The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2519. Lark Ghoul Spread Plan (Part )

The fighter pilots of the Galactic Empire were simply stunned when they saw this scene, especially when they saw that what was falling was not raindrops but countless monsters, they were so scared that their hands were shaking.

"Shoot! Shoot!!" the squadron captain roared loudly in the communication.

He pressed the button, and the blaster cannons under the TIE fighter immediately opened fire, and other fighters also opened fire. But surprisingly, most of the monsters that were hit were just blown apart, but they immediately turned their bodies and roared at the fighters with their teeth and claws.

The fighter jets' blaster cannons failed to kill them! !

"What kind of monster is this?" the pilot exclaimed loudly.

Now the fighter formation flying towards the group of monsters was very close, and they began to turn around and prepare for another shot.

However, a terrible thing happened. More than ten monsters suddenly emerged from the wreckage of the falling spacecraft. They roared loudly at the fighter planes, then their hind legs began to retract and they actually jumped up!

Their hind legs are so powerful that they leap towards the TIE fighters like bullets!

One of the fighters failed to turn in time, and a monster crashed into it. This head-on collision did not kill it, and it lay on the spherical cockpit of the TIE fighter, roaring loudly and scratching at the cockpit with its sharp claws.

The reinforced titanium alloy cockpit was torn into pieces by the claws. The fighter pilot screamed and took out his pistol to shoot, but it had no effect. The monster tore open the cockpit and pulled the pilot out. It then ripped open his stomach with one claw. Countless blood and intestines flew everywhere, and the fighter plane fell directly.

The TIE fighter formations in the sky were bombarding these monsters crazily, and the defense and security forces on the ground quickly organized themselves and fired crazily at the sky.

However... the results were minimal.

There were hundreds of thousands of monsters falling from the sky! With the firepower of more than ten fighter planes, they could not kill them all, or in other words, they could only kill a very small number of them.

Even the onboard blaster cannon installed on the TIE fighter cannot kill those monsters unless they hit the vital parts of the head!

And when those monsters fell from the sky to the ground, the fall of thousands of meters did not kill them at all. Instead, they climbed up from the ground and ran wildly in all directions.

Some monsters ran towards the city, some monsters ran towards the mountains and forests and disappeared without a trace, they were completely out of control!

A group of soldiers from the local defense force arrived and used their hover vehicles and hoverbikes to form a makeshift roadblock, then hid behind it and opened fire.

But when they poked their heads out from behind their makeshift shelter, they saw a scene they would never forget—countless monsters piled up one after another, rushing towards them in a dense mass! !

"Fire...Fire! Fire!" Amid the soldiers' panicked shouts, they raised their guns and fired.

Then... the swarming group of monsters broke through the defense line without any hindrance... those hover cars and hover motorcycles were smashed into pieces, and under the impact of these Rak zombies, they couldn't even slow down their speed!

The shooting from blaster rifles was completely ineffective, and only a direct hit from rockets had a chance of killing. Only the few tanks driven out by the local defenders had some effect, but facing hundreds of thousands of Rak zombies, it was simply a drop in the bucket.

These Rak zombies rushed into the city. After thousands of years of living in the dark underground city, faced with the countless pieces of fresh meat and blood, they all became violent in an instant, howling and rushing forward to eat anyone they saw!

In fact, if the Judge uses the Mur Amulet to turn people into Rak Ghouls, they can retain considerable wisdom, which is also the most terrifying part of the Mur Amulet. However, after thousands of years, these Rak Ghouls have lost all reason and only have the most primitive greed and destruction!

The ground defense forces left on the planet by the Galactic Empire were simply unable to resist the advance of these monsters. They were all second-line troops, without even the iconic white polymer alloy armor, only the most ordinary gray canvas combat uniforms and backward blaster rifles.

Although their numbers are huge, reaching millions, they are distributed all over the world and are of no use at all.

The Galactic Empire boasts a trillion-strong army, but in reality most of them are local defense forces like this. In a war, it is not even worth sending them to the battlefield by spacecraft. They can only hope that when facing an enemy invasion, they can delay a little before collapsing and surrendering.

