Under the eloquent report of the Speaker of the Galactic Republic Council, Sheev Palpatine, the Galactic Republic's defeat in the Battle of Terminus was packaged as a victory.
Palpatine vowed that the main fleet of the Separatists on the Dawn Planet, the largest industrial and military planet in the Western Territory of the Galaxy, has been destroyed, and that the Republic's Western Territory will now be completely quiet.
And he is still advocating that the 18th Army of the Republic, led by Wilhuff Tarkin, defeated the strong and defeated the dominant Dawn Planet fleet.
As for those battleships filled in with refueling tactics, they were also local defense fleets from various places. They spontaneously came to rescue the 18th Army in danger and fought bloody battles with the Dawn Planet Fleet. They were heroes who were willing to sacrifice in order to buy enough time for the 18th Army.
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And in this battle, the main fleet of Dawn Planet, which had previously destroyed the 19th Army and was in an aggressive situation, was completely disintegrated. After that, Dawn Planet would no longer be able to launch an offensive.
In fact, most of Palpatine's words are true, and there are only a few lies among them. However, this can just allow the congressmen to understand his meaning from another angle and draw conclusions that are contrary to the facts.
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The fleet of the Dawn planet does have an advantage, but these are all fleets gathered on the rear planet Manfa. Due to the restrictions of the hyperspace channel, these fleets can only use refueling tactics to continuously rush to the planet Terminus.
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The fleet of the 18th Army 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 conditions on the Republic side are better than those on the Dawn Planet.
The edge is so much better.
However, in order to keep the Dawn 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 truly lost to Matt Horner in this battle.
Although the final failure was due to Matt Horner's two huge gambles that cost his life, and also because the power of the Republic was pulled in other directions, Tarkin did have a chance to win, but deep down he was dissatisfied with
The contempt of the Dawn Planet prevented him from catching it.
But politics is politics, and Wilhuff Tarkin was highly praised in the Galactic Republic for his 'victory' in this battle, and he even received the Battle Medal for it.
Wilhuff Tarkin was not only a military strategist, but also a politician. He knew very well how to take advantage of various situations to make his political career rise smoothly.
He succeeded in convincing Sheev Palpatine that he was his staunch supporter and his best military strategist, which Palpatine indeed believed.
This battle of Terminus, both the result and the process, actually showed Palpatine's somewhat morbid appetite. He was indeed very happy, because he made the Dawn Planet pay a heavy price, even if
The Galactic Republic did not hesitate to pay a higher price.
Moreover, the result of this battle he threw out also made the nobles and wealthy families in the inner circle and core circle who are gradually beginning to control the voice of the parliament very happy.
The richer people are, the more they fear death. Now that the war in the western region of the galaxy has subsided, the Republic's powerful and valuable warships can be invested in the inner ring and core circle to protect top wealthy families like themselves, right?
With such a mentality, the congressmen supported by the wealthy nobles naturally advocated Tarkin's battle, and the hype became more and more mysterious. Later, it even began to appear that Governor Tarkin was so brave that he annihilated thousands of battleships on the Dawn Planet in one fell swoop.
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Tarkin got everything he wanted.
Even if the cost is that the 18th Army receives less and less reinforcements, they are completely unable to attack the industrial world Saleste planet that previously rebelled against the Galactic Republic, and they had to withdraw their troops during the siege of Agoma planet.
The planet Clak-Dor was also lost, and Tarkin did not hesitate.
That's right, before the 18th Army collided with the forces of Dawn Planet, it was already facing enemies on many sides and was 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 star region.
What he wants is to enter the core of power of the Galactic Republic! Show his talents among the core planets!
While attending a grand dinner on Coruscant, Wilhuff Tarkin sent a message to the military commanders of the planet Eriadu, asking them to study the possibility of continuing to attack the planet Terminus.
However, the result obtained is almost impossible.
The Dawn Planet is constantly sending more warships to the Terminus Planet, and according to intelligence personnel's investigations, a large number of engineering spacecraft have appeared and are building a huge framework near the planet.
No matter what this framework is, it's not going to be a good thing anyway.
Not only that, a separatist spacecraft appeared near the neutral planet Utapau. The planet Utapau is asking for help from the Republic and asking the 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 on the Confederation of Independent Systems that is preparing to establish a connection with the Dawn Planet.
Once there is a stable hyperspace channel connection between the Dawn Planet and the area controlled by the Confederation of Independent Systems, no one knows what will happen.
But this is not something Wilhuff Tarkin needs to consider. Maybe the Dawn Planet will rise again and threaten the Galactic Republic, but what does this have to do with him?
Perhaps by that time, he was no longer the governor of the 18th Army and had already achieved great success.
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At the same time, on the planet Terminus, which has become an area controlled by the fourth civilization, after seven hours of stability, the hyperspace channel from Planet Manfa to here can once again pass large battleships.
After a fierce flash of white light, a huge spacecraft, escorted by more than 10 guard-class light anti-aircraft destroyers, arrived in the outer space of the planet Terminus.
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 mothership that the fourth civilization is proud of - the Glory Mothership!
In other words, this is completely a miniature version of the 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.