Chapter 601: A Three-pronged Ship-Snatching Operation

If it is only relying on the manpower that has landed on this Star Destroyer at present, it is an impossible task to capture this Star Destroyer. This is true even if the entire brigade is brought up, which is why they brought a space-time gate stabilizer with them before they came, and when the right time opened and released the signal to attack, a large number of machine troops would rush in from the rear to assist them in seizing the ship.

If Master Chief's goal is just this Star Destroyer, now is a very good time. But in order not to alarm another Star Destroyer tens of thousands of kilometers away, he must first lead people to cut off or interfere with all ship-to-ship communications.

To this end, he first mobilized a team of members of an expedition through the Guò Gate of Time and Space. These people are still the same brigade he brought, but for this ship-taking operation, many of them will return to the rear to prepare. After passing through the time gate, they quickly assigned the task, using the squad as the unit of action, and split up to destroy all the large communication equipment on the ship.

Due to the hull construction diagram, the concealment technology is far beyond the level of the Imperial Army, and the most important thing is that the Imperial Army crew on the ship is very low alert. So they didn't get noticed all the way, and they arrived at their respective mission points quite smoothly.

At this point, the plan entered its most dangerous phase, and the Star Destroyer's bridge, communication deck, and environmental control exterior were all ambushed by the expedition's operatives. As soon as the Master Chief gives the order, they will act at the same time, striving to disrupt the Star Destroyer's command, communication, and life support systems in a single blow.

If it is implemented effectively, they will be able to paralyze the combat effectiveness of the vast majority of the people on this ship in an instant, and if they fail, then their arrangement will be in vain, and even if the strong attack can be successful, I am afraid that it will cause great damage inside this Star Destroyer. influencing their technical evaluation and future use.

Worst of all, if there is a large-scale exchange of fire inside the ship's hull, they could destroy the ship's vital equipment and scrap the Star Destroyer. Or worse, cause any of the ship's reactors to explode, destroying part or all of the ship.

Their purpose was to capture the battleship and not destroy it. So the process of occupation must be as careful as possible. After confirming that everyone was in place, the Master Chief who led the group outside the bridge took a deep breath and gave the order to start the operation.

With his orders, all of them began to perform their respective duties according to the start time of the order. Cortana's team was the first to act, and she was the first to use the virus left in the system to temporarily paralyze the communication system, leaving the entire ship without external communication.

The reason for the temporary paralysis rather than the permanent destruction was not because Cortana was not skilled enough, but because there were simply too many operators on the Star Destroyer. The lack of automated systems makes the Star Destroyer staffed redundant, but it also makes any attempt to completely destroy its operating system impossible.

Each crew member has their own operational responsibilities and they are all well aware of the part of the operation they are responsible for. The simple structure of the system allows the operator to check for errors and troubleshoot from every control link.

Even advanced AI like Cortana can only temporarily exploit vulnerabilities in the system to block information transmission, and if there is no follow-up action to prevent repairs, the Imperial forces on the ship should be able to completely disarm and find their current location in a matter of minutes.

Fortunately, this was only the first part of their plan to seize the ship, and after paralyzing the communication system for about 12 seconds, the other team members successfully tampered with the settings of the life-support system, and partially modified the ventilation duct settings to facilitate the implementation of the plan.

In this way, the heavy hypnotic gas they had prepared spread into all the ventilation ducts. Cortana coordinates at another terminal to help precisely control the spread of poison gases. As a result, the hypnotic gas they dropped arrived in the cabins of the different areas almost simultaneously, and few people on board had time to prepare or respond.

Especially those crews of the communications department. They are urgently repairing the communication system that suddenly "failed" in its entirety. When the gas arrived, they were unprepared, and all of them were attacked, and within 30 seconds, they all passed out near their respective workbenches.

A minute and a half later, the gas spread to all but a few areas with separate ventilation ducts, such as the bridge, and thousands of Imperial sailors who were on duty or resting fell into a silent sleep under the influence of the gas.

Although a small number of soldiers who put on gas masks in time escaped. Some of the Imperial soldiers on duty, who were heavily armed with helmets, were not affected and immediately began to search for threats and call the police, but most of the combatants on board were brought down by the sudden blow. The first part of the mission of the ship-grabbing plan was a complete success.

At the beginning of the second minute, Master Chief and the others suddenly sprang into action. By this time, the poison gas had spread to the compartment near the bridge, and the command staff inside had just received a bunch of contradictory reports. It didn't take long to figure out that he was attacked.

