The Door Opens

The Outer Orbit of Asteroid 426, the Sarapin System.

The Fleet of the Confederacy of Independent Systems suppressed the Republic's Defense Fleet with its powerful firepower because the large Battleships had basically been transferred to other places, so most of the Defense Fleets in these places were Small Warships.

This is mainly due to the fact that large Warships have a higher level of Hyperspace Drives, which means they can reach their destination faster with fewer Jumps.

But now, these small Battleships left behind are no match for the Confederacy of Independent Systems Fleet at all, not to mention that Sev'rance Tann is in command of this Fleet!

Under the command of Tann, the fleet of the Confederacy of Independent Systems seemed to have every Warship come alive. They used flexible movements and constantly changing formations to make the Warships of the Republic lose one after another, always inadvertently making the formation of the Republic in the middle of the sea. During the battle, they were separated.

Sev'rance Tann immediately launched the fastest Revelation-class Light Cruiser and Assault-class Light Destroyer at sublight speed to launch an assault, directly wedged into the formation of the Republic fleet, so that they could not look at each other from head to tail.

Then, 50 Diamond-class Cruisers immediately rushed to Asteroid 426 to start the Landing Operation, with Confederacy Cruisers as escorts.

Deflector Shields, especially Warship-level or even Planetary-level Deflector Shields, actually still have many inconvenient drawbacks. Depending on the Shield Generator, the manifestations of these Shields will vary. In addition to dividing by functionality, such as Thermal Energy Shields, Particle Shields, etc., there are also many types of divisions by production methods, including One-Way Shields, Two-Way Shields and the like.

In order to expand the Deflector Shield to cover the target, the Shield Generator itself is not under the protection of the Deflector Shield. For Starfighters, the Shield Generator itself is not powerful enough to cover the entire Starfighter at any time, so it doesn't matter.

For Battleships, many Shield Generators are built in places that are not easy to hit in battle.

But for Planetary-level Shields, this will not work, because the Planetary-Level Shield must be shrouded outside the atmosphere, at least it must be 100 kilometers above the ground. Under such circumstances, a huge funnel-shaped defense hole will be formed if it is built above the Shield Generator on the ground, which can be easily seized by the attacker. (If you are interested, you can see the production process of the Gungan's Shield Generator in "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace").

Not to mention that to project Shield Energy from the ground to a super high altitude 100 kilometers away, atmospheric interference and additional energy consumption must also be considered.

Therefore, Planetary-Level Shields are often launched through large Space Stations or Natural Moons. The advantage of this is that a Deflector Shield can be generated on the Planet, and it can be guaranteed that the Shield will never be disturbed by the Planet's atmosphere during the projection process.

However, the disadvantage is that you have to invest heavily to defend this Shield Generator.

This is the purpose of Sev'rance Tann's battle now!

Fifty Diamond-class Cruisers began to land directly against the intensive Anti-Aircraft firepower on the Asteroid 426, and an Army of 100,000 Droids rushed towards the Republic's Defense Line like a tide! Meanwhile, the Confederacy Cruisers targeted Weapon Placements and areas with a large number of enemy forces.

The Republic Soldiers resisted desperately, but they couldn't stand Sev'rance Tannn's flexible tactics, and their positions fell one by one.

Immediately afterwards, when the battle of the Fleet in Outer Space was decided, and the Fleet of the Confederacy of Independent Systems began to provide support for the ground battle, the defenders of the Republic finally fell into a total collapse.

Twelve hours after the attack began, Asteroid 426 fell!

With a loud bang, the huge Planetary Shield Generator on Asteroid 426 was blown up, and Sarapin, the most important Energy Planet in the Core Worlds of the Galaxy, finally lost the protection of the Planetary Shield, as if it had faded like a beautiful girl with the last layer of veil...

While the ground forces began to reload into the Diamond-class Cruisers, Sev'rance Tann had returned to a Providence-class Destroyer that was the Flagship of the battle.

"It was a wonderful battle! General Tann." A Human Officer in his 40s and wearing a beige Military Uniform came up to congratulate her.

Although the Military System of the Confederation of Independent Systems is still relatively chaotic, this beige Military Uniform shows that this person was promoted from a Civilian Official to an Officer. His thinning hair was parted in the middle and he wore a light beard.

Sev'rance Tann looked at this person with some disdain, and said lightly: "The Fleet sets off immediately, covering the small number of Diamond-class Cruisers that have already been loaded and land on this Supply Station orbiting Sarabin first."

The Confederate Officer maintained the utmost respect for Sev'rance Tann, but he still asked out of his duty, "General Tann, what is the purpose of attacking this Supply Station? Shouldn't we wait now?" Shall we launch a general attack on Sarapin after the Fleet and Ground Forces have rested?"

"Zian Finnis, I'm ashamed to call your General rank. Can't your poor strategic thinking understand my current actions?" Sev'rance Tann mocked, "We are now in the Core Worlds of the Republic, and the Republic's reinforcements will arrive in at most 10 hours. Don't you think you I will prepare for this?"

"10 hours, how do you know? We shouldn't have such information..." Zian Finnis obviously had a good temper, and he made no secret of his surprise and ignorance.

Sev'rance Tann glanced at him, but still said: "Within 5 hours after I launched the offensive, the Republic's reinforcements did not arrive, which shows that they have no intention of evacuating the Encirclement Fleets from around the Confederacy of Independent System Alliance Planets located in the Core Worlds. In this case, they must mobilize the Fleet from the frontlines, and the frontline closest to the Sarapin System is Mimban. The time to mobilize a Fleet from Mimban is between 18 hours and 24 hours."

Seeing Zian Finnis looking up the Star Map sweating profusely, Sev'rance Tann sarcastically said: "You can't even understand the basic deployment and Hyperspace Lane information on the Star Map. Rather than commanding the Army, it is better for you to find an Electronics Factory on a Processing Planet. Let me tell you, the reason why I want to attack these Supply Stations orbiting Sarapin is because the latest collection of Energy Reserves is on these Supply Stations, waiting to be transported, but unfortunately, it was blocked by my Fleet."

Following Sev'rance Tann's order, the Diamond-class Cruisers of the Confederacy of Independent Systems rushed directly to one of the many Supply Stations orbiting Sarapin. Here, the Republic no longer has the defense of the Fleet, and it was easily landed on by the Diamond-class Cruisers under the cover of the Confederacy Cruisers.

Then, a large number of Droids began to transport the High-Energy Storage Devices stored in the Supply Station, which was enough for Dawn to use for two full years, back to their Spacecraft and proceeded to occupy more Supply Stations. If all these Supply Stations are looted, then Dawn will not need to generate electricity for at least the next 30 years!

Sure enough, the plundering behavior of the Droid Army made the Defense Commander of Sarapin misjudge. He thought that these Separatist Fleets were just here to rob, so he separated his own Defense Force and sent reinforcements to several other Supply Stations.