Chapter 2063: The Rise of the Rebel Army (Part 2)

2064, Rebel Rise (Part 2)

After avoiding the patrol of the Imperial Army, Padmé Amidala and her group came to an inconspicuous village. There are about 40 to 50 households in this village, and people make a living by raising fish around the nearby lake.

Such a peaceful life is actually not uncommon in the outer ring planets with large populations such as the planet Ryloth. Many residents are not interested in the so-called high-tech products in the center of the galaxy, and they prefer their traditional simple life.

Entering a wooden house, a warm electronic voice came to the front, "Oh, honorable leader Amidala, it's great to see you arrive here safely." A protocol robot with a brass shell, C-3PO, came out of the house.

"They arrived yesterday." A rebel soldier next to him said, "We have made proper arrangements. This village is full of our people."

Padmé Amidala nodded, lifted her hood, and walked inside.

Several elderly villagers inside quickly stood up and bowed to her, then lifted a rack full of dried fish, revealing a basement passage.

Entering the passage, it was like entering another world. There were the most advanced communication equipment, and a small but very precise holographic star map, which clearly showed the situation of the star regions around the planet Ryloth.

"Leader! We are ready! Let's get started!" A rebel soldier looked at Padmé Amidala excitedly and saluted vigorously.

Even his movements were trembling because of the excessive force. After all, the one standing in front of him was the respected leader! The spiritual pillar of the rebels!

Padmé smiled slightly, and her smile seemed to be full of sunshine, dispelling the haze in the sky and bringing courage and confidence to people. She nodded and said, "Don't underestimate our enemies, but don't lose our confidence either. The situation on Ryloth is mature, and this is the result of all of our efforts. Today, we will take the most critical and difficult step here."

"Yes!" The surrounding rebel soldiers were immediately excited.

A Twi'lek rebel officer immediately pointed at the holographic star map and displayed the mark on it in red, "Leader, we have obtained all the information about the Imperial Army on Ryloth. You see... the naval forces of the Galactic Empire on Rylos are two Imperial-class Star Destroyers, two Victory I-class Star Destroyers, and five Aquitens-class light cruisers. Two more Vigilante-class frigates will arrive tomorrow. All the warships are parked in the space station in the outer orbit of the planet... However, two of the Aquitens-class light cruisers will patrol around the equator of the planet once a day. During the patrol, the carrier-based aircraft formation will continue to take off in three-aircraft formations to expand the patrol range."

He continued on the holographic projection While marking, he said: "Then in the capital city of Lessu, the Galactic Empire is stationed with the 339th Clone Assault Battalion, with a total of more than 2,400 people, and the 272nd Imperial Stormtroopers, with a total of more than 9,200 people. They are stationed in the barracks area 1.5 kilometers east of Lessu. Then in other cities on the planet, there are mainly some local security forces, with a total number of more than three million."

Padmé Amidala nodded and said: "I believe that every Twi'lek yearns for freedom and hates the exploitation of the Galactic Empire. This is also the result of my previous investigation, and it is also an important reason why I am standing here now. According to the information I have obtained According to reports, the Galactic Empire is formulating a battle plan against the Principality of Dawn, and as part of the plan, the Galactic Empire will launch an attack on the planet Christophsis, and the starting point of their attack is the planet Ryloth. "

The Twi'lek officer nodded and said, "In other words, the Galactic Empire rebuilt the 14th Army and continued to set up the headquarters on the planet Ryloth for this reason... Christophsis has been occupied by the Principality of Dawn for more than ten years, and they have been strengthening the planet's defense. Now the total population there exceeds 40 billion, plus complete defense facilities, the Galactic Empire must invest a huge force. Can you judge the scale of the Imperial Army's attack?"

Padmé Amidala said with certainty: "The strength of an entire sector fleet is at least 150 capital ships and 4,000 small and medium-sized warships. And the first batch of ground forces will deploy at least 20 legions, 180,000 people. In order to maintain their offensive on the front line, the ground forces assembled on the planet Rylos should reach about 3 million by then."

"Such an army size... must tear off a layer of the land on the planet Rylos!" The Twi'lek officer waved his fist, "They are now building a large-scale barracks, and are also building four large spaceports. All these expenses are borne by the planet Rylos, and the workers used are all our people!"

"So, we can't let them continue like this." Padmé Amidala said, "The Imperial Senate has also made arrangements. There is solid evidence of some corruption by Uloda, the governor of Rylos, during his tenure as the planetary governor. We will first launch the impeachment of Uloda, and if nothing unexpected happens, there will be results soon. When the Empire sent the investigation team, it happened to be a power vacuum period on Rylos."

The Twi'lek officer nodded and said, "The next things will also proceed as planned!"

Padmé patted his shoulder and said, "Whether Rylos can get rid of the control of the Empire depends on this!"

Everyone started to get busy according to the previous plan. With Padmé Amidala here, every rebel soldier present was full of strength.

Yes, because... she is the leader of all the rebels!

Time goes back a few years ago, when the Confederacy of Independent Systems was still lingering, because of the tyranny of the Galactic Empire, many planets stood up against the Empire. But although these uprisings occurred one after another, there was no organization at all. The rebels just relied on their passion to temporarily organize a group of people to fight against the imperial army.

For example, the uprising on the planet Rafa was like this.

The Galactic Empire forced Rafa to grow high-energy crops, plundering the fertility of the planet's land, and even unwilling to use chemical fertilizers. Moreover, the Empire forced the farmers on the planet Rafa to work intensively, only giving them a small amount of allowances, and even this little bit of charity was often withheld.

