Colonel Thrawn, however, shook his head. "The Geth have limits now."
"Limits? In numbers, or in territory?" Gillard Perine frowned.
Thrawn opened the holographic star map and gestured toward a location in the Northern Inner Rim Territories. "Roughly here, but I still need to confirm it further. I need to learn more about our enemy."
"I'll notify the intelligence officers to send over any information on the Geth as soon as it comes in." Gillard Perine spoke very seriously. "But I still don't understand why the Geth would have limits. They have already proven themselves to be the most terrifying mechanical organisms—brutal, cold-blooded. Wherever they go, they strip-mine everything, then use all the resources to build factories and manufacture more units."
"Oh, no. I already understand quite a bit about the Geth. What I'm still lacking probably cannot be found among the Geth themselves. So what I need to focus on is intelligence on Dawn Star Planet," Thrawn said calmly.
"Dawn Star Planet?"
"That's right. Dawn Star Planet is the Geth's limit," Thrawn replied.
Gillard Perine shook his head. "I can't quite understand the connection between the two... Dawn Star Planet should be the one that brought the Geth here, and they should also be secretly supporting them from behind the scenes. We believe that the InterGalactic Banking Clan on Makito, as well as Fourth Group, are now at the heart of the Geth-controlled region, supporting their invasion."
He pulled out an intelligence report. "Look... over the past two years, the Imperial Intelligence Bureau and the Imperial Security Bureau have carried out more than 1,800 covert operations on Makito, and every single one failed. Of those 1,800-plus operations, 265 managed to send back a final report. Of those, 214 had final reports related to the Geth. The most important reason