To ensure that Palanci Planet would not fall to the Kingdom of Dawn, Dunn Vesex kept requesting aid from the Imperial Center, hoping reinforcements would be dispatched as soon as possible—preferably an additional Executor-class Super Star Destroyer.
The situation was now very clear. The Kingdom of Dawn was preserving its fleet strength, and the First System Army's offensive had also shown them that the Empire remained immensely powerful. They were undoubtedly contracting their front lines, preparing for a prolonged standoff with the Imperial fleet along the Fortress Planet Bilbrin line.
Moreover, with Bilbrin Planet under the Kingdom of Dawn's control, the Galactic Empire's route to the Northern Territory could now only pass through the Hydian Way. However, the Hydian Way led directly toward the Northeastern Territory, meaning any large-scale transport headed directly to Palanci Planet had to detour around the entire edge of the Northern Territory, taking an extremely long time.
This meant that even if the Empire gathered reinforcements, logistics, supplies, and troop deployments would all face enormous pressure.
What Dunn Vesex feared most now was having his reinforcements in the Northern Territory cut off. If they were cut off at a time like this, it would not simply mean being comfortably far from the Emperor and becoming a warlord. It would truly be fatal!
Dunn Vesex understood very clearly that, for the Galactic Empire, what the upper echelons feared most was actually Geth. These Mechanical Lifeforms could be said to destroy every place they reached. Even among the recorded cases alone, more than twenty species had already been exterminated.
The reason he had risen from Governor of the Ninth Army, first gaining the ability to influence the decisions of the Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Legions, and then incorporating those Legions into his command structure, was that defensive line