Chapter 657: Ultimate Weapon 4
Re-boarding the Imperial warship was a mixed blessing for Marek, on the one hand, Vader showed sincerity during the whole process, not only giving up his own sterile special protection cabin to his family, but also taking the initiative to introduce the details of the plan to assassinate the emperor, showing politeness and grace, not at all like the Sith lord who he remembered as playing tricks every day.
In addition to this performance, the medical services promised by Sister Xue are also very reliable. Due to the intensity of the mission and the large number of participants, the expedition team had previously sent two of the latest models of automatic medical stations to the Executor and completed the installation and commissioning.
One of them was in Vader's cabin, and Juno showed signs of regaining consciousness just half an hour after being sent in. When she finally opened her eyes and woke up a few hours later, Marek was so excited that she couldn't help herself, and hurriedly thanked Sister Xue and the medical staff who were watching.
While no one had told him the identity of the mysterious organization or the coordinates of its next target, Marek was willing to believe that he had come by mistake. There was no good news for him compared to Juno's awakening.
After arranging the medical care here, Sister Xue looked at the latest reports from the team members in all corners of the fleet, and then she walked quickly to the bridge and informed Vader of the latest situation. In the nearly a week since Vader's mutiny, several waves of spies have been caught trying to contact the outside world.
It's not certain how many agents loyal to the Emperor will still be wearing them, but one thing is certain, they must race against the clock to get the second super weapon, and only after getting it can Vader be more sure of the victory.
"How is he?" Without waiting for Sister Xue to get close to inform her of the latest situation, Vader preemptively asked, he asked about Marek's current situation. Because Marek is still very wary of him. So he didn't lean over to increase the pressure on the other side.
But after recovering his nature, he still felt a little guilty about his apprentice. Therefore, at every opportunity, he wants to know how the other party's mentality is now, and whether he has a chance to repair this master-apprentice relationship.
"Much better, your apprentice is now in ecstasy, his girlfriend has been resuscitated by our medical staff. As for the problem of accelerated aging of him and his son. It takes long-term treatment to eradicate it, but we have drugs that temporarily inhibit aging......"
Sister Xue gave a brief introduction to the situation, but Vader seemed to have a lot of questions to ask, and as a last resort, Sister Xue could only remind the other party to change the focus of attention, the location they were heading to was much more dangerous than Marek's hut. In fact, their new goal is the most dangerous place to go before assassinating the Emperor!
"I know you care about your apprentices, but now we really should focus on our work, and two more groups of agents totaling 14 emperors have been discovered and arrested from yesterday to today. They are becoming more and more cautious. ”
"I'm confident that your people can stop them, they're in charge of the technical work, and my people just have to do all the hard work, aren't they?" Vader had no shortage of self-deprecating quips.
"That's right, my people are very good at monitoring and tracking. But they couldn't stop the Emperor's spies from spreading the news forever. The last few groups of spies who have been caught have not contacted other accomplices, and they all like to try suicide when they are arrested.
They had guessed that their living environment and the place of discussion were being monitored. I don't know how many of the remaining agents there are, but they're trying to find the blind spots in the surveillance, and look in the direction they're becoming more and more creative. It's only a matter of time before the vulnerability is found. ”
Vader knew she was telling the truth, straight up to now. The plan to assassinate the Emperor is still very risky, and only when the next step is done flawlessly and this second ultimate weapon is obtained, can they be sure of victory.
As for what the ultimate weapon they were looking for, it had to start with the Emperor's resurrection ability. As the overlord who has ruled the Galactic Empire for 20 years, the emperor himself naturally has a lot of backhands to hide.
Long before the accession to the throne. He expected that he would be subjected to multiple rounds of assassination. This Force-based foresight, in addition to making him more greedy for wealth and squandering during his time in power, led to a host of plans for assassination.
The Emperor knew that it would be difficult to escape assassination, because he himself knew how bad his character was and how many people hated him. Instead of trying your best to escape the assassination, you should prepare for what will happen after the assassination.
The Emperor himself is well versed in the secret techniques of the Dark Force, although he himself is not able to make the most of these ancient secret techniques due to his talent and depth of study. But years of research and preparation have given him the ability to condense ghosts and transfer them to other bodies.
To put it bluntly, this ability is to seize the control of another body after death. It's just that you still need to have a prepared body for yourself to take it for you to succeed. And these prepared bodies should preferably be clones of himself.
