Destruction Battleship
But by the time they learned the Rakghouls had been shipped out from Taris, it was already too late. Over a thousand Great Whale-class transport ships had carried nearly three hundred million Rakghouls away.
The Kingdom of Dawn's route planning had been remarkably ingenious. Rather than departing directly from Taris, they took a wide detour, dispersing throughout other parts of the Northeastern Territory before proceeding to their respective destinations.
The Galactic Empire's Northeastern Territory was, in fact, extremely chaotic. This had once been the core region of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the place where Separatism had run most rampant across the Milky Way Galaxy. Now, as the Galactic Empire continued to suffer defeats on the front lines, those former Separatist core worlds had begun stirring up trouble as well.
These planets flew the banner of liberalism, but in reality practiced military separatism, turning the region into a complete mess.
So the Galactic Empire treated this place much as the Kingdom of Dawn treated the Southern Territory: do whatever you want, we do not care. But this also left the Northeastern Territory weakly defended, giving the transport ships carrying the Rakghouls an opening to exploit.
Now that the Galactic Empire had been caught off guard and was being driven to distraction by countless Rakghouls, the Kingdom of Dawn High Command finally began formulating its next plan.
However, the time was not yet ripe to launch direct attacks on both the Northern Territory and the homeland fronts. Many newly built warships still needed further shakedown and training. Under such circumstances, taking the initiative to attack the Galactic Empire, which held superior forces, was inadvisable.
After discussion, the Kingdom of Dawn High Command decided that the main naval force would remain inactive. However, General Grievous would launch an attack in