From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 604 The overall rhythm is already on track
After a few seconds, the apartment returned to the almost harsh cleanliness that was unique to the Kaminoans, with only a pool of black mucus remaining on the floor, proving that something unusual had occurred here.

But Chirrut Ingwe turned around suddenly, because he caught a fleeting dark fluctuation in his Force perception, and it felt like someone was gently stroking the back of his neck with cold fingertips.

"No." Chirrut's voice had a rare urgency. "This seems to be just a decoy."

"cough"

Jerome, who had recovered, coughed lightly and immediately asked, "What do you mean?"

"The shadow is moving." Chirrut drew a trail in the air with his finger. "It's right where we were originally resting. Baze is in danger."

Jerome immediately pulled up the building structure diagram and said, "We can return by crossing the seven connecting bridges. Let's go!"

Just as the Spartans were about to act, Chirrut raised his hand to stop them.

His expression became strange, as if he was alert, but also had a bit of unexpected admiration?

"Wait." The blind master smiled, "I think we may have underestimated the 'drunkard'."

As if to confirm this statement, everyone's communications suddenly rang at the same time.

The indistinct roar of Baze Mabius was heard in the channel, and in the background there was the harsh sound of some kind of metal breaking:
"You guys are a bunch of - hiccup - disloyal guys! I left me here alone, and now a disgusting bastard shows up!"

Then there was a deafening roar of blaster bolts, and then the sound of something heavy falling to the ground came over the comms.

Bates' voice gradually became clearer, with the unique excitement of fighting: "Ha! You dare to disturb Bates' sleep with just this little trick? When I was fighting in Jedda's bar, you bastards couldn't even--"

Communications were suddenly interrupted.

At this time, the Spartans' zoomed radar immediately switched to the blueprint of the rest area.

There was a friendly green mark, and at the same time three unknown signals, obviously a heretic who wanted to take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on Baze.

In response to this, everyone reported the situation to Lyon immediately without further ado, and asked Lyon to notify the Prime Minister of Kamino to dispatch more clone guards, and hurriedly returned to the rest area.

When the Spartans used brute force to break open the automatic door of the apartment, the scene that came into view was absurd.

Baze Mabius, dressed only in a wrinkled shirt and shorts, stood barefoot on the back of a twitching humanoid.

In his right hand he held a smoking heavy blaster, and in his left he held a half-full bottle of Kamino Special, which was dripping onto the carpet.

Three humanoid creatures in researcher uniforms were lying around in various twisted postures, one of them had a charred "molten hole" running through its chest.

"Aha!" Baze raised the bottle drunkenly, "Look who's here - hiccup - my rescuer? Or here to steal the credit?"

The Spartans' helmet scans showed that the former temple guard's blood alcohol concentration was still ridiculously high, but his fighting posture was unusually stable.

What was even more surprising was that all three attackers had obvious blunt force injuries, which looked like they had been hit repeatedly on the head by some kind of cylindrical object, most likely a wine bottle.

Just as Jerome was about to speak, Chirrut seemed to use the Force to make his voice suddenly ring directly in everyone's mind -

"Get down!"

Baze's reaction was incredibly fast. The temple guard almost fell forward and threw the bottle forward at the same time.

Bang——crash——!
At this moment, the reinforced glass of the rest area viewing window exploded, and a dark purple tentacle covered with suction cups rolled towards everyone like lightning.

The wine bottle drew a perfect parabola in the air and hit the huge blue-purple eyeball in the center of the tentacle.

"Taste this!" Baze grasped the heavy blaster while rolling and pulled the trigger directly.

Whoosh-whoosh-!
Puff——Puff——!!

At the same time, the Spartans also launched a concentrated fire attack on the giant tentacle.

This caused the tentacles to spasm violently and retract painfully into the dark depths of the sea.

Chirrut had already swung his lightsaber at the window, but the tentacles retreated at an astonishing speed.

When everyone rushed to the broken window, they saw a huge shadow diving rapidly and disappearing into the dark abyss that the deep-sea fluorescence could not reach.

Baze staggered to his feet, patted his shorts, and said, "So, now who can tell me why an octopus monster would want to kidnap a drunk temple guard?"

