A thick stack of information was thrown in front of the head of the Intelligence Department, Ai Lan. A PAD terminal placed on top of the information fell directly to the ground. The holographic projection was knocked away when it fell, projecting a
Large pieces of debris and wreckage.
Admiral Kourney of the 17th Army of the Galactic Republic was livid, looking at the middle-aged woman in her 40s in front of him, with endless anger in his tone, "This afternoon at the latest! I want to know what happened to my fleet.
What!
!”
Ailan, the head of the Intelligence Department, quickly stood up and said: "Our investigators have followed the salvage team to the battlefield. We will carefully analyze every detail and strive to fully restore what happened. But... the scene is really too chaotic.
Even sorting out the wreckage will take at least five days."
"Five days?! Do you know that the Separatist Titan battleships are in the Ennaco system and are eyeing the planet Naboo? Do you know that the Separatist guerrilla fleet destroyed our interceptor fleet and also destroyed one of our ships?
Medical outpost?!" Kourney was furious and yelled.
"Yes...yes..." Faced with the admiral's anger, Ailan did not dare to speak out.
"Listen! I only give you one day! Find out the reason why our fleet failed!
Kourni shouted, "Remember, if we can't investigate the situation of this encounter, then we won't even be able to stop the separatist guerrilla fleet! But you have to know that we are the 17th Army
!17th Army!
In order to fight against that bullshit Titan battleship, our fleet strength can even rank among the top five in the Republic!
But now, even a mere guerrilla fleet can ride on our face and shit!
"
"Yes...I'll do it immediately." Ailan responded quickly.
On the outskirts of the planet Kira, almost all the garrison fleets entered combat mode. They patrolled around the planet and even expanded the patrol scope to the entire galaxy!
Thousands of engineering ships are dealing with the debris flying around. These are the debris of the destroyed space port. These debris are flying everywhere due to the aftermath of the explosion, causing secondary damage to the surrounding warships and facilities.
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Who would have thought that the Galactic Republic had assembled a large number of troops on the planet Kira, only to be easily overtaken by more than a dozen Separatist warships, and a spaceport was destroyed? Not to mention, even one of the fleets sent out to intercept them
Before he could come back, he was completely wiped out by the opponent's small guerrilla fleet?
Such a shame is simply unacceptable! Lynch Hauser, the governor of the 17th Army, has now rushed to Coruscant to explain to Chancellor Palpatine face to face.
At this moment, on the planet Kira, in an interrogation room exclusive to the Intelligence Department, more than 100 soldiers are being held in separate cells, and intelligence personnel are questioning them repeatedly in an effort to restore the entire combat process.
You know, the Republic warships sent out to intercept the guerrilla fleet, a total of 5 Knight-class and 20 Chasseur-class ships, also carried 4,000 fighter jets! Of these tens of thousands of naval troops, less than 2,000 people came back?!
Simply unbelievable!
Especially there are 5 Knight-class ships in this fleet! You must know that the entire 17th Army is only equipped with 10 of this new type of warship. Therefore, this fiasco caused people at Kuat Power Shipyard to pay close attention to this. Chief Engineer
Lila Blissex personally presided over this investigation and has sent an engineering investigation team here. She also hopes to find out why the Knight class was destroyed so easily.
For Kuat Power Shipyard, this is also a matter of life and death!
Because once the investigation results show that there is a problem with the performance of the Knight-class Star Destroyer, then the Galactic Republic, which has spent a lot of money on the order of the Knight-class Star Destroyer, will undoubtedly make it difficult for Quat Dynamics Shipyard to go around.
Before the investigation team left, Lila Blissex even gave the team leader a crystal card, which contained a huge sum of 50 million credit points. She was already prepared for the worst, once it really happened
If it is a knight-level performance problem, then even if it is to deceive the superiors and conceal the matter, the matter must be wiped out.
To put it bluntly, these 50 million credits are used for bribes.
In other words, daring to do such small actions is actually the reason why Lila Blissex has always had an open career. She is a woman who will use any means to achieve her goals.
As the interrogation progressed, many details on the battlefield began to be restored.
"... After the fighter formation approaches the opponent, the engine output is greatly reduced? Are you sure? What is the range? Does it affect the weapon power? Is there a duration? Are there any abnormalities in the fighter equipment?"
