The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2324: Occupation of Planet Kira
2325: Occupation of Planet Kira

The "Ant Colony" project can be said to have filled the last gap in Operation Zero. Using these controllable BOWs for destructive work is far less concealed and causes fewer casualties than orbital bombing. For example, for the Kira planet this time, a total of 80 "Ant Colony" larvae were deployed, of which about 40 found hosts, and most of the rest died halfway.

Then these 40 hosts plus the killings caused by mutations would not exceed 5 or 600 million, and they were also very scattered. Compared to orbital bombardment, where a city was destroyed in one bombing and a continent was destroyed in another, it was not easy to attract attention in any way.

The most important thing is that its help in landing on a planet is actually no less than indiscriminate orbital bombing. Often more than ten monsters can paralyze a military base.

Therefore, the most critical part of this project is to control the spread. After the mutated monsters kill people, they will not spread the virus. After the operation is over, Umbrella Pharmaceutical Group can directly send special personnel to recover it.

However, there are hidden dangers in both the recovery work and the steps of ensuring that the virus will not spread or mutate - after all, according to the original plan, the war will not break out for at least one or two years, and there is still plenty of time to make improvements.

And from Alexia's perspective, she believes that "ant colonies" can do more. This biological weapon can even change the environment of a planet forever! And just using it to create chaos? This is a complete waste of resources!
Therefore, her pursuit of the continuous evolution and improvement of the "ant colony" has never stopped.

This is why, in order to hunt down the escaped Adaptor Zero on the planet Chalcedon, the little girl from Ceria named Anna, Umbrella Pharmaceuticals invested a huge amount of manpower in the search, but in the end it was ruined by the secret actions of the rebels.

After that, although the "Ant Colony" project was successfully completed under Alexia Ashford's genius, it was still one step away from the perfection in Alexia's mind.

Therefore, Alexia was determined to obtain more test samples through actual combat data, trying to find a second aptamer, or find another way to solve the several defects of the "ant colony".

But for Ling Liang, she only needs an "ant colony" that can cause chaos. As a very traditional soldier, she believes that in the end it is still up to the army to solve all this.

At this moment on the planet Kira, the army has indeed reached the final moment to solve the problem.

The deployment was completely disrupted by 40 T-Veronica mutant monsters scattered all over the planet, and then under the targeted attack of the GA-TL1 Longsword Aerial Fortress, the orbital defense system of the planet Kira quickly collapsed. All 40 sets of V-150 Planet Defender orbital cannons were destroyed, and countless other air defense positions were also destroyed.

Without the protection of the ground-based air defense system, the Dawn Principality Fleet quickly gained control of the airspace on the surface of the planet Kira. After three consecutive days of bombing, most of the ground forces on the planet Kira were cut off from each other and became isolated forces.

Then, the Dawn Principality ground forces first assembled an armored group of 200 Scorpion tanks to quickly tear apart the front defense line of the capital area, opening a gap of more than 70 kilometers. Then, with 5000 Injori Avenger 103 as the vanguard, they directly entered the city to engage in street fighting.

Moreover, the mutant creatures mutated by the "ant colony" also began to move towards the capital area under the guidance of Umbrella technicians. Faced with these monsters transformed by biotechnology, the defenders of the Kira planet, who were ready to deal a heavy blow to the Principality of Dawn in the street fighting, quickly collapsed.

Less than three days after the Dawn Principality Army launched its offensive, the planet's capital district was completely captured!
On August 8, the entire planet Kira surrendered!

After this battle, the Principality of Dawn completely conquered Kira, a fortress planet heavily guarded by the Galactic Empire, in just 8 days starting from August 6th!
In this battle, the Galactic Empire fleet was completely wiped out, with a total of 982 kilometer-class battleships sunk, severely damaged or surrendered, half of which were expensive Imperial-class Star Destroyers, and even included an Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, a Commander II-class dreadnought and three Commander-class dreadnoughts.

2487 light cruiser-class small and medium-sized warships were lost, and more than 170 combat aircraft such as TIE fighters, V-wing Alpha Light fighters, and ARC-17000 heavy multi-purpose fighters were lost.

172 million naval officers and men died, more than 2 were injured or captured, and more than 90 army troops were killed or wounded, with more than 700 million captured.

The Dawn Principality Navy lost more than 140 battleships, most of which were Victory II-class Star Destroyers, while 29 Hell Angel-class battlecruisers were sunk, and 3 of the Revelation-class battleships were severely damaged. Others, including the most powerful battleships such as the Anchoron-class Titan battleship and the Revelation-class battleship, were generally only damaged and did not affect their combat effectiveness. The Archon-class aircraft carrier was completely unscathed!
As for the Army, the 80 "ant colonies" were disposable items. After the surrender of the Kira planet, they were all recycled and then crushed into biomass to produce other BOWs. More than 12000 Inchori Avengers 103 were killed in total, more than 3000 of them.

The regular ground forces suffered about 20000 casualties.

It can be said that with such a small loss, they almost completely occupied a fortress planet! This is simply a miracle!
On the planet Kira, which was occupied by the planet Dawn, 70% of the industrial facilities and almost all of the agricultural facilities on the surface were preserved without being destroyed. In addition to the landing point and the capital area, which were severely damaged by the war, other cities were also almost undamaged.

The only huge loss was that the planet's orbital defense system was completely destroyed, the planetary shield was completely destroyed, and the armed space stations and spaceports outside the planet were all destroyed.

However, with the large number of factories on the planet, it is not difficult to rebuild these facilities.

Now, a large number of Raz-class heavy engineering ships are ready to go in the rear of the Principality of Dawn. These 800-meter-long giant engineering ships have begun to transport parts for the large spaceport. It is expected that a large spaceport that can accommodate 200 battleships will be assembled within a week.

And more spaceports are being delivered, manufactured and assembled.

In at most a month, Planet Kira will be able to operate at full capacity and become the most critical forward base for the Principality of Dawn's fleet!
With the occupation of Kira, the Galactic Empire's control over the Hydia Passage is almost open, and the capital of the 16th Army, Chardaan, located in the inner ring, will be under direct threat!