Sensitive Zone
On August 35, 9BBY, at the Imperial Capital, the fleets in the Imperial Center completed their rotation.
With the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Hegemony as flagship, a force of 240 capital ships, 2,700 cruisers, and 4,000 escort ships began advancing toward Scipio.
At the same time, the two Executor-class Super Star Destroyers Guardian and Reaper also moved forward, relocating their base of operations to Palanci.
The Imperial military secretly formulated the "Goalkeeper Plan," intending to launch a powerful offensive from Palanci, retake Bilbrin, and rebuild the gateway defenses of the Core Worlds.
To carry out this plan, in addition to the two Executor-class Super Star Destroyers, they planned to assemble an overwhelmingly powerful force of 1,200 capital ships and 8,000 cruisers and escort ships. The First System Army could be said to have deployed its full strength, assuming a posture of fighting the Kingdom of Dawn to the death.
Such an enormous force could not even be committed to the battlefield all at once. Thus, the "Goalkeeper Plan" also included a series of detailed logistics mobilization plans, as well as a combat plan that divided the fleet into four waves of attack to strike the Kingdom of Dawn defense line in succession.
It could be said that this plan was meant to turn Bilbrin into a colossal meat grinder, crushing the living strength of both the Galactic Empire and the Kingdom of Dawn! In that case, the Galactic Empire, with its stronger productive capacity and ability to recover, would undoubtedly achieve a strategic victory.
However, Imperial Marshal Oswald Tessik, the supreme commander of the First System Army, strongly opposed the plan. He stated that the First System Army was practically the Galactic Empire's trump card, and using such a force in such a rash assault was extremely unwise.