The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2221 The Fall of Planet Rosa

  2222: The Fall of Planet Rosa

Three months have passed since the Galactic Empire decided to completely eliminate the Trade Federation and start a war without declaring war.

The Trade Federation put up a very determined resistance and the situation was terrible.

At the beginning of the war, the Galactic Empire misjudged the Trade Federation's determination to resist, so when it first attacked the planets Rosa in the core circle and Vulture in the deep core, it encountered fierce resistance and its offensive was thwarted.

But soon, under the leadership of Darth Vader, the imperial army launched a more fierce attack, and used every possible means!

The Imperial fleet launched a fierce orbital bombardment on the planet Vulture. The powerful artillery fire of the Imperial-class Star Destroyers bombed the factories and military facilities near the equator of the entire planet over and over again. Later, the dense charred and flames on the equatorial part of the planet Vulture could be seen from outer space.

On the ground battlefield, tens of millions of robot armies were destroyed. The wreckage of these robots was piled up layer by layer, and no one cleaned it up, forming one terrible metal plain after another.

On September 9, Arakyd Industries, a robotics company on the planet Vulture, announced its unconditional surrender and withdrawal from the Trade Federation.

Darth Vader showed no mercy at all and personally broke into the headquarters of Arakde Industries, arrested more than 40 top executives of the company, and then executed them publicly!

Three days later, Arakord Industries announced a reorganization, and all its remaining assets and industrial systems were merged into the Galactic Empire. This company, which has a history of thousands of years, was once extremely glorious. As one of the founders of the Trade Union, it was also known as one of the three largest robot manufacturers in the galaxy along with Industrial Automaton and Cybot Galactica.

But now, the former glory is only a devastation. The entire Vulture planet was almost destroyed in the war! Although this planet, which was the largest robot production center in the Milky Way, has been damaged by over-industrialization and has caused environmental damage, has now become a metal garbage dump.

And on the planet Rosa, the situation is even more tragic!

  In order to capture the planet, Darth Vader brazenly launched Order No. 37! According to this directive, the imperial soldiers will fight under the assumption that the combat targets are sheltered by a large number of civilians, and in order to ensure the achievement of the combat objectives, the imperial soldiers will be allowed to fire at civilians!

Although the previous leader of the planet Rosa, Torreso Boré, chose to commit suicide publicly in order to awaken the people's will to resist, it did not make the hard-hearted Darth Vader terminate Order 37.

After breaking through the planetary shield of the planet Rosa, the fleet of the Galactic Empire immediately began an extremely brutal landing operation. The Star Destroyers also carried out orbital bombings. Although they did not bomb densely populated cities, they still dealt a devastating blow to many industrial areas.

In the subsequent street fighting within the city, even without using orbital bombing, the Galactic Empire's army still used bombers, small spacecraft and long-range heavy artillery to carry out continuous attacks. And in this process, there was no concern about whether there were still civilians in the city who had not been evacuated.

  During the war on the planet Rosa, the Galactic Empire carried out equal killing! As long as there was anything that could move in front of them, they would just shoot!

The capital of Rosa planet only lasted until August, when the attack began in July. However, the resistance in other cities on the planet continued. It was not until October 7 that the flames of resistance were extinguished in the last city on Rosa planet that was still resisting.

During the war that lasted for more than three months, more than 170 large cities on the planet Rosa were destroyed, almost all industrial areas were plowed to the ground, and raging fires were set on agricultural production areas. This once developed planet, thousands of years of construction, was destroyed in an instant.

  What's even more cruel is that the planet's total population once reached 140 billion, but when the planet completely fell, there were less than 60 billion left. In other words, the number of people who died directly or indirectly in this war reached a terrifying 80 billion!

And in the foreseeable future, due to famine, environmental pollution and crustal activity caused by orbital bombardment, only one fifth of these six billion people will survive in the next few years. In other words, only one in ten people on the planet Rosa will survive!

This brutal war was widely publicized by the Galactic Empire's propaganda agencies as a typical case, hoping to serve as a warning to others. The brutal scenes were constantly spread on the holographic network, and the accompanying text was marked: The fate of the rebels!

However, the Galactic Empire invested a large number of warships in this war of quick success. The number of battleships involved in the battle of Rosa reached 300, and the army's strength exceeded 700 million. In order to ensure the supply of this huge army, the Galactic Empire mobilized more than 20000 transport ships.

Fortunately, the battlefield is located in the core circle of the Milky Way. If it was in the outer ring star region, even the Galactic Empire would not be able to withstand such terrible consumption.

During the war, a total of 27 battleships were destroyed by orbital defense firepower, more than 90 ships were damaged and returned to the factory, and the army lost more than 200 million troops.

However, such losses did not stop the Galactic Empire.

In fact, in September after the surrender of the Vulture Planet, Darth Vader immediately launched the next phase of the offensive. At this time, the ground battlefield on the planet Rosa was still fighting fiercely, but there was no resistance in the outer space, so he immediately put his huge fleet into the attack on several other planets.

  The war against the Trade Alliance has entered its second phase - attacking the world of wealth!

The Trade Federation has three largest wealth worlds in the core circle, Cato Neimoidia, Deko Neimoidia, and Koru Neimoidia. Among them, the wealth on Cato Neimoidia is the most considerable.

Of course, in order to protect these wealthy worlds, the defense force invested by the Trade Alliance is simply incomparable to anywhere else!

  For example, on Cato-Neimoidia, in addition to the most advanced and largest planetary shield system, more than 3000 orbital defense systems are deployed along the equator. In the outer orbit of the planet, there are more than 400 armed space stations. And the Gaussian defense platforms built with technology imported from the Principality of Dawn are as many as 7000! !

Faced with such a hedgehog-like defense, if a head-on confrontation were to take place, the final casualty ratio would probably be so great that even Palpatine would have a myocardial infarction.

Therefore, Darth Vader proposed his own combat plan - special operations!