"I need you to confirm again! Was it that small black spacecraft that destroyed the Knight-class Star Destroyer you were on?"
"No response? Why no response? According to the combat regulations of the Republic Navy, the anti-stealth radar should be turned on normally during combat! Why didn't you discover the other side's hidden stealth spacecraft until the end?"
"How many stealth ships are there? Are they 5 or 10? Don't give me any signal confusion! The Knight-class Star Destroyer is equipped with the most advanced detection radar!"
"When you were approaching, when did you get hit by the opponent's particle light spear? Which evasion plan did you adopt?"
"...Is it confirmed that it is called the Hell Angel class? So is this kind of warship a professional anti-aircraft warship? Why are the colorful lasers? What is unique about it?"
A large amount of information began to be compiled, and the Republic intelligence personnel began to draw a preliminary conclusion - after the battle began, because the distance between the two sides was 4 hours, the Republic interception fleet immediately began to maintain an evasive attitude and move forward at full speed. At the same time, in order to hit the enemy faster
Fang battleship, the Republic interception fleet took off the fighter group.
During this process, the separatist guerrilla fleet never moved, and the long-distance particle lance bombardment only lasted less than 20 minutes. It stopped shooting after it was found that it was not effective against moving targets. The Intelligence Department judged that it should be separatist
The fleet deployed some traps in place, so they stayed put.
Unfortunately, the Republic fleet commander interpreted this move of the Separatist fleet as fear. He believed that the Separatist warships were afraid of close combat with the Republic warships, so they kept as far away as possible.
Afterwards, the fighter group contacted the enemy fleet, but encountered deceleration at a distance of 0.5 light minutes from the enemy fleet, and was shot down by a large number of Hell's Angels.
Next, the Republic fleet continued to approach, and both sides continued to fire and bombard. However, in terms of long-range bombardment, they were no match for the particle light spear, and the Republic fleet suffered continuous losses.
After the two sides entered a close battle, some small black spacecraft suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and then five Knight-class Star Destroyers in the Republic fleet were destroyed in less than 20 minutes!
The remaining Jaeger-class battlecruisers were extremely weak during the artillery battle, and were quickly defeated by the attacks of the Hell's Angels and Catastrophes! In the end, 5 Jaeger-class battlecruisers wanted to escape, but among them
Four ships were destroyed by the particle light spear, and the other one took the risk to start a hyperspace jump. At the moment of the jump, it was torn into pieces by the star mass projection in the hyperspace. Now these fragments have been integrated into the stars in the center of the Parkes galaxy.
During the entire battle, only two Hells Angel-class battlecruisers and one Catastrophe-class battlecruiser of the Separatist guerrilla fleet were destroyed, while the Republic fleet was completely annihilated.
At the same time, the salvage and analysis of the wreckage at the battle site was also underway. The wreckage of dozens of warships and thousands of fighter jets formed a large debris belt. The twisted corpses and broken hulls inside were shocking to see.
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When the Separatist fleet evacuated, it completely blew up the wreckage of the warships that could not be taken away. After the Republic's salvage force spent a lot of time salvaging the wreckage of the Separatist warships, they found that there was not much valuable stuff at all.
Therefore, they can only focus on salvaging the wreckage of the Republic's own battleships, especially the wreckage of the five Knight-class Star Destroyers.
In the end, those professional teams found a lot of useful information.
"It's a torpedo!" Intelligence Minister Alan took the analysis report and handed it to Admiral Kourney and said firmly.
"You mean, it was torpedoes that destroyed those Knight-class Star Destroyers?" Kourney asked with a frown.
Ailan nodded and said: "It's a torpedo. But it's not a proton torpedo, but a brand new torpedo. This torpedo is very powerful. Based on our analysis of the distribution of the wreckage and the escape speed, it can destroy the Knight-class fighter
The power of a starship's torpedo explosion can even blow an asteroid in half! Those small black warships in the report should be the carriers carrying such super torpedoes."
"A torpedo boat? But how can such a small spacecraft fly close to a Knight-class Star Destroyer with a tight air defense network?" Kourney was also an old-school general, and he immediately grasped the key.
"That's right, launched at close range." Aylan nodded, "This is the only way this kind of torpedo can hit our warships. We don't know exactly how this small warship can fly very close before being discovered.
