The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2329, Blooming on All Sides

Tang Xiao proclaimed himself king and the Principality of Dawn was reorganized into the Kingdom of Dawn. This explosive news meant that for the Galactic Empire, everything was irreversible.

In fact, 10 years ago, when the Principality of Dawn was established, there were already signs of a complete break, but Tang Xiao still left some room at that time, and only called himself the Grand Duke without going further. Compared to him, Count Dooku, who tried to reorganize the Confederation of Independent Systems into a federation and called himself the head of state, was a bigger blow to the Galactic Republic.

Therefore, after that, when the Principality of Dawn and the Galactic Empire made peace alone, the two sides could reach an agreement - because the most basic point is that the two sides made peace and the Principality of Dawn surrendered to the Galactic Empire, which had a prerequisite, that is, the Principality of Dawn could at least still be within the scope of surrender to the Galactic Empire.

To put it bluntly, the Galactic Empire could still accept the title of a Grand Duke. But if it went a step further, such as being the King of the Dawn, that would be impossible. The Galactic Empire could not accept being crowned a king, as this would be a challenge to Palpatine's own throne!
This throne is different from the kings of many monarchical planets in the Milky Way. This is the king canonized by the Galactic Empire. The meaning of this throne runs through the entire Milky Way, and it is not just a title given to a certain planet.

For example, on many monarchical planets, not to mention kings, you can even see many emperors. However, the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire will never be recognized in any official occasion, and they can only enjoy it on their own planets.

Therefore, at that time, Tang Xiao called himself the Grand Duke, which still left some room for maneuver. He was planning to make peace with Palpatine at that time. But now, he called himself the king, and the concept was completely different. This meant that he put himself on an equal footing with Palpatine, and this doomed the two sides to a life-and-death struggle, whether in public or in private!

And in fact, that's what Tang Xiao did.

On August 8, the day after he ascended the throne, the Kingdom of Dawn launched a full-scale attack on the Galactic Empire from multiple directions at the same time!
In the direction of the planet Christophsis, because the Galactic Empire's control over this remote area has weakened, the planetary defense fleet has chosen to take the initiative to attack. After annihilating a patrol fleet of the Galactic Empire, this fleet now attacks again, but it did not advance into the heart of the Galactic Empire, but chose to march into the planet Rylos!
The Galactic Empire wanted to rebuild the 14th Army that was destroyed during the Clone Wars. Therefore, after retaking the planet Ryloth, the Galactic Empire invested a lot of resources to rebuild the 14th Army. In fact, this is also the Galactic Empire's desire to regain control of this star region with Ryloth as the center.

However, due to the destruction of the Rebellion, the Galactic Empire's plan to rebuild the 14th Army was shattered. At the same time, as the Galactic Empire declared war on the Trade Federation, the passage to the Outer Rim Star Region was blocked by the Trade Federation, and the planet Rylos fell completely under the control of the Rebellion.

This time, the planet Christophsis dispatched 40 battleships and more than 200 light cruisers to sweep the planet Rylos and completely eliminate the remaining imperial forces in this star region.

The Galactic Empire does have some fleets in this direction to suppress the rebels, and the fleet on the planet Christophsis aims to annihilate them completely.

The commander of this branch fleet is Vice Admiral Towns from Command & Conquer: Generals, and he also has an adjutant with him. This adjutant is a bit mysterious, short, and always wears a mask. Others call him "Major General C".

The Christophsis fleet exchanged fire with the Imperial Defense Fleet on the planet Rodia that day.

On the other hand, there is another fleet that departs from the planet Mykito. This is the joint fleet of the Interstellar Banking Association, the Trade Union, and the Fourth Group. The fleet's tentative code name in the Kingdom of Dawn is the Commercial Combined Fleet.

The Commercial Combined Fleet includes more than 200 battleships, which may not seem like a lot, but the number of small and medium-sized warships in this fleet has reached more than 5000! It is still a huge force.

