"The time of the battle is limited to 30 minutes, and this time we dispatched urgently, carrying not much equipment, and we could not spread out for frontal combat." Ian pulled all the senior commanders in the fleet on the bridge for a brief combat meeting. "Determine the target location of the mission, snatch the people out, and then we will withdraw. Annihilate all the enemies who stand in your way, understand? ”

"Understood."

"Kissilia, you're in charge of fleet command, Smith, let's go down."

Wearing full-body power armor made of Mandalorian steel, Ian and Smith boarded the LAAT aerial gunboat imported from the Quart Power Dockyard, which also included a standard Marine squad of eight clone marines who also wore Mandalorian steel armor.

"It's 5 ...... away from breaking off the speed of light. 4…… 3…… 2…… Breaking away from faster-than-light flight, the Marines were dispatched. ”

150 aerial gunboats, carrying 1,202 combat personnel, under the cover of 300 killer whale fighters, swooped down directly on the Arena of Geonosis, where Anni's signal was now played.

"Annie, I beg you to be a man, you can't get past being played by monkeys in the arena, right?" When it got out of the speed of light, the reconnaissance plane that set off first determined the coordinates where Annie was, and at the same time, 3 minutes ago, the reconnaissance plane captured the picture of two Jedi knights being tethered to a pillar. "But what's wrong with these people? What kind of execution is the Jedi captives going to do if they don't hurry up and shoot them...... Waiting for someone to come to the rescue? ”

The gunboat group has completed the orbital airborne landing and is making an ultra-low-altitude high-speed breakthrough, and the time has passed for 15 minutes. There was absolutely no one to intercept it.

"Sir, there may be a trap ahead, it's too quiet along the way." The clone commander inside the gunboat guessed.

"Who knows. Maybe it's just that the pure orbital defenses are too bad. ”

"Ian, the fleet has detected a radar signal, and we've been spotted."

"It took a full 15 minutes to find out that we ......" Ian closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When I go back, remember to remind me that it would be too embarrassing to establish a perfect orbital defense system, and it would be too embarrassing for someone to steal the house and not find out. ”

"There is still 1 km to the target location, ETA 30 seconds." At the same time, the explosion-proof door of the cabin was closed, and the lights in the cabin turned red.

"30 seconds, check the equipment, the weapon is loaded, and the safety is released."

"Warning, 8 Destroyer Combat Robots have been confirmed in the arena."

"AG14, AG33, you two come forward, heavy laser cannon ready, AG98, AG65 you two, prepare multi-load bazooka. The remainder is routinely configured. The clone commander ordered, and the four clone soldiers nodded in understanding, and the armament on the mechanical arm behind them was unlocked, ready to shoot. The rest of the soldiers were ready for battle after confirming that the safety of the twin blaster assault rifles fixed to their arms had been lifted.

"Ian, the enemy fleet has entered the field, 3 disobedient class destroyers and 4 generous-class frigates."

"Crossfire? There is a standoff. ”

“…… The bot probably won't get the point of the confrontation. ”

“…… Oh. ”

"Confirm the target, prepare for landing at 3...... 2…… The hatch opens, landing. ”

The moment he opened the hatch, Ian saw Kuigang and Annie riding large creatures in the center of the field, looking tired and unloving.

The 12 gunboats forced their way to land, and the soldiers in the cabin opened fire the moment the hatch opened, giving priority to destroying all the Destroyer robots. Then use a dense rain of blast beams to overwhelm the Geonosis soldiers who come to attack.

Anne and Quigang jumped off the large creature and boarded Ian's gunboat.

"Mission objectives are ensured, all take off."

The 12 gunboats that landed inside the field and the 60 gunboats that landed outside the field rose from the ground after recovering the personnel.

150 gunboats and 300 fighter jets did not return to the confluence of the fleet.

"The enemy ships opened fire, it has been recorded, and our counterattack has begun." The clone captain confirmed the enemy ship's fire.

The five huge turrets on the front of the Nibelungen class began to turn, aimed at the enemy fleet, and then, fired.

The beam fired from the 10 super-heavy laser cannons on the front of the Nibelungen-class pierced the shield of the disobedient destroyer head-on, melted the armor, and then penetrated the reactor at the same time, exploded, and the three destroyers were hit almost simultaneously, the reactor exploded, and then the hull was blown into two sections.

