Octavian Grant is usually a very calm person, but even he was shocked when faced with such a situation. He rushed over, grabbed the communicator, and shouted almost hysterically: "Tell me the truth.
What happened! Tell me!!”
Admiral Gideon Tarkin, who is currently commanding the enemy aboard the flagship Morak, is also losing his temper. At this moment, he is shouting at the sensor department, "Where are the scan results! Give me the scan results immediately! Quick!"
"No matter what it is, I must find it out immediately and organize a counterattack immediately! This kind of attack must not happen a second time!" Octavian Grant said loudly without waiting for the answer.
He was really a little shocked just now. Such a huge armed space station was directly destroyed like this! You must know that it was not an ordinary armed space station, but a large armed space station composed of several Golan I and II armed space stations connected in series.
Space station array!
Like the Kingdom of Dawn, the Galactic Empire also widely uses armed space stations for defense, but the development directions of the two are different.
The fixed defense system of the Kingdom of Dawn is based on a small but huge interstellar base as the core, and a large number of Gauss artillery platforms as auxiliary. Compared with the interstellar bases that often exceed 10,000 meters in length on one side, the Gauss artillery platform is only 45 meters.
The length is very small and can only serve as a containment during battle.
The fixed defense system of the Galactic Empire is deployed with a large number of medium and large armed space stations with a length of 1,000 meters to 3,000 meters. The main model they use is the Golan series designed and manufactured by Golan Construction Corp.
Armed space station.
This kind of armed space station actually doesn't have much technical content. It just needs a set of reactors and some turbolaser cannons. However, because of its size, it can still exert very powerful firepower.
Of course, because of this, the profit margin of this kind of space station is not high. In the past, there were armed space stations produced by Rendili Interstellar Power Company that could compete. After Rendili defected, super industrial giants such as Quarter Power Shipyard
There is not much interest in this, so the Golan Company basically covers most of the construction of armed space stations in the Galactic Empire.
Now the Golan series of armed space stations has ranged from type I to type VIII, with many different models.
Since the battle between the Galactic Republic and the Dawn Planet during the Clone Wars, they have deeply felt that the firepower of fixed defense facilities is insufficient. Therefore, sometimes, in order to strengthen their defense, the defenders will connect some space stations to form a 10,000- to 20,000-meter span.
Very large space station array.
And this time, what was destroyed by the mysterious attack was an array consisting of three Golan I and two Golan II space stations connected in series. Such a loss is of course terrifying, because this was an attack!
If attacks like this happen a few more times, this battle will no longer need to be fought!
"General... the scan is complete. It's... a nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb with a very large yield..." An officer in the sensor department looked pale, raised his head from the screen, and said to Admiral Gideon Tarkin.
"Nuclear bomb?" Gideon Tarkin felt incredulous, "How could a nuclear bomb hit us?!"
Nuclear bombs are an ancient and inefficient weapon. They are said to be ancient because they have been around for tens of thousands of years. They are said to be inefficient because pure explosive nuclear bombs no longer have any practical significance. In terms of power, nuclear bombs are not as powerful as
Proton torpedoes, in terms of energy focus, are inferior to nuclear bombs compared to turbolaser cannons.
And if you want to project a nuclear bomb, you need a sufficiently advanced carrier. Or it's an advanced missile, or it's an advanced fighter jet, but no matter which one, using a nuclear warhead is an insult to that carrier.
But nuclear bombs also have the benefits of nuclear bombs. The turbolaser cannon focuses the energy into a small range, which can be very effective against deflector shields. The explosion produced by the explosive gas is also highly lethal to armor; the proton torpedo produces
The collapse of a proton cloud has terrible destructive power on armor; only nuclear bombs have a diffuse explosion, so they are not suitable for attacking battleships. However, they are very suitable for orbital bombing!
In addition, nuclear bombs can easily pile up the yield. When the yield reaches tens of billions of tons, they will already have the power to destroy the surface of the planet. Of course, nuclear bombs of this level can be made with today's cutting-edge technology.
, its size will also be very bloated, and it will basically have no value on the battlefield.
But the problem is...
Gideon Tarkin punched the console hard and yelled: "The question is...how did this nuclear bomb hit our armed space station!! Is the detector eating shit?"
"The detector didn't respond at all!" the officer said, "but we conducted tests and found that our sensor has no fault and can detect the target normally. Even stealth fighters can detect it."
"Where's the technical analysis?!" Gideon Tarkin said.
A technician immediately came over and said: "We observed the images sent back from the optical sensors of some battleships at that time, and analyzed them. We got this..."
He turned on the holographic projection, which contained dozens of photos. This was a screenshot of the video that had been enlarged countless times. It was the unlucky Imperial-class Star Destroyer that happened to be near the space station when it exploded and was directly blown 3,000 kilometers away by the explosion.
The video captured by the ship at that moment.
By the way, more than 7,000 officers and soldiers inside this unlucky Star Destroyer were killed, all of them died while rolling. Some were killed by collisions, some died because they were in an overloaded state of high-speed rolling for a long time, and some died.
Some were killed by debris flying everywhere...
In these video screenshots, it can be clearly seen that a huge dark conical object suddenly appeared out of thin air with a burst of white light, then directly hit the space station, and then exploded.
"This thing that looks like a cannonball is about 80 meters long and about 15 meters in diameter. After analysis, it should be a nuclear bomb. The simplest fusion nuclear bomb, the reaction material should be polonium. The explosion yield is about
It’s 10 billion tons.” said the technician.
"The point is not the nuclear bomb, but how did this thing appear? Is it invisible when it appears out of thin air?" Gideon Tarkin asked.
"It's definitely not invisible. It looks like it jumped from hyperspace." The technician said with some uncertainty.
"Before the explosion, our hyperspace sensor did sound an alarm. But just a few seconds after the alarm, the explosion occurred," the officer said.
"But there are also problems with hyperspace jumps. First of all, how did this thing pass through the countless hyperspace blockers? Even if it could pass through, it would have already left hyperspace after entering the planet's gravitational circle. How could it be possible a few seconds before impact?
The clock just showed up? And with the size of this thing, it is impossible to install a hyperspace engine that is too high-level. Besides, using a hyperspace engine in exchange for a nuclear bomb attack? Are the Separatists too rich or do they have bad brains?"
The technicians also seemed very anxious. This unknown weapon put too much pressure on them.