——According to the memories of the survivors, they had been fighting the separatist warships for a period of time while they were getting closer, and then they discovered that these spacecraft suddenly appeared."
"So the key points we need to investigate are four points. First: What is the combat capability of the Hell's Angels? What is the role of the colorful lasers? Second: How did those small spacecraft get close to our spacecraft. Third:
What is the principle of a torpedo that can directly destroy a Knight-class Star Destroyer? Finally: What is the thing that can slow down our fighter jets?" Kourney said.
"The opponent's small spacecraft should have been shot down." Alan said, "One of the survivors said that he heard the communication team saying that the Tok'ra Star Destroyer shot down one, but the Tok'ra Star Destroyer was too damaged.
We are still trying to extract information from the battleship database, but the situation is not optimistic. The on-site salvage team has also begun to search for the wreckage of the downed black spacecraft."
Kourney took a deep breath, lay down on the sofa, and lit a low-strength spice for himself. In this rotten situation, only the stimulation of the spice could clear his mind.
After a long time, he asked again: "Assess, if the separatist Titan battleship Xuanwu leads a fleet to attack the planet Naboo, consider the disaster-class battlecruiser, Hell's Angel-class battlecruiser, and the small black spacecraft
In the case of super torpedoes and our main fleet relying on the planet Naboo, what is our chance of winning?"
Alan shook his head and said: "There are too many variables and it is difficult to determine. But one thing we can understand is that the particle light spear equipped on the disaster-class battlecruiser can launch attacks at ultra-long distances, although it does not pose a threat to the battleship.
It’s big, but for a fixed target like a spaceport, it’s a devastating blow, and if the opponent’s target is the planet itself…”
Kourney's face changed slightly and he said: "That means we can't rely on the planet's own defense system to defend, but can only take the initiative? Do you know if we take the initiative to launch an attack on the separatist fleet supported by the Xuanwu?
What does it mean??"
"Even if we can win, our 17th Army will have very few main fleets left," Ailan said.
Admiral Kourney directly threw the PAD terminal in his hand aside and said: "Ask for help. Send the investigation results to Governor Lynch-Hauser, and then tell him that with the emergence of new separatist warships, our military
The existing strength is no longer able to stop the actions of the separatist fleet."
Alan looked embarrassed, "With all due respect, General. According to some of our recent intelligence on Coruscant, Bail Organa and a group of congressmen are impeaching Speaker Palpatine. To send a message asking for help at this time is equivalent to
Adding insult to injury..."
"Hmph!" Kourney snorted coldly, "He was the one who launched Order 66 to hunt down the Jedi, so he will have to bear the consequences now! If there were Jedi Masters here, we would not be so passive in this battle! Also,
Aren’t the people from the Kuat Power Shipyard here? Scare them and tell their investigation team that all their Knight-class Star Destroyers were destroyed in less than 20 minutes. We have reason to believe that there are major flaws in the performance of the battleship."
"Is it okay to threaten them like this?" Ailan was stunned.
"If you don't scare them, how can they obediently take out the benefits?" Kourney said coldly, "After encountering such a big failure, don't I need to take care of it and make the big problem smaller? Shouldn't I?
Is there some compensation for mental losses?”
Ailan immediately showed a knowing expression, "Okay general, I'll go find Kuart's investigation team immediately."
"Don't forget to ask their Kuat people to go to Coruscant and help us implement the reinforcements! Only in this way will we cooperate with them and settle the matter of the Knight-class Star Destroyer.
." Kourney waved his hand.
"OK."
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At the same time, the capital of the planet Eriadu, Erixiang City, is the governor's palace and command center of the Sethwenna Sector of the Fourth Civilization.
Ling Liang, the Army General of the Fourth Civilization and the Governor of the Sethwenna Sector, was also checking the combat documents of this battle, but even though he won a complete victory in the battle, Ling Liang's eyebrows were still furrowed.
"Of the 12 purification-class stealth special service ships, only 5 came back?" Ling Liang looked at the Salarian engineer on the side, "Do you know how much these 12 purification-class ships cost? If this battle loss ratio continues, we will
It is impossible to win this war. To say the least, it will be difficult for you to get orders for the purification level."