The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

791. The Aftermath of the Battle (Part 2)

Under the report of the speaker of the Galactic Republic Council, Sheev Palpatine, who was three-inch tongue, the defeat of the Galactic Republic in the Battle of Terminus was packaged as a victory.

Palpatine vowed that the main fleet of the separatists in Dawn Planet, the largest industrial and military planet in the west of the galaxy, has been destroyed, and the west of the Republic will be completely quiet at present.

And he is still advocating that the 18th Army of the Republic, under the leadership of Wilhuff Tarkin, defeated the strong with the weak, and defeated the dominant Dawn Star Fleet.

As for the warships filled in with refueling tactics, they are also local defense fleets. They came spontaneously to help the 18th Army that was in danger, and fought bloody battles with the Dawn Star Fleet to buy enough time for the 18th Army. Heroes who are willing to sacrifice .

And in this battle, the aggressive main fleet of Dawn Star, which had destroyed the 19th Army before, was completely disintegrated. After that, Dawn Star will no longer be able to launch an offensive.

In fact, most of Palpatine's words are true, and there are only a few false ones, but this can just rightly allow the members to understand his meaning from another angle, and thus draw conclusions that are contrary to the facts .

The fleet of Dawn Planet does indeed have the upper hand, but these are all fleets gathered on the rear planet Manfa. Due to the limitation of the hyperspace channel, these fleets can only continue to rush to the planet Terminus with refueling tactics. battlefield.

The fleet of the 18th Army is indeed at a disadvantage, but Wilhof Tarkin can gather the fleets that are coming one after another in the rear and put them into the battlefield at once. The side is much better.

However, in order to keep Dawn Star's fleet in a state of exhaustion, Tarkin did not hesitate to forcibly use refueling tactics to fight, and paid a huge price.

So from a neutral and objective point of view, Wilhuff Tarkin really lost to Matt Horner in this battle.

Although the final failure was due to Matt Horner's two life-threatening gambles, and also because the power of the Republic was involved in other directions, Tarkin did have a chance to win, but deep down in his heart Dawn Star's contempt prevented him from catching it.

But politics is politics. Because of the 'victory' of this battle, Wilhof Tarkin was highly praised in the Galactic Republic, and he was also awarded the Battle Medal for it.

Wilhuff Tarkin is not only a military strategist, but also a politician. He knows how to use various situations to make his political career flourish.

He succeeded in convincing Shiv-Palpatine that he was his staunch supporter and his best military strategist, and Palpatine did indeed think so.

The Battle of Terminus, whether it was the result or the process, was actually very much in line with Palpatine's somewhat morbid appetite. He was indeed very happy, because he made Planet Dawn pay a heavy price, even if the Galactic Republic paid a greater price.

And the result of the battle he threw out also made the nobles in the inner and inner circles who are gradually starting to control the voice of the parliament very gratified.

The richer a person is, the more he fears death. Now that the war in the western region of the galaxy has subsided, the powerful and precious warships of the Republic can be invested in the inner circle and core circle to protect top giants like themselves, right?

With such a mentality, the councilors supported by the rich and nobles naturally advocated the battle of Tarkin, and the more they boasted, the more mysterious they became. Later, it even began to appear that Governor Tarkin was brave and invincible, annihilating thousands of warships on the Dawn planet in one fell swoop. version.

Tarkin got everything he wanted.

Even if the price is that the 18th Army receives fewer and fewer reinforcements, they are completely unable to attack the industrial world planet Sullest that rebelled against the Galactic Republic before, and they had to withdraw their troops during the siege of the planet Agoma. The planet Clak-Dor was also lost, and Tarkin would not spare it.

That's right, before the forces of the 18th Army and Dawn Planet collided, they were already facing enemies on many fronts and were in a very dangerous situation.

But so what? The 18th Army was always just a springboard for Tarkin, and his ultimate goal was never this remote sector.

What he wants is to enter the power core of the Galactic Republic! Show off his talents among the planets in the inner circle!

While attending a grand dinner in Coruscant, Wilhuff Tarkin sent a message to the military commander of the planet Eliadu, asking them to study the possibility of continuing to attack the planet Terminus.

However, the result obtained is almost impossible.

Dawn Star is constantly sending more warships to Planet Terminus, and according to the investigation of intelligence personnel, a large number of engineering spaceships have appeared, and an extremely huge framework is being built near the planet.

Whatever the framework is, it's not going to be a good thing anyway.

Not only that, but Separatist spaceships have appeared near the neutral planet Utapau, which is appealing to the Republic for help, asking the Republic to pay attention to this direction.

The message for help was naturally ignored, and the intelligence personnel only paid attention to the meaning of this message.

It is very likely that a force from the Confederation of Independent Galaxies is preparing to establish a connection with the Dawn planet.

Once there is a stable hyperspace link between Dawn Planet and the control area of ​​​​the Confederation of Independent Systems, no one knows what will happen.

But this is not something Wilhof Tarkin needs to consider. Maybe the Dawn star will rise again and threaten the 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 he had already made great achievements.

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At the same time, in the planet Terminus, which has become the area controlled by the fourth civilization, after 7 hours of stabilization, the hyperspace channel from the planet Manfa to here can pass through large warships again.

After a burst of violent white light flickered, a huge spaceship, escorted by more than 10 guard-class light air defense destroyers, came to the outer space of the planet Terminus.

The appearance of this spaceship stunned all the monitoring station staff who saw this scene!

Because the shape of this spaceship is almost exactly the same as the super mothership that the Fourth Civilization is proud of - the Glory mothership!

In other words, this is a miniature version of the Glory mothership! !

According to the data displayed on the scanner, the overall height of this crescent-shaped spaceship is 2138.1 meters, which is almost 1/20 of the Glory mothership, but it is already a very large spaceship.