On Dantooine, the Galactic Empire had descended into chaos everywhere, from the planet's three major cities and their corresponding defensive lines to the space stations and spaceports in orbit.
However, the Kingdom of Dawn did not seize this opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the Galactic Empire's orbital deployments. The main reason was simply that it lacked the strength.
The Kingdom of Dawn's main warships here were Grey Horse-class escort carriers, along with some frigates and several destroyers. Such a force was incapable of threatening the Galactic Empire's massive space station.
After all, the Galactic Empire had established a base on Dantooine long ago. Even though the planet had not been considered important at first, there were still some Light Cruisers stationed here. At the beginning, there had even been two Victory-class Star Destroyers!
Those two Victory-class Star Destroyers had been destroyed early on, before the Galactic Empire realized how determined the Kingdom of Dawn was to attack this place. Sabre-class fighters, along with a swarm of Wraith fighters and Viking fighters, had suddenly arrived and besieged them, eventually blowing them apart.
But that was then. Now, trying to ambush the heavily guarded Galactic Empire spaceport with fighter squadrons alone was unrealistic.
Fighter firepower was simply too limited for a hard assault.
Therefore, after thoroughly disrupting the Galactic Empire's strategic deployment, the Kingdom of Dawn immediately stepped up reinforcements for its ground forces. Transport ships arrived in droves, carrying vast numbers of troops, combat robots, armored vehicles, and heavy weapons toward Dantooine's orbit.
They also seized the window when the Galactic Empire was unable to launch a counterattack either on the ground or in space and brought over another Dawn's Radiance-class industrial mothership.
To send this industrial mothership into hyperspace, the Kingdom of Dawn's shipping operations had even been