Stalemate (I)
On March 15, 10 BBY, half a year had passed since the outbreak of the war. Every front had now fallen into an eerie calm. Small-scale clashes continued without cease, but both sides had halted major military operations.
At this time, the propaganda machines of the Kingdom of Dawn and the Galactic Empire went into overdrive, loudly trumpeting the progress of the war. Both sides claimed to have seized the strategic initiative and declared that defeating the other was only a matter of time.
The Kingdom of Dawn boasted wildly of its glorious victory in the Planet Kira Campaign, its magnificent achievement in taking Fondor Planet, and its advance through the Northern Territory all the way to Parin-Minor, the Northern Territory's core planet. They had destroyed the Iron Moon and beaten the Empire so badly that it dared not leave its home, hiding like turtles with their heads tucked in. Their Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson publicly called on the Galactic Empire again and again, telling it to count how many warships it had lost.
At the same time, the Kingdom of Dawn publicly announced that it would immediately begin constructing a Stargate on Fondor Planet. Once the Stargate was completed, Fondor Planet would be as unshakable as a fortress, and the Galactic Empire would never again be able to touch even a speck of dust on it.
However, when reporters asked whether the other end of the Stargate connected to Dawn Star Planet, the spokesperson hemmed and hawed, changing the subject. In the end, he merely said that it would be built in a "suitable star system" within the Modell Sector. When reporters pressed further, asking whether this was due to fears that Fondor Planet's biological weapons might spread, the Kingdom of Dawn spokesperson accused the reporter