Chapter 541: Indiscriminate Orbital Bombardment
In a sense, General Tag's idea is not wrong, no matter how powerful the Jedi is, it is impossible to use a lightsaber to bounce back the main cannon of the Star Destroyer, let alone fight on the ground to cut the Star Destroyer in space in half with a sword.
That's not a Jedi, it's a nuclear sword fairy.
Qiao Lu propped up the psionic shield at the last moment, and the Force barrier unfolded by Obi-Wan barely protected everyone present.
It's just that in this kind of indiscriminate orbital bombardment at the level of Doomsday Judgment, it is impossible to support it for too long with the shields of only two people, and while the others have not lost their mobility, Obi-Wan hurriedly shouted to everyone:
"Come on in!"
Before the churning sand waves could hit, the group hurriedly entered the hut where they were hiding under the cover of Qiao Lu and Obi-Wan.
After years of seclusion on the planet Tatooine, Obi-Wan was not unprepared for the arrival of the Imperial fleet, at least there was a hidden shelter deep beneath his hut, which was the real repository of Jedi knowledge.
As everyone entered the Jedi knowledge base, Obi-Wan used the Force to control the heavy stone gate and lower it, tightly sealing the entire Jedi knowledge base to avoid the doomsday bombardment of the Imperial fleet.
The indiscriminate orbital bombardment of the Imperial fleet was still going on, and compared to the post-apocalyptic scenario of a nuclear war on Earth that humanity had imagined, it seemed too mild and kind.
At least humanity knows that nuclear bombs will destroy their civilization, yet the Imperial fleet is only unilaterally trying to destroy everything on the planet Tatooine.
They don't care about the consequences, especially since the Death Star has destroyed the entire planet and turns the surface of another planet into a lifeless wasteland.
The other inhabitants of the planet Tatooine have been affected by this, and the so-called indiscriminate orbital bombardment of the Doomsday Judgment level naturally means that death will befall everyone.
As a result, cities were razed to the ground in the blink of an eye, no building could withstand the constant fire of the Imperial Star Destroyers, and the densely populated areas were taken care of to ensure maximum casualties.
Ranked the same as Darth Vader's Executor, the USS Destroyer Stardreadnought commanded by General Tagg led the bombardment.
As many as 5,000 powerful turbolaser cannons aboard the Destroyer were raining down on the surface of Tatooine, and one of the first explosions Joe's firm saw was caused by one of the turbolaser cannons.
Such a dense explosion could be seen clearly even above the planet's orbit, and the planet Tatooine, which was originally covered by the vast desert, gradually turned into hot magma under the frenzied doom bombardment of the Imperial fleet.
The magma flowing everywhere converged into a stream, and on this desert planet where the surface water covered less than 1% and there were obviously no rivers, several crack-like blood-colored rivers were formed, which spread on the surface of the planet shockingly.
The originally dry and hot planet of Tatooine has completely turned into a red lotus hell!
Unlike Jada, who was destroyed by a super laser cannon from the Death Star, there are of course people on Tatooine who are unwilling to sit still and try to escape in a small spaceship.
In particular, Tatooine, as a smuggling crime center for dirt and dirt, has a large number of criminals with their own smuggling ships, and immediately after the orbital bombardment of the Imperial fleet begins, they try to escape in their own spaceships.
However, they were all ruthlessly intercepted by the Imperial fleet, which was originally the Empire's extermination order for all living beings on Tatooine, how could anyone have a chance to be spared.
The Ark and Tantvey IV were able to successfully break through the blockade of the Imperial fleet over Scarif orbit, largely relying on the sacrifice of the Rebel fleet, especially the heavy cruiser Radus.
However, on Tatooine, these criminals are not united enough to cover each other, and their ships are no threat to the Imperial Star Destroyer, let alone a successful breakthrough.
All ships that tried to escape were ruthlessly destroyed by the Imperial fleet, and were burned to ashes by the rain of cannons poured down by the Imperial fleet in orbit above Tatooine, an act that only made them die faster.
As the bombardment of Doomsday continues, the surface of Tatooine gradually turns into a terrifying and terrifying sight.
The planet seemed to be a huge rotting corpse suspended in space, its surface as if it had been torn apart by the hand of death, and the crimson magma was like sticky pus and blood bubbling out of the rotten sores left by the orbital bombardment, accompanied by the scorching smoke of death, which diffused the entire atmosphere, causing the entire planet to fall into a deathly silence······
Doomsday judgment, extinction!
There will be no post-apocalyptic events on this planet, because after this orbital bombardment, the whole of Tatooine has been bombed into a lifeless dead planet, and it will be devoid of grass for thousands of years, except for the lava that cools and solidifies into pitch-black basalt, which can tell the story of what happened in the past.
General Tag looked at the results of the orbital bombardment with satisfaction, although it could not directly blast the entire planet into pieces like the Death Star, but such a frenzied indiscriminate bombing could achieve the result of almost exterminating all living beings.
At least for the vast majority of creatures on the planet, probably more than 99 percent, it is impossible to survive such a round of doomsday bombardment.
The so-called devastating cataclysm is nothing more than that, and even the wasteland after the nuclear explosion seems to be full of vitality and hope in comparison.
Admiral Tag did not immediately order the fleet to withdraw, and although he felt that nothing was still alive from the orbit, he still hoped that he could send his ground troops down to carefully investigate the vicinity of the Lars Wet Farm, where the target had finally been discovered, and present the Emperor with a detailed and satisfactory answer.
Of course, ground forces can't land right now, and Tatooine is covered with hot lava flowing everywhere, and the temperature is too high for the advanced cooling system of the Desert Stormtroopers' armor to maintain its body temperature.
General Tag could wait for the entire planet's surface to cool down, and the target on Tatooine was so important that it was worth a little patience.
During this time, the Imperial fleet maintained a blockade of Tatooine, ensuring that no ship could escape, leaving no one alive at all.
General Tag condescendingly overlooked the entire burned planet, and shouted with disdain:
"You've got what it takes to parry this, Jedi!"
In his eyes, Jedi, lightsabers, and the Force were no longer worth mentioning.
Times have changed, absolute space power is the foundation of victory in the war, who will go with you to the ground to dance knives and guns?
However, he didn't expect that his opponent would also change with the times, and this time Obi-Wan did not think about raising his lightsaber to parry the bombardment of the Imperial fleet, but spent several years indeed building a solid shelter to preserve the last knowledge passed down by the Jedi.
Before this knowledge base became the ultimate sound of the Jedi Creed, it saved everyone's lives and became probably the only safe place on the planet.