2753. The future of the Empire
In order to ensure that the planet Palin-Minor will not be captured by Kingdom of Dawn, Dunn-Vesex keeps asking for help from Imperial Center, hoping to send reinforcements as soon as possible. It is best to send an additional Executor-class Super Star Destroyer.
The current situation is very obvious. Kingdom of Dawn is preserving the strength of the fleet. At the same time, because of the First System Army's offensive, they have seen that the Empire is still extremely strong, so they must be shrinking the front line and preparing for a long-term confrontation with Imperial fleet on the front line of Fortress Planet Bilbrin.
Moreover, since Bilbrin Planet is controlled by Kingdom of Dawn, the traffic from the Galactic Empire to Northern Territory can only pass through Hydian Way.. However, the direction of Hydian Way leads directly to Northeastern Territory, so large-scale traffic directly to the planet Palin-Minor needs to go around the entire edge of Northern Territory, which takes an extremely long time.
This means that even if the Empire mobilizes reinforcements, logistical supplies and troop projection will face tremendous pressure.
What Dunn-Vesex is most worried about now is that his reinforcements in Northern Territory are cut off. Being cut off at this time is not as simple as Emperor Tiangao becoming a warlord comfortably. It is really fatal!
Dunn-Vesex knows very well that for the Galactic Empire, what the Empire's senior leaders are most worried about is actually Geth. Because this kind of Mechanical Lifeforms can be said to destroy a place in one place. Even if there are records, more than 20 races have been exterminated.
He was able to come all the way from the Governor of the Ninth Army, first to influence the decisions of the other seventh, eighth, and tenth legions, and then to incorporate these legions into his own command system, relying on the line of defense against the invasion of Geth.
In order to build this line of defense, Emperor Palpatine gave him such great power, making him the de facto ruler of the four legions of Northern Territory.
Therefore, no one knows the horror of Geth better than Dunn-Vesex.
Now that First System Army is blocked from Bilbrin Planet, he can only face the attack of Geth alone, and then add the powerful Commerce Guild Fleet main force of Kingdom of Dawn Northern Territory!
Before, when First System Army was still very stubborn, Dunn-Vesex had a lot of Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts, but now that First System Army has suffered a heavy blow, Dunn-Vesex swears that he is definitely the one who is most loyal to the Empire!
He returned to Imperial Center in person and wanted to meet Palpatine. However, no one in the emperor could see him now, so Dunn-Vesex settled for the next best thing. Constantly working in the offices of Supreme Strategic Command, Imperial Marshal Ruffan-Digorinus, Military Affairs Committee, Imperial Intelligence Bureau, etc.
Submitting an emergency strategic plan, Lichen must immediately launch specific plans to ensure the safety of the Northern Territory battlefield.
At the same time, due to the special relationship between him and Kuat Drive Yards, he also made a special trip to Quat Planet to confirm that his military orders could be fulfilled in advance. At the same time, Sith Fleet Systems, another emerging industrial giant, also visited Dunn many times.
Dunn-Vesex is considered a well-connected and well-rounded person in the the Empire officialdom, so compared to the smelly and tough Oswald-Tessik and Dunn are much more popular. He also successfully persuaded Imperial Supreme Strategic Command to make the defense of Northern Territory a top priority.
However, before his actions could achieve substantial results, he first received bad news.
No... two!
But the reason is all because of the same person - former Imperial Marshal, Demetrius-Zaarin!
Galactic Empire previously invested heavily in the research and development of the next-generation advanced fighter plan-TIE Defender fighter. All scientific research data, prototypes, and production lines were all packaged and taken away by Demetrius-Zaarin.
Therefore, the most advanced fighter jets that Galactic Empire can produce now are the TIE-Interceptor and TIE-Avenger. Then there is the TIE-Phantom Fighter Plan in the hands of another Imperial Marshal, Matteo Bacchi, which is even more complicated.
Moreover, I heard that once the stealth system of this kind of fighter is activated, it will become completely invisible and cannot even find its own equipment... This ridiculous technical flaw has brought the entire project to a standstill, and Marshal Bachi is very worried.
And it has been proven in previous battles that although the two models of TIE-Interceptor fighter and TIE-Avenger fighter, one light and one heavy, are indeed much more powerful in combat performance than the current TIE-Advanced X1, they are still no match for Kingdom of Dawn's most advanced fighter - Sabre-class fighter.
