Chapter 1828: Chapter 1238: What Does Geonosis Have?
Everyone’s plans were proceeding as scheduled, however, when it comes to plans, unexpected events are bound to occur.
No one is exempt.
“Honestly, you might as well tell me you were intentionally fishing for bigger prey, it would be more acceptable to me.”
Looking at Count Dooku in front of him, Duanmu Huai made a sarcastic remark right off the bat. Hearing Duanmu Huai’s sarcasm, Count Dooku’s face twitched slightly, and he remained silent.
At present, Duanmu Huai was not aboard the Tribunal’s warship; on the contrary, he was on a remote planet called Geonosis. The reason for Duanmu Huai’s presence here was precisely related to Count Dooku in front of him.
To put it simply, the situation was like this:
After deciding to deal with the Galactic Senate first, the Trade Federation’s Emperor was still furious. It knew it was impossible to deal with the Tribunal for now, but the Emperor had another enemy.
That was Queen Amidala.
In the eyes of the Trade Federation’s Emperor, when they blockaded the planet Naboo, if this Queen had been sensible enough to sign the agreement earlier, perhaps the Trade Federation’s fleet wouldn’t have been destroyed by the Tribunal. Moreover, it suspected that Queen Amidala might be in cahoots with the Tribunal!
After all, Queen Amidala is also a human! She claims ignorance, but who would believe it!
Thus, the Trade Federation’s Emperor adopted the simplest and most effective method: assassination!
In its view, if they couldn’t eliminate the Tribunal, eliminating this stubborn queen would at least be a satisfying revenge!
The first assassination attempt, the Emperor chose to blow up Queen Amidala’s ship, destroying it when she came to Coruscant for a meeting. Unexpectedly, the Queen was quite cunning, disguising herself as a pilot in the escort fighter and escaping disaster as a result.
The assassination attempt on Queen Amidala immediately alerted the Jedi Council. Hence, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan were dispatched to serve as her bodyguards to prevent further attacks.
Ordinarily, most would back off given the situation.
However, the Trade Federation’s Emperor sent assassins after Queen Amidala once more, relentlessly pursuing their goal.
Of course, this wouldn’t be significant if it ended there, but the problem lay with the assassin!
Duanmu Huai had already heard from Palpatine. Years ago, he secretly guided a Jedi Master with precognitive abilities, showing him the future of the Galactic Republic. After witnessing this future, the Jedi Master agreed that the Galactic Republic needed a strong army.
So he secretly contacted the Kaminoans, who were experts in cloning technology, to have them use someone as the primordial sample to create a Clone Army.
Of course, Duanmu Huai had no objections to this, as long as the clones were humans.
Conversely, if they weren’t human, cloning anything else was unacceptable.
However, the issue was that the primordial sample was an assassin. And it was this assassin that the Trade Federation’s Emperor hired to kill Amidala!
As a result, despite the protection of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan, the plan failed. The assassin fled, but subsequently, Obi-Wan stayed behind to protect the Queen, while Qui-Gon Jinn tracked the assassin’s trail all the way to Kamino, discovering the millions-strong Clone Army!
This development greatly shocked Qui-Gon Jinn, who immediately reported to the Jedi Council. He then tracked the assassin further, attempting to uncover its mastermind. After the assassin realized they had been discovered, they fled again, this time arriving on Geonosis.
Of course, this wasn’t just a remote planet but one where the Trade Federation was amassing and producing its Droid Army!
As a result, everything was exposed.
Luckily, Qui-Gon Jinn was eventually discovered, overwhelmed by numbers, and captured, with Count Dooku present as well… thus he had to contact Palpatine and Duanmu Huai, explaining the situation.
So Duanmu Huai immediately arrived on Geonosis to handle the aftermath.
“Honestly, I suggest you replace that idiotic Emperor. Although aliens are all idiots, this one is exceptionally stupid.”
Facing Count Dooku, Duanmu Huai couldn’t help but vent his frustrations.
If you’re going to hire an assassin, fine, but why choose one of our own?
In such a vast Star Territory, with enough money, you can find any assassin you want. Why insist on using one of our own for this? You might as well say it was all part of your plan of fishing for bigger prey to make it more acceptable! This isn’t a movie! Why insist on theatricality when hiring an assassin?
It’s insane! This has now backfired on all of us!
Truly, there’s nothing more dangerous than teammates who are as foolish as pigs, even if the enemy is as brilliant as God. If that Trade Federation’s Emperor were to appear in front of Duanmu Huai now, he’d smash him into a pulp on the spot!
However, Count Dooku still wished to salvage the situation, attempting to persuade Qui-Gon Jinn to join him, as both he and Qui-Gon Jinn were dissatisfied with the Jedi Council’s current situation. So Count Dooku personally approached the imprisoned Qui-Gon Jinn, presenting the facts and reasoning, but Qui-Gon Jinn ultimately did not agree.
“Failed?”
Seeing Count Dooku’s dejected expression, Duanmu Huai inquired, to which the latter helplessly shook his head.
“What a fool. I truly don’t understand why he continues to fight for that corrupt and incompetent Senate when, like me, he knows of the Galactic Senate’s incompetence and corruption! Why!”
“Who knows?”
Duanmu Huai shrugged, indifferent to these trivial matters.
“Everyone has their own ambitions, right? Anyway, is it done now? Let’s proceed with the original plan.”
“……Yes.”
After learning all this, Palpatine devised another plan. He knew that the Jedi Council had already mobilized completely, attempting to rescue Qui-Gon Jinn. Therefore, Palpatine intended to turn the tables and use Qui-Gon Jinn as bait to catch the entire Jedi Council in one fell swoop!
