The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2539 Searching for Hydra

2540: Searching for the Hydra

Marshal Matt Horner frowned slightly, looked at the report in front of him, and said: "This report is a bit exaggerated. But I do think it is better to let Lin Nan go for this operation. In terms of command style and combat experience, he is indeed a promising talent. Let's give young people more opportunities. And..."

He paused and said, "We must also consider another issue - that is, this operation is in cooperation with General Grievous. After all, Lin Nanyi had interacted with General Grievous during the Clone Wars, so this will play a role to some extent. Grievous is not an easy person to get along with."

Qi Jian thought about it and finally nodded, "That makes sense. The East Territory is far away from our homeland. When the time comes, we can handle this 'Meteorite Project' in a low-key manner, and it can also allow Lin Nanyi to temporarily stay away from the center of the storm. Well, then, let General Malcolm Granger be in charge of the fleet in the Kira planet war zone, and General Tom Vince will be the deputy commander."

The meeting was decided and the meteorite plan began to be implemented secretly.

Deputy Chief of General Staff Winston Mackay returned to his office and threw today's report to his adjutant with some displeasure, saying, "Be careful with your words when writing a report! Today, Marshal Horner directly pointed out the problem of exaggeration in this report! In addition, the analysis report on personnel arrangements must be as detailed as possible, and political considerations must also be analyzed. Why did Lin Nanyi's analysis report miss this part?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Deputy Chief of Staff, this was our negligence." The adjutant quickly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

"Okay. This time it seems that Chief of Staff Qi was a little hesitant about the candidate of Lin Nanyi, so he finally chose Lin Nanyi. You can arrange the next things. Remember, the appointment of Lin Nanyi must be low-key." Winston Mackay said.

"Yes! I'll arrange it right away!" The adjutant lowered his head to hide his ecstatic expression. When he looked up, he was already calm. "I'll handle it in a low-key manner."

……

Lin Nan looked at the appointment document in his hand with a dazed expression. He had never expected that things could be done in just a matter of communication?

Feng Liz also saw the document, and she immediately smiled, "Congratulations, General Lin. Now, you are the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Fleet!"

"Jin Hao can actually influence an appointment of this magnitude?" Lin Nanyi became a little alert.

"I don't think it's an influence. It's just giving the right suggestions at the right time." Feng Lisi said with a smile, "If you are not the right person, then I'm afraid it won't be passed no matter what. In the end, it's you who influences the choice."

Lin Nanyi looked at the appointment document again and nodded silently.

"Then, let's prepare to go to the East!" Feng Lisi said, rubbing his hands, "I am looking forward to what the goal of this battle is. Is it to destroy the Empire's 12th Army?"

"The combat target is top secret." Lin Nanyi finally relaxed. He stroked the pigtails on the back of Feng Lis's head. "Also, your 1097 Escort Fleet is not included in this combat sequence. I'm afraid we will be separated for a while."

“I knew it…” Feng Lisi was a little frustrated. She held Lin Nanyi’s hand tightly and dragged herself into Lin Nanyi’s arms. “But I’m looking forward to the moment when you are reborn from the ashes, achieve great things, and travel across the galaxy.”

As he spoke, he hugged Lin Nanyi tightly, raised his head slightly and closed his eyes.

Sure enough, after a moment, her lips felt warm and the unique masculine scent of Lin Nanyiyi.

The two of them were cuddling, expressing their love to their heart's content.

"Fight...my love..."

……

"Did it work?" Jin Hao lit a cigar, looked at a person hiding in the shadows in front of him, and asked slowly.

"It's done. Lin Nanyiyi has been appointed as the fleet commander for this East Territory operation, and he is also fully convinced that you have been controlling this matter from beginning to end." said the black shadow.

“Hahaha…” Jin Hao sneered, “It looks like just submitting a report. But you have to know that this report is to be submitted to the General Staff. Just to do this, it requires countless money, connections and resources. Control? How can it be that simple?”

"But it's enough that he thinks so." said the black shadow.

"Let's send some manpower and resources to the East Territory in advance. No matter what method we use, we must ensure Lin Nanyiyi's victory in this battle." Jin Hao said.

"I will." The shadow said, "Although the combat objectives are unclear, no matter what, we cannot avoid the issue of the Mon Calamari when deploying troops in the East. So, I will start with them first. The Galactic Empire has stretched their hands too far..."

"I leave it to you, my friend..." Jin Hao said as he put out the cigar he had just smoked a little.

When he raised his head, there was no one in front of him.

……

The news that Palpatine's Eye had lost contact was finally suppressed by Gideon Tarkin.

It wasn't because he was so well connected that he concealed this matter. It was because during this period, the Emperor Palpatine... no, it should be Darth Sidious, encountered trouble in another place.

Unknown star territory.

Going back 20 days, when General Grievous was playing hide-and-seek with Gideon Tarkin at the border, a Lambda-class shuttle flew here.

This Lambda-class shuttle has undergone extensive modifications and incorporates a large amount of the most advanced technology, allowing it to make long-distance hyperspace jumps and connect navigation equipment directly to the consciousness and spirit of Force-sensitive people, making it more convenient to navigate through the Force.

To put it simply, this is a spaceship specially modified for exploring unknown star regions.

In the cabin behind the cockpit of the spacecraft, there were several people sitting - Jerrick, a high-ranking Inquisitor of the Imperial Inquisition, and his team of Inquisitors, the beautiful human woman Sarris, the Bolchulian with only upper body hair, the pale Twi'lek Bocas-Aika, and the young and handsome human man, Yun.

After receiving the signal from the Grand Inquisitor Hydra, they came to the unknown star region to search for more than a week, but still found nothing. The signal from the Hydra was too vague, so they could only determine a range of their location.

