2329. Blooming on all sides
Tang Xiao established himself as the king, and Duchy of Dawn was reorganized into Kingdom of Dawn. This explosive news means that nothing can be changed for the Galactic Empire.
In fact, when Duchy of Dawn was founded 10 years ago, there were already signs of a complete breakup, but at that time Tang Xiao still left some leeway and just called itself Grand Duke without going any further. Compared to him, Count Dooku, who tried to reorganize Confederacy of Independent Systems into the Federation and claimed to be the head of state, was a bigger blow to Galactic Republic.
So after that, when Duchy of Dawn and Galactic Empire make peace alone, the two sides can reach an agreement - because the most basic point is that both parties make peace and Duchy of Dawn surrenders to the Galactic Empire. This has a premise, that is, Duchy of Dawn can at least be within the scope of surrendering to the Galactic Empire.
To put it bluntly, with the title of a Grand Duke, Galactic Empire can still admit it by pinching his nose. But if you go one step further, for example, it is King of Dawn at that time, then it is impossible. Galactic Empire cannot accept the canonization of a king in any case. This is tantamount to a challenge to Palpatine's own throne!
This throne is different from the kings of many monarchical planets in the galaxy. This is the king canonized by the Galactic Empire. This meaning runs through the entire galaxy, and is not just a name for oneself on a certain planet.
For example, there are many monarchy planets, not to mention kings, even emperors can see many of them. But it is absolutely impossible for Galactic Republic and Galactic Empire to admit it on any official occasion. They can only enjoy themselves on their own planet.
Therefore, at that time, Tang Xiao still had some room for claiming to be Grand Duke. He planned to make peace with Palpatine at that time. But now that he calls himself king, the concept is completely different. This means that he has placed himself on an equal footing with Palpatine. This means that both parties are destined to end up in a life-or-death situation whether openly or privately!
In fact, Tang Xiao does just that.
The day after he ascended the throne and became king, on August 14, Kingdom of Dawn launched a full-scale attack on the Galactic Empire from multiple directions at the same time!
In the direction of Christophsis, because Galactic Empire's control in this remote area has weakened, Planet Defense Fleet chose to take the initiative. After annihilating a patrol fleet of the Galactic Empire before, this fleet now attacks again, but instead of advancing towards the hinterland of the Galactic Empire, it chooses to march into Ryloth!
The Galactic Empire team wanted to rebuild the 14th Army that was destroyed during the Clone Wars period. Therefore, after recapturing Ryloth, Galactic Empire invested a lot of resources in preparing to rebuild 14th Army. In fact, this is why Galactic Empire wants to regain control of this star area with Ryloth as the center.
But under the destruction of the Rebel Alliance, Galactic Empire's plan to rebuild 14th Army was shattered, and at the same time, as Galactic Empire began to attack Trade Federation started the war, Outer Rim Territories's path was blocked by Trade Federation, and Ryloth completely fell into the control of the Rebel Alliance.
This time, Christophsis dispatched 40 battleships and more than 200 Light Cruiser troops to sweep away Ryloth and completely eliminate the remaining the Empire forces in this star area.
Galactic Empire does have some fleets in this direction that are used to suppress Rebel Alliance's fleet, and the goal of Christophsis's fleet is to completely annihilate them.
The person commanding this branch fleet is Lieutenant General Tom Vance from "Command and Conquer: Generals", and he also has an adjutant. This adjutant is somewhat mysterious. He is not tall and always wears a mask. Others call him, "Major General C".
The squadron of Christophsis had a firefight with Imperial Defense Fleet on that day at Rodian planet.
On the other hand, there is another fleet setting off from Makito. This is the combined fleet of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, Trade Federation and Fourth Group. The tentative codename of this fleet among Kingdom of Dawn is Commerce Guild Fleet.
Commerce Guild Fleet includes more than 200 battleships, which does not seem to be a particularly large number, but the number of small and medium-sized warships in this fleet has reached more than 5,000! Still a huge force.
