The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2139 Battle of Planet Rosa

2140, Battle of Planet Rosa

On July 12, 7 BBY, Darth Vader could no longer wait for more fleets to arrive.

Because now the competition between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation for those spaceports and major industries has reached a desperate state. Everything that can be snatched has been snatched, and everything that cannot be snatched has been destroyed. Some smart ones have already run away.

Now the two sides are exchanging fire everywhere in the core circle and the mid-ring star zone. The Galactic Empire wants to occupy the Trade Federation's spaceports or some colonial cities, while the Trade Federation organizes its self-defense forces to fight back.

Such exchanges of fire occurred almost simultaneously in thousands of places, with the largest involving thousands of people and the smallest involving only dozens or hundreds of people.

Although the Neimoidians are timid and cowardly, the Trade Union is not just for the Neimoidians, they also have many other races under their control. Maybe a spaceport may not even be a penny for the Trade Union, but for a certain race operating team that hosts the spaceport, it may be their life savings.

In order to protect their own property, these people will naturally fight to the death with the Galactic Empire's stormtroopers!

  Not only that, the Trade Federation also spent a lot of money to hire many mercenaries and offered a high price for every stormtrooper killed. Not only that, the Trade Federation also used its influence to forcibly open prisons on some relatively remote planets and released a large number of death row prisoners!

Those mercenaries and death row prisoners were all desperate criminals. For the sake of money and freedom, they were willing to fight the Imperial Stormtroopers to the end.

Moreover, many of the death row prisoners were actually from the Rebellion! These people originally had deep hatred for the Galactic Empire, and now that they were released, they released all their anger!

But such a battle was of no importance to the Galactic Empire. The Galactic Empire's military strength was indeed stretched to the limit, but those were large battleships used for frontal combat, and the billions of clone soldiers and tens of billions of ordinary soldiers in the Empire's hands could all be transported over with simple transport ships for bloody suppression.

Darth Vader was not interested in such sporadic exchanges of fire. After gathering 200 battleships and 1700 small and medium-sized warships, he immediately launched an attack on the Trade Federation's core planet Rosa!

Among these 200 battleships, there are 120 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 bloat of the Galactic Empire Navy.

The Victory II-class is certainly a very excellent star destroyer, but after all, its 900-meter length makes its combat effectiveness incomparable to the 1600-meter-long Empire II-class. The two differ in size by more than three times, and the technology used is also inferior.

Basically, starting from the Clone Wars, if the Jaeger-class battlecruiser and the Cole-class battlecruiser are considered the first generation of battleships, then the Hell's Angel-class battlecruiser and the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer are the second generation of battleships. The Victory II-class is roughly in the transition period between the two, about 1.7 generations, and is the kind that has obvious advantages over the first generation of battleships, but is not as good as the second generation of battleships.

By the way, according to this standard, the third generation battleship should be the Revelation-class battleship of the Principality of Dawn. The Empire II-class can be considered 2.5 generations at most.

Now, the Galactic Empire Navy has equipped a large number of Victory II-class Star Destroyers, which has actually caused the average quality of the Empire Navy to decline. Because their opponent, the Dawn Principality Navy is basically based on the second-generation battleships, supplemented by a small number of previous-generation battleships and third-generation battleships, which is a very healthy state.

The Principality of Dawn is also equipped with a lot of Victory II-class Star Destroyers, but they are rarely used in the front-line fleet. In other words, in a battle between fleets of the same number, the Principality of Dawn still firmly holds an absolute advantage. This is the main reason why Emperor Palpatine did not take direct action against the Principality of Dawn when Tang Xiao was away, even though he was extremely crazy.

  On July 7, accompanied by 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 intensive firepower! The armed space stations around the planet Rosa opened fire crazily. Not only that, the Trade Union also built a considerable number of Gauss defense platforms and missile defense platforms introduced from the Principality of Dawn.

Almost in the first second after the Imperial Navy left the hyperspace channel, tens of thousands of Gauss shells and antimatter missiles were fired!

But for Darth Vader, this was just a small scene. Under his command, the Imperial Fleet had already prepared for the first wave of raids, otherwise he would not have chosen to leave hyperspace directly in the outer orbit close to the planet.

Densely packed laser cannons and turbolaser cannons formed a deadly fire net, intercepting most of the shells and missiles. Even a small number of them that slipped through the net would either fly aside due to electronic interference or fall onto the star destroyer's sturdy deflector shield, causing a tiny ripple of energy.

At the same time, the powerful scanners of the Star Destroyer began to conduct a comprehensive survey around the planet Rosa. Now, more than 160 armed space stations have been deployed outside the planet Rosa. The largest of these space stations is about 3000 meters in size, and the smallest is 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 is clearly visible.

Planetary shield!

Although the escort fleet around the planet has disappeared, such defensive force cannot be underestimated.

At Darth Vader's direct order, the Imperial fleet immediately launched a powerful and resolute offensive against the outer defense line of the planet Rosa, with the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer as the vanguard.

The Imperial-class Star Destroyer can fully exert its firepower when facing the enemy head-on. The firepower of 60 XX-9 twin-mounted heavy turbolaser cannons and 60 plasma cannons is unimaginably strong. Dense beams of light were fired from the direction of the Imperial fleet, landing on the armed space station and 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, consisting of four circular firing points, with more than 20 turbolaser cannons firing rhythmically, and plasma explosive gas with terrifying energy is emitted one after another. Each shot of the turbolaser cannon is equivalent to a nuclear bomb of tens of millions of tons!

What greeted them was the even more powerful turbolaser 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 the next round of shooting penetrated the shield, and in the violent explosion, a huge gap was suddenly blown out of the originally intact armed space station.

The gravity generator was destroyed, the space anchor failed, and the entire space station spun uncontrollably under the shock wave of the explosion. Countless debris and twisted corpses spewed out from the gap.

Immediately afterwards, 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.