The Galactic Republic's End (II)
After these two unprecedented defeats, the accumulated contradictions within the Galactic Republic could no longer be suppressed and began to surface.
The first to bear the brunt was the extremely damaging public opinion caused by the failed campaigns!
The defeat in the Yago-Dur System was still manageable. Most of the Galactic Republic Navy personnel who retreated back kept silent in accordance with confidentiality regulations. Even when some rumors leaked out, most people believed that the failure in the Yago-Dur System had more to do with astronomical phenomena.
After all, they had encountered a stellar orbital shift not seen in decades, one that also caused the planets to dramatically alter their orbits.
In fact, the Galactic Republic's official media spun it exactly that way. The defeat in the Yago-Dur System had nothing to do with our great Galactic Republic Navy. The Three-Body System was simply too bizarre, and the Separatists too cunning.
That was as stupid and laughable as saying Guan Yu had nothing to do with flooding the Seven Armies, and it was all the flood's fault.
There was another line from that same book—if a general did not understand astronomy, terrain, mystic formations, yin and yang, battle diagrams, or military momentum, then he was mediocre.
But the Galactic Republic could no longer concern itself with such things. Right now, the only thing on the minds of those high-ranking officials and nobles was how to smooth over this disastrous defeat.
So every media outlet in the Galactic Republic mobilized. Interviews, records, analyses—nothing was left out. They described the battle as though the Duchy of Dawn had been only one step away from total collapse, and under General Gideon Tarkin's godlike command, the Republic fleet had been unstoppable, beating the Separatists until they cried for their