The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2296 General Mobilization Order
2297: General Mobilization Order
As long as the star gate is discovered, the Galactic Empire will immediately choose war. This is something that everyone in the Principality of Dawn is very sure of.

The reasons have been explained a lot. In short, the reason why the Galactic Empire is sure to defeat the Principality of Dawn in the war is that it is sure that the overall strength of the Principality of Dawn is far inferior to its own. But once the Principality of Dawn has a stargate, their overall strength will immediately leap to the same level as the Galactic Empire.

In other words, even if it is not as good as it is now, with the help of the Stargate, the development of the Principality of Dawn will inevitably be several times that of the Galactic Empire. It won’t be long before the gap between the two sides will be narrowed or even surpassed.

Even the dullest strategist, looking at the fragmented areas controlled by the Principality of Dawn on the star map, would make the same choice after learning that the other side has a star gate connecting these places together -

war!

When Qi Jian mentioned this possibility, everyone in the meeting room fell silent.

After a long while, Ling Liang slammed the table and stood up, saying loudly: "I suggest that we immediately launch Operation Zero! Preemptive strike!!"

"Are you crazy? If this is a conspiracy of the Galactic Empire, we will be walking into a trap if we start a war early!" Francis Underwood objected.

"What about the military deployment of the Empire?" asked slowly the veteran Carls Walton, who replaced Matt Horner as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

Saratan Moss shook his head and said, "The Galactic Empire has not shown any signs of additional mobilization, and they have not increased their troops at the border. The several fleets at the border have not been mobilized either."

Tang Xiao asked, "What is the possibility that the Galactic Empire will forcibly start a war without mobilizing or deploying troops?"

"I can only say that doing this would be a military disaster for the empire," Carls Walton said in a deep voice.

Qi Jian also considered his words and said slowly: "If the empire wants to start a war, they do have enough troops. But they must solve the problems of funding, public opinion, and the rebel army, and most importantly, the opinions of the core circle of nobles. If they start a war without caring about it, it is possible that their backyard will catch fire directly. Therefore, I am skeptical about whether to take the initiative."

"If they don't start a war, what's the matter with this series of intelligence wars recently? Are they actively reminding us?" Xian Hui asked in return, "Soldiers are trained to be used! Tanks are built to be used! The same goes for intelligence! Intelligence is also time-sensitive!"

Although he has gained a lot of weight in recent years, this old general has always had a sharp eye. As Xian Hui, who promoted and trained the hacker team, his understanding of intelligence may be second only to Saratan Moss.

"Is it possible that the Galactic Empire is doing this to test our reaction? Investing in intelligence costs and forcing us to make wrong and impulsive decisions?" said Francis Underwood.

"There is no other possibility. Prepare your army for war. I will leave immediately and return to the Dawn Planet." Severance Tann spoke very briefly, and did not bother to listen to any response. She stood up and disappeared from the holographic projection. "I also think that the Galactic Empire must have begun to prepare for war in secret! The reason they hide like this is that on the one hand, they hope that we will make a misjudgment, and on the other hand, if we also start preparing for war, then they will gain an advantage in public opinion." Helmut Zemo said.

"But their envoys are still on the planet Dawn..." said He Ru, the governor of the Developer Star Zone, hesitantly.

"That's enough!" Tang Xiao raised his hand to stop the continued argument, "If you want to fight, then fight."

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On June 11, 6BBY, the Principality of Dawn officially issued a general mobilization order, signed personally by Grand Duke Tang Xiao of Dawn!

All active military forces are to be deployed to combat positions immediately. All reserve personnel are to be transferred to active duty and report to the nearest barracks within three days. The Principality of Dawn has switched from a limited compulsory military service system to a universal compulsory military service system. All men of appropriate age must serve in the military for three years and receive regular amateur military training.

All industrial production was transferred to national centralized planning, and a wartime economic department was established to organize the transformation of all industrial production plants. Luxury consumption was prohibited, alcohol was prohibited on civilian working days, and all service industries were prohibited from receiving guests after 12 a.m. and were forced to close at 1 a.m.

A series of policies including people's livelihood, economy, production, industry, agriculture, education, etc. will transform the entire Principality of Dawn into a huge war machine!

It should be noted here that even during the Clone Wars, the Fourth Civilization only carried out limited mobilization. The main reason was that the Fourth Civilization was still on the road to development at that time, and rash mobilization would destroy the accumulated development results.

But now it is different. The economy and industrial production of the Principality of Dawn have long been on the right track, so a series of very scientific general mobilization systems have been formulated very early. This mobilization system even plans which factories and companies should be transformed, and which parts of which warships should be produced after the transformation. Such detailed goals!

The general mobilization time is three months. After that, almost all the production capacity of the Principality of Dawn will be concentrated on industrial production. If it comes to warship manufacturing, their warship output will directly increase by more than 5 times!
The Principality of Dawn will then also have a huge army with a total of more than 10 billion people!
This mobilization system is also something that the Galactic Empire does not have at present. The Galactic Republic has not fought a war like this since 4000 years ago, so it is naturally very unfamiliar with this mobilization system. Even if they learned some concepts and clues about total mobilization from the Principality of Dawn, they are unlikely to implement this mobilization system due to the complex situation within the empire.

This is undoubtedly a way to overdraw the country's development potential, but it is also undoubtedly a way to burst out the greatest power in a short period of time... The total mobilization system is actually one of the biggest reliances of Operation Zero to defeat the Galactic Empire within a year!

The general mobilization order has been issued, and the whole country is boiling!
However, the propaganda machine of the Principality of Dawn is not directly promoting war at this moment. Instead, it is doing its utmost to publicize the great achievements of Grand Duke Tang Xiao of Dawn, constantly praising him and building momentum, almost praising Tang Xiao to the level of an unprecedented and unrivaled wise ruler.

Correspondingly, the Galactic Empire was also very unusual. Although their propaganda machine condemned the sudden increase in troops by the Principality of Dawn, they were generally promoting the long-term stability of the Galactic Empire and its contribution to the unification of the Milky Way.

As the war gets closer and closer, the media on both sides are eerily quiet... not a single word about the war!