The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2670 An Unexpected Prison Break

2670. An Unexpected Prison Break
The shuttle that rushed in was incredibly agile, barely slowing down at all, yet it skillfully dodged all incoming fire!

Many of the officers and soldiers on the Imperial Intelligence Agency's warships were veterans who had participated in the Clone Wars and had retired. Faced with such a shuttle, they couldn't help but recall the heroic figures of Jedi Knights piloting fighter jets.

However, at this moment, they could only watch helplessly as this shuttle broke through their defenses as if it were nothing.

The space station had already raised its shields by then, but the shuttle suddenly slowed down at high speed the instant it approached, reducing its speed to below the threshold that would not trigger the shield's reaction within a few seconds, and directly entered the shield's interior!

Such rapid deceleration is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people. In that instant, the pilot would experience forces of thousands of Gs. Even with the shuttle's internal compensation and buffer system, this action would still be enough to crush the pilot into a bloody pulp!
Even among the Jedi Order of yesteryear, only the most elite Jedi Masters could accomplish such a feat.

So, who is piloting this shuttle?
The Lambda-class shuttle entered the shield and immediately opened fire, destroying the shield generator near the hatch. Then, in a split second, it launched two shock missiles, blasting a large hole in the hatch. The ship then flew into the hole with incredible accuracy.

This series of operations was completed accurately in less than three seconds!

The shuttle hurtled through the aftershocks of the explosion and crashed into the hangar platform. Immediately, propelled by the space station's internal gravity generator, it slammed to the ground with a deafening roar, sliding forward for hundreds of meters due to inertia. Ground crew members inside the hangar, along with Imperial stormtroopers who rushed to the scene, were all thrown into the air by the impact.

The spacecraft was brought to a stop just before it crashed into the bulkhead, thanks to the help of its retro-rockets.

The hatch opened, and before anyone could even see what was inside, a blue lightsaber suddenly appeared, instantly slicing dozens of assault team soldiers into pieces with a burst of blue light!
Then a figure rushed out, and more than a dozen assault team soldiers in the distance were suddenly grabbed by the throat by an invisible force and lifted into the air. With a few crisp cracking sounds, their neck bones were all broken!
The person who stepped off the spaceship was a mysterious man wearing a black cloak and a black tight-fitting leather jacket.

Without stopping, he killed all the Imperial Stormtroopers on the hangar platform and immediately charged into the space station.

This person's actions were incredibly violent, and his Force power was terrifyingly strong!
The station's internal garrison had lowered the blast-proof compartment doors, while warships outside were sending transport planes full of Imperial stormtroopers to reinforce them. In addition, several Dark Jedi Knights were also among them.

But all these reinforcements were left behind.

The newcomer sprinted inside the space station, and nothing could stop him! The Imperial stormtroopers couldn't even stop him; their makeshift defenses collapsed instantly.

The portable laser fences were cleaved into scrap metal by the precise Force lightning from a distance, and the makeshift shelters piled up with various debris were instantly blown away by the powerful thrust of the Force waves. The stormtroopers were killed before they could even see where their opponents were!
A blast-proof bulkhead door blocked the way. The newcomer brandished a blue lightsaber, slashing at the door more than ten times in an instant. Then, with a powerful kick, the heavy alloy bulkhead door shattered into pieces!

He seemed to know the structure of the space station inside very well, and kept running forward without ever going the wrong way.

They marched all the way to the interrogation area at the bottom of the space station, where all the arrested senators, including Mon Mosma and Gam Bel Iblis, were being held.

The newcomer entered the control room directly, raised his hand, and the two controllers were blown away by the powerful Force, instantly crashing into the wall at supersonic speed and turning into two piles of mangled flesh.

He quickly entered a series of commands on the console, and then inserted a password tube he carried with him into the host. A very advanced computer virus immediately spread throughout the entire space station's control system.