However, within this range, if we count those uninhabited galaxies, there are at least 50000! Even if we narrow the range and filter out those galaxies that are not habitable but at least have a certain amount of activity space, there are still more than 1400! Unfortunately, after Hydra sent that message, there was no other movement.

"If we continue searching like this, we will never find Master Hydra." Sarris frowned and said, "Why didn't she continue to contact us?"

"Could it be because her current situation is really very dangerous?" Yun said, "If that's the case, maybe this isn't a trap?"

"Don't let your guard down, Yun. If you want to deceive others, you must deceive yourself. This is the most clever trap." Jerick said, "Help me to be alert to the surroundings and drive the spacecraft into the shadow of the asteroid and hide. I will meditate again to see if I can sense the force of Hydra."

"Yes." Sarris responded with his head down.

After Jerick fell into meditation, Yun smiled, took out a stack of cards from his pocket, and asked the others, "Want to play cards?"

Before anyone else could answer, an alarm suddenly sounded from the cockpit, and the robot controlling the spacecraft said, "Alert! Hyperspace fluctuations confirmed!"

"Quick! Activate the stealth system!!" Saris jumped up, rushed to the cockpit, quickly pressed the button to activate the stealth device and sat in the driver's seat himself.

The Galactic Empire certainly has its own stealth system, but it is too complex and too expensive to be mass-produced. Therefore, only a very small number of modified ships that perform the most difficult missions can carry it.

Sarris controlled the spacecraft and approached the asteroid very carefully until the spacecraft was only about 1 meter away from the asteroid. Then, she controlled the spacecraft to rotate with the asteroid, almost making the spacecraft and the asteroid merge into one.

This ultra-precise operation, which can only be achieved through the foresight of the Force, ensures that their spacecraft is difficult to detect even with the most advanced detectors in the galaxy.

Soon, a white light flashed, and a small fleet appeared here.

This fleet includes 5 Cole-class battlecruisers and no other auxiliary warships. After all, it is in an unknown star region. If there are no other special devices, then only battleships of the capital class can have enough energy power to support navigation in the complicated hyperspace channels here.

The five warships scanned the galaxy, and especially scanned Planet No. 5 carefully.

Because there are a total of 5 planets in this galaxy, 4 of which are gas giants, and there is only one rocky planet, Planet No. .

However, their scan did not produce any results. After completing the scan, the warships quickly started their hyperspace engines and left.

"This is the third time we have encountered a patrol from the Kingdom of Dawn in the past few days." Yun had walked over and stood behind Saris, who was controlling the spacecraft in the main cockpit.

"There is no doubt that they are looking for something." Sarris said, "Could they be hunting down Lord Hydra?"

"Then, we follow them?" Yun said.

A deep, hoarse voice came from behind, "If they have found Hydra, they wouldn't be wandering around aimlessly. If they haven't found Hydra, then what's the point of following them? But one thing is certain, they are not looking for us here. Because it would be too conspicuous and not suitable for ambushing us."

Everyone turned around and found that it was their leader, High Judge Jerrick, who had ended his meditation at some point and walked over.

"Lord Jerick."

Jerick said: "I have sensed the location of Hydra, but that place... is very dangerous."

"Where is it? Can we go?" Saris' eyes lit up and he turned around and asked.

"The Valtaullu Whirlpool." Jerick said in a deep voice, "It is within the influence range of a supermassive black hole. If you are not careful, you will be captured by the gravity of the black hole and die without a burial place."

"Is this a trap?" Mao said very rudely.

"If this is a trap, then it's too much of a joke." Jerick said coldly: "I can still go to the Valtaulu Whirlpool. I'll operate it, and throw this stupid robot into the cargo hold! You be the co-pilot!"

"Yes! Hahahaha!" The pale Twi'lek Bocas-Aika let out a somewhat stupid but extremely creepy laugh. He lifted up the robot in the co-pilot seat with one hand, then turned around and dragged it towards the cargo hold.

[Sir, please be careful. The place you grabbed is my sensor. This will affect the sensitivity of my sensor...ah, you just knocked off the auxiliary nozzle on my leg.] The robot was dragged away while mumbling.

Sarith also unbuckled his seat belt and moved to the passenger seat.

Jerrick flew the spaceship directly towards the Valtaulu Whirlpool. They were cautious along the way and avoided the patrol fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn once again.

This star field is very vast and desolate, roughly located between the unknown star field north of the Kingdom of Dawn with Chiss Territory as its core, and the unknown star field south of the Kingdom of Dawn with Levik as its core. There is basically no civilization here, and there are very few habitable planets.

In a place like this, encountering patrol fleets repeatedly shows that the Kingdom of Dawn really put a lot of effort into searching here.

However, no matter how hard they searched, they would never go to the Vartaulu Whirlpool. That place was too dangerous. There was more than one gravitational source around the supermassive black hole. Under the pull of the supermassive black hole, hundreds of millions of temporary small gravitational vortices would form around it. These gravitational vortices were still fatal to spacecraft!

Even Senior Inquisitor Jerrick, who had been exploring here for a long time since the days of the Jedi Order and was very familiar with the unknown star regions, had to be cautious and needed the assistance of Sarris to finally reach his destination.

Here, we are already within the gravitational range of the Vartaulu Whirlpool.

However, it is very magical that there are dozens of gravitational vortices here, and there are some nebula materials, which make this place a very thin cloud-like vortex. In the center of the vortex, different gravitational sources have reached a delicate balance, and the gravitational influence of the Vartaulu Whirlpool is the smallest here, just enough to use hyperspace navigation without being affected by gravity!

Hard work pays off. After conducting a large-scale scan, they actually detected a crashed Dawn Kingdom Revenge-class destroyer on one of the asteroids!