The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 353: The Executor Battleship! The villain Darth Vader!

David thought for a moment, and only agreed after he asked the headquarters of the Wanjie Base and got Leon's nod of permission.

Whether it is the design drawings of the Death Star or the data and information about the Starkiller Base, they are all top-secret information to the world's giant corporations.

Logically speaking, such important information should not be shared with other forces.

But the reason why Leon agreed to share this information was mainly because the Rebel Alliance had limited manpower and industrial system and could not build the Death Star or Starkiller Base.

This is not something they should consider at all.

The rebels obtained the Death Star design drawings, and their only purpose was to study how to use proton torpedoes to blow up a Death Star.

Therefore, it doesn’t matter even if we give them the information. Doing so can also show the giant company’s friendly attitude, making it easier to win them over later.

"Do as Paul says."

"Roger that!"

The crew responsible for processing the data immediately sent the Death Star design drawings to the Rebel Alliance's Raddus and informed the Rebel crew to evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, after receiving the Death Star information from the Universal Corporation, the communicator on the Radus reported to the captain, Admiral Radus, in great joy:

"General, we have obtained the design drawings of the Death Star, but we have to leave Scarif quickly..."

Before the messenger could finish his words, the huge Death Star had already been steadily docked in the outer orbit of Scarif.

The surface of the light gray metal sphere was flashing with a chilling luster. It was a huge battle space station.

In this cramped space battlefield filled with the wreckage of carrier-based aircraft and various warships, the Death Star and the Mantle are like steel monsters facing each other.

These two warships, each hundreds of kilometers in size, represent the first confrontation between two powerful civilizations. However, no one can disobey the orders given by Leon, and the world's giant companies must temporarily avoid the limelight!

Looking at the Death Star with a diameter of 160 kilometers in front of him, Admiral Raddus swallowed reluctantly. Looking at the forces in the entire galaxy, only the Galactic Empire could afford the construction costs of the Death Star.

"How could that son of a bitch Palpatine build the Death Star?"

In addition to the super laser main cannon that is powerful enough to destroy a planet, the Death Star also has thousands of turret arrays on its surface, tens of thousands of turbolaser gun groups and thousands of tractor beams.

This means that the Death Star can not only easily destroy an entire planet, but it also has the same destructive power even against large warships!

The arrival of the Death Star is definitely not good news for the Rebel Alliance. With their strength, they will basically die if they fight against the Death Star.

Even if the rebels have already obtained the design drawings of the Death Star, they must first go back and carefully study and analyze them, and re-formulate an attack strategy, so that they can destroy the Death Star based on its weaknesses.

If we rush forward and fight head-on now, we will be courting death!
Even if they were lucky enough to dodge the first super laser cannon, they could not escape the salvos from the other turret arrays, so the best strategy was to escape as soon as possible.

At this moment, the ground forces and Transformers teams of the Universal Corporation have gradually returned to their respective aircraft carriers, preparing to urgently withdraw from this space battlefield in accordance with Leon's orders.

During this period, what was unexpected was that after arriving at the battlefield, the Empire's Death Star did not chase after the Rebel Alliance or the fleet of the Universal Corporation and attack them madly.

Under the instructions of Imperial Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, the Death Star was quickly docked in orbit above Scarif.

Obviously, Tarkin's goal is to completely destroy Scarif and prevent the leakage of more of the Empire's top-secret intelligence and Death Star information!

At this moment, Tarkin, standing in front of the Death Star's central console, formally issued an order to the crew below: "Aim at Scarif Base, confirm the charging status, and prepare to fire."

Although there are still many Imperial stormtroopers and officers on the ground of Scarif, Tarkin doesn't care about the lives of those expendable materials below.

For the sake of the overall situation, they could only die under the bombardment of the Death Star.

"Sir, what about the enemy fleet? Are we just going to let them leave?"

At this time, Imperial Inquisitor Darth Rigg asked.

After witnessing the complete fall of the Scarif Tower Fort base, Darth Rigg immediately boarded a spaceship and fled from this dangerous place.

Halfway through the journey he encountered the Death Star that came to support the battlefield, so he appeared here.

Facing Darth Rigg's question, Tarkin waved his hand pretending to be indifferent and said, "Don't worry, Lord Vader will take care of them."

The "Lord Vader" mentioned by Tarkin is none other than Darth Vader!

His original name was Anakin the Chosen One. He was once a gifted Jedi Knight and was regarded by Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn as the chosen one to balance the Force.

Such perfect evaluation, coupled with Anakin's strong professional ability, made him once likely to become the leader of the Jedi Order.

However, the old guys in the Absolute Council were very afraid of Anakin's outstanding performance, which caused Anakin to gradually become disappointed with the Jedi Knights.

