The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2334 Secret Weapon (Part )

2335: Secret Weapon (Part )
Octavian Grant was usually a very calm person, but even he was horrified by the situation. He rushed over, grabbed the communicator, and screamed hysterically: "Tell me what happened! Tell me!!"

Admiral Gideon Tarkin, who was currently commanding the enemy on the flagship Morak, also lost his composure. At this moment, he was shouting to the sensor department, "Where are the scan results! Give me the scan results immediately! Quick!"

"No matter what it is, you must find it out to me immediately and organize a counterattack immediately! This kind of attack must never happen a second time!!" Octavian Grant shouted without waiting for a reply.

He was really a little scared just now. Such a huge armed space station was destroyed just like that! You know, it was not an ordinary armed space station, but a large armed space station array connected by several Golan I and II armed space stations!

Like the Kingdom of Dawn, the Galactic Empire also makes extensive use of armed space stations for defense, but the two are developing in different directions.

The Dawn Kingdom's fixed defense system is based on a small but huge number of interstellar bases as the core, and a large number of Gaussian artillery platforms as auxiliary. Compared with the interstellar bases, which are often more than 10000 meters long on one side, the Gaussian artillery platform is only 45 meters long, which is very small and can only play a restraining role in battle.

The Galactic Empire's fixed defense system is based on a large number of medium-sized and large armed space stations with a length of 1000 to 3000 meters. The main model they use is the Golan series of armed space stations designed and manufactured by Golan Construction Corp.

This armed space station doesn't really have much technical content, just a set of reactors and some turbolaser cannons. But because of its size, it can still exert very powerful firepower.

Of course, precisely because of this, the profit margin of this type of space station is not high. In the past, there were armed space stations produced by Rendili Interstellar Dynamics that could compete with it. However, after Rendili defected, super industrial giants such as Kuat Dynamics Dockyard were not very interested in this, so the Golan Company basically took over the construction of most of the armed space stations in the Galactic Empire.

Now the Golan series of armed space stations have many different models, from Type I to Type VIII.

Since the battle between the Galactic Republic and the Dawn Planet during the Clone Wars, they have deeply felt the lack of firepower of fixed defense facilities. Therefore, sometimes, in order to strengthen the defense, the defenders will connect some space stations to form a super-large space station array with a span of 10,000 to 20,000 meters.

This time, what was destroyed by the mysterious attack was an array of three Golan I and two Golan II space stations connected in series. Such a loss is of course terrifying, because this is just one attack! If such attacks happen a few more times, then there is no need to fight this war!
"General... the scan is complete. It's... it's a nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb with a super-large yield..." An officer from the sensor department looked pale, looked up from the screen and said to Admiral Gideon Tarkin.

"Nuclear bomb?" Gideon Tarkin was puzzled. "How could a nuclear bomb hit us?!"

Nuclear bombs are an old and inefficient weapon. They are old because they have been around for tens of thousands of years, and they are inefficient because simple explosive nuclear bombs have no practical significance. In terms of power, nuclear bombs are not as powerful as proton torpedoes, and in terms of energy focus, nuclear bombs are not as good as turbolaser cannons.

Moreover, to launch a nuclear bomb, a sufficiently advanced carrier is needed. Otherwise, it is an advanced missile, or an advanced fighter, but no matter which one, using a nuclear warhead is an insult to that carrier.

But nuclear bombs also have their advantages. Turbolasers focus energy into a very small area, which can effectively counter deflector shields. The explosion produced by explosive gas also has a high degree of lethality to armor. Proton torpedoes produce the collapse of a proton cloud, which has terrible destructive power to armor. Only nuclear bombs have diffusive explosions, so they are not suitable for attacking warships. However, they are very suitable for orbital bombing!

In addition, nuclear bombs can be easily piled up. When the equivalent is piled up to 10 billion tons, it already has the power to destroy the surface of the planet. Of course, a nuclear bomb of this level, even if it is manufactured with today's cutting-edge technology, will be very bloated and basically has no value in the battlefield.

But the problem is...

Gideon Tarkin slammed his fist on the console and shouted: "The question is... how can this nuclear bomb hit our armed space station! Is the probe eating shit?"

"The detector didn't respond at all!" the officer said, "But we tested it and found that our sensors had no faults and could detect targets normally. Even stealth fighters could be detected."

"Where is the technical analysis?!" said Gideon Tarkin.

A technician immediately came over and said, "We observed the images sent back by the optical sensors of some warships at the time and analyzed them. We got this..."

He turned on the holographic projection, which contained dozens of photos. This was a screenshot of a video that had been magnified countless times. It was a video taken at that moment by the unlucky Imperial-class Star Destroyer that was near the space station when the explosion occurred and was directly blown away 3000 kilometers by the explosion.

By the way, more than 7000 officers and soldiers were killed in this unfortunate Star Destroyer, all of whom died when it rolled over. Some were killed by collisions, some died because of being in a high-speed rolling overload state for a long time, and some were killed by flying debris...

In these video screenshots, it can be clearly seen that a huge dark cone-shaped object suddenly appeared out of thin air with a burst of white light, and then it directly hit the space station and then exploded.

"This thing looks like a cannonball. According to calculations, it is about 80 meters long and 15 meters in diameter. After analysis, it should be a nuclear bomb, the simplest fusion nuclear bomb, and the reaction material should be polonium. The explosion equivalent is about 100 billion tons." said the technician.

"The point is not the nuclear bomb, but how this thing appeared! It appeared out of thin air. Is it invisible?" asked Gideon Tarkin.

"It's definitely not invisible. It looks like it jumped over from hyperspace." The technician said uncertainly.

"Before the explosion, our hyperspace sensors did sound an alarm. But just a few seconds after the alarm, the explosion occurred," said the officer.

"But there are problems with hyperspace jumps. First of all, how did this thing get through those countless hyperspace blockers? Even if it could be transmitted, it would have left hyperspace long ago after entering the planet's gravitational field. How could it appear only a few seconds before the impact? And with the size of this thing, it is impossible to install a hyperspace engine of a very high level. Besides, using a hyperspace engine in exchange for a nuclear bomb attack? Are the Separatists too rich or are they just stupid?" The technicians also seemed very anxious. This unknown weapon gave them too much pressure.