The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2230 New Plan

2231 New Plan

"Captain, do you feel that the Trade Federation's defenders are becoming weaker and weaker?" Echo held a telescope and looked at a crashed cargo ship in the distance.

Just before, they raided an anti-aircraft missile position and then fired missiles to shoot down several Trade Federation cargo ships, with remarkable results.

Crosshair said, "This is natural. The blockade of the Imperial Fleet is certainly not ineffective. Now the weapons and supplies of the Trade Federation can only be delivered through some secret channels, and they have to break through the patrols of the Imperial Fleet. Naturally, the quantity is getting smaller and smaller. Moreover, the sabotage actions of those elite teams, including us, have made their already scarce supplies even more scarce."

"Among the Trade Federation's defenders, the only troublesome ones are the mercenaries of the Colossus Security Company. The rest are just a bunch of misfits and can't even make up the numbers. They mobilized so many troops, but in the end, the most reliable ones are still the combat robots." The hunter sneered.

"Captain, the intelligence has been analyzed." The technician walked over and said, "The Trade Federation will have a deal with a mysterious seller next. They will transport a batch of unprecedented weapons and equipment to the planet Cato-Neimoidia."

The hunter looked at the data in the intelligence and frowned and asked, "Where did the mysterious seller get such a large amount of weapons and equipment? There are even Aquitens-class light cruisers in it! With such a scale, it can't even be an ordinary company. It is entirely possible that it is an industrial giant. But the question is, is there any industrial giant that dares to help the Trade Alliance now?"

"Those weapons should be obsolete equipment retired from the Galactic Republic." The technician said, "When the Empire was first reorganized, it carried out several military upgrades, and many of the obsolete equipment flowed into the black market."

"It must be those local officials colluding with military-industrial enterprises..." Hui Sheng said coldly: "As long as the weapons are updated, these military-industrial enterprises will always have new orders. And the obsolete weapons flow into the black market, making the empire's security environment worse, and they get more orders. Otherwise, with the normal destruction and approval procedures, these weapons would not flow into the black market!"

"This is not something we need to worry about." The crosshairs said coldly: "What we need to know now is who is the middleman who sent these weapons here."

"I don't know the details, but I found out that the person who organized this series of arms trade is called 'Santa Claus'." The technician replied.

"Send the information to the Imperial Intelligence Department and let them worry about it." The hunter waved his hand and said, "Regarding this arms deal, is it possible for us to disrupt it?"

The technician shook his head and said, "It's impossible. Well, I won't even use the word 'almost impossible' to leave room for maneuver. I mean, it's impossible. This arms trade is even very likely a trap to lure the snake out of its hole. As soon as we start to act, a large number of hidden troops will come and surround us immediately."

The hunter pondered.

At this time, the echo said: "I received an encrypted message from Team 197. Do you want to see it, Captain?"

Hunter took the communicator and checked it. His face suddenly changed. "This is crazy!"

"What plan?" The Wrecker King came over and asked.

"Team 197 discovered a command center built by the Trade Federation in a secret location. Their plan is to attack the power supply system of the command center and paralyze the command." Hunter frowned and said, "The function of this command center is... to command and arrange the defense operations of the armed space station."

"That is to say, once the command center loses power and is paralyzed, all those densely packed armed space stations in outer space will temporarily lose contact?" The technician suddenly realized. The hunter nodded, "But this is not easy. The command center has seven backup power systems, plus the people who attack the main system, which means we need to gather at least eight teams. I don't even know if there are still eight teams alive among the 200 teams that have landed. Anyway, Team 197 is planning this. How about joining?"

Ye Zi said, "You have to think it through. Although the number of our surviving teams is unknown, it is definitely not many. If this operation fails, it will mean that our entire special operations plan will fail. And the blow we have dealt to the Trade Federation on the planet is far from enough to reverse the balance of power. In other words, if we fail this time, General Vader will have to wait at least another half a year to occupy Cato-Neimoidia."

"Everything is primarily aimed at completing the mission. As for the mission being difficult? Humph. Do we need to take action for a not-difficult mission?" The crosshairs snorted coldly.

"Well, in that case, let's start preparing." The hunter said in a deep voice.

……

11BBY, April 1.

After more than ten days of planning and preparation, the Galactic Empire special operations forces on the planet Cato-Neimoidia finally launched the attack.

  Accompanied by violent explosions, the Trade Union's aerospace command center suffered a series of attacks. The seven power lines supplying the command center were destroyed almost at the same time. Not only that, the command center's communication antenna was also hit by a missile and was directly blown off!

At the same time, after receiving the plan, Darth Vader, who had already begun preparations, immediately ordered his fleet to launch an attack.

At this moment, the Galactic Empire's fleet has increased to more than 320 battleships and more than 5000 small and medium-sized warships. Such a large force also gave him the confidence to launch an attack.

Taking advantage of the paralysis of the command of Cato-Neimoidia's outer space defense system, all armed space stations were disconnected and had to fight on their own. Not only that, the extremely large number of Gaussian defense platforms, after losing human command, could only rely on pre-loaded defense programs to fight, becoming very rigid.

Darth Vader ordered the fleet to defeat them one by one, firmly and quickly clearing the defense facilities in the outer space of the planet. And in this process, the few defense fleets and fighter formations of the Trade Federation did not dare to take off to fight, because without the coordination of the aerospace command center, in that chaotic air battle, they would not receive any help from those defense systems!

  On February 2, the outer space defenses of Cato-Neimoidia were completely breached!

The Galactic Empire's fleet begins to besiege the planet's planetary shield!

……

At the same time, a pitch-black Lambda-class shuttle flew to the planet Tatooine and landed in an inconspicuous desert.

The hatch opened, and a woman in black tight combat uniform came out with several companions in similar attire.

The woman pressed the communicator and said calmly, "This is Team Arden-Lin. We have found the whereabouts of Santa Claus and are currently pinpointing him."