Chirrut sheathed his lightsaber and turned to the corner of the room.

There was a metal box there that was deformed by Baze's smash and was oozing black slime.

The blind master's expression was more serious than ever before: "Because it wants to give you a 'gift'."

The lid of the box suddenly popped open automatically, revealing something soaked in nutrient solution inside.

A throbbing, blood-filled tumor with an eight-pointed star mark exactly the same as the one in the apartment appearing on its surface.

Baze was sobered up instantly: "What the hell is this?!"

Roar--! !

An infrasonic roar came from the distant deep sea, and the whole city began to tremble slightly.

An alarm suddenly lit up on Jerome's helmet screen, and the pulse radar showed that several giant life forms were rising from the depths of the trench.

Chirrut's lightsaber lit up again, and this time he cut off the disgusting 'gift' directly, saying:
"The other party's patience has run out, and they have finally stepped out from the dark side to the light side."

Meanwhile, in the Prime Minister's Palace on Kamino;
Sur Yi stood in front of the crystal arc-like observation deck, staring at the surging sea projected on the surveillance camera.

The deep sea fluorescence has been dyed a dark blue, and the radar continuously feeds back signals of huge organisms. Some have tentacles entwined around the wreckage of sunken buildings, while others are as huge as mountains, covered with wriggling spore tumors, emitting bursts of psychic disturbances.

The Kaminoan Prime Minister took a breath - her instinct told her that this was not an enemy that they, the Kaminoans, could handle alone.

"This is a form of evolution that we have never seen before."

Sur Yi spoke in a low voice with a hint of worry to Leon behind him, "They are not just beasts, but weapons controlled by will, a kind of existence that fundamentally violates the laws of nature."

Leon quietly watched the monsters tumbling in the trench, and after a long while he spoke: "It is precisely because they have walked out of the dark side that it means they have no other options."

Sur Yi turned his head slightly, surprise flashing in his eyes.

"You mean this isn't an attack, it's a last resort?"

"The power of Chaos is indeed strange and unpredictable." Leon nodded, "But what they are best at is always inducing, corrupting and lurking.

When they have to rely on these large, conspicuous creatures to attack from the front, it shows that their infiltration operations have failed.

That is to say, we have prevented their deeper plans." "But we have not completely wiped them out." Sur Yi whispered, "and even if these creatures just crawl onto the coast, it will cause catastrophic consequences."

"That's true." Leon said calmly, "But you don't need to bear all this alone. Once our human empire's Thousand Sons enter orbit and are deployed, there will be no place for Chaos to hide on this planet.

But before that, you Kaminoans still need your own military strength to fight against those chaotic large marine creatures. We alone cannot fight against underwater things."

Sur Yi was silent for a few breaths, then issued an instruction to the console, and his tone began to return to a steady state.

"Immediately dispatch the deep-sea mecha formation and cooperate with all the heavy submersibles that are still in operation to encircle and destroy the underwater targets. The core of the tactics is to encircle and destroy those chaotic large marine creatures."

The next moment, a large number of light spots lit up from the holographic projection, and countless clone teams were activated.

Deep-sea vehicles driven by clones broke through the water one after another and rushed to the deep-sea front.

On the command platform, Sur Yi's eyes tightened slightly. She knew that if she wanted to defend her home planet, she would have to pay the necessary price.

boom.
bang
Even though the battle that broke out underwater could not be captured with the naked eye, it could be perceived through the low roar, which also showed that the underwater battle was extremely fierce.

Before long, the front-line data was finally fed back to the central authority.

An overview of the battle situation and the status of each unit emerged one by one. 80% of the deep-sea vehicles were destroyed or damaged. Some clone units even lost command and fell into chaos during the battle. But in the end, they suppressed the mutated tentacle monsters and detonated the remaining corruption in the seabed fault.

"I must admit"

Sur Yi turned around, his tone was tired but firm without regret, "We paid a huge price for this moment. The deep sea fleet was almost destroyed."

"But your clone army is still there." Leon responded, "and the core of your civilization has not been touched. This is the best result."

Sur Yi nodded slightly, his eyes drifting towards the flashing mark on the battle map.

"Yes, our people didn't suffer many casualties." Her tone was slightly bitter. "Perhaps this is the meaning of the existence of clones."

