The Kingdom of Dawn fleet's raid on Bilbrin Planet gave the Galactic Empire garrison no time to react!
This was a fixed way of thinking. Although the Kingdom of Dawn did indeed have a forward base in the Bilbrin system, that base was, bluntly put, merely a cluster of space structures. While a fleet was stationed there, it numbered only one-third of the Imperial fleet.
Coupled with the complex hyperspace route environment between the Kingdom of Dawn and Bilbrin Planet, it was difficult to expand the scale of that forward base and its garrison. That was essentially all there was to it.
Lieutenant General Dagon Nielz had launched a raid here before. Although it failed, the main reason was that Dunn Wessex had been unwilling to bear further losses and forcibly recalled the fleet. Yet that failed offensive gave the Galactic Empire considerable confidence. They believed that, without a Titan warship present, the fleet remaining on Bilbrin Planet was short on supplies and could hardly threaten their defenses.
Furthermore, Dunn Wessex had already been reluctant and unwilling to maintain such a sizable garrison on Bilbrin Planet. That sentiment naturally spread to the captains and crews under his command. Almost everyone believed they were merely standing guard on Bilbrin Planet, nothing more.
Even if they were to launch an offensive someday and pull out the nail the Kingdom of Dawn had left behind, that would be a matter for the rear-echelon main force, with nothing to do with local garrisons like them.
But this time, the Kingdom of Dawn fleet before them had been plotting for a long time, waiting only to strike a killing blow!
This strategic deception operation had taken an entire month. Its actions had spread across multiple fronts throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, continuously misleading the Galactic