Finally, he pressed the button, and all the laser bars at the cell doors disappeared without a trace.

All the prisoners, including Mon-Mosma, were stunned. They stood there, at a loss, and some even wondered if this was a conspiracy orchestrated by the Empire itself.

The newcomer didn't want to waste even a second; he immediately went to Mon-Mosma and lifted the hood of his cloak.

Beneath the hood was a man with a buzz cut and a resolute, even somewhat cold, gaze. He grabbed Mon-Mosma's wrist and said earnestly, "My name is Galen Malek, and I'm here to save you. There's no time to lose. If you want to live, come with me now."

Mon-Mosma shook his head and said, "I don't know if I'll survive if I follow you, but I'm very sure that if I stay, the Empire will absolutely not kill me."

Galen-Marek immediately said, “Even if the Empire doesn’t kill you, your path ends here. What else do you think you can achieve here? Stop fantasizing! Overthrowing Palpatine’s rule is impossible within the Empire’s own rules! What you need to do is real resistance, not make a scene in that useless council!”

"Who sent you?" Gam-Bell-Iblis, who was in the cell next door, asked.

“Darth Vader,” Galen Malek replied, and as everyone turned pale with fright at the answer, he continued, “He sent me to kill you all and stage it as a terrorist attack. But I will never do that! He has controlled me for too long, and now I must do what I want to do!”

"What is it?" Ibrlis asked again.

Garen Malek's incredibly sharp eyes stared directly at him, and he said coldly, "Now, come with me. I'll explain everything else. You have the choice now: leave with me or stay here. I'm not giving you any more time!"

“Alright then, I’d like to see what tricks you’re up to!” Gam-Bell-Iblis stepped out, picked up an E-11 blast rifle from the guard’s corpse on the ground, skillfully checked the firing mechanism and safety, and then pressed the preheat button to put the rifle into firing mode.

“Ibris! Are you crazy?!” Mon-Mosma exclaimed in shock.

“This man is right about at least one thing—there’s nothing we can do if we stay here.” Ibris walked over and placed a blaster pistol in Mosma’s hand, saying earnestly, “It is indeed time for a change.”

Mon-Mosma took the pistol, hesitated for a moment, but immediately bit his lower lip and nodded. "Let's go! We might as well die here!" "Death was inevitable when we embarked on this path," Gam-Bel-Iblis said with a smile.

"Keep up with them! I can only do my best to protect you!" Garen Malek said, drawing a circle in his hand with his lightsaber, loosening his wrist, the blade subtly pointing towards the side door.

"No, you can't go anywhere." A chilling voice rang out, and in the next instant, the side door suddenly opened, and a figure rushed in accompanied by a blood-red sword light!

However, Garen Malek was prepared. He struck first, and just before the blood-red lightsaber pierced his heart, he had already pierced the man's throat!
He sheathed his lightsaber, not even wanting to glance at the Dark Jedi he had instantly killed. He nodded and hurried towards the door.

A series of gunshots and screams immediately rang out from outside the door.

Gam-Bel-Iblis, being a former soldier, immediately gathered several of the stronger and more skilled gunmen among the councilors present, forming a makeshift combat team to protect Mon-Mosma and the others as they ran towards the door.

The outside was littered with corpses; the Imperial Stormtroopers were all torn to pieces, and there were even the wreckage of several AT-XT bipedal walking machines on the ground! It seemed that the Imperial army had brought everything they could to kill this invader—under normal circumstances, you would never see them drive walking machines into the space station.

Faced with this horrific scene, Ibrahim was secretly astonished. He had fought alongside Jedi Knights on the battlefield and knew their strength all too well. Yet this man before him possessed strength far exceeding that of an ordinary Jedi Knight.

No, even most Jedi Masters probably can't reach that level!
Along the way, Garen Malek killed the vast majority of the Imperial Stormtroopers who came to intercept him, and even killed three or four Dark Jedi Knights.

