Operation Plan

695, Operation Plan

After ending the communication, Count Dooku rose to his feet and squeezed the communicator lightly in his hand, crushing it instantly. He slowly opened his hand, and the bloodied fragments clattered onto the floor as flames of fury burned in his eyes.

"Is this great plan really subject to your whims alone, Sidious..." Count Dooku muttered in a low voice.

He took the neatly folded handkerchief from his breast pocket, wiped his hands, then casually tossed it to a cleaning droid before turning and walking out.

General Grievous was kneeling on one knee outside, completely motionless.

"Losing the Malevolence was a foolish failure, Grievous," Count Dooku said coldly.

"I will wash away this humiliation with the blood of the Galactic Republic!" General Grievous replied with his head lowered.

"Oh? Then prove it to me," Count Dooku said.

"I have already planned surprise attacks on Anoth and Bakura planet. Please await my good news!" General Grievous said.

"Anoth and Bakura? Why those two planets?" Count Dooku waved a hand with mild interest, and a holographic star map appeared from the device beside him.

General Grievous grinned savagely. "This is the beginning of a large-scale assault campaign. When the operation succeeds..."

He stood and walked toward the star map, intending to mark it.

However, Count Dooku merely waved him off and said blandly, "Enough. I have no interest in plans that exist only on a screen. When the time comes, present your results directly before me."

"Yes, my lord!" General Grievous replied with his head bowed, then turned and walked away.

Endor system, Glory mothership, combat command center.

"I need to know how we should use this Titan warship once the Plague publicly and formally joins the Confederacy of Independent Systems' order of battle," Tang Xiao asked from