The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 350: Death Star Data in Hand! The Assault Begins! Space Musical!
"The damned rebels actually dared to collude with the heretics in the extragalactic galaxy and attempt to infringe upon the interests of the empire. Let me, on behalf of the Supreme Archon, clean up the mess!"

Darth Rigg gripped the lightsaber tightly in his hand and stared at Cheney's position.

This speculation is the only reasonable answer at present. If Paul and Chini are not users of the Force, then they can only be carriers of another form of energy.

The universe is so vast that nothing is impossible. As the empire's judge, Rigg had also heard some mysterious rumors about extragalactic galaxies.

In order to explore the remains of the Age of the Gods outside the Milky Way, Palpatine has spent many years reorganizing the various forces of the Galactic Empire and integrating resources to develop military strength.

But he never expected that there would be traces of extragalactic civilization in the Milky Way, disguised as humans, which made Darth Rigg quite angry.

Chini acted indifferent. No matter what Rigg said, she just wanted to delay him and buy more time for Paul.

The next second, the swords of both sides collided again, and the violent collision created dazzling sparks. Rigg clearly felt that the force coming from the hilt had increased by three times.

Chini learned swordsmanship from Paul, which made her better in pure fencing experience and more skilled in force-generating techniques, and her body was also developed by spices.

This also allowed Chinni to hold her own against Darth Rigg.

At the same time, Paul, standing on the Empire Database server terminal, was witnessing the database information being quickly copied back to the hardware.

There is only half of the progress left to be completed. During this period, Paul must ensure that the feedback process is not interrupted, otherwise some key information may be missed.

At this moment, the battle outside the tower fortress began to enter the second half stage, as the ammunition was gradually exhausted and a large number of support from the Imperial Army arrived.

The clone team began to switch from offense to defense, retreating to the dense forest to continue negotiating with the Imperial Army.

In this way, the internal situation on Scarif was stabilized, and the Imperial Army discovered that the number of enemies attacking them was not large.

It can even be said that there are very few!

Previously, it was only because the clone team's indiscriminate bombardment without regard to the consumption of ammunition that they had the illusion that they were under a full-scale attack by the enemy.

Now the clone team's weapons and ammunition have been basically used up, and there is no way to get logistical supplies from the mothership.

Therefore, the firepower of this team fell into a period of weakness, and they could no longer continue to pour down artillery fire like before.

Of course, their combat mission had been completed, and a large number of garrisons were lured out of the tower fort, creating an excellent opportunity for Paul and Chini to sneak in.

If this clone team had not attracted enough attention, it would have been difficult for Paul to break through the encirclement and enter the Empire's database.

At this moment, in the command room at the top of the tower, Director Orson Krennic began to realize that something was wrong.

From the initial massive attack to the current weak attack, it seems like a feint attack to the east but where exactly is the enemy's feint attack point?

It was not until this time that the communicator who detected the abnormal situation in the database reminded Orson in time, and he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Report to the commander, the enemy has broken into the database, and Judge Darth Rigg is leading the Death Troops to fight the enemy!"

“Damn rebels—!”

After coming to his senses, Orson finally realized that he had been tricked into leaving the mountain. He hurriedly ordered his men, "Immediately destroy all the information and data, leaving no one behind."

"We must not let the Empire's confidential data fall into the hands of the rebels."

However, the technician in charge of operating the database terminal responded with sweat on his forehead:
"Sir, our system has been attacked by an unknown intruder and we are unable to connect to the database terminal. Now we can only think of destroying the physical hardware directly..."

"Then do it now!"

Orson shouted angrily, what if the design drawings of the Death Star, including the data of the unfinished Starkiller Base, were leaked to the rebels.

Then Lord Palpatine must be sent to the gallows!
Over at the Imperial Security Database, just as the information feedback program had loaded to 100% completion of data collection, the gate to the passage on the upper level of the tower fortress was forcibly blasted open.

A large number of Imperial Stormtroopers rushed in from outside. Without saying a word, they aimed directly at the server terminal and fired indiscriminately.

The director's instructions to them were to destroy the database, completely destroy it physically!
As long as the hardware is damaged to the point where it cannot be repaired, the data and information in the database will naturally no longer be able to be stolen.

