บท 74: Campaign
** Sullust System, Onboard The ISD 'Invincible', 4 weeks after the 'Battle Of Sullust' **
I smiled as I saw my plans coming to fruition.
Infront of me, the entirety of my fleet stood, including all Clone Forces and Veridian.
However, the fleet also had a few additions, including 2 additional Lucrehulks.
Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi had left, to command the Open Circle Fleet elsewhere, and our forces had been boosted by Saesee Tiin.
A strong pilot in his own might, without a doubt equal or a bit weaker than Skywalker, but superior to Plo Koon.
Following him was 3 Venator-Class Star Destroyers, the perfect patrol battleships. Or more of an all-round battleship.
But that was not the only thing having gone as planned.
I had just gotten news that my bounty-hunter team had pulled through.
They had snuck into the Geonosian 'Great Catacombs' and assassinated the 'Geonosian Queen" and gained a large support of their mind-controlling parasites.
They were already under protected research in secure facilities, attempting to redesign the Geonosian Parasite to work for me, instead of the Queen.
The first of the Katarn-Class Armor had been designed and they were being mass-produced throughout the new armories across Wroonia, the new headquarters of the ArmorTech Company.
The Marines had already gotten themselves fully equipped and every week 50 000 units, all factories overworking.
Additionally the ARC-9965 Blaster Rifle had also entered production, utilising the already existing factories of Sullust and the pre-made blueprints had already ensured enough units for the 1st Attack Fleet, the 2nd and 3rd Fleets were getting them within the next month.
Lastly, the 4th Patrol Fleet was also close to completion, the remaining Imperator-Class Star Destroy and necessary support ships were 1 month away from completion.
With that I'd have 5 fully functional fleets, 3 independent ones and one consisting of the numbers equivalent to 2 fleets.
The 1st Attack Fleet, led by Fleet Admiral Trench
The 2nd Home Defense Fleet, led by Grand Admiral Jaime
The 3rd Veridian Defense Fleet, led by Vice Admiral Flint
The 4th Patrol Fleet, led by Upper Rear Admiral Octavian Grant.
Indeed, Octavian Grant. He was previously apart of a Tapani Oversector Judicial Defense Fleet, but due to our control of said sector and it's change to the 'Veridian Sector'
He was given an offer to remain in his position as Rear Admiral, but for us.
He had led all patrol efforts in the sector, he was both a direct-combat strategy genius, but he had quite the knack for strategic movements and patrol strategies.
Including the formation of different patrol units, including Quick Response Teams, Scouting Teams and Heavy Patrol Teams.
Which is why he'd now be given official charge of the Patrol Fleet, meant to ensure the safety of all our vassals.
Which now also meant the vassals outside the 20th Veridian Sector.
Which were parts of the 19th, 18th, 17th and 15th.
Which would be quite a task, which is why he got the large fleet.
However that fleet would be maintained in the same state.
He would also get sufficient patrol veichles, from the Sullust Defense Guard and Judicial Outer-Rim Security Force.
Which would surely be sufficient enough, although if not further ships could be given.
The campaign on the lower pocket was also about to begin.
We had yet to receive any Separatist Resistance.
The CIS Leadership had been correct in their estimate that the Republic would focus on the security of the Core and Mid-Rim.
And as such took this time to strengthen their hold on the major hyperlanes.
Especially focusing on Partemian Trade Route and the north of the Hydian Way.
Essentially ceasing all Republic Access in the Outer and parts of the Mid-rim.
Their fleets were currently far too strong and many for the few Republic Attack Fleets and Task Forces to launch any reminisce of Attack.
Instead the few attack forces were led by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, alongside a few strong Jedi.
Focused on small but important targets and recapturing attacked Republic territories.
Such as Christophsis and Arantara.
Meanwhile the CIS Forces were using slight attacks to test and keep our forces on high alert.
Launching fast attacks into our space, wrecking chaos before retreating.
It seems that the CIS is attempting to lower Republic Morale and their support from the civilians.
A smart move, the Republic had lost almost all support within the Mid-Rims and Outer-Rims, meaning any recapture is unlikely to be met with cheering, it is now every single planet for themselves.
The only reason one didn't join the CIS would be due to their occasional moments of forcefully controlling their own planets.
Additionally to the bad reputation of Sith and Count Dooku's rumours of being one.
Lastly, the Veridian Intelligence Agency or the VIA had been working to discover the location of a certain Separatist 'Secret Weapon' or Subjugator-Class Heavy Cruiser.
The gigantic monster of a ship, possessing;
- 2 Heavy Ion Cannons
- 20 Twin Heavy Turbolasers
- 20 Twin Medium Turbolasers
- 460 Twin Light Turbolasers
- 400 Point Defense Twin Light Laser Cannons.
- 10 Proton Torpedo Launchers
- 2 Heavy Tractor Beam Emitters
To maintain it's large energy consumption by the two Mega- Ion Cannons and over 1000 different turrets and cannons, the Subjugator-class Heavy Cruiser possessed 10 Primary Power Generators, all put inside one massive power generator.
It also possessed a secondary capable of maintaining the point defense cannons, led the ship running at half speed and jump to hyperspace.
Sadly however, the CIS clearly crippled themselves in its creation.
The ship posed 5 small hangars and 4 even smaller hangars on each side.
Ending up with only 144 Vulture's and 48 Hyena's.
The smaller hangars were used for shuttles and transports.
