The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2537. Desperate

"It's electromagnetic interference!" General Grievous was shocked, "Counterattack immediately!"

"Electronic attacks have been successfully isolated, and the core host computing power is 37% occupied." The T series tactical robot seemed to have finally returned to normal.

The intensity of this electronic interference is very strong, but fortunately, the core host of the battleship Destruction is also a new type of quantum computer produced by the Kingdom of Dawn, which can at least protect itself in the collision of computing power.

However, the electronic environment of the entire battlefield has been controlled by Palpatine's Eye. Now the communication of the Destroyer has been cut off, and the efficiency of the fire control radar and sensors has been greatly reduced.

Faced with such a situation, General Grievous did not even have the courage to fight against it, and directly ordered the battleship Destroyer to retreat.

But the calculation of the jump engine still needs time, so the Destroyer can only keep increasing the distance and circle around Palpatine's Eye.

"Our ship's speed is 17% lower than the enemy's." The tactical robot reminded, "The enemy's main gun charging has been detected."

General Grievous was no longer talking. He stared fiercely at the holographic combat star map that was already very blurry and flickered from time to time. On it, the huge asteroid battleship was approaching rapidly at a speed that was totally disproportionate to its huge size.

Not only that, around a disc-shaped structure in front of the asteroid battleship, one can see eight energy nodes condensing terrifying energy!

"Ignore it! Concentrate the shield energy on the sides and rear! Let the turrets in the right position fire!" General Grievous ordered.

The Destroyer strengthened its deflector shield while controlling the dozen turrets that were pointed in the direction of the Eye of Palpatine to turn their guns and fire. Intensive turbolaser cannons fired, but this level of firepower had no effect on this giant battleship.

At this moment, Eye of Palpatine, fire!

Eight dazzling laser beams were fired instantly, then condensed into a point in the center of the disc-shaped device, and then shone directly towards the Destroyer!

The eight-in-one powerful laser beam instantly landed on the deflector shield of the Destroyer. Almost at the same time, a shrill alarm sounded from the bridge of the Destroyer.

"Our ship is under attack. The deflector shield is being consumed... 99%, 98%, 97%..." The operating robot at the console immediately reported.

The scary thing is that as the deflector shields continued to be consumed, the super laser of the Eye of Palpatine did not stop shining at all! It was still shining continuously! From a distance, it looked like a rope was connected between the two giant ships.

"Speed ​​up! Quick! Get rid of it!!" General Grievous roared.

However, the Destroyer is not only inferior in firepower, but also in power, which makes its flight speed not as fast as the Eye of Palpatine. This super battleship, which is completely controlled by AI, has no operators, saving a lot of space, and is almost entirely composed of various energy systems and weapon systems, with a terrifyingly high efficiency.

You know, the bigger the warship, the more planning is needed for its interior space. This includes the living area, entertainment area, life support equipment, and storage area needed by the large number of crew members. In order to move around the warship, transportation tools need to be built. For example, the Conqueror-class battleship has three 4000-meter-long rail transit lines inside.

These all take up a lot of space.

But fully automatic battleships are not necessary at all!

This is also why the Galactic Empire has been unable to stop the Geth warships that have been wreaking havoc in the North for so many years. The Geth warships are also fully automatic, small in size, high in power, strong in combat, and fast in speed. It takes several times the force to destroy them.

Today, the Eye of Palpatine is a super-giant warship that is 19000 meters long, 11000 meters high, and almost 9000 meters wide. Its volume is more than five times that of the Executor-class Star Destroyer. On this basis, there is no cabin space for human services. It can be said that every part and even every screw of the entire warship serves the weapon system!

In front of such a terrifying warship, the 7892-meter-long battleship Destroyer is simply a toy that is not worth mentioning.

The super laser beam of Palpatine's Eye continued to shine, and the shield of the battleship Destroy collapsed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"After 10 minutes of continuous irradiation, our ship's shield will be destroyed." The T-series tactical robot said, "Our ship's armor can only withstand 20 seconds at most."

