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Chapter 2657 The Kingdom of Dawn (Part 2)

2657. The Kingdom of Dawn (Part 2)
In other words, the four Titan warships of the Dawn Kingdom currently correspond to four main fleets, with a total strength of 800 capital ships, 1400 heavy cruisers, and 6500 medium and small warships.

Then there are the next level of mobile fleets, including the Eastern Sector Fleet under Lin Nanyi's command, the fleet led by Severance Tann to reinforce the Qis Territory, the Southern Sector Fleet deployed on the planet Christophersis, the mobile fleet deployed in the Model Sector, and the mobile fleet deployed in the Sesvina Sector.

The force of 60 capital ships, 150 heavy cruisers, and 1000 medium and small warships led by Severance Tann was separated from the Northern Mobile Fleet.

Meanwhile, Lin Nan's Eastern Sector fleet comprises 150 capital ships, 200 heavy cruisers, and 1000 medium and small warships. After the fierce battles in the Eastern Sector to destroy the Eye of Palpatine, it received some reinforcements and currently has 120 capital ships, 160 heavy cruisers, and 900 medium and small warships.

The mobile fleet deployed in the Model Sector is primarily due to the fact that the majority of the population are immigrants with a prevalent liberal ideology. Furthermore, the sector is home to vital resources for the Dawn Kingdom, such as Dyson Clouds and Matter Decompression Devices. Even more importantly, it houses neutron steel mining and processing plants—the very source of the Dawn Kingdom's currency!

Therefore, the mobile fleet in the Modal Sector is also very powerful, consisting of 200 capital ships and 2000 medium and small warships. However, most of these warships are second-generation capital ships produced in the later stages of the Clone Wars and cannot be compared with the third-generation capital ships led by the Hellsangel-class battlecruisers.

The same applies to the mobile fleet in the Sesvina Sector, which remains the most important military center for the Kingdom of Dawn. The planet Eliadu controls the hyperspace transport hub between the central and outer rings of the Milky Way; stability here ensures stability for the Kingdom of Dawn's homeland.

Furthermore, due to previous military operations, the Sesvina Sector has formed two salients: the planets of Fondo and Kira. The defensive pressure on these two directions is enormous, so a mobile fleet is stationed on the planet Eriadu as a strategic reserve.

This mobile fleet consists of 100 capital ships, 100 heavy cruisers, and 1500 medium and small warships.

Finally, there was the Southern Sector Fleet of Christophersis. This fleet, previously under the command of "General C," an alias of Cassio-Tagg, had been constantly harassing the Galactic Empire's Southern Sector. In addition, the rebels were also very active in this region, which was a major reason for the collapse of the Galactic Empire's rule in the Southern Sector.

Currently, the Southern Sector Fleet possesses 80 capital ships, 200 heavy cruisers, and 2000 medium and small warships. Their mission is to continue suppressing the Galactic Empire's Thirteenth Army, striving to completely eliminate this last legion of the Galactic Empire in the South.

The Kingdom of Dawn has a total of five mobile fleets. Excluding the fleet of Severance-Tan, the total strength is 500 capital ships, 460 heavy cruisers, and 6400 medium and small warships.

These squadrons were also very powerful, but they also had defensive missions, and most of their capital ships were second-generation warships, so their combat capabilities could not compare with the main fleet.

Then there are the defense fleets in various places.

These defense fleets are essentially fleets stationed to guard important planets. These warships are generally relatively outdated and are rarely deployed for combat missions. Moreover, their composition is constantly changing. Frontline warships are constantly being reassigned to the second line and incorporated into the defense fleets due to technological advancements or severe damage, while warships in the defense fleets are constantly being demobilized due to aging or reaching full capacity.

Basically, the larger defensive fleets include the following: the Chiss Territory Defense Fleet, the Haven Sector Defense Fleet, the Yago-Dur Planet Engineering Corps, the Pioneer Sector Defense Fleet, the Lundiri Planet Defense Fleet, the Mandalor Special Defense Zone Fleet, and the Kira Planet Defense Fleet.

It should be mentioned that the second-generation heavy cruisers newly produced by the Dawn Kingdom, whose combat capabilities are comparable to capital ships, will no longer be assigned to these defensive fleets. The heavy cruisers in these fleets are just ordinary heavy cruisers.

Among them, the Qis Territory Defense Fleet is the largest, but half of its warships were produced by Qis Territory itself, and their combat performance is significantly inferior to that of the Dawn Kingdom's warships. This fleet currently consists of 150 capital ships, 80 heavy cruisers, and 2500 medium and small warships.

The fleet was very complex in structure, including not only warships from the Kingdom of Qis, but also fleets from vassal states like Kilgi, whose combat capabilities varied greatly.

The Pioneer Sector defense fleet consists of 60 capital ships, 20 heavy cruisers, and 4000 medium and small warships. This fleet needs to patrol the vastest area, but no threats have been discovered in the surrounding area, after all, the god of decay, Mongal-Mongal, has already wiped out most of the races in this sector.

It should be noted that the fleet in the Pioneer Sector consists of 30 capital ships, all heavy cruisers, and 500 medium and small warships, all of which were previously captured warships of the Xiru Empire. These warships have been modified and had their bio-batteries removed before being incorporated into the defense fleet.

Of course, these warships were only barely usable.

The Haven Sector Defense Fleet is a purely homeland defense fleet, consisting of 50 capital ships and 1500 medium and small warships.