Originally, Palpatine didn’t plan to eliminate the Jedi Council so hastily, even though he indeed had a mortal grudge against the Jedi. But Palpatine wasn’t brainless; the Separatist forces were strong, and the Galactic Republic still needed the Jedi Knights as a supporting force. At the end of the day, this was a play for his ascent to power, to control the Galactic Republic. And the most ideal situation was naturally for the Separatist forces and the Jedi Knights to suffer mutual destruction, leaving him to reap the benefits.
If it went awry and the Separatist forces truly destroyed the main strength of the Galactic Republic, that would be another matter altogether, right?
So although reluctant, Palpatine’s original plan was to first preserve the Jedi Knights, then use them to combat the Separatist forces, and wait until the Separatist forces were almost finished before turning around to eliminate all the Jedi Knights.
But now, with the Tribunal, Palpatine was not worried; let the Jedi Knights perish completely. No matter how powerful the Separatist forces are, can they be mightier than the Tribunal?
“Then, you all just need to put on a good performance; I will come in at the end to wrap things up.”
After Duanmu Huai finished saying this, he turned around and left. He wasn’t worried anyone would discern his origin from the Tribunal, as considering Duanmu Huai’s armor and height—it’s unlikely anyone would believe he was a human.
And so, next, Duanmu Huai merely found a place, sat down quietly, and silently watched this bunch of people perform.
Watching them drag Qui-Gon Jinn onto the arena, performing as gladiators in front of numerous aliens—these Jedi Knights seemed genuinely weak. Without their lightsabers, they were easily captured? This is worse than slightly better-trained special forces.
How can this stuff become the peacekeepers of the Galactic Republic?
Just this? Just this? Just this?
Can’t do Musou, can’t do Stealth, can’t do anything, for what?
Really treating this like a child’s playhouse.
Duanmu Huai silently yawned.
Oh, right, it wasn’t just Qui-Gon Jinn who got captured. There was Obi-Wan too; he seemed to have sneaked in to rescue his teacher, only to get caught as well.
So you see, the lone agent infiltrating the tiger’s den, seven in seven out in movies is all deceit. The real situation is that in such heavily guarded places, if you get in, either you’re dead or captured.
Really treating themselves like 007? Stealth, sabotage, seducing in one go?
Of course, these two still had some skills, not being put directly into the arena for the beasts’ tooth gaps at first instance but rather found a way to break free from their shackles and spar with the beasts. Meanwhile, those aliens were also cheering and jeering, like they didn’t dislike big spectacles. Seeing this, Duanmu Huai silently shook his head, they’re all idle with nothing to do. If not planning to fish, might as well execute on the spot, no need to put on any gladiator show, truly idle… oh, someone’s bitten.
While Duanmu Huai was silently mocking them, suddenly, hundreds of Jedi Knights appeared as if descended from divine forces, defeating the beasts besieging the two. At this moment, that idiotic Emperor from the Trade Federation hurriedly dispatched the Droid Army to encircle them, engaging those Jedi Knights in a battle.
It turns out, these Jedi Knights are genuinely incompetent.
Don’t be fooled by how they were cutting through the Droid Army like chopping cucumbers initially; when the number of robots increased, these Jedi Knights immediately were just getting hit, and before long, a bunch were dead.
“This… looks like I don’t need to act, what can be said, they really are weak.”
Looking at the battlefield before him, Duanmu Huai yawned again, although the opposite’s Droid Army had indeed a large quantity. If it were the Tribunal, nearly every combat group member would have a way to deal with these guys. Or rather, just such number of robots simply isn’t enough to dismantle!
Of course, fundamentally, it’s because of those foolish Jedi Knights being stylish by not wearing armor, insisting on robes while clashing with laser gun-wielding robots. Isn’t this brainless? You have armor, it can somewhat block, without armor, isn’t it death on contact—oh, there’s another one dead over there.
See, I told you so, nearly all dead already… oh, here they come.
Just when the few dozen surviving Jedi Knights were cornered by the Droid Army, Duanmu Huai’s originally sleepy expression suddenly brightened.
At this moment, only to see several transport ships descended from the sky, launching attacks against the Robot Army before them. Under their fierce firepower, soon, the originally number-advantaged Droid Army was rapidly dismantled in utter disarray.
However, this very group of Droid Army, dismantled into utter disarray by transport ships, managed to kill nearly a hundred Jedi Knights.
……..Now the question arises, where exactly is the embodiment of these so-called peacekeepers for the Jedi Knights?
Even transport ships can’t match up with them, what are you lot even useful for?
Though saying one shouldn’t be weaponist, nor solely rely on willpower, the problem is Jedi Knights don’t adhere to either.
Regarding weapons, your lightsabers aren’t functional, moreover without them, you’re like toothless tigers, utterly useless.
Regarding willpower, your willpower is resolute, not wearing armor, but in the face of the Droid Army’s numbers, does death not still occur?
How dumb can the Galactic Senate be to let such an oblivious bunch protect the Galactic Republic?
Use some brains, recruiting and nurturing a few more professional agents, is far superior to the Jedi Knights in Duanmu Huai’s view.
Better let Palpatine rule; if this rotten world happens to encounter a Chaos Legion invasion, it won’t even hold up for a second before collapsing.
Watching as transport ships had destroyed the surrounding encirclement from the Droid Army, moving towards the center where Jedi Knights were originally besieged, Duanmu Huai also shook his head, then stood up.
Next, it’s time for me to take the stage!