Chapter 652: Helpers
This familiar feeling came from his most proud disciple, Galen, who was known as the "Planetary Killer" or "Star Slayer". Marek. Marek was the most gifted Force user he had ever seen, apart from himself and his son.
Vader discovered and adopted him when he was a child, and since then, he has carefully trained his secret apprentice to use Marek as his secret weapon against the Emperor in the future. But due to a series of mishaps, the emperor's agents discovered his secret apprentice in advance.
Under pressure from the Emperor, Vader chose to turn against his secret apprentice, and after that, Marek survived, but no longer obeyed him. After knowing that he had lost control of his apprentice, Vader simply gave up his secret weapon.
He used the other party to set up a big picture, and used Marek's rebellious ideas against himself and the empire, which indirectly contributed to the formation of the rebel alliance, and hoped to find and eliminate all dissidents in the political situation of the Galactic Empire.
The plan was generally successful, and Marek did draw all the dissidents out into a loose coalition as he thought. At the first meeting of the leaders of the rebels, all the heads of the rebel alliance, which had just been formed at that time, were captured in one fell swoop.
If it weren't for Marek coming to the rescue, the rebels would have been a thing of the past by now. Eventually, the two of them engaged in a duel on the Death Penalty No. 1, which had not yet been built. Enraged, Marek took advantage of Vader's own mechanical physical flaws to defeat him for the first time.
However, in the end, Marek rescued the main leader of the rebels, but died under the Emperor's chain of lightning, and Vader then secretly used cloning technology to reconstruct the bodies of some of his apprentices, and combined with the latest achievements of the Dark Soldier Project, he was able to make some of the clones Force-sensitive.
One of the clones even recovered most of the memories belonging to the dead Marek under the influence of the Force Spirits. Therefore. The clone could basically be thought of as a complete copy of Marek.
Due to the fact that the other party had recovered a lot of memories, the clone remembered that he had been betrayed by Vader, so he quickly fled the facility in order to protect himself. History repeats itself again, and Vader has to once again abandon his attempt to use his apprentices against the emperor, and instead concentrate on eliminating his own uncontrolled apprentices.
The last time he saw Marek was in the Camino system about a year ago. Inside the galaxy, his fleet was engaged in a scuffle with the main rebel forces. That's a trap he laid down. Successfully lured Marek there.
In a one-on-one duel with the other side, Vader feigned defeat and was captured by the other side, and was then taken to the rebel headquarters at the time. After that, the story is simple, Vader is feigned defeat and has been following his agents behind him, so he quickly escaped with stratagems, and his own fleet also chased the coordinates and fought over.
He then led his army to eliminate the rebel headquarters in one fell swoop. Although Marek led some of the rebels to resist to the death, he was eventually outnumbered and "killed" in the area. Of course, that's official.
The reality is a bit more colorful. Although Vader once again defeated his protégé, the two of them did not fight again on that battlefield. Marek shamefully fled the battlefield for personal reasons, but Vader failed to stop the other party's escape. Because he knew that he didn't have to stop the other party anymore.
Here's the thing, realizing that he had fallen for his master's scheme, Marek wanted to escape the scene with his girlfriend Juno. But an accident happened during the battle, and his girlfriend was seriously injured and fell into a coma and urgently needed medical treatment. Marek himself had no intention of fighting and fled the battlefield with his wounded girlfriend.
And since then. He and Juno were never seen in the public eye again. Both the rebels and the Empire believed that he had died in battle, but Vader knew that his apprentice had just gone into seclusion.
And now. He was quite sure that he would find this master of his own. But before that, he first needs to straighten out his subordinates and make sure that he can unite internally before attacking the emperor, and find out all the emperor's undercover agents, or at least make it impossible for them to warn the emperor.
This work cannot be done by himself, compared to a few henchmen he can trust. Expeditions are better at this type of work that involves personnel surveillance and intelligence detection, and because the interests of both parties are closely related, there is no need to worry about betrayal.
By the time he returned to his ship, he had an additional group of expedition members around him, and more would soon be joining the operation through the space-time gate. For Vinda. The first task is to convene a meeting of subordinates to conduct a trial.