The most crucial thing is that the current Jedi Order is greatly restricted by dogma, which makes many Force moves unable to be used.

This also made Anakin very unhappy.

In reality, these doctrinal restrictions came primarily from the senators of the Old Republic.

In order to prevent later Jedi from following suit and replicating their predecessors, they would perform such cool operations as Force hybridization.

That's why they set up countless complicated dogmas to restrict the Jedi Knights' development of the Force.

For a Force genius like Anakin, staying in the Jedi Order is pure torture!

The doubts of the old guys in the Jedi Council limited Anakin's future and prevented him from getting promoted or getting rich through his military exploits.

The old-fashioned and conservative doctrines of the Jedi Order prevented Anakin from further developing the Force and improving his professional abilities.

The anxiety caused by his hopeless career and the inability to improve his strength caused Anakin to start having frequent nightmares. He always dreamed that his wife died in childbirth.

This is essentially a severe anxiety disorder caused by Anakin's belief that he is not strong enough to protect those around him.

Just at this time, Palpatine, who was determined to replace the Republic, extended an olive branch to Anakin.

Palpatine only gave Anakin two promises, and then he willingly changed his name to Darth Vader and worked hard for the Galactic Empire.

The first promise is simple, that is to give top official treatment and guarantee a bright future!
Right from the start, he was appointed the Lord of the Sith Empire, on par with Palpatine, and became the top leader of the Sith.

Isn't this better than some damn Jedi Order council member?!

The second promise is that the Force can be developed at will.

No matter whether it was some kind of Force hybridization or the use of forbidden Force techniques, Anakin could do whatever was comfortable for him, just using the Force to rub his son with his hands.

In short, Palpatine had only one attitude towards Anakin: as long as he worked with me, he would have whatever he wanted, including a future, honor, and improvement in his Force level.

Faced with a boss with such a sincere attitude towards recruitment, Palpatine is not some tempting devil, he is clearly Anakin's benefactor!
In this way, Anakin changed his name to Darth Vader and officially jumped to the Galactic Empire.

It has to be said that when it comes to dealing with the Jedi Order, only our own people have to do it in order to strike accurately and eradicate the problem completely.

When Darth Vader was dealing with those old guys in the Jedi Council, he killed them all with one strike. None of the council members who had offended him could escape, and they were all killed on the spot.

In order to fight against the Jedi Knights, Vader even destroyed the Holy City of Jedha. In the Imperial camp, Vader is now definitely the top fighter in the dark force.

"So that's it..."

Darth Rigg stopped talking. Since Lord Vader had taken action personally, it was naturally not their turn to worry about the outcome.

No matter how powerful that mysterious master from outside the domain is, he can never be a match for Lord Wade.

At this moment, Tarkin, with his hands behind his back facing Scarif, had a barely perceptible sneer on his cold expression.

In fact, the reason why he prioritized attacking Scarif instead of hunting down the Rebel Alliance or the corporate fleet was mainly to kill his rival, Orson Krennic.

Orson is the design director of the Death Star. Thanks to the Death Star's great contribution to maintaining the Empire's rule, this old guy is likely to be promoted and replace Tarkin.

In order to ensure the security of his position, Tarkin decided to personally send his good brother off after learning that Orson's life or death was uncertain.

He had to make sure that Orson and the planet Scarif were reduced to ashes!
As Tarkin's order was given, the Death Star's super laser cannon began to activate, and a terrifying beam of light that could destroy the world was shot out.

I saw a strange green beam of light passing through the atmosphere of Scarif and falling directly onto the sea surface of the planet.

Standing outside the planet's orbit, Tarkin could clearly see a small white dot appear on the sea surface after being hit by the laser.

As time went by, the white spot began to spread rapidly into a white circle and continued to expand into a vortex.

Huge waves tens of thousands of meters high suddenly swept up, and the storm troopers who had not yet had time to retreat saw the horrifying scene of the sky being flooded with seawater.

Then, the earth cracked and the core collapsed. The fate that awaited Scarif was the same as that of Jedha, shattered into ashes and ceased to exist!
Seeing this scene, Admiral Raddus and other rebel allies were secretly glad.

If this shot hit their Raddus, the entire battleship would be destroyed in an instant, and perhaps even the Sojourner Dreadnought behind it would be destroyed as well.

Seeing this, Jack Wells, who was far away at the headquarters of the Myriad Worlds Base, shook his head and clicked his tongue: "That old beast Tarkin is really cruel."

"Such a beautiful planet like Scarif blew up just like that. I wanted to spend a few days there after the integration is over."

"What a waste!"

Scarif's natural landscape is quite beautiful and pleasing to the eye, and it is a good choice to develop an interstellar tourist attraction.

It’s a pity that it won’t be long before Scarif becomes a mess of scattered rocks, meteors, and land debris.