The emperor had already arranged for the construction of such a facility. For safety reasons, these bodies used for reincarnation and resurrection should naturally be well preserved and safeguarded. The Emperor did not set up such an important facility in a prosperous area as Coruscant or the Silver Heart.
In order to ensure that anyone who rebelled would have the ability to retake the Empire, the Emperor used the cover of the Death Star Project to mobilize the Empire's manpower and construction resources to build a secret large-scale planetary base.
The secrecy of this base is kept extremely secretive. A large amount of the raw materials and labor used in the construction of the two Death Stars were counted in the settlement of the construction of the two Death Stars, and all the workers involved in the construction were tricked into being shot and killed after their respective parts were completed, ensuring that they would take the secrets of the place to the grave.
Of course, the families of these people eventually got the news that they were "work-related deaths". The construction period of the Death Star is so long, and the serious overspending of funds is largely due to the bureaucratic system's delays, but because a large amount of resources have been allocated here to build this secret base of the emperor.
For the sake of secrecy, the emperor not only ordered all the participants of the project to be executed after the completion of the project, but also did not hesitate to create the false impression that the person in charge of the construction of the Death Star project had large-scale corruption and embezzlement of public funds, so as to cover up his own transfer of massive resources and funds.
It is mainly for this reason that the outside world has a bad impression of the Death Star project as a waste of money and labor, huge construction risks, and a circle of corrupt officials. Even the rebel coalition never suspected that the project had fallen on schedule for some other reason.
As mentioned earlier, this planetary base was prepared by the Emperor for his inevitable resurrection after the assassination, so it is natural that there are all the facilities that can resurrect the Emperor himself and even make a comeback.
First of all, it hides the ships and equipment needed for an entire Imperial fleet, enough to arm an army of millions. Secondly, there are a large number of robot troops left over from the trade alliance back then.
These robots form the main force of the entire base, making up for the dilemma of insufficient real personnel in the base. These robots patrol nearby starfields in battleships, destroy any unlucky ghosts that accidentally break in, and keep the entire base running when not on a combat mission.
On top of that, there's a clone production line that can create an army of millions of clones in a matter of years. On top of that, there's also a brand-new, recently completed Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer in the planetary base's core dock.
Long before the construction of the first Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, some designers discovered the overall design flaws of the Executor. As an all-round super warship that integrates functions such as sabotage, assault, and landing, although the Executor-class super star destroyer has combat effectiveness far beyond that of the Emperor class, its firepower intensity has always been a shortcoming.
To put it simply, although the executor can do almost anything, he can take on any combat mission. But it's more of a stand-alone special weapon than a specialized weapon to complement fleet operations. Once encountering a super battleship of the same class, the Executor-class Star Destroyer will lack the ability to break defenses.
Although the dense turret group on its surface has a strong ability to suppress fire at medium and close range, it can instantly turn any small and medium-sized ship that comes close to its range into cosmic dust. However, in fleet operations, it is difficult to effectively support the combat surface of the entire fleet.
This is a magical scene, although the Executor's shield is so powerful that it is almost indestructible, and it is a full front-line master, but whether it is to project a landing force for combat, adversarial fire support or a simple fleet formation, there are many inconveniences. Almost entirely a combat auxiliary warship, the fleet still relied on the firepower of the Emperor-class warships to maintain and advance the battle line.
The same problem does not exist on the Eclipse, and unlike the Executor, which has only two active ships after years of construction, the Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer was designed with the possibility of dealing with a super ship of the same class in mind.
In fact, the fault of the executor is specially designed to be like this, and the shortcomings of long-range firepower are also deliberately achieved. The purpose is to leave the first position in combat power for the Eclipse-class super Star Destroyer, which is more suitable for fleet operations.
The Emperor doesn't trust anyone but himself, and the Eclipse Class is his ultimate weapon against any possible rebels. Although the Eclipse is slightly shorter than the Executor in terms of length, it is more than twice as large.
And nearly 40% of the hull volume is used for the main gun that runs through the whole ship, this main gun is the core of the Eclipse-class super Star Destroyer, not only has an independent reactor for energy, but also has a strong killing ability, no warship can stop its edge.
Although it doesn't seem to be particularly large, the maximum power output of the Eclipse-rated main cannon is two-thirds that of the Death Star, and a single shot can blow a modest terrestrial planet to pieces with a single shot. (To be continued......)
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