But now, with the Galactic Empire's 17th Army completely annihilated, the Galactic Empire's 15th Army had also been fully exposed to the Kingdom of Dawn fleet's striking range.
The 15th Army, also known as Hook Nebula, had been established in the early days of the Clone Wars and was one of the Galactic Republic's twenty major armies. However, the 15th Army's strategic position was rather remote, and battles rarely broke out there. In practice, it was merely a reserve army.
There were no developed planets within the 15th Army's jurisdiction, at most a few agricultural planets and worlds that supplied labor. Even Qeimet Planet, the capital of the 15th Army, had originally been uninhabited. However, the hyperspace route it occupied was relatively convenient, especially for monitoring the Five Veils Route, which was why a military base had been established there.
The Five Veils Route was a relatively prosperous trade route within the 15th Army's territory, and it could be considered the army's greatest asset. The Galactic Republic had originally hoped that controlling the trade volume generated by this route would bring in some revenue, but later facts proved that this meager income could barely cover the 15th Army's expenses.
After the military base on Qeimet Planet was established, the Galactic Republic gradually sent settlers there and built colonies. It had roughly ten to twenty million permanent residents and fifty to eighty million transient residents.
Therefore, after the 17th Army was destroyed, the 15th Army had no ability to resist at all.
After occupying Vogel planet, Sefrans Tann dispatched a fleet composed of one Divinity-class battleship, seventy Hell-Angel Class Battlecruisers, and forty Minotaur-class Heavy Cruisers into the Five Veils Route. They swiftly broke through the Galactic Empire's hastily assembled defensive line and arrived at Qeimet Planet.
The Imperial army on Qeimet