In front of the center console, Leon appeared indifferent and remained silent throughout the whole process. He knew that Tarkin did this to ensure that his position would not be affected.

From this point, we can also see that there are many fence-sitters within the Galactic Empire, otherwise the empire would not have collapsed so quickly in just a few years.

There are too many high-ranking officials in the Empire who, like Palpatine, have been eager to improve to the point of being short-sighted, without any regard for the long-term development and consequences of the Empire. For Tarkin, the theft of the Death Star blueprints was Orson's responsibility anyway. Even if he failed to take down the rebel alliance, the most he would be held accountable for is poor support.

Now that Orson, his competitor, is gone, Tarkin's position will remain stable for a while.

Here, after witnessing the power of the Death Star's main gun, the Rebel Alliance fleet immediately abandoned the Empire's carrier-based aircraft and urgently evacuated from Scarif's orbit.

The vast majority of the fleet arrays of the Universal Corporation also started hyperspace jumps one after another and escaped from the Scarif galaxy.

However, at this moment, the Empire's Executor Super Star Destroyer arrived at the space battlefield on Scarif.

The size and length of this super star destroyer is more than ten times larger than that of the Imperial-class star destroyer, with an overall length of an astonishing 19 kilometers.

In addition to continuing the Imperial Star Destroyer's traditional dagger-shaped hull design, other device parameters are also qualitatively different from those of ordinary Star Destroyers.

The smooth hull is shaped like an arrowhead, and the central area of ​​the battleship has a city-like island with dense turret arrays evenly distributed on the island.

The trapezoidal command tower stands at the tail of the island, coordinating the combat orders of all parts of the battleship.

The red light emitted by as many as 13 giant engine thrusters pushed forward this giant battleship that was as big as the Sojourner Dreadnought in the dark space.

This is the true core mothership of the Galactic Empire and the ultimate weapon second only to the Death Star. In terms of overall momentum, it is not inferior to the dreadnought.

More importantly, the captain commanding this super star destroyer is none other than Darth Vader, the most famous villain in the Star Wars universe!

At this moment, Vader, wearing black metal power armor, stood at the command center headquarters of the Executor, ordering the warships to move forward quickly and hunt down the invading enemies.

"Fortunately, our Lord Vader did not waste any time."

When he saw Darth Vader appear, Tarkin finally smiled with satisfaction, which was why he did not use the Death Star to intercept the Rebel fleet.

When Darth Vader arrives in the Executor, you don't have to worry about any troubles, just leave it to him.

At this moment, the sudden arrival of the Executor immediately put the dreadnoughts, which had not yet had time to retreat, and the Rebel fleet into a dilemma of being attacked from both sides.

Most of the battleship arrays of the Universal Corporation are parked on the outskirts of the star system, so they can leave quickly before receiving the retreat order.

Even the flagship, the Mantle, has reached the edge of the galaxy and will soon be able to leave safely.

Only the Sojourner Dreadnought, which was leading the charge, was trapped deep in enemy territory, with the Death Star, which was like a space fortress, in front of it, and the Executor, which blocked its retreat, behind it.

If they don't find a way to escape, Megatron and Admiral Raddus will die in the pincer attack.

"Haha, these rebels still want to enter the hyperspace channel? No way! The Executor is blocking them. If they dare to rush in, they will be courting death."

Ta Jin had an intoxicated smile on his face. After the battle, he not only got the credit for eliminating the rebels, but also dealt with his competitors.

This wave of killing two birds with one stone is really great!

"It's bad. Megatron and the others may not be able to escape."

Seeing all this happening before his eyes, David in the headquarters of the Yibo flagship began to frown and think quickly about the next countermeasures.

Given the Executor's powerful firepower, the Dreadnought would probably have difficulty withstanding the continuous bombardment relying solely on its own energy shield field.

What's more, there is the Death Star's super laser cannon in front. Once the Empire forms a pincer attack, Megatron will be completely dead!

If they were to forcibly rescue people, they would have to let the Mantle destroy the Imperial Army's Executor or the Death Star, but doing so would affect the strategic deployment set by Leon.

Difficult, too difficult!
Small carrier-based aircraft or frigates might still have a chance to escape from the cracks, after all, the Executor is too lazy to deal with such remnants.

But the Executor would never let go of large warships like the Dreadnought and Raddus. Darth Vader came here to intercept the Rebel flagship.

Paul realized that if this continued, Megatron would definitely die, so he immediately stood up and said:

"Captain, I will act as bait, you send out the assault boats to pick up the dreadnought and enter hyperspace!"

"What are you going to do?"

David turned his head and looked at David. He was surprised that Paul would volunteer to step forward at this time.

