The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2492 The Destroyed Death Star

2493: The Destroyed Death Star

boom! boom! boom! !

Explosions continued to be heard, and the ground was shaking. Inside the Death Star, those TIE Interceptor fighters had begun to bombard the outer armor of the Death Star's control center.

Not only that, on those Imperial-class Star Destroyers that came as reinforcements, more and more Imperial Stormtroopers began to land in Sentinel-class landing craft.

The Sentinel-class landing craft was newly developed by the Empire to replace the previous LAAT assault landing craft. It was faster, more flexible, and more adaptable, with a large reduction in firepower. Each Sentinel-class landing craft carried 75 soldiers, and quickly flew in through the gaps in the building structures inside the Death Star, landing at hundreds of locations at the same time, launching a full-scale attack on the rebellious Geonosians.

Unlike the Imperial-class Star Destroyers of the garrison fleet that have always been on garrison duty, each of the Imperial-class Star Destroyers that Admiral Afshin Makati brought as reinforcements this time is fully staffed!

The fully equipped Imperial Star Destroyer carried 9700 Imperial Stormtroopers, a legion of soldiers. There were also 20 AT-AT walkers and 30 AT-ST walkers. However, considering the combat situation this time, Afshin Makati did not carry the bulky AT-AT walkers, as these heavy walkers were of no use here.

On the contrary, these landing forces were equipped with a large number of TX-225 GAVr "Occupier" combat assault tanks!

This light tank is 7.5 meters long and 2 meters high. It has no turret and is equipped with a twin laser cannon on each side of the front. Its armor is very thick and has almost no blind spots. If it is in the field battlefield, this tank will be hooked up and hit by the Dawn Kingdom's more maneuverable Scorpio tank, but in the usual security operations, it shines.

This time, after landing inside the Death Star, the relatively narrow and flat environment made the Occupier Light Tanks, which only needed to face the enemy head-on, become an invincible force!

A large number of occupier tanks continued to advance, and even if the Geonosians used their flesh and blood to stop them, it was of no use!

The Imperial stormtroopers following the tanks advanced on the ground covered with green blood and the remains of the Geonosians, quickly occupying all the buildings and cabins they passed.

Even though the Geonosians had more than two million laborers and soldiers inside the Death Star, and even with the help of hundreds of thousands of engineering robots, they still could not stop the Imperial army.

Now there are 7 legions and more than Imperial Stormtroopers entering here, and more and more soldiers are coming down from the Star Destroyers outside.

The situation is already precarious.

In the control center, Emperor Kalina said nothing, just staring at the Death Star cross-section in the holographic projection. In this huge projection, the red icons representing signal loss are increasing, which means that the outer Geonosian defense line is being continuously compressed.

And every building or chamber lost meant thousands of Geonosians fought and died.

Finally, when the imperial army had advanced to a building less than 500 meters away from the command center, Emperor Karina finally spoke.

She turned her head and stared at the Geonosian commander, then asked slowly, "How long will it take to install the hyperspace drive?"

The commander shook his head and said, "After the Empire discovered our actions, they blew up several material warehouses. Coupled with the subsequent bombing, our installation work was very slow. Now even though the engineers have tried their best, there are still three sets of hyperspace engines that have not been installed. The conditions of the other sets of hyperspace engines cannot be guaranteed..."

"There's no time, start the hyperspace engine immediately!!" Emperor Kalina said sternly.

"But calculations still need to be performed..." said the commander.

"Start the engine!" Emperor Karina said word by word.

"Yes, sir! Start the engine!" The commander immediately asked the Geonosian engineer in charge of the operation on the other side to start the hyperspace engine.

……

At the same time, a technician on Admiral Afshin Makati's flagship, the Steadfast Star Destroyer, shouted, "General! It has been detected that the Death Star's energy core is increasing its energy output!!"

"What do they want to do? Immediately assess the possibility of them destroying the energy core!!" Admiral Makati responded immediately. He remembered something and waved his hand and said, "Bring up their chief engineer."

Soon, several stormtroopers brought over a man wearing a gray Imperial uniform with handcuffs on his hands.

It was Galen Erso, energy expert and chief engineer of the DS-1 project.

He looked up at Admiral Makati and said calmly, "The energy core has been completely sealed and protected by more than ten meters of neutron star material armor. It also uses more than 400,000 compartments. It is absolutely impossible to be destroyed."

Admiral Afshin Makati came up to him and said in a cold tone: "I heard that you and Orson Krennic were classmates?"

"He killed my wife." Galen Erso answered calmly with a blank expression.

Admiral Makati showed a ferocious expression. He approached Galen Erso's face and said viciously, "So, you should want revenge, right? Then...completely destroy the DS-1 combat space station project that Orson Krennic has high hopes for, and it can even be said to be his only goal in this life. In this way, your wife's revenge will be avenged, and you can rest in peace, right?"

Galen Erso's heart skipped a beat, but his expression remained unchanged as he asked coldly, "What do you think?"

“Hahahahaha!” Admiral Afshin Makati laughed. “I think that for a nerd like you… a true scientist like you, the honor of completing a masterpiece like the DS-1 Battle Space Station far outweighs everything else. And now, I will give this honor to you. Orson Krennic is finished, and from now on, the only one who can carry this project to the end is you.”

Galen Erso didn't say anything, just stood there, staring at Makati expressionlessly.

"Okay, now tell me the details of the Death Star." Admiral Afshin Makati said. He waved his hand, and a stormtrooper behind him came over and uncuffed Galen Erso.