But if this is just bad news, then it's okay. At the worst, we need more TIE-Interceptors and TIE-Avengers to come back, which can play a role to some extent. At least we won't be swatted to death like flies like before.
What is really fatal is the second message: Demetrius-Zaarin not only took away the TIE Defender plan, but also robbed Omar Planet!
As soon as I heard the place name Omar Planet, Dunn-Vesex, my eyes darkened and I almost fainted.
Because Omar Planet is one of the largest industrial worlds in Sith Fleet Systems. There are three huge space stations on it, which continuously produce various models of TIE series fighter and bombers.
When working at full speed, Omar Planet can produce tens of thousands of fighter jets and bombers of various types every day!
However, Demetrius-Zaarin directly attacked Omar Planet. With the extremely powerful performance of TIE Defender fighter, they captured three giant industrial space stations on the periphery of the planet, and then took away everything that could be taken away, and directly blew up those that could not be taken away.
He even packed up Sith Fleet Systems's engineers who didn't have time to evacuate!
Les Shiner, the current chairman of the Sith Fleet Systems supreme board of directors, personally met with Dunn-Vesex, and then told him with great regret that they would not be able to provide Galactic Empire with mass production support for any new fighter jets for at least the next two years.
Even for the existing fighter production lines, the production capacity has been cut in half, leaving only about 60%.
And the current newly produced fighter jets must be given priority to the First System Army. After all, they just fought a fierce battle there and suffered heavy losses. In the battle of Palanci Planet alone, First System Army lost more than 4,900 fighter jets!
At present, Galactic Empire has a huge armament gap in all aspects. Fighter aircraft alone require constant upgrading, maintenance and repair, daily elimination, etc. Production capacity is already very tight.
Now the core production base of Omar Planet has been lost, causing the entire Imperial Air Force update plan to be completely paralyzed.
Therefore, Les-Chiner told Dunn-Vesex that although Supreme Strategic Command does regard Northern Territory defense as the focus of the next phase of operations, Sith Fleet Systems currently does not have the ability to provide Northern Territory with more advanced fighter jets.
Of course, if Northern Territory is really urgently needed, then he can still raise 10,000 TIE Advanced X-1 fighter jets, 500 TIE Avenger, and 1,500 TIE Interceptor fighter in various ways.
After that, Dunn-Vesex also participated in a supreme military coordination conference held by Imperial Supreme Strategic Command.
This meeting discussed the next phase of the Galactic Empire's combat plan, focusing on Northern Territory defense, but at the same time, it was also required to ensure the construction of Death Star and ensure that Death Star can enter active service as planned.
This is equivalent to telling Dunn-Vesex that although we value your side, the Empire is powerless now and has more important things to do.
Next, Galaxy Imperial Supreme Strategic Command is preparing to expand the production of Vindicator-class heavy cruiser in response to the current situation where fighter jet production has been seriously affected, and remove the Hangar Platform design from the newly built Imperial II-class Star Destroyer. At the same time, it will also install more point defense weapons on those warships to defend against attacks by Kingdom of Dawn fighter jets and drones.
This meeting also made it clear that the main task of all aspects of the Empire is to defend. It will not switch from defense to offense until Death Star is completed.
What made Dunn-Vesex most unhappy was that at the end of the meeting, Wilhuff-Governor Tarkin, who was responsible for the construction work of Death Star He told him with a smile on his face that when Death Star was completed, he would carefully assess the pressures the Empire faced in each war zone, and then let Death Star solve them one by one in order.
Looking at his attitude, Dunn-Vesex knew that he shouldn't expect Death Star to come over and solve Northern Territory's problem.
Then there is another key task, which is to encircle and suppress the Empire's biggest traitor - Demetrius-Zaarin. Now he has been promoted to Admiral of the Navy 0 Chiss Mis-Ro-Nurudo-Thrawn of is responsible for overall command of the encirclement and suppression operations against the Demetrius-Zaarin rebels.
Not long ago, the Thrawn design caught up with the Zaarin fleet. After a brief battle between the two sides, due to the activity of several powerful former Imperial Inquisitors in the Zaarin fleet, including Arden Lin, Jing Fang and others, the Thrawn fleet failed to block the opponent, and only sank an Victory-class Star Destroyer and some frigates.