Commerce Guild Fleet also did not choose to attack the hinterland of the Galactic Empire. They mainly used small and medium-sized warships. If they attacked Galactic Empire's defense line, they would suffer heavy losses. Therefore, this fleet, led by the famous general Neimoidian, Admiral Mar-Tuke, advanced eastward.
Obviously, Admiral Mar-Tuk's purpose is to first clean up the outer planets of the 8th, 9th, and 10th legions of the Galactic Empire, and then conduct a roundabout outflank.
On the front, Galactic Empire, under the leadership of generals Gillard-Perine, built two lines of defense. They are the Bilbrin Planet defense line in the south and the Palin-Minor planet defense line in the north. These two solid defense lines are defended by tens of thousands of small and medium-sized warships and a total of 2,500 capital ships. They are considered indestructible.
The reason why Admiral Mar-Tuk dared to face such a huge main fleet as Galactic Empire and still dared to send his own main fleet to make a detour was because his biggest reliance was Geth!
After several years of development, the current Geth is crazy. They are building factories, mining resources, and building warships almost non-stop.
Geth fleet has directly increased from about 50 ships ten years ago to more than 300 ships. And more than 300 ships are just the establishment of one of their fleets! Even Tang Xiao doesn't know how many fleets Geth has.
The only thing that is clear at present is that Geth is almost constantly attacking Galactic Empire's defense line. They don't gather many troops each time, but their operations are very flexible. They only focus on mobile operations and will never engage in a fleet decisive battle with the Galactic Empire.
Geth can do almost anything on the battlefield. They deceive, disguise, show weakness, and seduce. Their various methods even make people feel that they are not like Mechanical Lifeforms, but more like a cunning intelligent creature.
And Geth has used warp navigation technology very extensively, and their attack is very broad. There is no such thing as a rear for the Galactic Empire defense line, because you don't know when a team of Geth fleet will suddenly appear next to your logistics base.
The biggest difference between Geth and Mechanical Lifeforms and humans is that as long as there is energy, they have almost unlimited life. The most important thing is that they can stay on standby for a long time and do not need food, entertainment, nutritional balance, or morale. They just need to stay there.
Compared to Darth-Vader, who conducted a three-month warp voyage in order to raid Rendili Planet. During this process, the boring atmosphere and intense pressure caused the morale of his entire fleet to fall to the bottom, making it almost unbearable to fight. Geth does not have this problem. Even after several years of traveling at warp speed, they are still in the same state as when they first set off.
Therefore, in order to prevent Geth fleet from sneak attacks, Gillard-Perine can only use the stupidest and most effective method - deploying defenses everywhere. Mobile fleets are deployed at almost every key point. As soon as traces of Geth are found, they will rush to rescue immediately.
At the same time, the logistics supply line also keeps changing once a month to prevent direct attacks by Geth from using the same route for a long time.
In order to maintain such a line of defense, the entire Northern Territory front line needs to deploy a huge fleet. When Northern Territory war zone had the largest fleet, it even reached more than 3,500 capital ships, which was close to the size of more than 80,000 small and medium-sized warships!
Therefore, it seems that Galactic Empire and Northern Territory war zone have a large force, but in fact they are always in a state of focusing on one thing and the other, exhausted, and basically have no ability to counterattack. And if it weren't for the outstanding abilities of Gillard-Perine, who had been promoted to generals, this line of defense would have been riddled with holes from all sides by Geth.
In the past 10 years, Gillard-Perine has grown from major to general. On the one hand, this is because of the exceptional promotion of Dunn-Vesex. On the other hand, it also shows his excellent talent!
And it seems that in order to support Admiral Mar-Tuk's offensive outside Northern Territory, Geth also assembled more than 900 warships at Bilbrin Planet, a full three fleets, to prepare for a large-scale attack!
By the way, because Geth warships does not have internal facilities such as life support systems, living systems, or barracks, their warships are generally very small. Therefore, for the Galactic Empire, Geth fleet often directly counts the number, instead of separately calculating the number of thousand-meter-level battleships and small and medium-sized battleships like we do here.