Galen Erso flexed his wrists, straightened his uniform, and then said, "Even an overload cannot destroy the Death Star's energy core, and judging from the way the energy core is operating now, these Geonosians are planning to start the hyperspace engine. It seems that they concealed the construction period and secretly installed a large number of hyperspace equipment."

"So, what should we do to stop these bugs?" asked Admiral Makati.

Galen Erso's mouth curled up slightly, and he said lightly: "It's very simple."

He walked to the other side and operated a terminal. He quickly called up the Death Star's internal space structure diagram and projected it with a holographic projector. He pointed to a place and said, "The DS-1 battle station is too large. To support the hyperspace jump of such a giant object is the second most difficult problem in the entire project after the weapon system. The main problem is how to synchronize the hyperspace fluctuations in various places with such a huge volume."

"Speak human language," Admiral Makati waved his hand impatiently. "To put it in easy-to-understand terms, in order to perform a hyperspace jump, the hyperspace engine must establish a hyperspace energy network to wrap the entire Death Star. And the current state of the Death Star obviously cannot do that. Therefore, the plan of the Geonosians was a false proposition from the beginning." Galen Erso said, "I don't even want to judge how many errors and omissions there are in the hyperspace engine they installed in a hurry. Even if they assume that everything is done well, the hyperspace jump will not be successful."

"But if the hyperspace jump fails, will it damage the interior of the Death Star?" Admiral Makati asked again.

"It's true that we can't completely eliminate this possibility. So... I suggest starting from here." Galen Erso marked a few locations on the Death Star's structural diagram. "As long as we can temporarily cut off the energy supply to these areas, the hyperspace jump will fail because the basic energy network cannot be built."

"Take action immediately!" Admiral Makati made prompt decision and issued the order.

……

At this time, the Geonosian Queen Karina the Great was anxiously waiting for the start of the hyperspace engine in the command center. Now multiple error prompts have begun to appear on the control system, but she forced the engineers to continue and not stop.

On the console screen, which was constantly flashing and even emitting sparks, a progress reading representing the energy supply was constantly advancing.

83%, 84%, 85%... As more and more energy was injected into the hyperspace engine, the core element in the center of the engine used to generate the hyperspace field began to react under the influence of huge energy.

With such a huge amount of energy being used, even the lighting system, control system and other equipment throughout the Death Star could not get sufficient energy supply, and the most intuitive manifestation was that the lights became dim and flickered violently. Not only was the Death Star not yet completed, but it had also been severely damaged in the previous battle!

In such a situation, if one wants to force a hyperspace jump, as Galen Erso said, no one in their right mind would think that this would succeed.

But Emperor Karina will not care about these, this is her last chance.

The freedom that Geonosians talk about is actually her freedom alone, because she is Geonosian, nothing else.

But Emperor Karina couldn't even be a servant or a vassal, she was even worse than a dog! The Galactic Empire just treated her as livestock.

For her own sake and for the freedom of all Geonosians, she must seize this last chance!

If you enter the hyperspace engine at this moment, you can see that a miniature high-dimensional space rift is gradually forming. When the core element is fully reacted, this rift will pull the entire Death Star into the hyperspace.

The advance of the Imperial Stormtroopers could no longer be stopped, and artillery fire had even begun to fall on the heavy automatic doors of the command center, making bursts of dull noises.

Once they break through, it will be too late!

"It's too late! Start it quickly! Start it!" Emperor Kalina urged the engineers who were busy at the control console.

In fact, it is not so much that the engineers are busy, but rather that the controls they are supposed to do have been completed. They are busy jumping around, but are just putting out small fires caused by system errors and short circuits.

"Not yet..." an engineer said loudly.

"I don't care! Press this button for me now!!" Emperor Karina could no longer wait. Having given up the egg sac, she could only crawl over by herself, but she still went over and pressed the red start button herself.

With a dull bang, all the lights in the command center went out, leaving only the screens of the hyperspace control system still working.

"What happened? What happened?" Emperor Karina was terrified.

The engineer rushed to the screen and quickly operated, reading the system data, and then said loudly: "Part of the energy transmission channel has been cut off! Now the energy is insufficient, and the reaction of the core element cannot break through the threshold!"

"What did you say...?" Emperor Karina was stunned.

"The Empire destroyed several key nodes. Now the entire hyperspace energy system is incomplete. The core element cannot react fully and is not enough to form enough hyperspace rifts to drag the entire Death Star into hyperspace. In other words... the hyperspace engine is no longer useful..." the engineer said dejectedly.

"No! This is impossible! Impossible!!" Emperor Karina roared loudly.

But then, a rocket exploded on the main door of the command center. The huge explosion completely drowned out her subsequent series of curses.

……

"I knew it was a meaningless struggle." Nova rested her long legs on the console, half lying comfortably. She chewed her gum, blew a bubble, looked at the size, and burst it with a satisfied breath.

There was a snap.

"In the end, we are the only ones left to clean up the mess," she added, sucking the bubbles back into her mouth.

"What do you want to do?" Ganzo Doso stood up very vigilantly, and several Geonosian warriors next to him immediately raised their sonic blasters and pointed them at Nova.

"Like I said, clean up the mess," Nova said, pressing a button on the controller with her toe.

At this moment, Ganzo-Daosuo saw from the porthole that a series of explosions had occurred inside the Death Star! The explosions covered a very wide area, and almost everywhere on the Death Star was exploding!

"I wonder how much will be left on the Death Star after this." Nova looked out the window and said coldly.

"The Death Star's energy core is very well defended. This explosion cannot cause any damage to the core. Shi s'al (It's over)." A deep voice suddenly came from behind Ganzo-Doso in the empty air.