The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2395. The Failure of Operation Zero (Part )

Up to this point, the Kingdom of Dawn's war against the Galactic Empire had undoubtedly been very successful.

Since the war broke out in August of 11 BBY until the end of January of 8 BBY, more than three months have passed. First, an entire main fleet of the Empire was destroyed in the Battle of Kira, then the main force of the Empire in the north was severely damaged in the Battle of the Mararian Alliance, and then the battle with the Empire on Fangduo was fought to exchange positions. Now it seems that Fangduo can only hold out for a month at most.

Immediately afterwards, the Commercial Fleet defeated Vice Admiral Kendall Ozzel on the planet Bilbrin and began to directly attack the planet Bilbrin. Darth Vader was unable to gain any advantage in the encounter with Severance Tann.

In the eyes of many people, this situation is the result of the impending collapse of the Galactic Empire!

However, the Galactic Empire inherited the Galactic Republic, with a foundation of 25,000 years. How could it collapse within three months?
The progress of the Kingdom of Dawn was finally stopped.

Although Operation Zero was perfectly planned, it started at the wrong time, which made the Kingdom of Dawn fight hastily and the Galactic Empire in chaos. As a result, Severance Tann forced the plan to follow it. After annihilating the main fleet of the southern border of the Empire on the planet Kira, she immediately made a big detour across the Milky Way to attack the 12th Army of the Galactic Empire in the east.

Such a radical strategy that only cared about the beginning and not the end naturally gave Darth Vader the opportunity to rush in and completely disrupt the deployment of the Kingdom of Dawn.

So, after a chaotic battle between the two sides, the Galactic Empire was able to hold on once again with its own corrupt and huge body.

In addition to Darth Vader blowing up the planet Yago-Dur, a person appeared who allowed the Galactic Empire, a building that looked magnificent on the outside but was rotten on the inside, to survive again.

Ironically, he is not the human being that the Galactic Empire has always admired.

He is a Chiss, a genius abandoned by the Chiss Territory.

Mis-lo-Nurudo...

Thrawn!

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On January 10, 1 BBY, Lieutenant General Kendall Ozier, who commanded and guarded the planet Bilbrin on the northern frontier of the Galactic Empire, was dismissed due to a disastrous defeat.

The governor of the 9th Army of the Galactic Empire, Dunn Wessex, urgently dispatched Vice Admiral Thrawn to the planet Bilbrin to stop the attack of the Northern Fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn - the Commercial Combined Fleet.

When Vice Admiral Thrawn arrived on the planet Bilbrin, he took over a mess.

After drawing a large number of warships from the surrounding areas, the Imperial Fleet stationed on the planet Bilbrin still had 400 battleships and more than 3000 small and medium-sized warships. Looking at this number, it can be said that the strength is still there. But if you look closely, it is really eye-catching.

Many of the warships in this fleet had experienced the Battle of the Mararian Alliance and the last Battle of the Bilbrin Planet. The warships that survived these two defeats were basically in tatters. Not only the warships, but also the officers at all levels of the Imperial Navy were also demoralized and could not stand up to the battle. Before being taken away by the Inquisition, Admiral Gilad Peraune issued a rotation order for the garrison. He ordered those warships that had some damage but did not need to return to the dock for overhaul to be dispersed and deployed to other planets on the northern defense line for on-site repair. Then he would draw an equal number of intact warships from these planets.

In this way, on the one hand, the northern defense line will not collapse due to the withdrawal of a large number of warships, and on the other hand, the strength of the fleet in the direction of the planet Bilbrin can be maintained as much as possible - after all, the main attack direction of the Commercial Joint Fleet is already very clear.

During the more than one month that Vice Admiral Thrawn served as the commander of the Northern Defense Line, he constantly resisted the scattered harassment of the Geth on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also cooperated well to implement the deployment left by Gilad Pellaeon.

Lieutenant General Kendall Ozier, commander of the planet Bilbrin, made the only correct decision, which was to continue Gilad Perrine's order and continuously rotate the damaged warships and replace them with new ones, which restored some combat capabilities of the fleet of the planet Bilbrin.

But all this was completely destroyed when he led his army to attack in a fit of rage, and was hit head-on by Admiral Mal-Tuk, the commander of the Commercial Combined Fleet. He was hit hard on the head with a stick, leaving his head bleeding.

The remaining fleet of the planet Bilbrin once again returned to its dilapidated state.

And unlike last time, Admiral Mal-Tuk will not give the Imperial Fleet more than a month to slowly rotate the warships.

After replenishment, the number of warships of the Dawn Kingdom's Commercial Combined Fleet has basically recovered to about 80% of the level before the outbreak of the Mararian Alliance Campaign.

There are a total of 170 battleships, 440 heavy cruisers, and more than 3600 small and medium-sized warships. And what is very fatal is that most of the warships in the Commercial Union Fleet have extremely excellent performance. In the Imperial Fleet, only the Imperial-class Star Destroyer can match it. The 900-meter-long Victory II-class Star Destroyer has almost become a fire support ship.

It is extremely ironic to let a 1600-meter-long Imperial-class Star Destroyer compete with an 800-meter-long heavy cruiser.

"General Thrawn, this is a summary of our fleet's situation, please take a look." Vice Admiral Thrawn's current adjutant, Voss Parck, came over with the information.

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Voss-Park is a minor noble from the planet Krurag. According to his family's plan, he was admitted to the Imperial Naval Academy and became a naval officer. During the Clone Wars, Voss-Park served as a captain on a Jaeger-class battlecruiser and fought against the Geth for a long time in the Northern War Zone.

After the Clone Wars, Voss Parker was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and served on the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Chimera as a staff officer.

It was also here that he met Thrawn and was deeply impressed by Thrawn's outstanding command art. From then on, he has been following Thrawn. This time, when Thrawn served as the commander of the northern defense line, he promoted Voss-Park to colonel and kept him by his side as an adjutant.

Lieutenant General Thrawn also gave full trust to this down-to-earth and reliable young soldier.

However, after Thrawn took the fleet information, he just glanced at it and threw it aside. He said slowly: "I need all the information on Mal-Tuk, as well as the information on the Neimoidians and the Trade Federation."

"It's ready, General." Voss-Parker immediately took out a new memory. "I'm sorry, General, I just thought you might want to know the current status of this fleet first."

"You can collect and understand this matter for me." Thrawn patted his shoulder. (End of this chapter)