The biggest weakness of the Conqueror-class battleship is the energy transmission system that is spread throughout the entire ship. This is because the principle of the high-energy electromagnetic pulse cannon is to collect the energy overflowing from the hyperspace engine and fire it, and this collection process is to collect from every part of the ship.

Therefore, in the original plot, the Fang was hit by Anakin Skywalker. Because the Conqueror-class battleship is essentially a shield ship, and its armor is the same as that of the Jaeger-class battlecruiser. Although it is thick, it is only a single layer of armor. Once it is broken, it can directly cause tragic damage.

Facing the super laser irradiation of the Eye of Palpatine, the deflector shield is fine, as it can spread the energy of the laser to the entire shield system to withstand it. But the armor is not good, as it can burn through a point directly and continuously in less than a minute.

"Start charging the electromagnetic pulse cannon immediately!" General Grievous made a prompt decision and said viciously.

"Firing the electromagnetic pulse cannon will consume shield energy." the tactical robot reminded.

"Charge immediately! Fire before the shield collapses!" General Grievous interrupted it and roared loudly.

"Roger!"

The disc-shaped electromagnetic pulse cannon on the starboard side of the Destroyer began to charge, and countless electric currents began to converge toward the center of the disc-shaped device. At the same time, the Destroyer also began to turn and circle around the Eye of Palpatine.

"The shield energy remaining is 37%... 36%... 35%..." The B-1 combat robot on the console kept reporting the status of the shield.

General Grievous also stared at the screen, keeping a close eye on the charging rate of the electromagnetic pulse cannon and the remaining energy of the shield.

"Shield energy remaining 10%..."

"Fire!!" General Grievous roared before the B-1 battle robot could finish its words.

Boom~~~!!!!!!

Almost at the same time, a loud noise was heard from inside the Destruction, and the entire battleship began to tremble.

The high-energy directional electromagnetic pulse cannon fired instantly, accurately hitting the Eye of Palpatine. However, at the same time, the super laser of the Eye of Palpatine also pierced through the shield whose energy was instantly occupied. The extremely powerful super laser beam shot at the armor of the Destroyer and continued to irradiate for about 3 seconds!

The electromagnetic pulse cannon creates an extremely powerful electromagnetic pulse wave, which directly causes all electronic components within the range to bear a current greater than the load, causing overload.

Due to the destruction of the electromagnetic pulse cannon, the super laser of Palpatine's Eye stopped irradiating, and even a large number of electric sparks could be seen bursting out from the disc-shaped launcher.

Apparently, it was hit by the electromagnetic pulse cannon during continuous firing, causing a large number of electronic components to short-circuit.

At this time, the Eye of Palpatine also stopped. It was not because it could not move, but because the super-intelligent AI 'will' controlling the battleship suddenly felt very confused.

Seizing this opportunity, General Grievous quickly commanded the battleship Destroyer to distance itself. At this time, the ships controlled by Palpatine's Eye also arrived at the battlefield one after another. However, those scattered warships could not stop the Destroyer at all, and more than ten of them were destroyed in an instant.

"Confirmed to be a civilian spacecraft." said the tactical robot.

General Grievous looked at the civilian spacecraft that were destroyed in an instant and said in a deep voice, "They are committing suicide. This is probably not the intention of the controllers themselves. It may be this super battleship that did it."

"If this super battleship is the secret weapon of the Galactic Empire Navy, then it must have extremely high authority. According to analysis, it can directly access the systems of those battleships and directly control them from the inside." said the T-series tactical robot.

"No matter what, this battleship seems to be stupid. Retreat as soon as possible!" General Grievous quickly gave the order.

More than ten minutes later, the battleship USS Destruction, which had finally completed the jump calculation, quickly started the jump engine and disappeared from outer space in an instant.

At this time, the Eye of Palpatine was still standing there motionless. Inside the battleship, the huge mechanical eyeball kept looking around, as if twitching.

On the bridges of those controlled Galactic Empire battleships, the mechanical eyeballs displayed on countless screens were twitching at the same time, looking extremely terrifying.

All controlled warships also stopped in place, and no matter how hard the operators tried, they could not regain control.

