1580. Fiida Extermination War (Part 1)
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We got a win and nothing else. ——Girard Pellaeon, Marshal of the Galactic Empire, "Memoirs of Conquest", Imperial Calendar Year 22.
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War... war never changes.
In fact, if someone looks back at the history of human wars, they will find that the development of wars is actually wave-shaped.
When primitive humans learned to tie stones to branches, the first thing they did was to smash the stone hammer into the heads of their fellow humans. The war at that time was very simple. It was about who was stronger and who could swing a bigger stone hammer.
In the following years, humans learned to use bows and arrows, hung wood chips and leather on their bodies for added protection, and learned to tame horses, camels, and elephants to allow them to participate in wars.
At that time, wars began to gradually become more complex, and humans began to study how to fight with higher efficiency. With horses and elephants, how can we maximize the power of these animals? With bows and arrows and armor, how can we make these equipment better achieve their goals?
However, with the gradual development of the times, the emergence of muskets made bows and arrows withdraw from the stage, leaving armor no longer useful; the emergence of trenches made cavalry a decoration; and the invention of machine guns and cannons made all strategies become the most important. Simple addition and subtraction.
So at this stage, the war began to subtract. One after another, the weapons that once dominated the war have withdrawn from the battlefield, and machine guns, cannons and trenches have become the absolute protagonists of the war.
But human wisdom is infinite, so countless talented war scientists once again threw more weapons into the battlefield. The emergence of tanks has restrained machine guns, the emergence of aircraft has prevented cannons from roaring unbridled, and the emergence of rockets and missiles has expanded the space of war to an unprecedented breadth.
The war has taken the road of addition again. More and more weapons appear on the battlefield, and often when a war breaks out, there are hundreds or even thousands of different weapons and equipment, each performing their own duties.
But the core of the war remains unchanged - killing.
In the interstellar age, space battleships appear on the battlefield. They can launch attacks covering the entire planet directly from outside the planet. In front of the battleships, cannons, missiles, and machine guns have all become decorations.
So the war at this time began to become simple again-the battleship's exchange of fire decided everything. Whoever can drive away the opponent's warships and gain control of the outer orbit of the planet will have the power to control the entire planet.
At this time, the fighting on the ground was more due to political factors than war factors.
After all, there are only so many habitable planets in the entire galaxy. If we blow up one of them, we will miss one. If we really start bombing, in a few years, everyone will have to live in spaceships.
Some people may think that such a starship civilization is very romantic and effective, but in fact, with a little analogy, you can know that if someone lives on a ship for many years, even if it is a luxury cruise ship, then within a year, this person will Just have to be depressed.
The limited space of the cabin on the spaceship is incomparable to the boundless earth down to earth.
So at this time, the mode of war is often that the fleets of both sides engage in battle, and then seize the opportunity to directly deliver the army to the other party's political center, and then achieve political results through military means. The most typical one is to subvert the existing regime and establish a new puppet regime.
The clone army of the Galactic Republic was established based on this war concept. The same is true even for their warship design - for example, the huge hangar capacity of the Jaeger-class is actually more for ground support rather than for fleet bombardment.
Therefore, at this time, even though the Galactic Republic and the Confederation of Independent Systems have been at war for more than two years, and both sides have beaten their brains out, they still have not mobilized as a whole - because in front of the space battleship, your millions of troops and tens of millions of troops, In fact, there is not much difference.
The reason why the Principality of Dawn repeatedly defied the Galactic Republic with its small gains in wars is because they were at the forefront of the times and made the war more complicated.
A composite fleet with multiple functions that cooperate with each other, and a composite army with multiple arms. This makes it difficult for the Galactic Republic's navy and army to resist with a single arm and at most some long-distance support arms.
Therefore, the Galactic Republic is also learning now and exploring how to make its war model more complex and diversified.
All of this is actually traceable, and this is the trend of history.
However, now in the northern territory of the Milky Way, the war here has taken on a different look - a more cruel and direct form that makes the Galactic Republic even more at a loss as to what to do!
War of extermination! !
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Planet Phaeda.
This is a remote planet located in the northern boundary of the Milky Way's planar star map. It is in the outer ring. There is no large hyperspace channel passing through it. The surrounding environment is complex. It has two geotechnical satellites very close to each other, causing the planet's tides to change. The climate is unpredictable.
For a long time, this place has been a paradise for various gangs, bandits, smugglers, and criminals. Here you can see almost every adventurous race in the galaxy - Rodians, Bothans, Grans, Humans , Ishtibu people, etc., almost everywhere is filled with the smell of sin.
There is such a saying: In front of Feida, Nashada (the Smuggler's Moon) looks so elegant. ("ThisasPhaeda, baddayitdeNarShaddaalookssy.")
To understand it in 21st century terms, Nasada is Sicily, the hometown of the Mafia, and Fieda is the dirty slum of Assana.
"Fuck you! You drunkard, you better get out of my bar! Otherwise I want you to look good!" Deka, a sturdy Rodian, pointed his beloved modified blaster at a drunkard. His head roared loudly.
"There's a corpse puppet here! Hehehehehe... Corpse puppet! Haha, we're all dead! The Geth are eyeing this place, hahahaha..." The drunkard stood up unsteadily and took out the half-hearted man who just dropped to the ground. He picked up the bottle of bad wine, pulled out the cork, and drank several sips.
"Get out of here!! If you continue to talk nonsense here and affect my business, I will blow your mind right now!" Deka was furious and pulled the bolt of the gun hard. He added it to the charging device of the blaster rifle. The overload device began to operate, and the gun barrel began to light up with dazzling energy.
This shot can even blow up a hover car.
"Don't... don't shoot, don't shoot..." The drunk man quickly backed away and staggered out.