Therefore, this stage is the most chaotic time for them, and they must immediately storm the bridge and control everyone inside, so as not to fail the plan. Entering the bridge required identification or internal authorization, which wasn't too difficult, and they pulled a random guy in an officer's uniform from a nearby gas-affected cabin and opened the door with his identity.

Then, after a burst of exclamations and a brief exchange of fire, they killed all the resistors and captured the bridge. The men on the bridge didn't have time to put up a fierce resistance, which was fortunate for all of them, because almost at the same time as their bridge was breached, the mechanized troops of the expedition entered the hangar through the time and space gate that had been set up by Guò, and began to search and attack the whole ship.

Drones, humanoid machines, Titan mechas...... The equipment, which had shined in the last ship-snatching battle, passed through the small space-time gate of Guò and rushed to various corners of the ship under the guidance of different squads.

Because there were at least hundreds of people on board who were not affected by the gas, there was naturally no way to avoid the battle. The Imperial crews didn't know what they were going through, but they weren't stupid enough to wait to be wiped out by these men who came out of nowhere.

As soon as they saw the unmanned units that suddenly appeared in front of them, they opened fire without hesitation. The sound of fierce firefighting was heard from all angles inside the ship. Since it was difficult to exert numerical superiority in a small space, the unmanned unit was unable to continue the heroism of the company in the last battle to seize the ship.

The Imperial Army did not lose to their opponents in firepower, and the will to fight did not look weak either. Although they were faced with the sea of people that had just been transported by the expedition team, although none of them could figure out what was happening, they still chose to stick to their duties in the first place.

Heavy firefights began to appear sporadically in various areas of the ship's hull, and the Imperial Army had the firepower to match the firepower of the expedition, and the protection was a powerful individual shield. But in terms of the number of combat personnel and space, they are at a disadvantage.

They were scattered all over the ship and could not form a resultant force. Ammunition is limited and does not yet know its enemies. So, after less than half an hour of resistance, they were in a desperate situation. However, the expedition, which had suffered a large number of casualties, did not take the opportunity to kill them all, but temporarily ceased fire and broadcast to persuade them to surrender.

The Master Chiefs had already taken control of the bridge by this time, and had finally persuaded the captain to cooperate with his work. It had taken less than a minute for Master Chief and his team to capture the bridge, but under the threat of gunpoint, the hapless Imperial captain they had captured did not hesitate at all, and refused to surrender.

It wasn't until the gunfire became less and less common throughout the ship that he realized there was no point in continuing to resist, and only added to the casualties, that the captain agreed to persuade his crew to surrender. Although he himself has not figured out who took his battleship until now!

The captain was an ordinary man who grew up in the capital Coruscant and looked to be in his early 30s. He spent most of his life under the wings of the Empire. Compared to the long-forgotten republic, he has a greater sense of identity with the current empire.

Of course, this is largely due to the fact that he had experienced the wars of the Clone Wars in his childhood, seen the chaos caused by the wars and the long-term stability of the empire after its founding, and like countless people who had similar experiences to him, he volunteered to join the Imperial Army when he grew up, and was very fortunate to rise all the way to the position of captain.

For a man like him, it doesn't matter whether the empire's ruling methods are brutal or whether the people at the bottom are able to live a good life, because his personal interests are tightly tied to the fate of the empire, so he must be loyal to the empire.

Until today, he could never have imagined that his career within the Imperial fleet would end in such a way. Although his captives did not seem to have any intention of killing him, he could already imagine how Lord Vader would punish himself and his family when he learned of his surrender

Like most of the Empire's upper-class officers, he was loyal to the Empire but not to the Sith Emperor and the Emperor's apprentice Vader. In the eyes of the imperial military, the emperor himself was too obsessed with the cultivation and intrigues of the Force, and if it had not been for the failure of the coup, the military would have replaced the emperor by itself.

This shows how cruel the Emperor's cruelty and Vader's bad temper really are, and the captured captain is furious at this time, because he can imagine what Vader and the Emperor will do to his family.

Thinking of this, a wave of annoyance rushed into his mind. Ignoring the danger in front of him and the dissuasion of his subordinates who had been collectively disarmed, he walked straight over and questioned the Master Chief about their identities. According to his thoughts, he is already half a dead person anyway, and since this is the case, he will die to understand. (To be continued......)

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