosion. Countless fragments of debris and twisted corpses erupted from the gap.
Following this, more than ten turbo lasers hit the space station. The remaining parts of the space station were finally completely destroyed and turned into countless fragments in the explosion and flames.