Before long, the Imperial military received intelligence that the Kingdom of Dawn's original main fleet in the Eastern Territory had begun pushing forward, accelerating the construction of a stargate on Boonta.
Not only that, the industrial system on Charos IV Planet—which had previously housed the main force of the Galactic Empire's Twelfth Army and faced Boonta across the distance—had also begun operating at full capacity, supplying heavy components for the stargate's construction.
Upon seeing this intelligence, nearly everyone at the Imperial Supreme Strategic Command cursed Governor Seben, who was currently kneeling outside the Imperial Palace begging for reinforcements, from head to toe.
If not for his foolish deployment, Charos IV Planet would never have fallen so easily. Now, its spaceports and industrial facilities had been taken over intact by the Kingdom of Dawn, becoming the strongest support for their stargate construction.
If Charos IV had not fallen, or if its industry had been given enough time to be destroyed, then given the Eastern Territory's current complicated situation, it was hard to say when Boonta's stargate would ever be completed.
Although more than half of the Rebel Alliance in the Eastern Territory had been purged during General Kalani's bloody and brutal Operation Spring Dawn, Lin Nanyi's introduction of large numbers of enterprises and corporations had placed the entire Eastern Territory under economic policies of extreme oppression and exploitation. Resistance still flared up everywhere.
Moreover, Shilka, the Givin's newly appointed governor, had been assassinated again less than a few months after taking office. Though he had survived, he was seriously wounded, dealing a severe blow to the Kingdom of Dawn's political situation in the Eastern Territory.
Thus, the Rebel Alliance was still restless in the Eastern Territory.
Under such circumstances, without the industrial support of Charos IV Planet, Boonta's stargate might truly