2395. Bankruptcy of Operation Zero (Part 2)
If up to this point, Kingdom of Dawn's war against the Galactic Empire is undoubtedly very successful.
From the beginning of the war in August of 11BBY to the end of January of 10BBY, in more than 3 months, they first wiped out the entire main fleet of the Empire in Planet Kira Campaign, then severely damaged the main force of the Empire Northern Territory in Malarian Alliance Battle, and then exchanged positions with the Empire in Fondor Planet. Now it seems that Fondor Planet can last for a month at most.
Immediately afterwards, Commerce Guild Fleet defeated Lieutenant General Kendall-Ozir at Bilbrin Planet and began to directly attack Bilbrin Planet. Das-Vader failed to take any advantage in the encounter with Sefrans-Tann.
In the eyes of many people, this situation is the result of the imminent collapse of the Galactic Empire!
However, Galactic Empire inherited Galactic Republic, with a heritage of 25,000 years, how could it collapse within three months?
Kingdom of Dawn's footsteps were finally blocked.
Although Operation Zero had a perfect plan, he started the war at the wrong time, which made Kingdom of Dawn fight hastily and Galactic Empire defend in confusion. The result was that Sefrans-Tann forcibly followed the plan. After Kira planet annihilated the Empire Southern Territory's main fleet, they immediately made a big circle and crossed the galaxy to attack Galactic Empire's 12th Legion in Eastern Territory.
Such a radical strategy that cares about the beginning and the end naturally gave Das-Vader the opportunity to rush over and completely disrupt the deployment of Kingdom of Dawn.
So, after a chaotic fight between the two sides, Galactic Empire relied on his decayed and huge body to support himself again.
In addition to Darth-Vader blasting the Yago-Dur planet, a man appeared who once again allowed Galactic Empire, a high-rise building that was splendid on the outside but already decaying on the inside, to survive.
Ironically, he is not the human being that Galactic Empire has always admired.
He is a Chiss, a genius abandoned by Chiss territory.
Mis-ro-nurudo...
Thrawn!
10BBY, on January 30, Lieutenant General Kendall Ozir, who commanded and guarded the Galactic Empire's Northern Territory defense line Bilbrin Planet, was dismissed due to a disastrous defeat.
Galactic Empire's Ninth Army Governor, Dunn-Vesex urgently mobilized Lieutenant General Thrawn to Bilbrin Planet to stop the attack of Kingdom of Dawn Northern Fleet-Commerce Guild Fleet.
And when Lieutenant General Thrawn came to Bilbrin Planet, what he took over was just a piece of chicken feathers.
After Imperial fleet stationed at Bilbrin Planet mobilized a large number of surrounding warships, there are still 400 capital ships and more than 3,000 small and medium-sized warships. Looking at this number, it can be said that the strength is still there. But if you look carefully, it's really eye-catching.
Many warships in this fleet have experienced Malarian Alliance Battle and the last Battle of Bilbrin Planet. The warships that survived these two defeats were basically dilapidated. Not only the battleship, but also Imperial Navy's officers at all levels were also demoralized and unable to fight.
General Gillard-Perine gave the garrison rotation instructions before being taken away by Inquisitorius. He ordered those warships that were somewhat damaged but did not need to be returned to the dock for overhaul to be dispersed and deployed to other planets in Northern Defense Line for on-site repairs. Then an equal number of intact battleships will be drawn back from these planets.
In this way, on the one hand, Northern Defense Line will not collapse due to the deployment of a large number of warships. On the other hand, it can also maintain the strength of the fleet in the direction of Bilbrin Planet as much as possible - after all, the main attack direction of Commerce Guild Fleet is already very obvious.
During the more than a month when Lieutenant General Thrawn served as Northern Defense Line Commander, on the one hand, he continued to resist the distraction and harassment of Geth, and on the other hand, he also cooperated very well to implement the arrangement left by Gillard-Perine.
As for Lieutenant General Kendall-Ozir, who served as Bilbrin Planet Commander, the only correct decision he made was to continue the instruction of Gillard-Perine and constantly rotate damaged warships and replace them with new warships, which allowed Bilbrin Planet's fleet to regain some combat capabilities.
But all this happened as he led his army to attack proactively, and then he was hit head-on by General Commander Mar-Tuke of Commerce Guild Fleet. He hit his head with a club so hard that his head was broken and blood flowed, and he was completely ruined.
Bilbrin Planet's remaining fleet has returned to its dilapidated state again.
And what's different from the last time is that Admiral Mar-Tuk will not give Imperial fleet more than a month to slowly rotate the warships.
Kingdom of Dawn Commerce Guild Fleet, after supplementation, the current number of warships has basically returned to about 80% of the level before the outbreak of Malarian Alliance Battle.
There are a total of 170 capital ships, 440 Heavy Cruiser, and more than 3,600 small and medium-sized warships. And what is very fatal is that most of the warships installed in Commerce Guild Fleet have extremely excellent performance. Among Imperial fleet, only Imperial-class Star Destroyer can match it. The 900-meter-long Victory II-class Star Destroyer has almost been reduced to a fire support ship.
It is extremely ironic to let the 1,600-meter-long Imperial-class Star Destroyer compete with the more than 800-meter-long Heavy Cruiser.
"General Thrawn, this is a summary of our fleet, please take a look." Lieutenant General Thrawn's current adjutant, Vos-Parker (Voss Parck) came over with the information.
Vos-Parker is a small nobleman from Kruhlag Planet. According to the family's plan, he was admitted to the Imperial Naval Academy and became a naval officer. During Clone Wars, Vos-Parker served on board Hunter Class Battlecruiser with the rank of captain, and fought with Geth for a long time in Northern Territory war zone.
After the end of Clone Wars, Vos-Parker was promoted to Navy Lieutenant Colonel and served in Chimaera Imperial-class Star Destroyer as a staff officer.
It was also here that he met Thrawn and was deeply impressed by Thrawn's outstanding conducting art. From then on, he has been following Thrawn. But this time, when Thrawn served as Northern Defense Line Commander, he promoted Vos-Parker to colonel and stayed with him as adjutant.
For this practical and reliable young soldier, Lieutenant General Thrawn also gave him full trust.
However, after Thrawn took the fleet information, he just glanced at it and threw it aside. He said slowly, "I need all the information about Mal-Tuk. At the same time, it also includes Neimoidian's information, and Trade Federation's."
"It's ready, General." Vos-Parker immediately took out a new memory, "I'm sorry, General, I just thought you might want to know the current situation of this fleet first."
"Please collect and understand this matter for me." Thrawn patted his shoulder.