Fourth Scourge of Star Wars

552, Bloody Battle of Besping (10)

Besping planet, Yuncheng.

This is an umbrella-shaped Floating Void City with a diameter of 16.2 kilometers and a height of 17.3 kilometers. The ‘umbrella handle’ part with a height of about 11 kilometers is mainly an industrial area and as many as 36,000 sets of antigravity engines. This powerful engine allows Cloud City to stably float 60,000 kilometers from the core of Bespin’s planet, and carries 6 million residents.

In fact, it is the existence of such a giant Floating Void City that makes Fourth Civilization’s giant Glory Mothership less obtrusive. In the eyes of most people, the Glory Mothership is actually similar to this Floating Void City.

And because of the shape, although the Glory Mothership is as high as 40 kilometers, it needs to exclude a lot of space for installing the engine. The actual volume is only about one third equivalent to Yuncheng.

Cloud City has a total of 392 floors, floors 1-50 are tourist areas, floors 51-100 are high-end residential areas, floors 101-120 are administrative offices, floors 121-160 are private areas, also known as ports The town, continuing down is where the workers residential area, industrial area, power area and other low-level squalor are located.

And after occupying the Bespin planet, Matt Horner, in anticipation of the Republic’s impending counterattack, drove all the residents of Cloud City below the 161st floor. Those well-dressed nobles and rich people who lived in the upper classes once refused to go to the filthy place, but driven by the army, they also had to huddle with the stinking pariahs, and barely lived with resentment in their hearts. Down.

After all, the Bespin planet is different from those ordinary livable planets. There is only Floating Void City here, no wilderness areas, and no rural countryside. When war breaks out, those civilians don’t even have a place to evacuate.

After realizing he was powerless to stop the Republic Fleet landing, Matt Horner connected the opposing commander on the public channel.

“I’m Confederacy of Independent Systems, Admiral of the Western War Zone Navy, Matt Horner.” Both of his hands behind his back, standing upright, but only with his chin facing each other, said proudly.

Not only shows his military style, but also expresses his contempt for the enemy.

“Galactic Republic, 19th Legion Navy Admiral, McGlen.” McGlen admiral gave a military salute casually, very perfunctory, “Then the traitor of the Republic found me and wanted to surrender? “

“Under the 161st floor of Cloud City is the civilian evacuation area.” Matt Horner did not answer McGlen’s words, but said coldly.

“I see what you mean. But if even a single bullet is fired from the civilian evacuation area, my army will return without the slightest hesitation.” McGlen Admiral also said coldly. Reply.

“Then the 160th floor to the 156th floor is the demilitarized zone, and our troops will not enter except for the minimum security force. But if you break this, we will regard you as not Taking into account the safety of civilians, all possible means will be taken to fight back, and the entire process of your atrocities will be recorded and published throughout the galaxy.” Matt Horner continued.

“Deal, young boy, I have been in the army for 40 years, what have I not seen? I have my integrity, and it will never spread to civilians, and it will also give you a tragic failure.” “Don’t think you’re great when those businessmen give you an Admiral position, you separatist businessman, you don’t know it for the rest of your life,” said McGlen, 30, in front of Matt Horner in his 30s. What is war, he he he he…”

“Leave these words to your marines who are about to die.” Matt Horner dropped the sentence and cut off the communication.

…

bang! ! ! A heavy cannon hit a tall building, and the building made of ultra-light alloy was suddenly blasted with a gap, the outer shell twisted, and some structures fell overwhelmed.

Boom~~~! ! There was a loud bang, and then there was a sound of metal friction, and the falling metal parts hit a large walking body with six legs, but the walking machine was rock solid, the cannon behind it adjusted its direction, and moved towards the artillery attack. The place where I came was fired three times in a row.

Galactic Republic Marines in gray-blue military uniforms struggled through a battlefield that was nearly blown to rubble amid the loud explosions.

These soldiers wear polymer alloy helmets and a simple respirator. They only have polymer alloy armor protection on the chest and wrists. The standard weapon is an EE-3 blaster carbine.

Compared to the clone trooper armed to the teeth, the equipment of these soldiers is rudimentary, but in fact, this is the true appearance of the soldiers who account for more than 95% of the total army of the Galactic Republic.

That’s right, 95%…the 200,000 clone troopers still struggling with Planet Geonosis at this time is almost equivalent to 5% of the entire galaxy’s Republic Army population.

Because even the Galactic Republic, which has a population of absolutely 100 million, has no more than 10 million troops, and there is no standing army.

After the victory in the Sith War, the Galactic Republic no longer has any enemies in this galaxy, and naturally does not need an army, and the Ruusan Reformation also came into being.

After this, the Galactic Republic has really never had a real war, just some regional conflicts. And such a conflict, Jedi Order can already handle it. Because the powerful Jedi has the ability to directly attack the enemy and take the core, capture the thief and capture the king, and has the ability to solve problems diplomatically with his superb eloquence and high personality charm.

It’s really not good. If you drive Judicial Fleet over, even if you are not scared to death, it will basically not develop into a large-scale land battle. On a smaller scale, Jedi is enough. The deterrence of the fleet and the coordination of the Jedi, many disputes were settled in this way, and naturally there was no need for the army.

It wasn’t until more than a decade ago that this model failed in the face of corporate giants with growing power and ambition.

In the past thousand years, the positioning of the Galaxy Republic Army is roughly equivalent to the militia or the armed police. And now the troops that have been mobilized because of this war are basically drawn from the security forces of various planets, and neither the battle power nor the level of training can be expected to be too high.

But even for such an army, the Galactic Republic’s strong industrial capabilities can arm them with such powerful equipment as the AT-TE tactical assault walker.

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“The Republic Army landed on the southern section of Holiday Street! There are fighters bombing us, requesting air support!” Inside a commercial building, the Fourth Civilization guards The company commander is reporting on the enemy’s situation.

The Galactic Republic’s fighters whistled past constantly in the sky outside. They have a huge number, which has made the Fourth Civilization’s fighter units care about one thing and another, and have mastered the air supremacy in many places.

“No air support! But you must hold your positions, at all costs!” The instructions given at the rear were cold.

But Fourth Civilization’s Army soldíer did not flinch at all. The company commander loudly said: “Yes! We must hold our position!”

He turned on the communication of his helmet and said: “Listen to the soldíer of the 1st Company! Send me those loose Republic Army back to my hometown!”

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【Easter Egg Chapter Attachment 1: Cloud City A corner of the bustling Commerce District. ]

[Attachment 2 of the Easter Egg Chapter: Structural Diagram of Cloud City. ]