Fortunately, the giant company's physical hardware was quite powerful, and all the data was transferred to the hardware device before the storm troopers arrived.

Otherwise, if the server terminal is damaged when the data is halfway through transmission, all the previous efforts will be wasted.

Now Paul no longer needs to worry about servers and terminals. He just needs to bring the hardware containing the database information back to the headquarters safely, and he'll be done.

At this time, blasting beams continued to shoot at the server, creating bursts of dazzling sparks, and the current generated by the short-circuited wires echoed throughout the entire database.

If we let these stormtroopers keep firing like this, the database might suddenly explode!

Seeing this, Paul hurriedly drew out his lightsaber and rushed out. With his swift body movements and dazzling swordsmanship, he flashed out of the database like an afterimage.

The sound of lightsabers cutting through armor and limbs, mixed with the bang of blaster rifles, rang out, and in the blink of an eye, the first batch of stormtroopers who came to support were killed by Paul.

The iron walls were covered with melted metal left by lightsabers and blaster beams, broken body parts were scattered all over the ground, and all kinds of indescribable burnt smells quickly spread everywhere.

Paul no longer pretends to be a Jedi Knight. After using unfamiliar moves, he begins to let himself go completely, unleashing fierce and deadly moves one after another.

When facing the next batch of stormtroopers coming to support, he only needs to glare at them, shout at them to kneel down, and then he can use his powerful sound control to control the enemy in a group for a few seconds.

And this period of time was enough for him to swing his lightsaber and kill all the stormtroopers in front of him!

This is the horror of melee mages. No one can withstand the close-range slashing of a controlled swordsman. After Paul's potential was developed through spices, he has become a master of sound control.

His sound control ability is only stronger than that of the former Saint Helen. It is too easy for him to deal with these miscellaneous soldiers in front of him who have no force protection.

"Mission accomplished, begin retreating!"

Paul used the lightsaber in his hand to cut a big hole, reminding Chinni to get away quickly, and then he jumped down directly from the top of the tower.

Then he used the anti-gravity device on his body to land steadily on the ground.

Now, outside Scarif's planetary shield field, a large number of Imperial-class Star Destroyers, Executors, and even Death Stars have already poured in, and are rushing here.

The invasion has entered its final stage. It depends on how Paul and Cheryl find a way to escape!
On the upper floor of the tower fortress, after receiving Paul's signal, Chini immediately stabbed several times in succession, forcing Darth Rigg to retreat several steps, and then jumped down from a cave not far away.

Seeing Paul and Chini escape successfully, Rigg was so angry that he wanted to jump down as well, but he didn't have any anti-gravity device on him.

Once they jumped from such a high place, they would be crushed to pieces. At this moment, the clone team was basically out of ammunition and food, and could only pick up the weapons of the Imperial Army, but doing so would also lose the biggest advantage of equipment.

After all, compared with the weapons of giant enterprises, the gap between the two sides is like the difference between a peerless magic weapon and a fire stick.

However, the clone team, who had already prepared to die, were the cannon fodder of this operation.

They were able to buy Paul enough time, enough for his factory number to remain forever in the giant company's database.

Soon, the array of walker machines that arrived at the jungle battlefield completely flattened the dense forest, and the soldiers were either trampled to death or shot in half by machine guns.

Three minutes later, all members of the clone team were killed.

……

Outside the orbit of Scarif, Megatron looked at the countdown and saw that there were still two minutes left before the time agreed upon with Paul.

According to information obtained from the giant enterprise's AI drone reconnaissance, the Empire's large army is coming to support. Regardless of whether Paul obtains the key data, this battle seems inevitable!
"Get ready to start the engines and the ship's gun mounts. It's time to get started."

Megatron gave an order and asked the intelligent AI to start up in advance so that it could launch an attack on Scarif at any time.

However, just as the time was about to reach 25 minutes, Megatron suddenly saw another group of forces emerging outside Scarif's orbit.

A large number of Rebel Alliance X-wing fighters and Hammerhead-class light frigates quickly flew out of hyperspace and drifted towards the orbit of Scarif.

For the Rebel Alliance, which has little space power, this attack is a gamble on their life.

If this group of space forces is destroyed, the rebel army will be severely suppressed by the imperial army in terms of air supremacy and will not be able to raise their heads.