And those numbers were just too little, especially if they were to have the ship fly around alone.
I do not know if this is sabotage from Count Dooku, but I could certainly not have that ship running around in my sector, causing havoc as it did in the original.
Which is why my plan was to strike it early, it would likely be sent here to deal with our campaign, as would be smart unless Palpatine wanted my fleet to remain somehow.
And the plan was simple. Use the hyperdrives of the bombers and utilise the 380 Z-95 Headhunters to escort however many bombers we could launch, I would certainly not hold back.
But if all failed we'd just spread out our fleet far enough for no Ion-attack to hit more than 1 ship.
Of course we'd likely loose more than 1 Imperator-Class Star Destroyer.
And if the bombers succeed, the plan was to board the ship. Not like Anakin and capture it.
No, we'd capture that ship. I wanted that ship as my capital ship.
And although I could just create my own Super Star Destroyer or Subjucator, it would likely take years to make them, as I'd need to make the Super Star Destroyer blueprint from scratch as I only knew it's future creation, not how it's built.
And I'd need to steal the blueprints from the CIS with the Subjugator and make changes to it before finally beginning creation.
And as such it would be more efficient to just steal it.
And with that I walked out of my office and headed to the bridge. I'd need to give Admiral Trench his new orders.
Soon enough I found myself upon the bridge, flanked by Jon and Robb, my ever-present guards.
They had only increased their skills, I had recently favoured never guards so as to increase Robb and Jon's skills.
Following the Tatooine problems and my new kidnapping. Alexander had gotten furious with the repeated failure, however his fury was not directed at my guards, but towards himself.
And as such he had launched torture like-training across the entire Sovereign Guard Units, he also personally joined his own training routine and did not complain.
They began enforcing more strict security protocols, check-inns every 30th second by a button.
The guards senses were enforced and most of them somehow got a 6th sense in regards to my security.
Honestly, I do not know how Alexander managed to train a 6th sense into them.
Or more 7th as it wasn't related to danger sense on themselves, but on me.
But I heard rumours of some injections and operations on a few humans, so perhaps it had to do with genetic modification, which we had dived into recently.
Santo's had also joined the training routine.
He had gotten a new backpack, which included a large shield-generator.
The thing was legit the size of 80% of his spine, however he carried like it was nothing.
Essentially he could create a 3 meter shield in radius.
Capable of withstanding artillery fire for a few minutes.
Additionally, Alexander had legit screamed at the scientist to create personal shields for humans without the downside of increased radiation, without being forced to use armor.
The scientist had created a few prototypes and as of yet none of the users had even gotten any more radioactive energies within their body.
One such prototype was extremely close to being put into my clothes.
The device was small, perhaps the size of an iPad in my previous life, and it was as slim as an iPad as well.
As such I could have it put inside my clothes or on a belt, allowing me to safely activate it and shield myself from incoming fire.
Additionally, my small bounty Hunter team had wrecked chaos on SoroSuub owned or influenced worlds.
Factories destroyed, owners killed, government killed. SoroSuub had been witnessing a chain of problems.
The Bounty Hunter team had relieved us of any immediate SoroSuub relaliation, as they had no resources to retaliate.
That was just in time for the bridge doors to open.
Trench was overlooking the HoloPod, which showed a Holographic map of the bottom Separatist pocket and their fleets.
No Fleet had the capability to resist any attack, but if they united they would force a response with our entire fleet.
But the Subjugator would cause a problem, luckily no reports of it had been found.
It was quite hard to hide it's presence. The Republic knew of it's size and position multiple times, every time it passed a populated world its existence would be revealed.
And we would know.
"My Lord." Trench said as I stepped in.
"Greetings, Trench. Let's start the bottom pocket campaign." I told him and he smiled.
"Tsk tsk, finally. Tsk tsk. Those Separatist worlds shall tsk tsk fear our fleets." Trench said with a smile.
"Remember, we now have 350 000 Valiant Troops, make sure the garrisons have necessary resources and that our supply lines are protected. They carry food for over 500 000 organic beings, any hiccup can cause devestating morale losses." I told Trench, but truly it was not a problem.
Not even a potential threat.
The 4 Lucrehulks carried enough food to feed us for 6 months.
The E-5 Blaster Rifle's had been transported to Thyferra and Prime Minister Jason was in the process of distributing them to our new vassals. Weapons were needed, no matter the situation.
And the E-5 Blaster Rifle was an efficient weapon. And we had them for free, and could give them for free. Gaining the goodwill of the new vassals.
Additionally we had launched a new wave of recruitment in our vassals states.
Although I could man an army of delegate species, the headache was too much. I'd need specialised armor, weapons, food.
It is just easier to have humans. Sure I could financially do it, but why would I waste money and the headache of the supply lines needing to double wouldn't be worth it.
The goal was to reach 1 million Veridian soliders and sufficient naval officers to man 10 fleets by 20 BBY, of course we didn't need to man 10 fleets but I wanted enough reserves just in case.
Each fleet required 101 300 crewmen. Meaning an additional 5 Fleets would require 506 500.
Meaning our total naval crewmen in our service would number 1 013 000
Over 1 million.
This however would become much more easy due to the recruitment of Judicials. And as such would require very little training.
And with that I turned around and walked back to my room, I had a lot of paperwork to do, send official letters to planets joining us and receiving messages of thanks from our weapon charity actions.
And I'd need to accept rules and symbolic meanings for our new Kingdom.
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