The four Generosity-class frigates maintained a frontal deflection shield under the diffusion of Enterprise-class and Nibelungen-class heavy turbolaser cannons.

On Ian's side, 4 enterprise-class ships were hit by the enemy ship's super heavy laser cannons and exploded and sank.

"The gunboats are speeding up, and the enemy's main fleet is approaching!"

"The gunboat recovery is complete, retreat." The last gunboat was smashed to the floor, so to speak. Less than a second later, the fleet began to withdraw in an orderly manner, entering a faster-than-light voyage.

Ten seconds after the last ship of the Ian fleet entered the superluminal speed. A massive fleet consisting of 6 large battleships modified from robot control, 4 Providence-class destroyers, 10 Disobedient-class destroyers, and more than 30 Generosity-class frigates jumped into orbit on the planet Geonosis.

And the scene was filmed by the spy satellite that Ian left in place.

"it...... It's dangerous. "This huge fleet looks at Ian in a cold sweat." Say, why are you being caught? ”

Smith helps Quegang and Anne remove the Force Suppressor mounted on their arms.

"The two of us are tracking down the whereabouts of Count Dooku, and there is evidence that this fallen Jedi is the instigator of the recent movement for independence in the outer ring system. Following his ship, we came here. We find an alliance of trade alliances and industrial federations, banking federations, these large merchant organizations, and they will integrate each other's resources and carry out a splinter movement, and they want to eventually establish a galactic empire. Kui Gang replied with a movement of his wrist, that Force Suppressor was too heavy.

"Then it didn't take long for us to be ambushed, and more than 1,000 battle robots besieged us, and Count Dooku and that Darth Maul attacked us with their own hands, and we were captured by mistake." Annie tied her hair back up and began to move her wrists as well.

"We need to report to the Senate and the Speaker, we have found a robot factory there, hundreds of millions of combat robots have been produced, and I have reason to believe that the separatist forces are preparing for a war." Kui Gang moved his wrist and returned to his usual standing posture.

"I need to go back to Naboo first and set up a line of defense to prevent the Trade Union from coming in. In Naboo you transfer to the Enterprise class back to Coruscant. ”

In less than 1 hour, the fleet arrived at Naboo. Anne had only had time to speak to his own mother before hurrying back to Coruscant.

"How's it going?" Pademme contacted him as soon as the fleet returned.

"The enemy is strong, but some fight." Ian returned to the bridge. "I hope Naboo will consider building planetary shields and orbital defenses in this extraordinary time. It was used to prevent the enemy from infiltrating small units in Nabu to carry out sabotage. ”

"Why?"

"My assault team did not intercept troops to attack me until they grabbed the hostages. It took 34 minutes for the entire combat strength to go from going out of the speed of light to entering the speed of light again, and the enemy patrol fleet came to intercept our fleet in the 16th minute. ”

"I see, I'll convince the Governor."

"Ian, I don't think we need to continue to be productive at the enterprise level." Kysilia walked over. "It's too brittle, even with the most efficient shield generators available, to cram in as large a reactor as possible as volume permits. However, in the face of a super-heavy laser cannon, it will sink with one shot. In the face of a heavy turbolaser cannon, if you are hit 19 rounds in 5 seconds, the shield will collapse, then about 5 rounds will lose combat effectiveness, and about 7 rounds will explode and sink. And at a conventional combat distance of 1 light second, a generous-class broadside laser cannon group can be directly sunk with a salvo. ”

"Well, let's go all out to produce the Nibelungen and find a way to fool the Cheerer and Trapper blueprints, we need to prepare for a large-scale ground battle."

The next day, Ian contacted Queen Naboo privately.

"I'm going to set up a secret production line."

"Where?"

"The Outer Ring Galaxy, a barren solar system that appears to be a remnant of the Old Republic's era of abandoned mineral galaxies."

"How much do you plan to expand?"

"On the bright side, there are 30 Nibelungen-class, 60 enterprise-class, and a number of auxiliary ships. Secretly, save 100 Nibelungen level first. ”

"Do you think these troops are enough to keep Nabu away from the fighting?"

