The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars - Chapter 2440

2417, Northern Strategy

“Planet Palin-Minor?” Colonel Leir Benting frowned and said, “General, I don’t think the Separatists have the ability to attack the planet Palin-Minor. In addition to the powerful orbital defense system and planetary shield on that planet, there is also an artificial atmosphere… Such defense alone is enough to withstand the offensive of any of their fleets.”

The artificial atmosphere was built by the Galactic Republic based on the unique atmospheric composition of the planet Palin-Minor, and is part of the planetary defense system. The processed artificial atmosphere can isolate all detection methods in a defensive state, neutralize most energy weapon attacks, and even control the atmospheric composition of local areas, instantly suffocating people in a city to death!

Planet Palin-Minor was a fortress planet during the Galactic Republic period. Compared with the planet Bilbrin, which is used to strangle the unknown star field channel, and the planet Ode-Mantel, which is a forward military base, the positioning of the planet Palin-Minor is directly the core fulcrum of the entire northern theater!

Such a strategic position determines that the defense level of the planet Palin-Minor is extremely high! During the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic installed a weather controller here to generate an artificial atmosphere. When necessary, the weather controller can artificially transform the atmosphere through picometer-level mechanical particles scattered in the atmosphere.

After Dunn-Wessex became the governor of the Ninth Army, as the headquarters of the King of the North, he naturally never hesitated to use the most expensive and advanced facilities to protect himself.

Countless orbital defense cannons, the most powerful planetary shields, and a fortified satellite with a diameter of 700 kilometers constitute the invincible defense system of the planet Palin-Minor.

If the invincible defense of the planet Fangduo relies on the planet’s own terrible industrial production capacity, then the planet Palin-Minor is a super fortress built by spending countless money.

It may be difficult for others to do this, but for the King of the North, Dunn-Wessex, it is no problem at all.

He now controls four legions in the North and has a powerful force second only to the Empire Central Defense Fleet and Darth Vader’s Death Squadron. At the same time, it also profoundly influenced the Kuat Power Dockyard, allowing the largest military-industrial complex in the galaxy to build this super fortress for him.

During the Clone Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Systems launched a surprise attack on the planet Palin-Minor when the Galactic Republic’s defense system had not yet taken shape, but suffered a disastrous defeat. When the fleet of the Interstellar Banking Association was preparing for orbital bombing and landing on the surface of the planet, it was completely isolated from all sensor detection by the artificial atmosphere, and then countless orbital defense firepower poured out, and the Republic warships ambushed in the atmosphere also swooped over.

So in that short battle, the Galactic Republic relied on the defense system of the planet Palin-Minor and those backward dreadnought-class heavy cruisers to destroy an entire powerful fleet of the Confederacy of Independent Systems composed of Generous-class communication frigates! It also made the power of the Confederacy of Independent Systems in the North never recover from it.

So Thrawn’s adjutant Leir Benting believed that no matter what Severance Tann planned, she would not be able to capture the planet Palin-Minor.

You have to know that the Kingdom of Dawn had just suffered a disastrous defeat in the North, and Tann’s fleet was stretched to the limit. If they attacked this super fortress by force, they would probably crash into it and die.

Even in the heyday of the Northern Commercial Fleet, Admiral Mal-Tuk only chose to bypass the planet Palin-Minor and attack the outer ring star area of ​​the North.

However, Thrawn shook his head and said, “No, we must return to defend the planet Palin-Minor. The problem we face is not whether Severance-Tann can capture this place… The problem we face is Dunn-Wessex.”

“This…” Leir-Benting choked immediately, and then he just sighed, nodded, and shook his head again.

“Send an order, leave a squadron to defend the planet of Bilbrin, and our main fleet will immediately attack the planet of Dolin.” After Thrawn finished his order, he frowned and said, “I hope Governor Dunn can understand this step.”