"Sir, the main engine occupancy rate of our battleship has increased to 100%, and it is still increasing!" The controller turned around and said loudly.

The commander of the Imperial Fleet was sweating profusely. He just shook his head, not knowing what to say.

The only thing we can do now is wait.

"Occupancy rate 110%!...120%!...130%!" the controller announced the number loudly.

At this moment, alarms began to sound from inside the bridge.

"The main engine is overloaded!" As the controller exclaimed, the red emergency lights inside the entire battleship began to flash.

Then, the people inside the battleship found themselves floating uncontrollably.

"The artificial gravity system has failed!" the controller shouted, "The host occupancy rate is 150%! No!! It's still rising! At this rate, the entire host will freeze completely! All systems will fail!!"

"Cut off the external network connection and cut off the host power! No matter what you do, stop it!!!" the commander yelled.

Yet even he knew it was futile.

Soon, everyone began to feel dizzy and their vision became blurry. The voices around them gradually became smaller and darkness gradually fell.

Several hours later, the huge mechanical eyeball inside the Eye of Palpatine once again made an unexplained sound. Immediately, the battleship began to move again, and quickly activated the hyperspace engine and disappeared into the universe.

Only hundreds of civilian spaceships and more than a dozen Imperial Navy battleships were left, floating here crookedly in the dark, like countless steel coffins.

……

Bang! !

Gideon Tarkin slammed his fist on the table. He shouted angrily: "What do you mean by the Eye of Palpatine lost contact? What happened? Why wasn't the Destruction destroyed? Why did all our fleet members die?!"

Standing before him were several Imperial scientists, the heads of the research and development team for the Eye of Palpatine.

"We have sent people to check out the battlefield in outer space on the planet Kashyyyk. There are hundreds of civilian spaceships and the escort fleet we sent there. These spaceships and warships all melted due to core host overload, causing all systems to go offline, including the life support system. This is the cause of death of those people." said a scientist.

"Was it caused by the electromagnetic pulse of the Destroyer?" asked Garrosh Tarkin, who was standing on the other side.

"Probably not. If destroyed by an electromagnetic pulse, all the electronic components of the spacecraft will be damaged, not just the host. And according to our research, the Destroyer does not have the ability to melt the core hosts of those warships alone." The scientist replied.

"You mean, this was all done by 'will'?" Garrosh Tarkin's face darkened.

"We analyzed a lot of possibilities, and only this one has the highest probability. 'Will' has the authority of a senior star district governor and can directly access the systems of those warships... If controlled from the inside, the system firewalls of those warships will be completely useless. Then, for unknown reasons, 'Will' overloaded the core hosts of those spacecraft." said the scientist.

"It didn't kill the Destroyer. Even though I had created such a good opportunity for it, the Destroyer still escaped. Moreover, the Will killed our crew members..." Gideon Tarkin's face was so gloomy that it seemed like water was about to drip out. "So, can I assume that the Will has betrayed us?"

The heads of these scientists were sweating profusely. The leader quickly said, "It's definitely impossible! We have added hundreds of locks to the core code of 'Will' to absolutely confirm its loyalty to us! There must have been...something unexpected! We will immediately modify the remote control system, strengthen the control, and call it back for further study!"

"Then do it as soon as possible! Nothing can happen to the Eye of Palpatine! Otherwise, you will bear the wrath of the Emperor himself!" Gideon Tarkin growled.

"Yes Yes……"

"Also! Give me a technical analysis report immediately! The main engines of those warships melted down because of the electromagnetic pulse cannon of the battleship USS Destruction!"

"Yes! Do it right away!"

After the scientists ran out, Garrosh Tarkin frowned and said, "General Gideon, something may not be right. Perhaps the 'will' is not credible..."

Gideon Tarkin nodded with a gloomy face, "Immediately increase patrols and reconnaissance efforts! Facing the Eye of Palpatine, the Destroyer cannot escape unscathed! We must destroy the Destroyer before the news of the problem with the Will reaches His Majesty the Emperor!" (End of this chapter)