"They are your warriors, born for this." Leon said in a stern tone, "And you are the reason for them to fight."

Sur Yi did not reply.

Her eyes fell calmly on the holographic projection. The gradually extinguishing red dots seemed to symbolize the underwater catastrophe that had just ended.

Although she still felt a lingering fear in her heart, she knew that the most dangerous moment had passed and the promise of the human empire was about to be fulfilled.
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Twelve hours later.

The gravitational force of the planet's outer periphery began to "twist", and a series of "vortices" tore out faint blue light traces in the dark starry sky.

A fleet of half a thousand Sons of the Wounded leapt here.

They did not conduct lengthy communications access, nor did they release any ground information. All ships entered Kamino's orbit almost at the same time and took over control of low-Earth orbit.

This action is neither a warning nor a temptation, but a declaration.

The human empire has arrived, as an absolute sovereign.

On Kamino's holographic radar, the shadows of more than a dozen ships were intertwined like a forest in the high orbit. After the orbital automatic defense platform identified the opponent's identity within a few seconds, it immediately switched to "friendly force" mode. All Kamino's local military systems automatically uploaded information and were incorporated into the coordination sequence of the Human Empire Fleet.

From this moment on, the defense system of Kamino civilization is no longer controlled solely by the Kamino people.

But Sur Yi did not resist.

She knew exactly what this meant.

It means that they have finally stood on the shoulders of truly strong people, instead of facing the swallowing from the abyss alone.

At this time, a Thunderhawk gunboat flew through the clouds, stirring up a large air vortex, and pierced directly into the high-rise helipad of Tipoca City like a spear.

The Thunder Eagle shuttled through the city without any hindrance, as if it was extremely familiar with it. As if the entire city was its home.

The landing deck opened heavily and the gunboat's hatch was lowered.

Boom, boom.

Gabriel Angelos, wearing a Hades-type Terminator, led ten company guards and descended on Kamino like the legendary "god".

They don't speak, but their steps are as firm as iron.

They did not come to negotiate, but to announce a fact: from today on, Kamino is under the direct protection of the Human Empire.

Sur Yi and Leon greeted them on the tarmac.

Angelos looked around, but the highly symmetrical Kamino architectural style did not arouse much interest in him.

Only the two people standing opposite him made the company commander stop for a moment.

Sur E was wearing ceremonial armor of the head of Kamino, with a calm expression; the other was Leon S. Kennedy, an elite member of the Investigation Department, who was dressed in formal attire.

Angelos took a step forward and gently raised his left hand to shake Leon's, silently and forcefully confirming their mutual duty and trust.

There was no welcome speech and no ceremony.

Subsequently, the Company Guards were interfaced with Kamino's high command structure, and the city of Tipoca, as the political and military hub, began to sync with the Imperium of Man network.

The Thousand Sons fleet activated orbital sentinels and deployed surface fire coverage, redrawn defense lines, established jump nodes, and opened up part of its organization to Kamino's clone army.

This is neither colonization nor joint defense.

This is the binding -

A two-way, mandatory and necessary binding.

For Sur Yi, this means that the Kamino civilization is no longer fighting alone, and that their genetic engineering and cloning technology have finally found the true fulcrum of the empire.

For Angelos, this was a common task: to consolidate borders, clean up corruption, and establish loyalty.

As for Leon, he just stared at the deep sea and distant sky on the tarmac, standing there calmly.

Originally, they came here simply to establish initial cooperation with the Kamino civilization and then use the cooperation to achieve gradual integration.

However, they never expected that by "accident", the Chaos forces had already set their sights on Kamino and wanted to use knowledge to corrupt more researchers, but they were seen through by the determined researchers, giving them a rare "quick attack" opportunity.

So, taking advantage of Chaos' mistake, the Thousand Sons were able to come directly to Kamino on the pretext of "assisting in preventing Chaos corruption" and take over all military, political, economic and other related affairs of Kamino.

The reason why Lyon seems "melancholy" is that after completing matters related to Camino, it won't be long before he has to move on to the next destination, which means he will be busy again.

However, this also means that the overall rhythm of the Star Wars universe, numbered "17", is already on the right track.
(End of this chapter)