The Commercial Combined Fleet also did not choose to attack the heartland of the Galactic Empire. They mainly used small and medium-sized warships. If they attacked the Galactic Empire's defense line, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses. Therefore, this fleet, led by the famous Neimoidian Admiral Mal-Touk, advanced eastward.

It was obvious that Admiral Mal-Tuk's goal was to first clear out the outer planets of the Galactic Empire's 8th, 9th, and 10th Legions, and then make a roundabout encirclement.

On the front, the Galactic Empire, under the leadership of Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, built two lines of defense, namely the southern Bilbrin planetary defense line and the northern Palin-Minor planetary defense line. These two solid lines of defense were defended by tens of thousands of small and medium-sized warships and a full 2500 battleships, making them indestructible.

The reason why Admiral Mal-Tuk dared to face such a huge main fleet of the Galactic Empire and still dared to send his main fleet to make a detour was that his greatest reliance was the Geth!
After several years of development, the Geth are now crazy. They are almost non-stop building factories, mining resources, and constructing warships.

The fleet of the Geth has increased from about 50 ships ten years ago to more than 300 ships. And more than 300 ships are just the establishment of one of their fleets! Even Tang Xiao is not clear about how many fleets the Geth has.

The only thing that is clear at the moment is that the Geth are almost constantly attacking the Galactic Empire's defenses. They don't gather a lot of troops each time, but they are very flexible in combat, mainly relying on mobile warfare, and never engage in fleet decisive battles with the Galactic Empire.

The Geth use almost every possible means on the battlefield. They deceive, disguise, show weakness, and lure. All these methods even make people feel that they are not like mechanical life forms, but more like cunning intelligent creatures.

Moreover, the Geth have widely used warp travel technology, and their attacks are so widespread that the Galactic Empire's defense line does not even have a rear, because you never know when a Geth fleet will suddenly appear next to your logistics base.

The biggest difference between the Geth as mechanical life and humans is that as long as there is energy, they have almost infinite life. And the most important thing is that they can stay on standby for a long time, without food, entertainment, balanced nutrition or morale, just staying there.

Compared to Darth Vader, who had been sailing at warp speed for three months to raid the planet Rendili, the boredom and intense pressure caused the morale of his entire fleet to plummet, and they were almost unable to fight. The Geth did not have this problem. Even after several years of sailing at warp speed, they were in the same state as when they first set out. So in order to prevent the Geth fleet from attacking everywhere, Gilad Pellaeon could only use the dumbest but most effective method - deploying defenses everywhere. Mobile fleets were deployed at almost every key point, and they would rush to help as soon as they found any traces of the Geth.

At the same time, the logistics supply lines are kept changing once a month to prevent the same route from being used for a long time and being directly attacked by the Geth.

In order to maintain such a line of defense, the entire northern front needs to deploy a huge fleet. When the number of fleets in the northern theater was the largest, it even reached more than 3500 battleships and nearly 80000 small and medium-sized warships!

Therefore, although the Galactic Empire's northern theater of operations seemed to have a large number of troops, in fact, they were always in a state of being distracted and exhausted, and basically had no ability to launch a counterattack. And if it weren't for the outstanding ability of Gilad Pellaeon, who had been promoted to admiral, this line of defense would have been riddled with holes under the attacks from all sides of the Geth.

In just 10 years, Girard Perrine grew from a major to a general. On the one hand, this was due to Dunn Wessex's exceptional promotion, and on the other hand, it also demonstrated his excellent talent!
And it seems that in order to support Admiral Mal-Tuk's offensive outside the northern border, the Geth also assembled more than 900 warships on the planet Bilblin, a total of three fleets, preparing for a large-scale attack!

By the way, because the Geth warships do not have internal facilities such as life support systems, living systems, and barracks, their warships are generally very small. Therefore, the Galactic Empire often directly counts the number of Geth fleets, rather than calculating the number of thousand-meter-class capital ships and small and medium-sized warships separately as it does on its side.

