First Voyage Ceremony
Three Endless-class Super Carriers, two Conqueror-class battleships, and one Ragnarok-class Titan warship!
Such a powerful fleet had assembled at Semirres Planet, and the meaning behind it was self-evident. Semirres Planet was now crawling with spies from the Galactic Empire and countless other forces, with innumerable eyes fixed on this very place!
Yet under such circumstances, Count Dooku had still brought the clearly modified Number Three Ship, the Conqueror-class battleship Slaughter, to Semirres Planet. It was an unmistakable show of force.
He wanted to tell the Galactic Empire not to mistake its apparent earlier advantage, driving the Confederacy of Independent Systems into the Eastern Outer Rim, for victory! The Confederacy of Independent Systems still possessed enough strength to hold the Galactic Empire at the military fortress of Saleucami Planet and prevent it from advancing even a single step!
And in truth, the Confederacy of Independent Systems indeed possessed that strength! Even with the powerful rise of the Duchy of Dawn, the second-largest power in the Milky Way Galaxy remained the Confederacy of Independent Systems!
After Tang Xiao and Palpatine reached their separate peace agreement, the Confederacy of Independent Systems had resisted the Galactic Empire's offensive alone until now. The Battle of Saleucami had lasted a full six months—210 days—even if counted only from the founding of the Galactic Empire! If the period of the Galactic Republic was included, this battle had already been fought for over a year!
The Confederacy of Independent Systems had held back more than half of the Galactic Empire's fleet in the Saleucami system, remaining as unshakable as a rock!
The Duchy of Dawn did not even dare dream of such a thing! When facing the Galactic Republic's attacks, the Duchy of Dawn could only ever win through surprise, and it had to achieve