There is no way. At this time, the bosses of the consortium are not very optimistic about or trust the rebel capabilities of this group of rebels.

The truth of "helping whoever wins" applies to every dimension of the universe, especially to shrewd capitalists.

They would not be willing to spend money on the Rebel Alliance unless the Rebels weakened the Galactic Empire and made Palpatine suffer several heavy losses.

Here, the communication channel of the Rebel Alliance was automatically captured and connected by the Giant Enterprise's shipboard AI, and an urgent voice sounded over there:
[This is Admiral Radus of the Rebel Alliance. All units, report the situation immediately! ]

When they heard that the visitor was actually a member of the rebel army, David and Megatron were somewhat surprised. It seemed that these people really regarded Paul as one of their own.

They didn't even have time to form a team before they rushed to Scarif to support Paul.

"Get started."

David looked at the time. It was exactly 25 minutes as agreed with Paul. At this moment, three forces had gathered on Scarif.

The world's giant corporations, the Galactic Empire Army, and the rebels who arrived in a hurry!

【Yes! 】

After receiving David's order, Megatron immediately led his troops forward. The huge dreadnought finally released its stealth mode and quickly approached Scarif.

Now there are more fighter planes and spaceships of the Rebel Alliance to distract the attention of the Imperial fleet, which also gives the dreadnought an opportunity to launch an attack and destroy the planet's shield field.

After a while, the Rebel fleet took the lead in attacking the Imperial Star Destroyer, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle in orbit.

At the same time, the Empire's reinforcements were constantly rushing here, and a large number of TIE fighters poured out of the hangar of the Imperial Star Destroyer.

The carrier-based aircraft on both sides were like a swarm of warring bees, entangled with each other. From time to time, the internal engine of a fighter jet would be blown up, and it would suddenly explode into a ball of sparks.

At this moment, the Rebel Alliance's frigates also took the opportunity to fire at Scarif's planetary shield field, but unfortunately the destructive power was too small.

It's like dropping a few small stones on a wide lake, which can only cause tiny ripples on the surface of the shield force field.

This war evolved from local battles on the ground to fierce battles in space, and gradually turned into a massive star war!

At this time, the imperial troops on the ground were still searching for the clone team and Paul's traces in the dense forest, intending to wipe out these thieves in one fell swoop.

As an AT-ST walker was walking through the jungle and passing through a narrow area, a figure suddenly fell from the sky and landed directly among the Imperial troops.

There was a flash of bright blue sword light, and the head device of the walker broke off.

The head cabin, which included the cockpit, two heavy laser cannons, and two high-speed laser cannons, fell along the smooth cross-section.

A huge falling rock killed more than a dozen hapless Imperial Stormtroopers underneath.

The man was Paul. He used an anti-gravity flying device to glide all the way to the dense forest, and took the opportunity to kill the stormtroopers who were about to discover his whereabouts.

On the other side, Chinny also fought her way out of the encirclement and quickly came to Paul to meet him.

Seeing the remains of clone soldiers scattered everywhere, Chini frowned and a trace of worry emerged in her heart. It was not that she sympathized with these clones who had become cannon fodder.

But without these clones who helped her delay time and block bullets, it would be her and Paul's turn to face the waves of Imperial stormtroopers.

"It seems that we were too slow. They all died." Chini sighed.

"No, everything is just right. Our reinforcements have already started."

Paul looked up at the sky and saw ripples constantly appearing in the blue sky, with layers of ripples spreading out in all directions.

Those are the traces of the planet's shield force field being attacked!

At this time, the commotion coming from above also attracted the attention of the stormtroopers on the ground. They watched the fleet fighters of the Rebel Alliance continuously attacking Scarif's planetary shield field.

The stormtroopers below were a little panicked.

Although the sounds from outside could not be transmitted to the inside of the planet, they could clearly see the ripples on the shield caused by the laser cannon attacks just by looking up.

A large number of X-wing fighters of the Rebel Alliance were engaged in a fierce battle with the Empire's TIE fighters. Blue, red, and dark green laser beams intertwined in the dark space battlefield.

It seems as if a psychedelic and magnificent cosmic musical is being performed.

(End of this chapter)