791. The remaining warmth of the battle (Part 2)
Under the eloquent reports of Speaker Galactic Republic Senate, Sheev-Palpatine, Galactic Republic's failure in Battle of Terminus was packaged as a victory.
Palpatine swore that Separatists's main fleet on Western Reaches of the galaxy's largest industrial and military planet, Dawn Star Planet, has been destroyed, and currently Galactic Republic's Western Reaches will be completely quiet.
And he is still advocating that Republic 18th Army, led by Wilhuff-Tarkin, defeated the strong Dawn Star Planet fleet with the weak.
As for those battleships filled in with refueling tactics, they were also local defense fleets from various places. They spontaneously came to rescue 18th Army in danger, and fought bloody battles with the Dawn Star Planet fleet, and were heroes who were willing to sacrifice in order to buy enough time for the 18th Army.
And in this battle, Dawn Star Planet's main fleet, which had previously destroyed 19th Army and was in an aggressive situation, was completely disintegrated. After that, Dawn Star Planet would no longer be able to launch an offensive.
In fact, most of Palpatine's words are true, with only a few falsehoods. However, this allows the congressmen to understand his meaning from another angle and draw conclusions that are contrary to the facts.
Dawn Star Planet's fleet indeed has the advantage, but these are all Manfarr fleets gathered at the rear. Due to the restrictions of the hyperspace channel, these fleets can also only use refueling tactics to continuously rush to the Terminus Planet battlefield.
18th Army's fleet is indeed at a disadvantage, but Wilhuff-Tarkin can gather the fleets that are coming one after another from the rear and throw them into the battlefield at once. After all, the hyperspace channel situation on Galactic Republic's side is much better than that on Dawn Star Planet's side.
However, in order to keep Dawn Star Planet's fleet in a state of consumption, Tarkin did not hesitate to use refueling tactics to fight, and paid a huge price.
So from a neutral and objective perspective, Wilhuff-Tarkin actually lost to Matt-Hona in this battle.
Although the final failure was due to the two life-threatening gambles of Matt-Hona, and also because Galactic Republic's power was pulled in other directions, Tarkin did have a chance to win, but the contempt for Dawn Star Planet deep in his heart prevented him from seizing it.
But politics is politics. Wilhuff-Tarkin was highly praised in Galactic Republic for their 'victory' in this battle, and they even received battle medals for it.
Wilhuff-Tarkin is not only a military strategist, he is also a politician. He knows very well how to use various situations to make his political career rise smoothly.
He successfully convinced Sheev-Palpatine that he was his staunch supporter and the best military strategist under him. Palpatine indeed believed so.
This time Battle of Terminus, both the result and the process, actually have a somewhat morbid appetite for Palpatine. He was indeed very happy, because he made Dawn Star Planet pay a heavy price, even if Galactic Republic paid a greater price, he would not hesitate.
Moreover, the result of the battle he threw out also made the wealthy nobles Inner Rim and Core Worlds who are gradually beginning to control the voice of the parliament very pleased.
The richer people are, the more they fear death. Now that the war in Western Reaches of the galaxy has subsided, those powerful and valuable battleships of Galactic Republic can be invested in Inner Rim and Core Worlds to protect top wealthy families like themselves, right?
With such a mentality, the congressmen supported by the wealthy nobles naturally advocated the battle of Tarkin, and the hype became more and more mysterious. Later, there were even versions in which Governor Tarkin was so brave that he annihilated thousands of Dawn Star Planet warships in one fell swoop.
Tarkin got everything he wanted.
Even if the price is that 18th Army gets less and less reinforcements, they are completely unable to attack the industrial world Salust that rebelled against Galactic Republic before, and in Agomar Planet During the siege of, they had to withdraw their troops. At the same time, they also lost the planet Khala Gram-Dor (Clak-Dor), and Tarkin did not hesitate.
That's right, before the forces of the 18th Army and Dawn Star Planet collided, they were already under attack from many sides and were in a very dangerous situation.
But so what? 18th Army has always been just a springboard for Tarkin. His ultimate goal has never been this remote star region.
What he wants is to enter the core of power of the Galactic Republic! Show off his talents in Core Worlds!
Wilhuff-Tarkin, while attending a grand dinner at Coruscant, sent a message to Eriadu's military Commander, asking them to study the possibility of continuing to attack Terminus Planet.
But the result is almost impossible.
Dawn Star Planet is constantly sending additional warships to Terminus Planet, and according to intelligence personnel's investigation, a large number of engineering spacecraft have appeared and are building a huge framework near the planet.
Whatever this framework is, it's not going to be good anyway.
Not only that, the Separatists spacecraft appeared near the neutral Utapau (Utapau). Utapau is asking for help from Galactic Republic, asking Galactic Republic to pay attention to this direction.
The request for help was naturally ignored, and the intelligence officers only focused on the meaning of the message.
It is very likely that there is a force over there at Confederacy of Independent Systems that is preparing to establish a connection with Dawn Star Planet.
Once there is a stable hyperspace channel connection between the control areas of Dawn Star Planet and Confederacy of Independent Systems, no one knows what will happen.
But this is not something Wilhuff-Tarkin needs to consider. Maybe Dawn Star Planet will rise again and threaten Galactic Republic, but what does this have to do with him?
Perhaps at that time, he was no longer the governor of the 18th Army and had already achieved great success.
At the same time, in Terminus Planet, which has become the control area of Fourth Civilization, after 7 hours of stability, the hyperspace channel from Manfarr to here can once again pass large battleships.
After a violent flash of white light, a huge spacecraft, escorted by more than 10 Garda Flak Frigates, arrived in Terminus Planet outer space.
The appearance of this spacecraft stunned all the monitoring station staff who saw this scene!
Because the shape of this spaceship is almost exactly the same as the super carrier Fourth Civilization is proud of - Glory mothership!
In other words, this is completely a miniature version of Glory mothership!!
According to the data displayed on the scanner, the overall height of this meniscus-shaped spacecraft is 2138.1 meters, which is almost 1/20 of the Glory mothership, but it is already a very large spacecraft.