April of 20 BBY was destined to be a turbulent time.
This month, the main fleet of the Galactic Republic Fourth Army, after being trapped in the Semirres system for over a month, was finally wiped out completely.
As the naval officers and soldiers aboard the last four battered Hunter Class Battlecruisers, who had gone days without food and had exhausted all their ammunition, finally lost the strength to resist and chose to surrender, all fighting in the Semirres system finally came to a halt.
But the losses were devastating, both for Semirres Planet and for the Galactic Republic.
After the seasonal hyperspace route was unexpectedly disrupted by an unknown force and became impassable, this main fleet—one of the Galactic Republic's strongest—was finally cut off from every route home.
The first to collapse was not actually the navy, but the more than 900,000 non-clone ground troops who had landed on Semirres Planet.
This force had already been unable to hold on after the Clone Army was inexplicably annihilated in Semirren City, the capital of Semirres Planet.
At the time, in order to support the Clone Army's military operation against Semirren City, most air support had been concentrated in that direction. Deprived of most of their air support and left with only ground forces, they had been completely unable to stop the Separatists' counterattack.
The Scorpion tank cluster commanded by Army Lieutenant General Dai Hongkui, who had come as reinforcements from Dawn Star Planet, was nearly unstoppable. The Republican non-clone forces' positions were utterly incapable of withstanding the assault, quickly pierced through and then cut apart and surrounded.
From commanders to ordinary soldiers, these non-clone troops were profoundly unaccustomed to the concentrated breakthrough tactics of high-speed armored formations. Throughout the Galactic Republic's tens of thousands of years of history, its army