Just a few hundred thousand Rak Ghouls almost plunged the planet Halmade into chaos. Not only was the planet's government unable to eliminate the Rak Ghouls head-on, it was also unable to find these monsters hiding from place to place.

The skin of the Lark Ghouls is very special, and they cannot be detected by most existing instruments. The most effective detection method is optical imaging, or to put it bluntly, it is to see with the eyes.

This greatly increases the difficulty of capturing them, and once they escape into darkness, having lived in the darkness for thousands of years, they seem to be like fish in water, making them even more invincible!

In fact, even if these Rak zombies were thrown onto the planet Dawn, if Judgment did not help, it would be a headache for the Kingdom of Dawn to clean them all up, not to mention the city of Halmade, which was on the edge of the Galactic Empire's rule.

Distress reports from the planet's administrative capital were constantly being sent to the center of the empire. The planet's governor was completely helpless and could not think of any other solution except to keep asking for help.

The reaction of the Imperial Center was very quick. After receiving the report, their first reaction was that this must be a conspiracy of the Rebellion or the Kingdom of Dawn. From a geographical point of view, the northeast of the Milky Way is far away from the control area of ​​the Kingdom of Dawn, so it is almost certain that it is the fault of the Rebellion.

On the one hand, they mobilized the media to publicize the anti-human behavior of the rebels, so as to destroy the justice claimed by the rebels. At the same time, they immediately dispatched a fleet of 10 Imperial-class star destroyers to quell the riots.

However, the Galactic Empire at this time did not realize that this was just the beginning!

20 to 30 Rak Ghouls, this is a very delicate number. Because this number of Rak Ghouls does not require too many spacecraft to carry, which is convenient for infiltration, and has enough power to break through the defense of the planet. And most importantly, it can prevent the commander of the Galactic Empire from overreacting immediately. Imagine if a commander of the Imperial Suppression Fleet received a report that about 20 monsters entered the planet, then his first reaction would definitely be to send the Imperial Stormtroopers to land and encircle and suppress them, and then cooperate with the low-altitude bombing of TIE fighters in the air, which should be able to solve it quickly.

But what if there were millions of monsters? Then the commander would definitely seriously consider wiping out the city.

Tens of millions? Then the commander probably wouldn't even send out fighter jets, and would just conduct an orbital bombing.

Therefore, when the Imperial commanders found that the stormtroopers were not being suppressed smoothly, they increased air support and dispatched additional armored troops, and then found that the number of armored troops was insufficient, and mobilized more units such as AT-AT walkers from the rear, precious time had already passed.

Now the commander of the Imperial fleet sent from the planet Halmade is facing such a problem. Well, not just him, because in just a few days, the invasion of the Rak Ghouls has spread!

In the northeast of the Milky Way, a large number of Lark ghouls were released from several planets almost simultaneously, causing great damage. And there are more and more such planets!

There is no doubt that someone is organizing a large-scale release of Rak Ghouls!

The Galactic Empire military immediately realized that such a thing could never have been done by the Rebellion. The only one who could do something so extreme and anti-human was the Kingdom of Dawn! !

The Empire's propaganda machine immediately began to turn around and launched a fierce attack on the Kingdom of Dawn. Of course, they did not forget the rebels, and they began to slander the rebels for colluding with the Kingdom of Dawn and helping the Kingdom of Dawn release the Rak Ghouls to harm the people.

But public opinion is public opinion, and these Rak zombies must be dealt with.

Therefore, the Galactic Empire military adjusted its strategy and began to reduce the organization of the suppression fleet, using 3 Imperial-class Star Destroyers, 5 light cruisers, and 20 CSS-1-class transport ships as a formation to reinforce the invaded planet. And the Marines were equipped with a large number of armored units, such as AT-AT walkers and AT-ST walkers, which could ensure their firepower advantage when facing the Lark Ghouls.

At the same time, the Galactic Empire began to strengthen the management of spacecraft in the border areas. All unidentified spacecraft must not approach the planet. If the warning is ineffective, they will open fire immediately without hesitation. In order to prevent the failure of the defense force of the Halmade planet to prevent the unidentified transport ship from forcibly breaking in, the Imperial Navy also dragged a large number of second-line retired warships that had not yet been dismantled out of the warehouse and reinforced them to the border.

