King of the North Dunn-Vessex had ultimately failed to hold Bilbrin Planet, but the primary responsibility for this battle did not lie with him.
The Kingdom of Dawn's strategic deception had been extraordinarily effective, successfully leading the Galactic Empire's Intelligence Department to make the wrong judgment.
Fundamentally, this strategic deception had succeeded because the Kingdom of Dawn's endless stream of cutting-edge technologies had already made it impossible for the Galactic Empire's military, intelligence, and other departments to reach correct conclusions.
When a math problem was filled entirely with unknowns, there was no way to solve for a known value. What stood before the Imperial Intelligence Bureau now was a problem like x+y=?.
However, someone still had to take the blame for such a crushing defeat. Emperor Palpatine had personally gone to Palanci Planet, preparing to fight Tang Xiao to the death once again, while Oswald-Tessik's fleet had also advanced there. Naturally, the responsibility for the defeat could not fall on their side, although they should theoretically have borne some blame for their slow response to the surprise attack.
It was also inappropriate to make Dunn-Vessex take the blame. On one hand, he had reclaimed Ord Mantell, the former capital of the Empire's Eighth Army, and had also obtained a Lightframe Stargate. No matter what, that was the only achievement in this entire series of campaigns. On the other hand, now that Bilbrin Planet had fallen, the Northern Territory Legion's strategic importance would decline. In other words, if Dunn-Vessex truly developed separatist ambitions, the Galactic Empire would find it very difficult to stop him.
So not only could they not make Dunn-Vessex take the blame, they had to placate him.
The Imperial Intelligence Bureau could not take the blame either. Its director, Isanne Isard, was currently Emperor Palpatine's foremost enforcer, being