Before the fleet set off, Thrawn specifically found his adjutant Voss-Parker and said, “Bilbrin is handed over to you. You must eliminate the resistance forces on the planet as soon as possible and completely control the planet.”

“Please rest assured, General!” Voss-Parker saluted solemnly.

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10BBY, ​​March 8, Thrawn led the main fleet of the Northern Frontier of the Galactic Empire to attack the planet of Dolin. The garrison of the Kingdom of Dawn here was a participant of the previous Commercial Combined Fleet, and they had no intention of fighting. Under the command of Severance Tann, they immediately retreated and returned to the planet of Gler-Anselm.

Thrawn temporarily stationed his fleet on the planet Dolin. This planet had been bombed into ruins in the previous battle and had no other use except as a transit station. However, Thrawn was very at ease to stay here and confront the fleet of Severance Tann stationed on the planet Od-Mantell.

He did not intend to engage in a fleet decisive battle with Tann. As always, he kept all the warships ready for hyperspace jumps at all times. As long as Severance Tann came to attack, he would immediately retreat to the planet of Bilbrin and rely on the complex hyperspace channel environment there to defend.

Thrawn was prepared to delay Severance Tann as much as possible in this way, and prevent her main fleet from attacking Palin Minor. This was also Thrawn’s statement to Dunn Wessex.

He intended to buy himself more time, because the damaged warships in the previous battle would take at least half a year to be fully repaired and prepared, and he also needed more time for the Kuat Power Dockyard to produce more warships for him.

However, Severance Tann’s actions went far beyond that.

On March 9, a squadron of the Northern Fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn attacked Agama!

Agama is an inconspicuous agricultural planet. After being attacked by the fleet, it immediately sent a distress message to the rear of the empire, and then issued a surrender letter to the Northern Fleet ten minutes later.

Afterwards, this squadron crossed Agama and cruised in a nebula area north of Palin Minor, and by the way, it also picked up a transport fleet that was not receiving information in time and was still carrying out transportation tasks.

The next day, Imperial Admiral Thrawn received an angry communication from Dunn-Wessex.

“Our headquarters, the planet Palin-Minor, was attacked!” Dunn-Wessex was unceremoniously and shouted at Thrawn, “Thank you for your selfish and arrogant so-called strategy! You have left our most powerful warships useless in the ruins of the planet Dorin! Now Severance-Tann’s fleet is ready to take advantage of the opportunity and attack our core!!”

“Please don’t panic, Your Excellency the Governor. Severance-Tann is not capable of threatening the planet Palin-Minor.” Thrawn said lightly.

“Panic? No! I’m not panicking! I’m questioning your stupid strategy!!” Dunn-Wessex was angry. He was very reluctant and unhappy that Thrawn wanted to take his beloved Executor-class Star Destroyer away. Now he seized the opportunity and scolded Thrawn directly.

“I’m on Dolin now to contain Tann’s fleet. With me here, Tann can’t threaten Palin-Minor,” Thrawn explained.

“Then I ask you, are you closer to me, or is Severance Tann closer to me?!” Dunn-Wessex pointed at Thrawn’s nose and said angrily.

“Physically, Tann’s fleet is closer to you,” Thrawn replied, “but as long as Tann’s fleet takes action, I can immediately attack her from both sides.”

The current situation of both sides is indeed like this. Tann, stationed on Od-Mantell, is actually between Palin-Minor and Dolin, where Thrawn’s fleet is located. This is also the wonderful part of Tann’s formation this time. It seems that she is being attacked from both sides by the Galactic Empire, but in fact, it prevents the two forces of the Empire from reinforcing each other. More importantly, it makes Dunn suspicious of Thrawn.

Dunn-Wessex was originally very angry about the Imperial Emperor Palpatine’s direct appointment of Thrawn as the Supreme Military Commander of the North, and he also took his anger out on Thrawn, thinking that Thrawn was selling out his master for glory. For such a situation, Dunn-Wessex did not hesitate to point the finger at Thrawn.

