The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2623 I am a natural disaster
2623 I am the natural disaster

"According to the Galactic Empire's planetary defense force combat rules, when a planet is attacked by foreign enemies, different levels of defense fleet command will respond according to the planet's defense level. And the defense level of the planet Deshashi..." Darth Masail looked up at the sky, then lowered his head and stared at the Imperial Army captain beside him.

"Five... Level Five..." the captain said tremblingly, "The defense level of the Empire's planets is seven levels, with Level One being the highest and Level Seven being the lowest. The planet Deshashi... although it has no strategic value, it has some mineral resources that can be used for war preparations, so it is Level Five."

"Then, there are still ten minutes." Darth Malthael's smile looked eerie under his black cloak.

A huge shadow appeared in the sky, which looked like a warship. However, although the warship entered the atmosphere, it did not lower its altitude.

I only saw dozens of TIE/LN light fighters flying over with more than a dozen LAAT/I assault transport boats. The TIE fighter pilots saw the military base was already in ruins and began to circle in the sky, trying to find the culprit who did all this.
The LAAT assault transport boats are divided into five formations, each with 5 boats. Based on the 30-person capacity per boat, each formation has 150 soldiers.

These Imperial stormtroopers, clad in white polymer alloy armor, left the transport and began to prepare for a thorough search of the place.

"It seems that after fighting for several years, the Empire's army has become well-trained." Darth Malthael said lightly.

He raised his hands and gently grabbed them. He saw that the dozens of TIE fighters hovering in the air were suddenly caught by an invisible force and stopped in mid-air. The thrust of the engine and the invisible force were in conflict with each other, and the cabins of these fighters began to deform.

The pilot screamed in the communication, and some people opened the cabin door and tried to escape, but there was no chance anymore.

With a light squeeze, dozens of fighter planes were instantly crushed into a mass of scrap metal! A violent explosion occurred in the air, and balls of fire fell.

At this time, the Imperial Stormtroopers also came over. They seemed to know where Darth Malthael was, and they moved towards this side at the same time, and they had no intention of shooting at all.

Nearly 1000 soldiers gathered around Darth Malthael, swaying and making hoarse sounds in their throats. The Imperial captain who was following him was stunned by this strange and terrifying scene, and he trembled all over.

Because anyone with a discerning eye can see that these 1000 soldiers have been controlled!

The battleship in the sky also discovered something wrong from the communication, and began to lower its altitude. This was an Aquitens-class light cruiser. The Galactic Empire deployed this type of battleship near some planets with lower defense levels.

As a multi-purpose cruiser, the Arquitectonic class is equivalent to a miniature Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

The battleship immediately spotted the Imperial Stormtroopers who were strangely gathered here. After calling out to no avail, the turbolaser turret on the belly of the battleship began to turn and fired a direct shot at this side!
A sneer appeared on Darth Malthael's lips. He didn't even dodge. Facing the bombing of the light cruiser, he just raised his hand gently.

Boom!!! A violent explosion occurred instantly, and the flames and shock waves engulfed everything!
However... after the flames dissipated, Darth Malthael and the group of Imperial stormtroopers were unharmed! An invisible force barrier protected them all. Although the turbolaser shot blew up the surrounding ground, nothing was damaged within the range of the force barrier!

"Charge again! Fire! Blow that guy into pieces!" The captain roared loudly on the Aquitens-class light cruiser.

However, at this moment, he suddenly felt the warship under his feet shake violently, and then the vibration became more and more violent, and a shrill alarm began to sound on the console.

"Captain! We are descending! The battleship is out of control!" the controller shouted.

"Climb quickly! Increase altitude!" the captain gave the order quickly.

"No! We've reached maximum power! The battleship is still descending!" The controller looked at the console in disbelief.

The battleship was still shaking and descending. The lift provided by the engine and the invisible force were fighting violently, causing the battleship's structure to begin to emit muffled bangs!