However, before he could get the other commanders in the fleet, he first needed to place the members of the expedition in key positions on his ship. First of all, make sure that there are no security holes on your ship.
To this end, he first summoned a few lieutenants whom he believed to be loyal and reliable, and asked them to arrange their guests in key positions on the ship, such as the communication array, the environmental control room, the engine room, and other places. Several of his lieutenants were surprised by where the expedition had come from, but they did not ask any questions, and quickly made these arrangements according to Vader's orders.
Although the Imperial troops on the ship were very curious about where these strange-dressed people came from, everyone was well aware of Vader's bad temper and knew that strange things often happened around the lord. In this case, asking more questions makes yourself uncomfortable.
As a result, the members of the expedition of the first group to board the ship were dispersed to various key positions on the Executor. Shun Lì replaced the Imperial soldiers who had been guarding here, and quickly began to make preparations according to his own division of labor.
The preparation of the two squads assigned to the environmental control room was the most crucial, and they carried two things that looked like weapons boxes. In the environmental control room, they opened the box and released a large number of mosquito-sized detectors inside, which quickly spread through guò ventilation ducts to all the densely populated areas of the ship.
This process was also cooperated by another team of personnel who entered the digital control room, and this team led by the Master Chief occupied the area. Cortana, who had just been connected to the battleship's main engine, was using the blueprint in the main engine to guide the probe to her own destination.
After almost 20 minutes had passed, all the probes were in place, and the numbers were aggregated to Cortana for real-time analysis. They have officially completed the monitoring and control of all the main systems on the Executor, and the next step is to "discuss big things" with the senior officers in the fleet.
Vader's task force is focused on maneuvering against rebel forces, so she doesn't have the same number of ships as the main fleet of the empire stationed in the major star sectors, but there are 67 ships of various types in the entire fleet, in addition to the two Executor-class super star destroyers.
Most of these warships were in good condition and in excellent combat condition, and although the fleet was not at full strength at this time due to a series of combat operations, the number of combat personnel was reduced due to the previous battles with the madmen, and the fuel reserves were not in the best condition, the basic combat effectiveness of the entire fleet was not affected in the slightest.
"You come with me, I'll be on the spot when I need your help!" Vader asked Sister Xue to follow him, because he could take advantage of Sister Xue's presence to better test the reaction of his subordinates.
About half an hour later, all the military commanders on the ships in the task force were summoned to Vader's flagship, and the first step in overthrowing the Emperor began. Vader took a seat in the conference room, while Sister Xue stood a few steps behind him and played the role of a human flesh set.
All the officers in the room were guessing who the strange woman was, and a few knew that this was the enemy that Lord Vader had been searching for, but they didn't know what had happened to make them seem to have resolved their differences.
But all of them knew that there were some strange people around Lord Vader, and as subordinates, their excessive inquiries would cause unnecessary trouble to themselves, so although many people were exchanging words, no one directly raised their questions.
When the meeting officially began, the back-to-head discussion stopped, but Vida gave a brief account of the stranger's identity, of course, he didn't tell the truth. In his opinion, now is not the time to leak the expedition.
And if it is a qiē shun lì, even after the completion of the plan, the expedition team does not need to leak. In that case, he would not need to reveal his secret agreement with the expedition, and maximize the credit for overthrowing the emperor within his own power. And then occupy the greatest initiative in the future cooperation.
Sister Xue could see Vida's intentions, but she didn't have any intention of stopping it, but instead showed a hint of approval. The purpose of the expedition is very clear, they want real weapons and equipment for this operation, that is, the production technology of Star Destroyers and advanced particle beam weapons, rather than some unnecessary prestige and social responsibility.
Announcing the existence of the expedition and even the Space-Time Council will help them get the resources they need faster, but it will also put a great moral burden on them in advance. Anyway, at least for now, the expedition team is absolutely incapable of supporting any major disaster prevention and war preparation in the Star Wars plane.
Vader apparently understands the limitations and needs of her allies, and deliberately tries to maximize the benefits of both sides in this way, achieving a win-win situation. This practice itself is a great improvement over his previous one.
In the past, Vader basically only cared about his own interests, but now, after rebuilding his family, he has become much more secure in doing things. I am finally willing to put myself in the shoes of others. (To be continued......)
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