The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2503, Death Star Reconstruction Plan

With the Geonosian rebellion, the Galactic Empire is under tremendous pressure.

First, within the Empire, a large number of senators, led by Alderaan Senator Bail Organa, made very sharp criticisms of the Empire's policies. They believed that such a huge project as the Death Star was a waste of money and time, and that it was something that the Empire's finances could not support, and so it must be stopped.

Bail Organa even raised his arms and shouted that terrorism should be completely eliminated from the Empire! The Death Star is synonymous with terrorism.

At this time, the heavy losses caused by the Geonosian riot made it impossible for Palpatine's lackeys, the members of the Imperial Loyalty Committee, to refute.

The furious Palpatine directly announced that the Imperial Senate would adjourn indefinitely, and forced the Imperial Engineering Department to carry out the Death Star project to the end.

In addition to the Geonosian riots, there is another very fatal question in this incident - why did the Dawn Kingdom fleet appear on the planet Talasia? How did they know the location of the Death Star project, and when did they collude with the Geonosians?

Imperial investigators attributed Emperor Carina's previous spontaneous secret resistance to collusion with the Kingdom of Dawn. This made the matter even more serious - the Kingdom of Dawn not only colluded with the Geonosians, but also began to secretly arrange it a long time ago!

This means that the DS-1 combat space station project has been riddled with holes from the very beginning!

How could this happen!

The Minister of Intelligence, Armand Isard, and the Black Hole who controlled the Intelligence Department behind the scenes, were also suspected by Palpatine.

Armand Isard began a large-scale investigation of the Empire. He promised Palpatine that within the next three months, the leak of the Death Star would be thoroughly investigated and dealt with. Every person responsible would be punished most severely.

In order to regain the emperor's trust, Black Hole also stepped up his actions. He sent senior judge Mal-Skandar directly to Tag Corporation to prove to the emperor that the construction of the Death Star would be directly supervised by the Inquisition.

For this reason, he sent the senior judge Mal Skandar to Tag Company under great pressure. Because Allman Tag has always been extremely hostile to the Force organizations. However, in the end, under the personal mediation of Black Hole, the two sides reached an agreement to jointly deal with Darth Vader.

Orman Tag accepted Mal Skandar's entry and began to carry out clearing activities within the family. The Imperial Inquisition would also cooperate with him to convict those family members who needed to be purged in the name of the Empire, which made it legitimate for Orman Tag to deal with those people.

And Black Hole will firmly stand on the side of Allman Tag in any future struggles, and the two sides agree to fight Darth Vader together.

This constitutes a political alliance.

It is not difficult to see from this alliance that Allman-Tag has made up his mind to complete the construction of the Death Star for Palpatine and use it as a springboard to enter the core power circle of the Empire.

He started working immediately without waiting for the family to finish its internal rectification. The first thing he did was to clean up the messy Death Star construction site.

Now the planet of Talasia is no longer usable. The planet has been completely destroyed, and all the ground facilities are gone. Now the planet has become the grave of tens of millions of Geonosians.

The bodies of the Geonosians who had revolted inside the Death Star were also dumped on the planet, along with the huge amount of garbage cleared from inside the Death Star.

The planet of Talasia is now littered with lava and volcanoes left over from orbital bombardment, as well as tens of millions of Geonosian corpses and the remains of engineering robots.

The planet's original inhabitants, the Talasia people, were also completely exterminated. Another race was wiped out in the Milky Way.

This planet, which once prospered because of the construction of the Death Star, has now become a death star more terrifying than hell, and is about to be forgotten.

Then, Allman Tag sent his third brother Silas Tag as a representative to the outer space of the planet Talasia, to Admiral Afshin Makati's fleet, to take over the Death Star team currently managed by Galen Erso. At the same time, he also brought a huge amount of bribes, and with these bribes, Silas Tag successfully obtained the support of Admiral Afshin Makati, the commander of the garrison fleet.

Silas Tagg would then immediately begin assessing the Death Star's current condition and proceed with the installation of a hyperdrive to move the Death Star to a new location as quickly as possible.

The plan to drive the Death Star directly to Scarif was still rejected. The Imperial military believed that Scarif had not been exposed yet. If the Death Star was driven there, the location of the planet would be discovered by the Kingdom of Dawn and the Rebels, thus affecting the construction of the Death Star.

After discussing with his men, Allman Tag agreed to this plan. However, he also proposed a new plan - to complete the installation and construction of the Death Star's conventional systems on another planet, and at the same time to form the best and most elite team to go to Scarif to independently complete the design, construction and testing of the Death Star's super laser system.

After that, when the routine construction of the Death Star is completed, we will go to the planet Scarif and complete the combination of the super laser system and the main body of the Death Star within one or two months, immediately making the Death Star combat-ready.

Then, there will be a chance to launch a general attack on the Kingdom of Dawn from the planet Scarif before the Kingdom of Dawn can react!

That's right, Scarif is the starting point for the next phase of the Galactic Empire's general offensive. After the Death Star is completely completed, the Empire will gather all its fleets, set out from Scarif, and attack Dawn directly, destroying the country in one battle!

After the plan was submitted to Emperor Palpatine, it was approved. Palpatine recalled Wilhuff Tarkin and immediately sent him to Scarif to take charge of the research and development and construction of the Death Star super laser weapon. However, he also specifically told Tarkin that the opinions of the Advanced Technology Alliance should be fully considered in the construction and development plan.

Of course, Palpatine could not entrust such a huge project as the Death Star to one person alone. As always, he arranged Wilhuff Tarkin to be opposite to Allman Tagg, so that the two of them would be jointly responsible.

The only difference is that this time there is a clearer division of labor. Tarkin is responsible for security, and Orman is responsible for research and construction.