"No! If we continue, the battleship will be torn to pieces!" the controller shouted in panic.

The captain looked at the screen with a horrified look, and saw a man in a black cloak standing among a group of Imperial Stormtroopers. He raised his hands high, facing the direction of the warship! And it seemed that he was also trying his best. The ground under his feet began to crack, and it was obvious that he could not withstand such a huge force.

But even if the opponent was just one person, his light cruiser, which was over 300 meters long, was still no match for him, and its altitude continued to drop!

Suddenly, the man looked up and the captain saw only a pair of crazy eyes.

As if a bucket of ice water had poured over him from head to toe, the captain began to tremble all over, in disbelief and fear. He grabbed the communicator and shouted angrily, "Quick! Quickly call for help! Quickly call for help!! Send the message for help directly to the Empire Center!! That's... that's Tang Xiao from the Kingdom of Dawn! It's him!!!"

As if he heard his words, Darth Malthael actually waved one hand.

The next second, the Aquitens-class light cruiser was pulled directly to the ground!
Boom! Boom! Boom!!! The violent crash was accompanied by the explosion! A ball of fire shot straight into the sky, even hundreds of meters high!
“Hehehe…hahahahaha! Hahahahahaha!” Darth Malthael laughed crazily, “That’s right! Ask for help! Keep asking for help! Hahahahahaha!!!”

……

The King of Dawn, Tang Xiao, personally appeared on a planet in the North. This explosive information was immediately delivered to the hands of the King of the North, Dunn Wessex, Governor of the Ninth Army.

After seeing this information, Dunn-Wessex was also stunned, "Tang Xiao? He personally took action? Is he crazy?"

Many military leaders knew that Palpatine and Tang Xiao, the supreme leaders of the Galactic Empire and the Kingdom of Dawn, were actually extremely powerful Sith Lords. They could be said to be the two most powerful people in the galaxy. However, because they were busy managing state affairs, they would rarely appear on the front lines.

And the head of a country personally led the army? This is not the era of cold weapons! In this era, there are too many extremely terrifying weapons. If you are not careful, you may be directly wiped out by a super weapon.

But even so, Tang Xiao still chose to go to the battlefield in person? !

He doesn't care about his country anymore? Won't those people take advantage of his absence to fight for power? You have to know that a country is a collection of countless interest groups, and the biggest role of a national leader is to balance the power between these interest groups and make them move in one direction - at least most of the power.

Because only when we are guided by interests can we have the greatest subjective initiative. In a totalitarian country, subjective initiative is its biggest weakness, so the national leader is the most important person.

Dunn-Wessex totally couldn't understand why Tang Xiao would go to the front line so decisively, because as far as he knew, if Palpatine was away from the center of the empire for a long time, there would definitely be big problems within the empire.

In fact, he didn't know that the first thing Tang Xiao did after traveling to this universe was to fabricate a myth full of despair and challenges for their civilization which called itself the "Fourth Civilization" - the myth of the fourth natural disaster.

It is this myth that has created a sense of crisis in the hearts of everyone in the Fourth Civilization. When this sense of crisis coincides with the Galactic Empire, the cohesion that erupts is something that the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire, which have been in disarray for more than a thousand years after the Rusan Reform, cannot understand at all.

The fabricated, false myth of the Fourth Calamity spurred the Fourth Civilization to keep moving forward. Because they only had one goal in mind - survival! And to survive the Calamity, the prerequisite was... to dominate the galaxy!
The myths of a civilization often represent their ideology, and ideology determines the way this civilization behaves.

The fourth civilization's way of behaving is... natural disasters!
"Since you are here! Then die here!" Dunn Wessex's expression also became ferocious. He could even imagine that as long as Tang Xiao died in the North, he would immediately gain great prestige, even enough to compete with Palpatine!

By then, he will truly be the King in the North! A super warlord that even Palpatine cannot touch!