Similarly, in the Mandalore sector, the Kingdom of Dawn fleet originally stationed on the planet Akiva now takes the initiative to attack. This fleet is smaller in size, but it has an Infinity-class supercarrier, which also poses a huge threat to the Galactic Empire.

Although Severance Tann is not in command here now, the command system she left behind can still run smoothly and launched an attack on the Galactic Empire's fleet in the Mandalore sector.

The Galactic Empire only maintains a small fleet in the Mandalore sector, which is mainly used to monitor the situation in the Mandalore sector and does not have the ability to launch strategic attacks. Now facing the attack led by the Infinity-class supercarrier, this imperial fleet is also facing a catastrophe!
However, for the Galactic Empire, the disaster was not over yet.

On August 8, the planet Mingban occupied by the Galactic Empire was attacked by a huge fleet, and according to intelligence, this fleet actually came from Hutt Space!
The Galactic Empire's Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately questioned the current Hutt ruler, Oruba-Gorensla, severely, but Oruba-Gorensla said that the fleet belonged to the remnants of the Confederation of Independent Systems, and he could do nothing about it and did not dare to take any hostile action against the fleet.

And Oruba-Gorensla said very innocently that if the Galactic Empire could annihilate these annoying separatist remnants, he would even be willing to pay the Galactic Empire a considerable bounty.

As for the commander of the fleet that raided the planet Mingban, no one knows his specific identity at present. We only know that he has a title - "The Butcher of the Planet Barab"!
This is not the end. After Tang Xiao declared himself king, the planet Dak suddenly rebelled. The Quarren rebuilt the Free Dak Volunteer Engineering Corps and organized a fleet to attack the Port of Parment, the largest industrial center of the Confederacy of Independent Systems!

This wave of attack by the Quarren was very strange, because they seemed to have received reinforcements from fleets in other places, and the number of capital ships had reached 100! The intelligence department of the Galactic Empire was conducting intensive reconnaissance, trying to figure out where the Quarren fleet came from.

However, the Quarren's rebellion was not smooth sailing. Their actions were strongly opposed by the Mon Calamari people on the planet. For example, the commander of this fleet was originally planned to be General Ackbar, the general of the Mon Calamari, but General Ackbar refused the appointment.

The Mon Calamari firmly opposed re-entering the war, and stated that it was because of the Quarren's wrong stance during the Clone Wars that Dark was eventually defeated and severely sanctioned by the Galactic Empire.

Now the Quarren want to jump into the war again, and once again want to rebel against the extremely powerful Galactic Empire? The Mon Calamari believe that this time, the Quarren are still on the wrong side, and this time, it may bring disaster to the planet Dak!

However, now with the support of the Kingdom of Dawn, the Quarren's power on the planet Dark far exceeds that of the Mon Calamari, so the situation on the planet Dark is relatively stable.

There are three main reasons why the Quarren dared to rebel at this time.

First, they actually secretly received support from the Given. As mentioned before, the Given had secretly begun to build a stargate and migrate to the planet Lothal. They also brought a large dock and factory, as well as a fleet from the stargate. This fleet was the reinforcement that the Quarren received.

Second, Dark Planet is located in a remote area. After the war between the Galactic Empire and the Trade Federation, the Empire's control over the outer ring of the Milky Way further declined. Therefore, although Dark Planet is also under the strict surveillance of the Galactic Empire, this surveillance is very fragile and can be easily cleared out by the Quarren.

The last and most crucial point is that the epic victory of Kira gave the Quarren great confidence. They firmly believed that this time was the end of the Galactic Empire! Their resistance would surely win the final victory!

Not only the planet Dak, but also the planets that were once the core of the Independent System Confederation, including the subplanet Laxus, the planet Semirs, the planet Felucia, and the planet Geonosis, have raised the banner of rebellion and launched an uprising.

These planets have one thing in common, that is, although they were defeated, they believed that it was only Count Dooku who was defeated, but not the defeat of the Separatists.

Because the planet Dawn still stands! (End of this chapter)