Before the plan to rebuild the Death Star was launched, Allman-Tag also catered to the emperor Palpatine and presented him with a gift. …

As 10 BBY was coming to an end and everyone was beginning to prepare for the New Year's Eve celebrations, on October 10, a fleet that looked small in number appeared on the planet Geonosis.

This Imperial fleet consists of 10 Imperial-class Star Destroyers and a sphere. It is not large in scale and looks a bit strange.

However, it is precisely because of such a small fleet that they can sneak here quietly. The southern part of the Milky Way where the planet Geonosis is located is currently a no-man's land. This area is nominally occupied by the Kingdom of Dawn, but the Kingdom of Dawn has designated it as a free trade zone. To put it bluntly, it is to let the planets here fend for themselves.

The planetary liberal movement in the free trade zone was very strong, and it was also a hotbed for the rebels. When the rebels were developing, they took advantage of the gap between the Galactic Empire's reconstruction of the 14th Army and intercepted a large number of supplies, eventually making the former capital of the 14th Army, Ryloth, one of the most important members of the rebels.

With the planet Rylos as its core, the rebels have great influence in the southern border and continue to export revolution to the surrounding areas, with uprisings occurring one after another.

Therefore, the administrative situation in this star region is very chaotic, and the Kingdom of Dawn is merely guarding the planet Christophsis and maintaining its nominal rule over this area.

But in fact, outside the planet Christophsis, the Kingdom of Dawn's actual control over the southern border is very low.

This small fleet sneaked through the chaotic border and came directly to the planet Geonosis. The ball in the fleet looked very conspicuous. It was a spherical spacecraft with a diameter of 1900 meters. It was not much longer than the 1600-meter-long Imperial-class Star Destroyer, but its volume was several times that of the Imperial-class.

There are still about tens of millions of Geonosians left on the planet Geonosius. Except for the group that Ganzo-Dasso took the queen's eggs to the Hypori satellite to rebuild, these are the last Geonosians.

After the failure of the Clone Wars, Geonosis had long been in decline. This once industrial planet was completely helpless in the face of invasion. They had neither battleships nor fighter jets, so they could only activate the planetary shield and urgently ask for help from the Kingdom of Dawn.

As long as the planetary shield can hold out for some time, the Dawn Kingdom's fleet stationed on the planet Christophsis will be happy to devour this Imperial fleet.

But this time, things were a little different.

All we saw was the spherical spaceship starting to fly around the planet. As it orbited, a large amount of data streams were continuously being emitted. It was obvious that the spherical spaceship was scanning and analyzing something.

Then the spacecraft stopped.

The docking location shocked the commander on the planet Geonosis and even made him feel terrified!

Because this location is exactly above where the planetary shield generator is located!

There are generally two modes of planetary shield generators. One is external, built outside the planet. This type of planetary shield is relatively backward, but has a simple structure and is easy to install and maintain. The other is the generator currently commonly used, which is installed inside the planet.

The location of the shield generator is generally secret, and it is separated from the noisy energy supply system and shield capacitor system to avoid being destroyed by the enemy, which would instantly render the planetary shield ineffective.

But now, the spaceship actually stopped accurately above the shield generator!

Then, the equatorial position of the spherical spacecraft slowly opened, revealing countless black launch tubes. Then, countless points of light shot out from the launch tubes, which turned out to be super-large proton torpedoes!

This spherical spaceship was equipped with hundreds of super-large proton torpedo launchers! Countless proton torpedoes were fired like raindrops, and the position of each proton torpedo was slightly different.

The light blue proton cloud instantly exploded on the planetary shield, and the location of the explosion happened to be a temporary weakness caused by the energy transmission fluctuation of the planetary shield!

During the projection process, the shield energy of the planetary shield will be affected by factors such as weather and electromagnetic radiation on the planet's surface, which will cause some fluctuations and reduce the defense power of the local area. These fluctuations are very short-lived and small in scope, and are basically difficult to catch in the ever-changing war process.

However, this spherical spacecraft not only found the location of the planetary shield generator, but also launched proton torpedoes that were all aimed at those short-term fluctuations!

Proton cloud after proton cloud exploded on the planetary shield. The Geonosian commander watched in despair as the readings of the planetary shield dropped rapidly. It was simply unbelievable!

In just one hour, the planetary shield was partially pierced by countless proton torpedoes, and then those proton torpedoes fell to the surface of the planet without any obstruction! Not only that, other Imperial-class Star Destroyers also joined the bombing.

Boom! Boom!!! The proton torpedoes hit the ground and quickly destroyed the surface defense of the planetary shield generator. With the continuous bombardment, the generator was soon blown into ruins!

The planetary shield on the entire planet Geonosis flickered and disappeared completely!

At this time, it was less than an hour and a half before the Imperial fleet launched the attack!

Normally, to destroy a planetary shield, a large fleet is basically needed, and it takes a long time to forcibly destroy it. However, the appearance of this spherical spacecraft destroyed the planetary shield in just one hour, which is simply a miracle.

After destroying the planetary shield, the Imperial fleet immediately launched a devastating orbital bombardment on Geonosis. Not only that, the spherical ship also joined the orbital bombardment, using proton torpedoes to thoroughly strike at the underground factories on the planet.

A day later, the Dawn Kingdom fleet, which did not take the attack seriously enough, finally arrived. However, all they saw was a burning planet!

The surface of the planet Geonosis was completely destroyed!

Along with the last tens of millions of Geonosians on the planet, they were completely destroyed by the Imperial fleet.

The Geonosians, a race that once created a brilliant civilization, finally came to an end. Now only Ganzo-Dawso is left with the queen's egg, lingering on the Hypori satellite. (End of this chapter)