"Mobilize the fleet immediately! Blockade the planet Deshashi!" Dunn Wessex ordered immediately, "Notify the Imperial Center and deliver the information to His Majesty the Emperor himself! Request the Imperial Inquisition to send its most powerful force to assist!"

"I will act immediately." Gilad Perrine's voice came over the communication.

"Let me see, your power is stronger... or my Star Destroyer is stronger!" Dunn Wessex said grimly.

……

Gilad Perrine reacted quickly. After all, the defense line he built with his own hands was already in the highest state of combat readiness. Although the planet Disashi was located behind the defense line, it was not far away after all.

He immediately sent a combat formation composed of Imperial-class Star Destroyers to the planet Deshashi, preparing to entangle Tang Xiao before the Imperial Judgment Group sent anyone over.

And considering that during the Clone Wars, especially during the Second Battle of the Model Sector, Tang Xiao demonstrated the ability to control enemy warships with the Force of Death, based on this intelligence, Gilad Pellaeon specifically requested that the warships dispatched keep their distance and bomb as far as possible to blow the place where Tang Xiao was into pieces!

However, after two days of waiting, Dunn-Wessex received a piece of news that shocked him so much that he screamed, "What did you say? Two formations lost contact?!"

Gilad Perrine said in a deep voice, "Yes, two fleets. Each fleet has five Imperial-class Star Destroyers. In other words, a total of ten Star Destroyers have lost contact one after another."

"What...just happened?" Dunn Wessex's face darkened.

"It can only mean that... Tang Xiao's strength is beyond our imagination." Gilad Perrine said, "He may have already controlled those warships, and he himself is not sure whether he is still on the planet Deshashi."

Dunn Wessex only then truly felt that it was unimaginable what would happen when the top strongman in the galaxy became powerful enough to fight against a fleet!

Because such a strong person can do almost anything!

He suddenly thought of something and stood there for a long time. Suddenly he screamed and said loudly: "Quick! Quick!! Go to the underground command center! Go! Now!!!"

As he said this, he rushed directly out of the office door, saying as he ran: "Activate the highest level security protocol! Make sure I'm safe!! Block all the routes around the planet Palin-Minor! Don't let Tang Xiao get here!"

……

Darth Malthael was standing directly outside an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Even if he was exposed to outer space, it was no problem at all for him.

Surrounding this Star Destroyer, there are six other Star Destroyers.

Unlike what Dunn-Wessex expected, he only controlled 7 of the Star Destroyers. The process was actually very simple. He drove the Red Comet No. fighter and approached the Star Destroyer directly in a stealth posture, and then turned all the people inside the Star Destroyer into undead creatures.

It was just that he had used the same tactics in the Battle of Rendili and the Battle of the Model Sector, so the Imperial Navy was naturally prepared.

Those star destroyers advanced in a dispersed formation, and once they found a friendly ship being controlled, they would immediately open fire and sink it without hesitation.

But what they didn't expect was that Darth Malthael was no longer the same as before. His power was much stronger than before, and the Red Comet I he was driving had also adopted the technology of the Protoss, that is, Force invisibility!
Such invisibility means cannot be detected by ordinary instruments and equipment! Therefore, he can easily move freely in the formation of Imperial-class Star Destroyers, and then control those Star Destroyers one by one.

However, he did not stay on this controlled fleet for too long.

Red Comet No. 1 flew over automatically and hovered in front of him. Darth Malthael jumped directly into the fighter, quickly started the hyperspace engine, and disappeared without a trace.

Less than a day later, a larger fleet of the Galactic Empire arrived at the planet Deshashi and exchanged fire with the seven controlled Star Destroyers. Soon, all seven Star Destroyers were destroyed.

In the center of the Imperial fleet's formation, on the bridge of a black Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, a man and a woman wearing the black armor of Imperial Inquisitors were standing there.

It was the Supreme Judge of the Imperial Judgment Group! And that woman was the eldest sister - Arden Lin!