But it is worth mentioning that during this encounter, Thrawn set up a suspicious formation to lure TIE Defender fighter of the Zaarin fleet to attack. As a result, through the crossfire of several warships, they finally succeeded in shooting down two TIE-Defender fighter jets. Now the wreckage of the two fighter jets has been rushed to Sith Fleet Systems for reverse analysis by the most cutting-edge engineers.
Currently, the small fleet of Demetrius-Zaarin is fleeing from the within the Empire and is about to break through the encirclement of Core Worlds. It is obvious that his target is Outer Rim Territories.
Once he successfully arrives at Outer Rim, he will likely get in touch with the Rebel Alliance or even Kingdom of Dawn. If these two parties are allowed to obtain the contents of the TIE Defender plan, the consequences will be really disastrous.
What's more, Zaarin still has some of Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer's data!
Therefore, annihilating Zaarin's troops is also a top priority. The personal instructions from His Majesty the Emperor, who is hiding in seclusion, make Outer Rim Territories who is hiding not Imperial Marshal Niel-Declan who dared to come back immediately led the fleet to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Zaarin.
Under Niel-Declan, there are also a group of powerful Dark Followers who can play a certain role in this battle.
This would also allow Niel-Declan to atone for his sins and offset part of his guilt for killing Core Worlds's top nobleman Silas-Tagge.
So after the whole meeting ended, Dunn-Vesex discovered in despair that although these guys kept saying that Northern Territory's defense was the focus of the next stage, but after carefully arranging it, it turned out that his Northern Territory matters had to be delayed a little!
The defense plan was shelved, and even the requested reinforcement fleet came to nothing.
In the end, Dunn-Vesex had no choice but to find another Imperial Marshal--Miltin-Tarkel.
Currently Miltin-Tarkel are stationed at Scarif, supervising the construction progress of the Galactic Empire's most important project at present, Death Star.
This appointment is the result of Palpatine's daily balancing act, Wilhuff-Tarkin's competitor, Orson- After Krennic was arrested due to the previous Geonosians rebellion, Death Star's plan was led by Wilhuff-Tarkin.
But it would be very dangerous if Tarkin had the final say on such an important project. Therefore, Palpatine asked Miltin-Tarkel to supervise it.
Miltin-Tarkel, as the experienced Fleet Commander, can also make up for the lack of military command on Wilhuff-Tarkin's side due to the absence of his younger brother Gideon-Tarkin.
Of course, this appointment also led to a sharp deterioration in the relationship between Wilhuff-Tarkin and Miltin-Tarkel. Wilhuff-Tarkin, who wanted to make Death Star project their own, naturally could not tolerate the emergence of Miltin-Tarkel, and the conflict between the two almost became public.
Of course, at this military meeting, Wilhuff-Tarkin came, and Miltin-Tarkel naturally came too.
Since Wilhuff-Tarkin gave Dunn-Vesex a blow at the meeting, then Dunn was naturally not to be outdone and went to find Miltin-Tarkel right after the meeting.
What to do with him?
One word - whoring.
Miltin-Tarkel has very obvious advantages and disadvantages. First of all, he is a very good Fleet Commander with very rich experience, and he is also a Force-sensitive. Although he is too old to achieve anything, with the telepathy ability given to him by the Force, he can always find the key point in the battle.
But the disadvantage is that this guy likes women and spices. And almost to the extent that if he doesn't smoke spices to get high, he doesn't know how to conduct a fleet battle.
So Dunn-Vesex took advantage of them and organized a very luxurious spice party, inviting many dancers and singers to ignite the top Corellian spice--Glitterstim in the psychedelic light and shadow.
Then, he began to continuously consult Miltin-Tarkel for his opinions.
Dunn-Vesex also knows that now in Imperial Center, this person is the only one who can give him some useful advice. After all, he has a military background, and he had some friendship with Miltin-Tarkel in the past.
Then, Marshal Miltin, with blurry eyes, told Dunn: "Since we don't want the fleet, we need the army! Aren't you fighting Separatists at Dantooine? Just expand the scale of the battle on the Dantooine front line."