Because Dunn-Wessex naturally knew that Severance-Tann brought the unknown Titan battleship this time, he was of course afraid of being directly bombed into slag by this Titan battleship. But his most powerful battleship, the Lila Executor-class Star Destroyer, was taken away by Thrawn, which made him feel no sense of security at all.

At the same time, it also strengthened his view that Thrawn was harming him.

Bang! Dunn slapped his hand on the table and said angrily: “So, you mean to use me as a meat shield?!”

“I assure you that the planet Palin-Minor is absolutely safe.” Thrawn answered very seriously.

“And what you use to guarantee is the final line of defense that I worked so hard to build! Do you know what the final line of defense means?!” Dunn yelled.

“It means literally – an indestructible line of defense.” Thrawn’s tone gradually became cold. He saluted and said, “The above is the report of this battle. Over.”

After that, without waiting for Dunn-Wessex to speak, he directly cut off the communication.

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Bang! ! A precious sculpture by a famous artist was smashed to pieces on the ground. Dunn-Wessex shouted loudly in his office facing the dark holographic projection: “Thrawn! You traitor!!”

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“I can imagine that Dunn is absolutely mad now.” Arden-Lin stood behind Thrawn and said sarcastically.

“That’s all I can do for him,” Thrawn replied. “Tan won’t attack Palin-Minor, or at least she won’t do it until she destroys our mobile fleet.”

“So, what should we do if Tan really attacks Palin-Minor?” asked Arden-Lin.

“Let her fight. In this way, I can cut off her supply line, observe the combat data of the Titan battleship, and then attack from both sides.” Thrawn said.

Arden-Lin laughed dumbly, “It seems that you really regard Dunn as a meat shield?”

“This is a helpless move.” Thrawn shook his head, raised two fingers and said: “For that Titan battleship, the only information we know is two. First, the battleship is called the God-class Titan battleship; second, the size of the battleship is 13,774 meters. Can these two pieces of information ensure that we can defeat it? Absolutely not.”

“Oh~~ So, you plan to let the planet Palin-Minor show the capabilities and combat data of the God-class Titan battleship?” Arden-Lin said.

“Now our forces in the North have nothing that can ensure that they can take the attack of the God-class Titan battleship, and the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer can’t do it. So, there is only the super fortress-Palin-Minor planet.” Thrawn said.

“If Dunn knew your plan, he would not let you go.”

“I know.”

“Also, how do you plan to make Severance-Tan really rush over to attack the planet Palin-Minor?”

“I’ll let her do it.”

“Ha… I hope you succeed.” Arden-Lin waved his hand.

At this time, another communication suddenly came. Thrawn looked at the communication frequency and turned on the communicator. A 50-year-old Imperial Navy general wearing a gray military uniform appeared in the holographic projection.

What was a little strange was that although the badge of this person showed that he was an admiral of the Imperial Navy, he was wearing a gray military uniform that ordinary navy officers would wear, instead of the white general uniform that admirals should wear.

“General Demetrius Zaarin, it’s nice to meet you.” Thrawn saluted politely.

“General Thrawn, I’m also happy to see that you are in good condition now. You are our last hope in the North, hahaha.” Admiral Demetrius Zaarin did not treat Thrawn, a Chiss, with a flattering tone like other senior Imperial officers. On the contrary, he was very talkative and did not mind the racial issue at all.

“The victory in the battle of Arkania only made us barely able to compete with the Kingdom of Dawn in the North. It’s too early to talk about the final victory.” Thrawn said.

“Haha, I know, I know.” Zarin said humbly, “Some time ago, His Majesty the Emperor appointed me as the chief technical officer of the Imperial Navy. Next, I will develop the Empire’s next generation of capital ships and fighter jets with the cutting-edge technology alliance formed by Orman Tag. I have thought about it for a long time, and in the entire Imperial Army, only you can provide me with the best combat data. So, I hope to get your help. Is it okay? Admiral Thrawn.”