So the people of Rafa went on strike. They organized to attack the imperial army, seize weapons, and attack the imperial army's base. In fact, the ideas of these rebels were very simple, just wanting to drive the empire out.

But this was almost impossible.

The uprising on the planet Rafa was very serious. At that time, Ahsoka Tano also participated in it. They once captured the barracks of the Galactic Empire, killed all the imperial troops inside, and robbed several spaceships.

But the Galactic Empire soon made a comeback. Three Victory I-class Star Destroyers immediately landed on the planet. A large number of TIE/LN fighters took off and wreaked havoc across the entire planet, destroying every spaceship that appeared in their sight!

After having absolute air superiority, the Imperial fighters began to bomb the places where the rebels appeared. Fighters continued to dive and strafe, and TIE bombers also roared and dropped high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs. Towns and villages turned into a sea of ​​fire, and the fields that people had worked hard to cultivate were also engulfed by the fire.

After completely blasting the rebels who rose up in rebellion, a large number of Imperial stormtroopers began to land and carried out an inhumane massacre of those rebels who could no longer form an organization!

In the end, the uprising on the entire Rafa planet was completely suppressed. Seeing that the resistance was hopeless, the farmers had to return to the fields and continue to overdraw the fertility of the planet under the guns of the Imperial stormtroopers to grow high-energy crops for the empire.

Since the Galactic Empire began to rule the Milky Way, such resistance and repression have occurred almost every day. Countless people have been massacred by the Imperial Army and countless cities have been plowed to the ground. Even some planets that are too noisy will attract orbital bombings from the Imperial Navy! And the one who appeared on these planets and personally issued the orbital bombing order was Darth Vader, the apprentice and confidant of the Imperial Emperor Palpatine!

The uprising at that time was desperate, as if it was a suicide mission. People chose to rise up when they could no longer bear it and could not live, and the result was indeed an indiscriminate death.

There is no doubt that the Empire is powerful, and it is definitely not something that a certain planet can resist.

At this time, Padmé Amidala turned out!

People did not know who this person was, but only knew that this person had a voice full of power and courage, and had the wisdom to constantly deal with the Galactic Empire. Some people called her "leader", so they called her that.

Padmé Amidala first established a very secret and very efficient communication mechanism. No one knows how she did it, but she can indeed connect all the resistance movements on many planets, and connect more and more resistance movements without the Imperial Security Bureau knowing anything.

This alone is a miracle.

And with the help of this communication network, Padmé Amidala began to convey her ideas to many planets that wanted to rise up against the Empire. She gave secret speeches through many channels and distributed various leaflets.

She has a very complete theoretical system on how to resist the Empire. The most important point is that she clearly pointed out that the reason why the Galactic Empire is so corrupt and cruel now is that the Emperor Palpatine is a Sith Lord!

The Sith Lords are a group of evil beings who distorted the Force and used the Force to satisfy their desires. They are the dark side of the Force. Because of this, the Emperor Palpatine of the Empire used the entire Galactic Empire as a tool to realize his ambitions. At the same time, Tang Xiao, the Grand Duke of the Principality of Dawn, is also an evil Sith Lord.

The struggle between the two Sith Lords dragged the entire galaxy into war.

Therefore, the ultimate goal of their rebel army is to overthrow the rule of the Sith Lord, including Palpatine and Tang Xiao, over the Milky Way, and then rebuild the Galactic Republic to bring freedom and democracy back to the Milky Way!

The proposal of this guiding ideology can be said to be a qualitative change for the rebels in the entire Milky Way. In fact, since ancient times, all rebels have needed such a clear and long-term goal. Once there is no clear enough goal to guide them, it will be like a certain heaven. After achieving a staged victory, they will fall into confusion and finally lose themselves in power.

Padmé Amidala directly pointed the spearhead at the Sith Lord and the dark side of the Force, so that everyone knew who their enemy was!

After having a program, Padmé Amidala began to consider the overall situation from a higher perspective and made clear suggestions to those planets that wanted to launch an uprising. For example, let some planets with very bad situations not rebel for the time being, and die in vain, and gradually weaken the power of the empire through resistance actions in other regions, and then succeed in the uprising.

The planets that successfully revolted often negotiated with local officials of the Empire for a better living environment, or created a power vacuum in the Empire, so that the Empire's power would temporarily stay away.

All these actions ultimately come down to one point - weakening the Empire's power and strengthening their own power!

All uprisings are temporary, just to spread the idea of ​​resisting the Empire, the dark side, and the Sith Lords, so that more people can understand it, and at the same time, to help those who can't survive.

The materials they seized from the Empire during the uprising were used to strengthen themselves on the one hand, and to help those planets that were in despair on the other.

That's right, in some places where the Empire's power is stronger, Padmé Amidala will not force them to resist, but will let them endure and wait for a better opportunity.

At the same time, Padmé Amidala also began to build her own elite force, and this force was like a ghost, attacking the Empire everywhere, making the Imperial military very annoyed but unable to catch their traces.

In this constant struggle, Padmé Amidala became the one that the Galactic Empire wanted to get rid of as soon as possible in the name of "leader".

However, the Galactic Empire did not connect the "leader" with the former Naboo planet councillor. Because Padmé Amidala was already dead. No matter how hard the Imperial Intelligence Department investigated, it would not find a dead person.

And Padmé Amidala's speech would slightly change her voice, making her voice deeper and more magnetic. Most of the rebel soldiers who had seen her in person did not know the former Naboo planet councillor, and these people stood together because of their firm beliefs, and they would never betray Padmé.

In fact, Darth Vader had a feeling that Padmé Amidala might not be dead, but he could not tell this feeling to others.

So, this became the "leader" - the powerful leader of the rebels!