Chapter 671: Negotiation at gunpoint
She guessed correctly, and after repeatedly confirming Luke's account, the rebel leaders on the scene immediately ordered the guards to detain Luke and put Princess Leah herself under house arrest. Neither of them resisted, and Princess Leah was naturally calm because she had been detained by different forces many times.
She even signaled to her supporters in the venue that she would be back soon when she was taken away from the meeting, and Luke was hit harder by the fact that he had made the rebel alliance his home since the destruction of his home in Tatooine more than a year ago.
Here is his best friend, dedicated to his career and ideals, and he has managed to become a hero in this organization. It was this strong sense of ownership that allowed him to communicate so openly with the leaders he had just met.
However, he was disappointed to discover that the guys who led and financed the rebel coalition were not what he had imagined. They are not only stubborn. greedy, but also indifferent to the lives of the soldiers. Luke, who felt that his ideals had collapsed, even had the idea of killing everyone in the conference room, but he held back.
After being sent to his cell for a few hours, he even wanted to open it a little. "Father is right, the rebel top brass is indeed no different from the rotten imperial bureaucracy. So what's the point of this revolution even if it's a success? It's just another group of equally despicable bureaucrats in power! All men died in vain. ”
Luke suddenly understood why his father was reluctant to let him return to the rebel camp in the first place to persuade him to surrender, and the rebel higher-ups perfectly exemplified "You can't wake up a bunch of people who are pretending to be asleep!" The meaning of this sentence is that they are not worthy of saving themselves.
Just as he was trying to figure this out, there was a sudden sound of an inconspicuous heavy object falling to the ground. The figure of a guard then appeared outside his cell door, and quickly transformed into a figure he was already familiar with.
"Alex, why are you here?" Luke recognized Alex as he had returned to his original form. Strictly speaking, Alex saved his life.
"I'll follow you all the way here, or do you think your father and my captain will allow you to take such a risk?" Alex said as he expertly opened the cell door. When Luke came out, he saw two guards who had passed out on the ground and a familiar device on Alex's waist. It's a city scroll, and isn't this thing for high-ranking members? Luke thought in amazement.
"I've just been promoted, and although I don't have the authority to lead the rest of the team, the captain gave me a scroll to return to the city. You know my expertise is particularly good for this ......," Alex saw his confusion and explained unhurriedly.
Luke thinks about it, Alex can fit into any intelligent race very naturally, and this ability is best suited for scouting and opening back doors to expeditions where needed. But why did he save himself, could it be that his life was in danger so soon? This is unlikely, even if the rebel top brass is brainless, it is impossible for them to abandon themselves so quickly.
"Your father has received the latest news and already knows that your negotiations have failed, and he wants to take you and Leah back to him. Alex said as he handed Luke a facial disguiser and asked him to put it on and change its appearance. Then they left the place and went all the way to the place where Princess Leah was under house arrest. Ready to go together after rescuing her.
"No, I'm not leaving. Princess Leah decided that she would not leave after seeing them.
"Don't do that, we have to leave, you saw the reaction from the higher-ups, they didn't listen to us at all. At this point, Luke showed a little bit of his brother's majesty, and wanted to take Leah with him.
However, his coercive power was limited to words, and he did not really rely on his military superiority to take away the other party's actions. Leah was not moved by what he said, but quickly blamed him for not doing it.
"But who is to blame for this? Didn't you say before that I would lead the persuasion process? What are you doing in the room? also admitted his relationship with Vinda for the first time. Do you think this is a play house? Leah was quite emotional, and she didn't dare to talk back at all.
"That's right. We're getting a little wronged now, but that's not an excuse for us to abandon other people. Once we're gone, guess if Father will immediately send troops to attack here? Here, for the first time, Leah called Vader her father, and she would be very happy if the lord was present at this time.
"You think it's easy to get people to rebel against the injustices of the Empire? No, it's hard, hard. Except for those who, like you, have a personal vendetta against the Empire, almost no one wants to fight against the tyranny of the Empire, and even fewer of these people have the money to fund it. The high-level people you see are rich guys, and the purpose of their participation is really not pure, but without them. Our revolution, no, it should be said that my revolution will not be carried out at all. And I'm not going to let my hard work be ruined like that......"
