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Chapter 2398 Battle of the Planet Bilbrin (Part )

2399, Battle of the Planet of Bilbrin (Part )
However, although the goal was to occupy the planet Bilbrin immediately, the commercial fleet led by Mal-Tuk still took about 10 days.

Because many of the armed asteroids around the planet Bilbrin are automated, he must clear a path through the armed asteroids that are blocking his way before he can land on the planet Bilbrin.

During this time, Vice Admiral Thrawn led the Imperial Fleet back to the planet Palansi, seizing the time for repairs gained by sacrificing the entire planet Bilbrin. He continued to requisition warships from other places or rotated damaged warships to the rear, and even took the initiative to negotiate a business of exchanging old warships for new ones with Kuat Power Dockyard.

Kuat Power Dockyard had always had a very good relationship with Dunn Wessex, and Dunn's wife, Lila Wessex, was now the chief engineer of Kuat Power Dockyard. Therefore, when Dunn's most capable subordinate had a need, the leader of Kuat Power Dockyard, Little Kuat, naturally gave strong support.

Kuat Power Dockyard gave priority to Thrawn with a batch of warships that had not yet been delivered, then recovered a batch of severely damaged warships from Thrawn and postponed the delivery of the warships by three months.

Wilhuff Tarkin and his team wanted to get new warships, but Kuat told him that due to the loss of the planet Fondo, a large number of warship parts were missing, so the construction period had to be shortened. Even when Tarkin and his team sent a survey team, Kuat could show them the severely damaged warships as unfinished warships, leaving them no excuse.

As for how to make the damaged warships look unfinished and look brand new, this kind of thing is naturally a piece of cake for industrial giants like Kuat.

Not only that, Vice Admiral Thrawn also organized an evacuation on the planet Palansi, transferring the wealth accumulated on this planet dominated by the financial industry to the planet Scipio, the headquarters of the Interstellar Banking Association (S) in the rear.

At the same time, Thrawn is also actively preparing for war, striving to complete the preparation of his fleet in the shortest time possible so that the fleet can be ready for battle.

But at the same time, things were not going well for Admiral Mal-Tuk.

First of all, although he had landed on the planet of Bilbrin and occupied it, the various facilities and cities on the planet were very complicated. Thrawn also left millions of robots on the planet, all of which were scattered and hiding in the dark corners of the city, waiting to jump out and attack when they saw a target alone.

The landing operation alone took three days, and it took nearly half a month to occupy the entire planet. Then he found that almost all the equipment on the planet was unusable, and all the energy facilities were destroyed. He had to rebuild the energy supply on the planet to make the planet function again.

Not to mention the constant attacks from the robots in the corners, forcing him to send a large number of troops to escort the engineers. Before this, tens of thousands of engineers had died on the way to repair equipment.

Of course, the biggest headache for Mal-Tuk was the 4000 armed asteroids around the planet. Even if he chose the shortest route possible, he still had to destroy more than 200 asteroids before landing on the planet of Bilbrin. But then, if he wanted to gather a fleet around the planet for supplies, he would need to destroy at least 1000 asteroids!

This is just maddening!
In fact, what really drove Mal-Tuk crazy was not these troubles, but his vanity. He was too eager to enter the core circle of the Milky Way and make achievements!

Mal-Tuk was a man with a strong sense of crisis. He was well aware that with the successive fall of several wealthy worlds and industrial worlds of the Trade Federation in the core circle of the galaxy, the Neimoidians had become a group of homeless refugees.

Their only way out now is to become a part of the Kingdom of Dawn and use their loyalty to exchange for living space. Up to now, the Neimoidians have not had a planet that truly belongs to them, but have been scattered on the immigrant planets in the Model Sector, building many Neimoidian cities.

In addition, the Trade Alliance's strength has been extremely weakened, and they have signed an indenture to hand themselves over to the Kingdom of Dawn, which has caused their status to plummet.

Among the core races of the Kingdom of Dawn, whether it is the Salarians who are far ahead in the field of scientific research and intelligence, or the Vasari who have countless lost black technologies, or the Muuns who still dominate the financial industry, or the Vasians who have experience in building megastructures and specialize in construction engineering, or the Givens who have a very developed industry and specialize in mathematics, or the mysterious Protoss whose names have only been heard of, the status of these races is far higher than that of the current Neimoidians.

Even the next level races, including the Kali, Inchori, Gran, Sullust, Semirth, and the Hutts who secretly allied with the Kingdom of Dawn, all have their own advantages.

In contrast, the homeless Neimoidians have fewer and fewer bargaining chips in their hands.

As the only Neimoidian who had reached the rank of admiral in the Kingdom of Dawn's army and was able to lead an army on his own, Mal-Tuk naturally became their greatest hope.

As long as Mal-Tuk can lead the fleet to achieve unprecedented feats, the Neimoidians will surely usher in another period of glory.

In fact, he did have this ability. He initially followed the Trade Union into the fleet of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and fought against the Galactic Republic since the early days of the Clone Wars. Later, with Tang Xiao's intentional enlistment, he assisted the fleet of Planet Dawn as a commander and had many combat records, almost all of which were victorious.

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Now that he has independently led the Commercial Combined Fleet, he has also defeated Gilad Perrine and Kendall Ozil. It can be said that if Mal-Tuk's record is counted, he can still be ranked in the top five among the generals in this galaxy.

With such a foundation, what Mal-Tuk wanted was also very direct - to enter the core circle! Destroy the financial center of the Galactic Empire, the planet Scipio! !
Now the biggest obstacle standing in the way of the core circle, the fortress planet Bilbrin, has opened up before him, and he is only one step away from his goal.

As long as he can continue to move forward and capture the planet Palansi, he will be close to the planet Scipio!
On February 10, 2 BBY, Admiral Mal-Tuk judged that the Imperial Fleet could not be given more time to repair, so he ignored the fact that the planet Bilbrin had not yet been fully controlled, and directly led the fleet across the Bilbrin system and began to attack the planet Palansi!