1389. The planet fell. The capital of the planet Onderon, Izzy City, the Temple of Unity. This huge twin building is also the administrative core of the entire planet. However, right in front of the temple, the hexagonal flags of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and the flag of the planet Onderon that were hung on the left and right sides were being removed. ,ignite.
The huge flag, which was more than 200 meters long, was burning. It fell from the Unification Temple hundreds of meters high. The flames became stronger and stronger, like two huge fireballs.
The administrative core of the planet Onderon has been captured by the Galactic Republic. General Akhenaten-Tandin, the supreme military commander of the planet Onderon, underestimated the determination of the Galactic Republic and misjudged the domestic situation.
While his main force was trying its best to block the advance of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano's ground forces, he was stabbed in the back by Saw Gerrera.
Saw Gerrera ignored civilian casualties at all, and he had been preparing for the Galactic Republic's ground invasion a few months ago, installing proton bombs in buildings around the main roads, and it played a huge role at this moment.
At the cost of nearly 100,000 civilian casualties, he blocked General Tandin's main force outside the city.
Then, Wilhuff Tarkin directly ordered the Republic's landing force to advance regardless of casualties and forcefully break through the dense air defense firepower in Izzy City.
He also suffered losses of nearly 100,000 people, but in the end, he still captured the Temple of Unity. At this moment, it was only 27 standard hours before the Galactic Republic officially started landing.
Based on Onderon's rotation every 26 standard hours, that's almost exactly one day.
At the moment when the cog flag of the Galactic Republic was unfurled from the wall of the Temple of Unity, the planetary regime of Onderon that had been inherited from the previous king Ramses Dundup completely collapsed.
The supreme commander of Onderon's armed forces, Akhenate Tandin, was dragged out of the underground bunker by Republic soldiers, handcuffed, and arrested as a first-degree war criminal.
At the same time, the Galactic Republic officially announced its takeover of the planet Onderon, requiring all separatist armed forces on the planet to immediately lay down their weapons and surrender!
Then it was announced that the separatist robot commander General Kalani was wanted. After more than an hour of resistance by the Royal Guards of the planet Onderon, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano led their troops to break through the frontline positions. After that, they laid down their weapons and surrendered.
The ones that resisted to the end were the many B-1 combat robots. They were lifeless and unconscious and fought until the last one.
Capture the planet Onderon in one day! You must know that this is not one of those backward planets in the middle and outer rings where a fleet of ships can just go and bombard them and then give up resistance.
It is an inner-ring planet with very developed industry and technology. It is also one of the important planets used by the Separatists to produce Behemoth-class battlecruisers!
The good news was immediately spread to Coruscant. Speaker Sheev Palpatine, who was in the parliament meeting, laughed loudly. He immediately interrupted the current topic, connected the communication of Governor Wilhuff Tarkin on the spot, and then The holographic projection zoomed in, allowing Governor Tarkin to receive the cheers of the entire council!
That's right, the Governor of the Fourth Army of the Republic - Wilhuff Tarkin! Official Governor! From this moment on!
"Hahahaha! My friend! My dear Governor of the Fourth Army, Wilhuff Tarkin! Your talent blossoms at this moment, and your theory has been proven correct! I believe that from this day on, Whenever the Separatists take up arms to resist, they will think of the planet Onderon! They will think of this industrial world that was captured in one day!" Sheev Palpatine opened his arms and said loudly.
Wilhuff Tarkin just gave a very serious military salute, raised his head and said in a deep voice: "It is my duty to maintain the unity and peace of the Republic! The enemies of the Republic will surely tremble under our iron hoofs! "He was greeted with jubilant applause and cheers from the congressmen.
Those loyalist congressmen barked extremely hard, as if they were a group of loyal dogs.
"Now, the war is far from over. I will also work to eliminate the remaining separatist forces on the planet Onderon until they are all wiped out." Governor Tarkin gave another military salute and then closed the communication.
"Look! This is a soldier! This is a role model!" Sheev Palpatine directly gave Tarkin a definition,
"Immediately arrange a special envoy and a special plane to deliver the letter of appointment of the Governor of the Fourth Army to Governor Tarkin!"... After the communication was closed, there was no joy at all on Wilhuff Tarkin's face.
He knew that the battle was far from over. He would never think that the mere 200,000 soldiers plus a battle robot on the planet Onderon were the full strength of the separatists.
Since the war began until now, the separatists have never come out with more power.
With a fleet and an army of 7 million, it was able to crush an enemy of less than 400,000. This result was not unexpected.
But the problem now is... Governor Tarkin has set his sights on the Dexon satellite. And here's the really tricky thing... Tarkin knew it.
But this did not stop him from immediately sending a victory report to Coruscant, and Palpatine tacitly packaged this temporary victory into a glorious victory.
The military is military, and politics is politics. The greatest advantage of Wilhuff Tarkin is precisely that he can clearly distinguish between the two.
Now that the political activities have been completed, the rest is military matters. Dirksen Satellite!
Tarkin's eyes were fixed on this very large satellite, which was actually no less than a planet. After a day and night of orbital bombing, the surface of the satellite was no longer the green color it once was. Instead, it was filled with devastation.
Countless lava and huge volcanoes can be seen clearly even from space. But such tragedy is only superficial.
Whether it is his Archon-class ship or the Chasseur-class next to it for fire support, the main guns used are turbolaser cannons.
Although this kind of weapon is powerful, it is explosive firepower after all, and its power cannot penetrate deeper into the earth's surface.
Therefore, although the Dexon satellite showed that the volcano was blown up and lava flowed across it, such an attack could not damage the foundation of the huge steel city of separatism.
Fighting is still unavoidable. At this time, Governor Tarkin suddenly remembered the Plague, a super battleship that the Separatists had once appeared for no reason.
He was inexplicably thinking that if it were the Plague's super cannon with a caliber of several hundred meters, such a round of bombing would probably have caused the movement of the planet's plates, completely destroying everything on the ground, right?
Thinking of this, his eyes gradually became colder. That's right! The Battleship! This is what the Galactic Republic lacks the most!
Only this kind of super battleship that can directly destroy a planet can truly bring endless fear and endless deterrence to the galaxy!
A super battleship that surpasses the Plague, surpasses the Xuanwu, and surpasses the Venomous Fang! Only in this way is it true Tarkinism!
Fortunately, the Galactic Republic had a plan.