"I'll find a way to lure the Executor away, giving the Dreadnought and Raddus a chance to escape. Their target is me!"

Paul said in a firm tone. At this time, only he could attract the attention of the Imperial Army and give Megatron and Admiral Raddus a chance to escape.

David was silent for a few seconds, then nodded: "Go ahead."

At this juncture, David had no better solution to the current problem, so he could only allow Paul to take the risk.

In any case, it is impossible for a global giant to abandon its own employees and watch Megatron and hundreds of Astartes warriors die for the so-called strategic overall situation.

"Yes!"

After getting David's nod of permission, Paul immediately ran out of the bridge headquarters, came to the hangar of the Mantle, and rushed out on his own transforming spaceship.

Soon, Paul's trace appeared in the sight of the imperial army.

When Darth Rigg saw Paul reappear, he immediately sent an urgent report to Vader: "Lord Vader, it's him——!"

"This person is the Jedi Knight who appeared on Jedha. He also stole the database information on Scarif."

In his desperation, Darth Rigg even forgot that Paul was not a Jedi Knight at all. He just wanted to catch this guy and interrogate him about his origins.

"Yeah."

Sure enough, Darth Vader was curious about Paul. He was once a Jedi Knight, so he was also interested in Paul.

If Paul was a Jedi Knight, he would have to decide whether to kill this guy based on their past relationship.

At this time, the Empire's TIE fighters attacked Paul again, but these cheap starfighters alone were unable to intercept Paul's spaceship.

He drove the transforming spaceship left and right, easily breaking through the TIE fighter's encirclement and interception line and arriving at the center of the space battlefield.

After seeing Paul's driving skills and amazing reaction ability, Darth Vader became more and more convinced in his heart that this Jedi Knight must be no simple person.

If this person is really a Jedi Knight and has no entanglement with him, then Vader would not mind winning him over to the dark side of the Force.

Anyway, there is no limit on the number of candidates for the position of Lord of the Sith Empire. It’s a big Sith stage, so come on if you’re awesome.

At this time, Paul was seen driving the transforming spaceship towards him, and even the Executor was getting closer.

Admiral Raddus suddenly felt like crying but had no tears.

In order to cover his own people's escape, Paul treated their rebel allies as pawns.

Sure enough, without the Executor's double-teaming, the Sojourner Dreadnought successfully escaped from the narrow passage and followed the large force of the Universal Corporation into the hyperspace channel.

After a while, Paul drove the spaceship to the hangar of the Rebel Alliance's Raddus.

Even though Paul messed up their mentality like this, no normal person could accept such a jinx.

But the rebels now have no other good options and can only hope that Paul can do something for them.

At this time, the Raddus had already absorbed most of the Star Destroyer's firepower. If it continued like this, it would sooner or later collapse.

Soon, as the Executor approached, five thousand powerful turbolaser cannons and heavy ion cannons opened fire simultaneously, pouring firepower wildly towards the Raddus.

The dark green lasers came like a violent storm, and the several frigates responsible for protecting the Radus were instantly submerged in the hail of laser cannons.

The Raddus was also paralyzed in an instant and completely lost its combat capability.

Red damage warnings flashed everywhere throughout the battleship, and the hull was bombarded by laser cannon fire, leaving it like the bumpy surface of the moon.

The severe structural damage made it look like the Raddus would collapse at any moment and break completely in two.

However, this was only the result of the Executioner showing mercy. If Wade had not been afraid of accidentally hurting Paul, he would have opened fire at full force and bombarded these rebels to death.

"Start boarding the battleship. I want to capture that Jedi Knight alive!"

Following Darth Vader's order, the stormtroopers swarmed and marched towards the scrapped Raddus.

On the Raddus, which was about to fall apart, Paul met the rebel captain Admiral Raddus.

In fact, he was also quite curious as to why Admiral Raddus was still willing to accept him under such circumstances. What he did was almost the same as seeking death.

"Young and brave Jedi, I wish I could meet you when it is safe. I am sure I would be much happier then."

Admiral Raddus did not angrily blame Paul for sacrificing the rebels in order to protect his own people. He faced the other party calmly and spoke slowly.

"Thank you for sending us the Death Star design information. It is crucial to our cause. It's a pity that we were unable to send the information out safely."

It turned out that just before the Raddus was attacked from both sides by the Death Star and the Executor, Admiral Raddus sent out several spaceships in succession to escort the Death Star design information away.

Unfortunately, before entering the hyperspace channel, these spaceships were destroyed one by one by the Imperial Army.

The only thing to be thankful for was that another "friendly" force that was also fighting against the Empire's tyranny took the Death Star designs away safely.

This at least means that their raid was not in vain, and the Death Star's fatal weakness will sooner or later be known to the warriors of the Rebel Alliance.

(End of this chapter)