Similarly, in Mandalore star sector, Kingdom of Dawn fleet, who was originally stationed at Akiva, is now taking the initiative. This fleet is smaller in size, but it has one Endless-class Super Carrier, which also poses a huge threat to the Galactic Empire.
Although Sefrans-Tann is not commanding here now, the command system she left behind can still operate smoothly, and launched an attack on the Galactic Empire's fleet in Mandalore star sector.
Galactic Empire only maintained a small fleet in Mandalore star sector. It mainly only monitored the situation of Mandalore star sector and did not have the ability to strategically attack. Now facing the attack led by Endless-class Super Carrier, this Imperial fleet is also facing disaster!
However, for the Galactic Empire, the disaster is not over yet.
On August 15, Mimban occupied by the Galactic Empire was attacked by a huge fleet, and according to intelligence, this fleet turned out to be from Hutt Space!
Galactic Empire Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately severely questioned the current ruler Hutt, Oruba-Goresla, But Oruba-Goresla said that the fleet belonged to the remnant forces of Confederacy of Independent Systems, and that he could do nothing about it and did not dare to take any hostile actions against that fleet.
And Oruba-Goresla also said very innocently that if Galactic Empire could annihilate these nasty Separatists remnants, then he would even be willing to cash in a large bounty for the Galactic Empire.
As for Fleet Commander, who raided Mimban, no one currently knows his specific identity. They only know that he has a title - "Butcher of Balab Planet"!
This is not over yet. After Tang Xiao announced that he was the king, Dak Planet suddenly jumped out. Quarren rebuilt Freedom Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps and organized a fleet to attack Port Pament, once the largest industrial center of Confederacy of Independent Systems!
This wave of offensive by Quarren is very strange, because they seem to have been reinforced by fleets from other places, and the number of capital ships has actually reached 100! Intelligence Department on the Galactic Empire's side is conducting intensive reconnaissance, trying to figure out where Quarren's fleet came from.
However, Quarren's jump was not smooth sailing. Their actions were severely opposed by Mon Calamari on the planet. For example, Commander of this fleet was originally intended to be led by General Ackbar, the general of Mon Calamari, but General Ackbar rejected this appointment.
Mon Calamari firmly opposed re-entering the war, and said that during the Clone Wars period, it was because of Quarren's wrong alignment that Dak Planet eventually became a defeated planet and was severely sanctioned by the Galactic Empire.
Now Quarren wants to jump up and join the war again, and once again he wants to resist the extremely powerful Galactic Empire? Mon Calamari thinks that this time, Quarren is still on the wrong team, and this time, it may bring disaster to Dak Planet!
But now with the support of Kingdom of Dawn, Quarren's power on Dak Planet far exceeds that of Mon Calamari, so the situation of Dak Planet is relatively stable now.
There are three main reasons why Quarren dared to jump back at this time.
First, they are actually secretly supported by the Givin. As mentioned before, the Givin has secretly started to build the star gate and immigrated towards Lothal Planet. They also brought huge shipyards and factories from the star gate, as well as a fleet. This fleet is the reinforcement that Quarren received.
Second, Dak Planet is located in a remote location. After the war between the Galactic Empire and Trade Federation, the Empire's attack on Outer Rim of the galaxy The control power further declined, so although Dak Planet was also closely monitored by the Galactic Empire, this monitoring was very fragile and was easily cleared by Quarren.
And the last and most critical point is that Kira planet's epic victory gave Quarren great confidence. They firmly believed that this time would be the end of the Galactic Empire! Their resistance will surely lead to final victory!
Not only Dak Planet, but also Raxus Prime, Semirres Planet, Felucia, Geonosis, which were once the core planets of Confederacy of Independent Systems, have also raised anti-flag and launched an uprising.
One thing these planets have in common is that although they were defeated, they thought it was just Count Dooku's defeat, but not Separatists's failure.
Because Dawn Star Planet is still standing!