Ibrahim and his group, trailing behind, faced little danger except for the occasional stray enemy they encountered. However, several members of parliament were struck by stray bullets and died instantly.

How many people did Galen Malek kill along the way? Ibris didn't know, but a conservative estimate was definitely over 500! And he left no survivors, not even sparing the Imperial space station staff he encountered along the way.

Wherever he went, corpses littered the ground. Ibris even felt that he was a habitual killer, a habitual ruthless killer.

Those eyes revealed a man who was accustomed to killing. How many people had he killed? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Nobody knows. But someone with such terrifying eyes must have had their hands stained with blood.

When Galen Malek fought his way back to the hangar platform, several transport planes were still landing. The Imperial army clearly hadn't expected him to break through such a large blockade, let alone dare to return!

Since the reinforcements all came from the hangar platform, it's obvious that this is where the most soldiers are located.

But he actually came back!?

Several AT-XT walkers that had just disembarked from the transport plane immediately opened fire, but they couldn't hit Galen Malek at all. He moved through the crowd like a black lightning bolt, leaving a trail of corpses in his wake.

A flash of blue light, and the mechanical leg of an AT-XT was severed, causing the walker to immediately lose balance and topple over. In that instant, Galen Malek appeared in front of another walker, his lightsaber plunging into the cockpit!

The AT-XT's cockpit was made of bulletproof glass, which couldn't stop the lightsaber at all, and the pilot inside was immediately pierced through.

After scattering the Imperial soldiers, Galen Malek urged Gam Bell Iblis and the others to quickly board the Lambda-class shuttle he had piloted. Iblis grabbed Mon Mosma's hand and practically dragged her onto the ship.

As they ran into the shuttle, senators were constantly hit by stray bullets, those who survived falling to the ground screaming in agony. But Galen Malek seemed to be only protecting Mon Mosma and his companion; he deflected all the energy beams aimed at them with his lightsaber, completely ignoring the other senators.

After staying outside to provide cover for two minutes, Galen Malek quickly returned to the shuttle, sat in the cockpit, started the spaceship, and closed the hatch.

The senators who hadn't yet boarded the ship shouted outside, but Galen Malek completely ignored them. They were slaughtered one by one by the Imperial Stormtroopers on the hangar platform, who were now in a frenzy of killing.

Meanwhile, Galen Malek had already raised the deflector shields of his spacecraft and was flying directly towards the outside of the space station!

Just then, a transport plane flew in from outside and was instantly hit by the shuttle. With a loud bang, the transport plane was smashed to pieces, and the corpses of the Imperial Stormtroopers it was carrying were scattered everywhere.

The Lambda-class shuttle is a top-tier spaceship designed for the Empire's high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and its protective capabilities are naturally far superior to those of the transport planes used to carry ordinary soldiers.

Passing through the flames of the transport plane's explosion, the Lambda-class shuttle once again plunged into a large number of Imperial warships, moving through countless fire nets and barrages as if they were nothing. Finally, it activated its hyperspace engine, a flash of white light, and disappeared without a trace along with the shuttle.

When the Imperial Tribunal's judges arrived late at the space station, all that remained was chaos.

This egregious prison break was like a resounding slap in the face to the Galactic Empire, but it also confirmed the collusion between Mon-Mosma, Gam-Bel-Iblis, and others with foreign enemies and their betrayal.

Emperor Palpatine immediately signed an arrest warrant, offering a reward of 100 million Imperial Credits for the capture of Mon-Mosma and others throughout the galaxy.

Afterwards, he gave another speech in the Imperial Diet, claiming that this prison break had served as a wake-up call for the Empire. He asserted that the Empire's enemies were now capable of breaking into the Imperial capital from prison and escaping unscathed!
This shows that we have reached a critical juncture. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. If we cannot eliminate the internal rebels, then no one in the empire will be safe!
Afterwards, he ordered a massive purge within the empire!