Luke didn't try to persuade his sister for a long time, and at this moment, a battle alarm came from the spaceship, and Luke turned around to see that Alex, who was standing behind him, was gone. Luke quickly used the Force to probe the nearby range, only to immediately yell in his mind that it was bad because he sensed Vader's Force fluctuations. And it's very close to yourself.
As he thought so, the door to his cabin was crushed into a ball of scrap metal by a powerful force, and Vader walked briskly through the hole she had just made. "What are you waiting for, come with me!" He ordered directly to his two children, and there was no room for negotiation at all.
The brother and sister looked at each other, and they could only obey their fate. As soon as they walked out of the room, they noticed that Vader was actually accompanied by a whole team of expedition members, and Vader did not explain, and led them to the middle of the hull, where the command structure and conference room were located. And the battle alarm suddenly disappeared at this point, as if nothing had ever happened to outsiders boarding the ship.
The group walked through the empty corridor unhindered, and along the way they saw a number of unconscious rebel soldiers on the ground, and there were both members of the expedition and some members of the Imperial Storm Commando standing next to them. Looking at it this way, it becomes clear what just happened.
It must have been Alex who saw that they were unwilling to go, so he opened the space-time gate for the people in the rear to deal with, and as a result, Shen Chao hit it off after contacting Vader, and decided to take this opportunity to raid the headquarters of the rebel alliance and force them to accept peace.
The group rushed to the meeting hall and found that the people who had been discussing the invasion of the empire were kneeling in a row on the ground, with a weapon pointed straight at the back of their heads. The others also stood in a row facing the wall, pointed at gunpoint by a group of soldiers.
"They're all at your disposal!" Sister Xue suddenly walked out of the group of expedition members and confirmed to Vader, and then she left the venue with her own people, leaving Vader and his Imperial soldiers present.
"I heard that you want to negotiate terms with me, very good, now that I'm here, if anyone wants to speak, please stand up." I set aside a full day to meet with you. Vader said as he sat in the center of the original podium in the conference room, and many of the people he asked were shivering.
It's one thing to talk about how to do it, but it's another thing to actually do it. The people who shouted the most fiercely before are now the most embarrassed, because their courage is only based on the domination of the rebel army's grassroots, and it is not them who will die in the battle anyway, so they can naturally talk about the future without taking responsibility. But after meeting Vader face-to-face, they were the first to make mistakes.
"Don't be so silent, I've heard you've had a lively discussion. Tell me about it, I'm interested in learning about your peaceful intentions......" Vader asked with interest, he really wasn't here to kill.
Although it was an option, in order to keep his children from having a worse impression of himself, he decided to give these guys a last chance to fight for peace, and of course, he believed that no one would refuse his peace terms now.
People will always become very sober under the threat of gunpoint, and their memory will become especially good, always. This is Vader's experience, as long as he does not push too much, the rebel threat to the empire will end today, and he can concentrate on dealing with other separatist forces.
"How long are we going to help Vinda?" Two and a half hours later, Sister Xue asked at a formal meeting on the space station zero. Still wearing her own armor, she had just witnessed the rebel coalition's top brass sign a peace deal with Vader at gunpoint.
With the help of the expedition, Vader was able to deal with the rebel alliance that had threatened the empire for several years with almost no difficulty, and there was no doubt that Vader, who had tasted the sweetness, would continue to ask for the expedition's help, and he still had several forces to exterminate.
"A month or two, with the help of a famous general like Zoro, it won't be a problem to suppress the opponents. At the same time, we can provide him with limited support to facilitate his decapitation operations, after which we can fully shift the focus of the operation back to internal construction, and our fleet is finally about to take shape. Shen Chao, who was on the chairman's seat, said in a very expectant tone.
According to the latest reports he received, the interior transformation of the first batch of Emperor-class Star Destroyers has been completed, and a large number of new recruits and veterans have boarded the ship and are undergoing sea trial training. But the automation of the Executor is expected to take another month, and it is expected that it will take another two months to form the combat strength of the entire fleet.
The expedition had been looking forward to forming a unified fleet with high mobility and high combat effectiveness, and now that this goal was infinitely close to completion, large-scale plane support and conquest operations were all feasible. (To be continued......)
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