Pach brought three other dark masters - the forty-year-old human male master Mulumba, the younger Falin female master Bolingi, and the man who had felt Cricket's despair before and almost fell into madness.
Weequay Master Bangara, a total of four Dark Masters, plus their 10 Dark Jedi Knights and 5 Dark Jedi Apprentices, are preparing to enter the previous bombing center.
They mobilized a huge HAVw A6 Juggernaut, Clone turbo tank, and also carried 100 fully armed clone soldiers and 8 reconnaissance drones.
The Idol-class turbine tank was developed and built by Kuat Power Shipyard. It is a very huge armored personnel carrier, 49.4 meters long, 22 meters high, and 19.6 meters wide. It lives up to its name. It is indeed a behemoth. And it is one of the rare ones made of
Army units built directly by Kuat Power Dockyard, rather than delegated to their subsidiary Rosana Heavy Engineering, which specializes in the production of army equipment.
This is also the largest armored vehicle used by the military from the Galactic Republic to the current Galactic Empire, except for the huge SPHA-T self-propelled artillery.
This turbine tank is driven by 5 pairs of huge steel wheels and is equipped with a huge and powerful suspension device. Although it is huge, the maximum speed on flat ground can even reach 160 kilometers per hour! And some ordinary obstacles, even more
It will be crushed directly by those 5 pairs of huge steel wheels!
The Idol-class turbine tank is equipped with a heavy laser cannon, a high-speed close-in defense laser cannon, two anti-infantry blaster cannons, and two 20-unit rocket launchers with 480 rounds of ammunition. The firepower is also very powerful.
It can carry up to 300 soldiers, and its huge body can also carry some small airspeed boats, hover motorcycles, and can also be used as a drone platform.
Once the idol-class turbine tank appears on the battlefield, it will be a crushing presence, and nothing can stop its progress.
It's just that this armored unit is still too bulky, not that it's not fast, but that it has a huge turning radius. Coupled with its high cost and inflexible combat deployment method, this kind of armored unit was used in the Clone Wars.
The powerful equipment delivered for use in the early stages gradually fell out of favor with the military as the war progressed.
To put it simply, although the God-class turbine tank can carry up to 300 soldiers, on the other hand, you really need 300 soldiers to fully realize its value. Otherwise, what would I do if I only need to carry 50 soldiers?
How to use such a huge unit?
What's more, although the idol-class has powerful firepower and even has a special close-range laser cannon, it is still very weak when it is attacked by air. Once it is destroyed, it basically means that a company of soldiers will go to the sky together. Such a huge
Who can bear the loss?
What's more, on the battlefield, whether it is the Confederation of Independent Systems, the Principality of Dawn, or the current Geth, they all like to attack such huge units first.
But now that Pah is leading these dark masters and a small team to rescue Cricket, the turbine tank is the right choice.
Anyway, this place has just suffered a powerful orbital bombing, and many terrains have been plowed, making it easy to pass. And it is basically impossible for geth to suddenly rush out from all directions.
Pach and the others quickly advanced for more than ten kilometers in the turbine tank. Along the way, they could see scorched earth everywhere, and even a sea of fire in many places. The air was filled with harmful gases, which were produced by the explosion after being fired by the turbolaser cannon.
of harmful substances.
Turbolasers use explosive gas as a medium. It would be fine if it was just an ordinary blaster rifle. After all, it only contains a very small amount of explosive gas. But as a ship-borne weapon, the turbolaser cannon has an amazing amount of explosive gas! If it explodes,
, reacting with the surrounding air, it will cause serious damage to the environment.
This is one of the huge hazards caused by orbital bombing. It is precisely because of this that the Galactic Republic previously banned orbital bombing in order to protect the limited habitable planets from being destroyed in unrestricted wars.
Of course, it was the Galactic Republic itself that was the first to break this rule.
The idol-class turbine tank's steel wheels and huge body simply ignore these things. Even if it drives through the sea of fire, it will not have any impact. However, due to orbital bombing, the surrounding electromagnetic environment is very chaotic, and communications are greatly affected.
The impact is such that even radar is unreliable.
There was too much smoke around, which really affected the sight, so Pach asked Bangala to enter the watchtower and raise the watchtower. In such an environment, thermal imaging, infrared, radar waves and other detection methods are not effective, and visual inspection is the only way.
is the only way.
In order to expand the field of view, the turbine tank has a retractable watchtower, which can rise to a height of more than 8 meters. With the 22-meter-high body, it means that it can overlook the surroundings from a position of 30 meters. In fact, this design is also to compensate for the turbine tank
It is too large to adapt to the complex battlefield environment, so it is just a remedial measure.
High-power searchlights were also lit around the car, barely illuminating the surroundings. Pach and other dark masters also entered a meditative state, looking for their targets through the perception of the Force.
Burning flames, incomplete fragments, melted ground, and even lava flowing... Under the extremely high temperature, you can even see some metal fragments burning that cannot be distinguished from their original appearance! No wreckage can be seen nearby.
and slightly larger parts, all were destroyed in the orbital bombardment.
In this hell-like environment, it is impossible for anyone to enter under normal circumstances. However, they can only choose to come in at this time. If they continue to delay, they don’t know what will happen to Cricket’s condition, and he is unreasonable.
Sri Lanka may also have more reinforcements arriving and drag them into the quagmire again.
They searched in this hell-like environment for a day, and even flew a reconnaissance drone to explore the surroundings, but they found nothing and could only rest in the tank temporarily.
At this time, Pach and the others did not know that far away in the Endor galaxy, a bright red dagger-shaped exclusive fighter jet rose into the sky, jumped into hyperspace, and flew in this direction.
The next day, Pah and the others searched everywhere again. But there were flames and thick smoke everywhere, and they still found nothing.
Pah frowned, thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "Fire and bomb!"
"What are you going to do? Pah." Dark Master Boringi asked.
"We also lost the trace of Cricket in the induction of the Force, but I am very sure that he is still alive. Maybe he was temporarily hidden... I don't know the reason." Pah said, "If we fire bombardments everywhere,
Maybe it will disturb him and make him reveal his traces."
"I don't think this is a good idea... If Cricket is really important to the geth, then the geth will undoubtedly send troops to respond now. This is tantamount to exposing our own position." Bolingi
Shaked his head.
"It doesn't matter! Even if the Geth reinforcements come, just crush them!" Dark Master Mulumba said with a ferocious expression.
"Fire!" Pah ordered decisively, "Let Bangarra keep an eye on me! They all once studied under Windu, and the Force and Cricket have a deeper bond!"