Deka spat fiercely at his back, "Bad luck!"
"Hey, Deka, is what that guy said true? Did a zombie really appear and eat his wife?" asked a human drinker next to him.
"This guy drank all day long and made his wife angry. Then he came here and spread rumors! What a bastard! His wife is probably lying on the bed of a wealthy Muun businessman now, huh!" Deka snorted. ,
"I said, what if a corpse puppet really appears? Doesn't that mean that the Geth is really coming?" A Gran man was a little frightened. "I heard last month that the Geth pulled Kakaro The planet has been captured... There is not a single survivor on the planet!"
"That's bullshit!" Deka said, "If there really aren't any survivors, how did you get this news? It's not news released by the Galactic Republic so that we can obey and pay taxes to them, and then They want to garrison us here! Hey, Doku! Do you want a garrison here?"
he asked loudly across the bar.
"Fuck the Galactic Republic! Fuck Palpatine!" A burly human black man over there, at least two meters tall, raised his middle finger.
"Hahahahaha!!" The friends who were with the black man shouted loudly, then picked up the large wine glass in their hands and drank it all in one gulp.
"Listen to me, three eyes
boy. "Deka turned back and leaned on the bar, and said to the Granite (the Granite has three eyes), "What does Feida have? There are death row prisoners, spices, slaves, and fine wine... But the only thing is not There will be geth! What can those killing machines like here? The female slaves kept in the basement by the Muun?"
"The Geth are only interested in factories!" Another mercenary also said, "There is no factory in Feida... If the water purification plant of Jipeng's family can be considered a factory, hahahaha!"
The smugglers and mercenaries laughed one after another, drank and drank together, and would not return until they were drunk.
"Hey!! Camille! Come out and dance!!" Someone shouted, asking the only dancer in this shabby bar to come out and do a striptease as soon as possible.
Soon, a human woman with an average appearance and a somewhat out-of-shape figure walked out from the backstage wearing revealing clothes, twisted to the wine table, and started her vulgar dance.
"Hahahahaha! Respect my beauty! Hahahahaha!!" The mercenaries laughed.
No wonder they are so happy. In a place like Fida, where blood is licked anytime and anywhere, they have the luxury to go to the bar for a drink, stuff a roll of money into the underwear of those vulgar dancers in exchange for a wink or a blowing kiss. Basically, they are all people who have done several businesses.
They would congratulate themselves for living another day and making some money to enjoy.
In other words, those who can come here to drink are all the winners on this day. As for the losers, they should be in the jungle outside Feida City, their bodies being eaten by wild beasts.
However, at this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound from the bar door! Only a figure was seen breaking open the wooden door and staggering in.
Bang! ! The wooden door that was knocked open fell directly to the ground.
Although the wooden door was just a decoration, the fact that it was vandalized still made the bar owner Deka furious. He picked up his modified blaster rifle and walked over, only to see that the person who knocked on the door was actually the drunkard who was driven away just now!
"Holy shit! George! I'm going to break your legs today! Right now!!" Deka cursed angrily and walked over to catch the drunkard.
"Yes! Break his legs! Hahahahaha!!" Some drinkers were booing inside.
However, before Deka could catch the drunkard, the man fell to the ground with a thud!
At this time, everyone saw that the drunkard's back was dripping with blood, and there was a huge wound that was deep enough to the bone! Even the spine can be seen!
"Ah~~~!!!" The dancer stood higher and could see more clearly. She jumped down with a scream and ran back towards the backstage.
The bartender in charge of the music saw that something was wrong and walked over to turn off the loud music, leaving the surroundings in silence.
"Oh..." An inhuman gasp came from outside the door, and then, a person walked through the darkness outside the door and stepped into the bar.
I only saw that this "person" could not be said to be a human at all, except that it was still humanoid!
It had no clothes on, and all the water had been drained from its body, like a mummy that had been buried for hundreds of years! Moreover, it has a large number of bright energy nodes on its body, and its eyes have no eyelids or pupils. They are completely spherical luminous bodies with pipes crisscrossing each other, protruding from a hole in its abdomen, all over the body!
This twisted and terrifying look makes people feel chills all over their bodies after seeing it, and the meaning behind it makes people even more desperate!
Corpse puppet! !
boom! ! The modified blaster in Deka's hand fired! The overloaded blaster beam exploded instantly, and the powerful power directly blew the corpse puppet away!
"It's... it's a corpse puppet! It's a corpse puppet!!! The Geth is coming!!" The drinkers who saw it clearly screamed loudly.
"No! No!! My wife is still at home!!" A smuggler shouted, picked up his weapon and ran towards the door.
However, not long after, there was a burst of gunshots outside the door, and soon there was a scream!
"Asshole! Come with me to see what's going on!!" Deka shouted loudly
call.
Immediately, several bold mercenaries came over with guns in hand. They cautiously stepped out of the bar to check the situation outside the door.
I only saw that the street where the bar was located was already silent. Most of the houses opposite were dark, and in the few houses with lights on, there were strange shadows shaking from time to time.
"What exactly happened here?" a mercenary whispered.
Before, the music was played loudly in their bar, and everyone was immersed in the wine and spices. Who cares about what happens outside the door. But now that they came out, they realized that something had happened in this place!
A few steps further, I saw the mercenary who ran out just now lying on the ground, and a corpse puppet squatting on the ground tearing at his body.
Not only that, but there seemed to be something moving in the surrounding darkness.
"There is more than one corpse puppet! Go back! Hurry!!!" When Deka said the last word, he shouted almost hysterically.
"Hiss~~~~~~" A roar came from the darkness, and then several corpse puppets appeared and rushed towards them! !