"Almost. Given Naboo's geographical location, it should make the separatists abandon attacking Naboo. ”

Three days later, the Trade Union, through the channels of the Assembly of the Republic, sent a protest denouncing the Electro-Industrial Guard of Nabu Anaheim for violating the sovereignty of Geonosis without reason. The council asked Anaheim Electronics' chief executive, Ian, to defend himself before the Coruscant parliament.

"Mr. Ian Vasti, do you have anything to say about the Trade Union's complaint?" The new Speaker Palpatine had a solemn face and an inner mmp.

"I'm going to save my son, do you have any opinions?"

"We can exchange hostages diplomatically. You are pure acts of war! It is to undermine the internal relations of the member states of the republic! ”

"However, according to the battlefield recorder, our side has always been on the side of the passive counterattack, and you have neither communicated nor fired deterrently, and directly carried out artillery shelling. As a result, four of our frigates were sunk in an instant, and thousands of crew members were killed. We had to fight back in self-defense.

At the execution ground, we only took the initiative to attack 8 combat robots. The rest is self-defense and counterattack, and if you can't beat those eight robots, I'll compensate you. ”

"You!" The trade union representatives are angry to death.

Eventually, the Trade Alliance's protests were over, as Ian's fleet was indeed attacked and suffered losses before firing back.

After two sentences of criticism from the Speaker, the parliament moved on to the next issue.

"You mean, a factory for the production of combat robots was discovered on Geonosis?" Master Yoda raised an eyebrow.

"That's right, master, we were captured when we found out about this." Kui Gang clipped his hand. "We also received an attack there from Count Dooku and the Sith warriors. In my opinion, the Fallen Jedi and the Sith have joined forces.

In addition, I have seen that the Trade Alliance, the Technology Alliance, the Banking Federation and other organizations have formed an alliance called the Independent Galactic Confederation, and they have decided to set off an anti-republic movement across the galaxy, and hundreds of galaxies have secretly signed agreements. ”

"That's not good news." Master Yoda bowed his head and pondered for a moment. "Darkness covers the galaxy and I can't see too far."

"Master Wendu, it's been 7 years, have you confirmed the identity of Master Sith?" Yoda turned her head to look at the braised egg on the side.

"The candidate was determined among three people." Master Windu sat upright. "The whereabouts of two people are unknown, and one person's identity is too prominent to test."

"Who?"

"Speaker Palpatine."

"You've finally found it." Master Yoda breathed a sigh of relief. He then jumped out of his seat, pulled out a small memory from under his seat, and threw it to Master Windu. "There are three movies in it, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, you go back and see it."

"When did you find out?"

"The day we got the information Ian gave us.

“…… No wonder I've always had a sense of foreboding. Black Carbon looked down and sighed. I thought it was because this matter involved too much secrecy and would be dangerous, but you already knew about it......"

"What are you going to do with this Sith Master?"

"Just let him do it in the position of Speaker, the galaxy needs an iron-fisted leader, at least so far, anti-corruption and clean government, he has done a good job, education reform, initial results. The biggest cancer of the republic is the financial oligarchs of the Trade Alliance, and it seems that he also has a plan to deal with it, and they will lead the galaxy to glory, regardless of whether he is a Sith or not. Yoda looked at Master Windu with a smile.

"Aren't you afraid......" Master Windu was still very concerned about the Sith coming to power.

"He's alone, with 1 apprentice and a small number of Dark Jedi, Sith Assassins. Can you beat us? "Yoda is confident in himself that he has reached the balance of the Force.

"The Sith has also mastered the balance of the Force." Kui Gang interjected. "The strength of that Sith Lord is much stronger than seven years ago, and there are signs of the Bright Force in his body."

"I saw that the Sith is also keeping up with the pace of the times...... Where did they find the literature on the way of balance? Master Windu sighed.

"The Sith inheritance is much more complete than that of the Jedi, and the Sith warriors have not broken the inheritance according to the Sith Lord, and a large number of Sith supporters live in unknown airspace, maintaining the Sith heritage and developing new technologies."

"The Sith inheritance is much more complete than that of the Jedi, and the Sith warriors have not broken the inheritance according to the Sith Lord, and a large number of Sith supporters live in unknown airspace, maintaining the Sith heritage and developing new technologies."