Not only that, but they also had to find the source. The Galactic Empire dispatched a large number of reconnaissance aircraft and high-speed warships to conduct a thorough search of the northeastern border to ensure that they found where these Rak Ghouls came from.

What the Dawn Kingdom’s intelligence department did not expect was that this thing, which should have been easily found out from the historical records of the planet Taris, had never been discovered by the Imperial Intelligence Agency?

It seems that the Imperial Intelligence Agency has always believed that these Rak Ghouls were transported from the Kingdom of Dawn, so they have been looking for the navigation conditions of those hyperspace channels, and even believe that the Kingdom of Dawn has a stargate in this direction. They searched and searched, but they never thought that these Rak Ghouls were actually local materials.

There was no other choice, so Darth Lilim waited on the planet Taris for a week and finally decided to take the initiative.

A few days later, the suppression fleet of Halmade, the first planet attacked by the Rak Ghouls, was suddenly attacked! The Imperial Suppression Fleet, which had focused all its energy on playing hide-and-seek with the Rak Ghouls on the planet, had never expected that something would attack from behind!

The tail engines of the 10 Imperial-class Star Destroyers that suppressed the fleet suddenly exploded! This was followed by more proton torpedo attacks! Among them, 6 Imperial-class Star Destroyers were severely damaged and completely lost their combat effectiveness.

After completing the sneak attack, the 20 Purification-class Black Hidden Special Service ships quickly broke away, giving the Imperial Navy no chance to react, and they sailed away directly.

In addition to the harassment by the Lark Ghouls, there are also Black Hidden Special Forces ships infiltrating the border?

This news shocked the Galactic Empire military, and they immediately mobilized more warships to the northeast. The first batch of battleships reached 300, and more warships were being assembled. After the assembly was completed, they would be divided into dozens of squadrons to suppress the rebellion.

For a time, the northeastern border of the Galactic Empire was in a state of panic, and people on almost all planets were in danger, fearing that countless Rak zombies would fall in front of them one day.

Not only that, the logistics and passenger transport in the entire Northeast region have been greatly affected. All spacecraft must be strictly inspected before entering the country, which greatly reduces transportation efficiency.

This made the imperial military very angry, but there was nothing they could do but continue to strengthen border management.

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The Rak Ghoul deployment plan in the northeast of the Galactic Empire was a great success, involving a large amount of power from the Galactic Empire.

After this information was passed to the Kingdom of Dawn, the Kingdom of Dawn's Supreme Command quickly formulated a follow-up plan. On the one hand, they did not agree with the fact of this plan because it was too anti-civilization and anti-human, and on the other hand, they did not expect it to be so effective.

In the original plan, the Galactic Empire would be able to capture samples of the Rak Ghoul within a few days and conduct an autopsy, and then quickly find records of the Rak Ghoul in the previous Galactic Republic data. Then, within a week at most, the Galactic Empire's fleet would be able to surround the planet Taris, making the entire plan completely bankrupt.

But unexpectedly, more than ten days had passed and the fleet of the Galactic Empire was still having trouble with the star gate... They were wandering around the northeast, trying to find the Dawn Kingdom star gate that didn't exist at all!

In fact, the fact is that the Dawn Kingdom's Supreme Command overestimated the level of unity within the Galactic Empire and underestimated the level of bureaucracy and corruption within the empire.

Because the records of the Lark Ghouls are stored in the database of the Jedi Order, and now this database is in the hands of the Imperial Inquisition. Recently, the Imperial Inquisition has had a deep conflict with the Imperial Military because of Palpatine's assassination, so they naturally won't take the initiative to ask if the military has had any problems recently.

The result was that the Galactic Empire military had no idea that this monster was the Rak Ghoul. Even if they knew, they had no idea what the Rak Ghoul was, so naturally they could only wander around aimlessly.

It was not until a month later that they determined through analysis of the route that these monsters were transported from the planet Taris. (End of this chapter)