The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2313 Raid on Kira Planet (VI)
2314: Raid on Planet Kira (VI)

What the scientific research and technical personnel of the Galactic Empire could never understand was how the swarm of drones carried by the Archon-class aircraft carriers could be so powerful.

The swarm drone interceptor has extremely high speed, agile flexibility, powerful firepower, and cunning combat logic. Normally, all these things cannot appear on a micro drone with a diameter of only 1.5 meters. Even the current swarm II drone is the same.

Two-thirds of its volume is in those two engines, which gives them unparalleled mobility. However, it is impossible to explain where the energy reserves are? Where does the powerful plasma beam come from? At the same time, where is the AI ​​terminal for the combat method that is comparable to that of an ace pilot?

Finally, after a lot of research, they believe that there is technology for long-distance energy transmission and long-distance remote control. This can also explain why swarm drones only appear on the Archon-class aircraft carrier, and the Archon-class aircraft carrier will not carry other types of drones.

However, it still cannot explain why, during the battle on the planet Yago-Dur, other electronic equipment could not be used in the face of the powerful electromagnetic pulse caused by the drastic orbit change of the star, but the swarm of drones was still able to maintain strong combat capability.

But no matter what, the imperial scientists believe that they have at least seen through the secrets of this drone a little bit, which is more or less an improvement. More intelligence requires more actual combat cases for analysis.

However, the Imperial military was not completely inactive. The Vindicator-class heavy cruiser they entrusted to the Shina Fleet System for development was a cruiser specifically designed to counter this type of small fighter.

The Vindicator-class heavy cruiser is 600 meters long and is equipped with 25 multi-purpose turbolaser cannons, 20 quad-mounted light turbolaser cannons, 10 point defense laser cannons, 20 point defense ion cannons, and 6 tractor beams of not very high power.

It can be said that the Vindicator class is covered with anti-aircraft weapons, and it is like a hedgehog. At the end of the Clone Wars, and in the four-year battle with the Confederacy of Independent Systems on the last fortress, the planet of Saleukami, the Vindicator class heavy cruiser can be said to have shined. As long as it is there, no fighter can get close!

It is precisely because of the existence of the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser that Kuat Dynamics Shipyard boldly removed the close-in defense turrets on the battleship during the design of the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, allowing the battleship to focus on fleet decisive battles.

Because if you want to install close-in defense turrets, they must cover the entire warship, at least dozens of turrets, and they must be installed everywhere. This makes the energy supply system of the warship fragmented and branches have to be installed everywhere, which will affect the power of the battleship's main gun and shield system.

For example, the Disaster-class Battlecruisers basically have no weapons other than the Particle Light Lance installed. At the same time, most of the warships of the Principality of Dawn do not have too many close-in defense guns installed, which is also the same idea.

However, today, the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser was completely defeated in the confrontation with the Archon-class aircraft carrier.

Michel Anser's fleet is equipped with a total of 20 Defender-class heavy cruisers. According to the design, 20 Defenders can at least deal with the saturation attack of 2000 fighters, which is completely sufficient for fleet operations under normal circumstances. But now, they are not facing a normal battle!
Although the number of aircraft carried has been reduced by half after upgrading to the Swarm II unmanned interceptor, the number of Swarm II unmanned interceptors carried by each of the 10 Archon-class aircraft carriers is - 10000!
In other words, what Michel Anser's fleet now needs to face is a full 10 drones! ! What is the situation with 10 drones swarming in? Even the screens of the warship sensors are completely covered by these countless drone signals, and even other things on the screen cannot be seen clearly! In order to effectively command the battle, Michel Anser had to order the drone signals to be blocked on the holographic combat star map, but the signals were blocked, and the damage caused by these 10 drones was real!

Only one Imperial-class Star Destroyer was seen desperately fleeing, surrounded by at least 3000 drones besieging it. Dense particle beams continued to shine on the warship. Although each beam was very small, the accumulation of small beams broke the Imperial-class deflector shield within 5 minutes!

A Vindicator-class heavy cruiser nearby was sailing in sync with the Empire-class. The anti-aircraft firepower on the warship continued to fire continuously, but the unmanned interceptors were extremely agile. They were even able to dodge the rotation of many anti-aircraft turrets, making the close-range defense laser beams miss.

Although drones were constantly being shot down, after fighting for a long time, hundreds of drones were destroyed, but the number of interceptors surrounding this Imperial-class Star Destroyer did not decrease at all!
The shield was breached, and the interceptors concentrated all their firepower on the towering bridge of the Imperial class! Even though the captain of the Imperial class immediately raised the protective armor plate, it was still useless! The armor plate was soon melted and fell off under the continuous irradiation of the particle beams. Then, the entire bridge was destroyed by countless particle beams, and a large amount of flames sprayed out. This Star Destroyer was completely out of control!
As for the Imperial Fleet's TIE fighter formation, there is not a single one left now!

Without the threat of fighter jets, the First Task Force led by Ling Liang immediately recalled all carrier-based aircraft to concentrate on dealing with the N-1 starfighter formation that took off from the planet Naboo.

This is another massacre!

When the N-1 starfighter was developed, it had powerful performance that was ahead of its time, which is why even 20 years later, the performance of the N-1 starfighter is still not too behind. But it is just not behind...

The Wraith, which was launched at the same time as the N-1, has undergone numerous modernizations. The current Wraith is the G model, which has gone through eight generations since the A model. Although the performance of the N-8 was far superior to that of the Wraith during the A model period, after eight generations, the Wraith can easily crush the N-1.

The N-1 starfighter and the Ghost fighter, the planet Dawn and the planet Naboo, this is the difference between having an independent industrial system and not having one.

This was reflected on the battlefield as 400 N-1 starfighters were destroyed without a doubt, while the number of Ghost and Viking fighters lost was... zero!

That’s right, without the guidance of large battleships, the N-1 starfighter wouldn’t even have the possibility of seeing the Ghost fighter!

After completely destroying the N-1 starfighter, Ling Liang led the First Task Force to reorganize, changing from a defensive formation to an offensive formation, with the Xuanwu Titan battleship as the vanguard, and all battleships launched an assault!
Now the overall formation of the Imperial Fleet had been completely disrupted, and almost all the warships were fighting on their own. Under the attack of 100,000 unmanned interceptors, they were simply overwhelmed, and facing the attack of the Dawn Principality warships, they couldn't even spare a few turrets to fight back.

However, the Revelation-class battleships and Paladin-class battlecruisers will not just sit there and wait!