The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2276: The Disappearance of Illusion

Planet Harun Kar, outer space.

A Consular-class cruiser painted with the Galactic Empire logo left the hyperspace channel and appeared here. On the spaceship, the navigator adjusted the navigation equipment and turned back to report: "Sir, we have arrived at the target planet Harun Kar. There is a Galactic Empire space station here. According to the identification code, it belongs to the Galactic Empire's 114th Escort Fleet."

The two Imperial officers standing on the bridge, one a major and the other a captain according to their badges, were members of this investigation team. They looked at the image on the holographic star map and nodded, "Yes, a space port and its warships. They look intact."

The major waved his hand and said, "Send a request and prepare for docking. This spaceport does look very intact. We just need to find out why they haven't reported to us for the past three months. Prepare the report."

"Yes, sir." The captain nodded.

But after a while, the communicator said, "Sir, there is no response. They didn't reply."

The major frowned and looked at the holographic star map. "This is not right. They clearly have spaceships patrolling around. Why didn't they respond?"

"I'm worried it would be dangerous if we approached without any response," said the captain.

The major pondered for a while, and suddenly said, "No, they didn't react to our arrival at all. Even their patrol tracks were exactly the same. This is impossible! Come closer!"

"Yes!" Although the captain had some doubts, he still did it.

The spaceship approached the spaceport, and sure enough, the patrolling spaceships did not react at all. The spaceship approached the spaceport directly and docked, and the docking was completed directly. From beginning to end, the other party did not react at all.

The major thought for a moment and said, "There is indeed something strange here... In fact, there is something wrong with the 114th Escort Patrol Fleet stationed on the planet Harun Kar. In the previous war, a rebellion broke out on the planet Harun Kar, and then it should have broken away from the Galactic Republic. But after that, the 114th Escort Fleet suddenly moved in here without any warning, and the Separatists did not occupy this place. Let the soldiers go over and take a look first."

A team of stormtroopers in white armor filed in from the docking bay and into the space station, but they soon came back to report.

"Sir, everything is normal in the space station. But... it's too normal." A captain walked over and said.

"What do you mean 'too normal'?" the major frowned.

"I can't describe it, but it shouldn't be dangerous. You can go and see for yourself," said the captain.

The major followed the soldiers into the space station and saw that it was clean and bright, with many staff members walking around and doing their own work. But the problem was that no one paid any attention to them! Even though the two officers came over with a large group of soldiers, the staff here simply turned a blind eye.

A soldier walked over and smashed the butt of his rifle at a worker who was wiping the table over and over again. However, something strange happened. The gun did hit the worker, but the worker did not move at all, not even his clothes. However, the feeling of the gun hitting the worker was almost the same as hitting a human body!

  The soldier simply went over and tried to grab the man, but he tried his best and still couldn't move the man at all!

"What happened?" The soldier was completely confused.

"Search this place thoroughly!" The major waved his hand and gave the order.

Although it felt very strange, the Storm Troopers still divided into more than ten teams to carefully explore the entire space station. Soon, the teams reported that the situation here was indeed very strange. All the people seemed to be fixed, and no matter what they did, they could not be stopped. But the objects here, such as cups and chairs, can be moved at will. What's even more strange is that someone used a chair to block a person's way, but the person actually knew to take the chair away and then continue his own actions.

The major now felt that although the place was clean and bright, it still exuded an eerie and terrifying atmosphere.

At the moment, he was in the restaurant, casually wiping the clean table, and said to the captain beside him: "The dining environment here should be very clean, but the previous investigation team report... I remember everything was normal, but it mentioned that they all had diarrhea after returning, right?"

"Yes, I have also read the previous investigation reports." The captain said, "They never mentioned such strange things about the people here. They just said that the people here are very enthusiastic and well-behaved."

The major picked up a cup and played with it in his hands, saying, "So, maybe they are suffering from acclimatization?"

As they were chatting, the lights suddenly dimmed without warning! Not only that, the surrounding environment also changed instantly, becoming shabby and dirty, with spider webs everywhere.

The cup in the major's hand was actually a rotten and blackened skull! !

This scene frightened the major instantly! He immediately let out a scream like a woman, threw away the skull, and jumped directly into the captain's arms.

  The entire space station had changed, all the people who were working had disappeared, and there was only a dilapidated place. There was rust everywhere, spider webs and dust everywhere, and except for the neatly placed tables and chairs, it looked like a place that no one had lived in for decades!

The lights were also constantly flickering, indicating that although there was power here, it had fallen into disrepair and was in a dilapidated state.

The spacecraft's operator's screams were heard in the communication, "Sir! The space station has changed! It has changed! The entire space station is rusted! It's in a state of disrepair!"

Soldiers in other places also sent in similar reports, and they even heard gunshots, which means that they were not the only ones who were frightened.

Not only was this place run down, but it was also filled with corpses! The corpses had already decayed and were scattered everywhere.

This is not the base of the 114th Escort Fleet at all! No, it should be said that the 114th Escort Fleet has disappeared long ago! There are only those decaying space stations and warships!

Over the past few years, everything reported by the 114th Escort Fleet was a lie!

But the question is, who did it?

  There was a sudden scream from the soldiers outside, followed by intensive gunfire!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!"

The major ran out quickly and saw the soldiers firing indiscriminately into the darkness, but it was completely useless.

  In the darkness, a pair of scarlet eyes suddenly lit up! Then, a blood-red lightsaber appeared!

The next second, those fully armed stormtroopers were killed like melons and vegetables. No matter whether they used rockets or blasters, they could not stop the oncoming people even for a second! (End of this chapter)