The Yago-Dur Planet Engineering Corps is a special fleet, mainly because Yago-Dur is still under threat from the Galactic Empire. However, since Fondo has been conquered by the Dawn Kingdom, the Galactic Empire generally won't be foolish enough to attack it.

Although the powerful defenses of Yago-Dur mean there will be virtually no military threat, necessary defenses still need to be implemented.

Furthermore, the Given are currently remodeling a planet that was one-third destroyed by Darth Vader, intending to transform it into an incredibly powerful planetary fortress. This requires an enormous amount of engineering work, meaning the Kingdom of Dawn, possessing the material decompression device, is capable of meeting the Given's demands.

Therefore, a large engineering fleet and corresponding defense fleet have been assembled on the planet Yago-Dur. There are 10 capital ships, 700 medium and small warships, and more than 3000 engineering ships of various sizes.

The Lundli Planet Defense Fleet is a fleet that is always stationed on the planet Lundli. This fleet was produced locally by the Lundli Interstellar Power Corporation and is always defending this isolated planet.

However, because the interplanetary power company's shipyards here consist of relatively old models, most of the warships produced here are Victory II-class Star Destroyers. Furthermore, Victory III-class Star Destroyers are planned to enter production soon.

If we consider the Victory II-class Star Destroyers as capital ships, then the defensive fleet here comprises 800 capital ships and 1400 medium and small warships. Only such a force could deter the Galactic Empire from coveting this place.

The Mandalorian Special Defense Zone Fleet. As Mandalorian moves towards unification and stability, the Kingdom of Dawn has gradually lowered its profile there, maintaining its military presence on Akiva.

However, because this region is so bizarre and complex—Dasomier, Corriban, and Mandalorian are all extremely strange planets—maintaining the fleet here is crucial. The fleet, centered around the Endless-class supercarrier Eternity, maintains a force of 60 capital ships and 400 medium and small warships. Its primary mission is currently to support the operations of Jango-Fett and Master Chief John 117.

It's worth mentioning that Death is also currently here. Her main role is to guard against any strange occurrences on Dassomier, and also to ensure that Orega doesn't do anything out of line.

The Kira Planet Defense Fleet is a very special fleet.

During the previous raid on Kira, the Galactic Empire's massive fleet of 1100 capital ships defending the planet was completely annihilated. In the process, many warships were captured, surrendered, or were severely damaged and lost power before being repaired.

So the Kingdom of Dawn concentrated these warships, along with those captured from previous battles by the Galactic Empire, here to serve as a defensive force. Kira itself was also a strategic salient, and it needed defense; after all, if either Fondo or Kira fell, Eriadu would once again become the front line.

Furthermore, since the planet Kira was previously developed into a military base by the Galactic Empire, numerous factories and shipyards were built there. Now that the Dawn Kingdom has conquered Kira, these shipyards do not require modification and can be directly used for the maintenance of the captured warships.

The defense fleet on Kira consists of 200 Imperial-class Star Destroyers, over 300 light cruisers such as the Arquitenths and Karak, and over 300 medium and small warships. However, most of these warships have been severely damaged and repaired, significantly reducing their combat capabilities.

Therefore, the Dawn Kingdom's defensive fleet is a large force, but one that is largely incapable of offensive operations. However, this force is crucial in ensuring the security of the entire territory controlled by the Dawn Kingdom.

The defense fleet consisted of approximately 1330 capital ships, 100 heavy cruisers, and 13900 medium and small warships.

In total, the Dawn Kingdom's combat fleet consists of 2630 capital ships, 1960 heavy cruisers, and 26800 medium and small warships. This number is constantly changing as warships are continuously produced and attrition from frontline combat continues.

Finally, there was the massive escort fleet.

The Kingdom of Dawn has numerous resource mining bases in various locations, and due to its immigration policy, a large number of passenger ships are continuously transporting immigrants.

At the same time, because the Dawn Kingdom's fleet uses a combination of ship types, this has put enormous pressure on logistics.

In reality, while the Dawn Kingdom's fleet was invincible on the front lines, forcing the Galactic Empire's fleet to confront it without an absolute numerical advantage, the cost was that the Dawn Kingdom faced far greater logistical pressure than the Galactic Empire.

Maintaining a fleet of 100 capital ships and 500 medium and small warships requires 1.5 times the logistical supplies of the Galactic Empire's fleet. And let's not forget, the Galactic Empire's capital ships are 1600-meter-long Imperial-class star destroyers! This size is significantly larger than the Dawn Kingdom's capital ships, which are typically 1100-1300 meters long. Thus, the Dawn Kingdom's fleet faces far greater logistical pressure, highlighting the stark difference in fleet organization between the two sides.

It's fair to say that without the Stargate, the logistics of the Dawn Kingdom's fleet would have collapsed long ago.

The Dawn Kingdom's enormous material volume is also reflected in its matter decompression units and Dyson Belts. Each matter decompression unit produces an astronomical amount of minerals, and the number of transport ships needed to transport these minerals for smelting and distribution to various industrial zones is also staggering.

In addition, energy storage ships launched from several Dyson spheres will compress vast amounts of stellar energy into energy storage blocks and transport them to other planets, directly integrating into their planetary power grids for energy supply. This also requires massive logistical support.

To maintain this incredibly vast logistics network, the number of various transport ships, engineering ships, passenger ships, energy storage ships, and so on within the Dawn Kingdom exceeds 30!

There are more than 40000 passenger and cargo routes.

To protect these shipping lanes, the Kingdom of Dawn also assembled a massive escort fleet. This fleet primarily consisted of small warships, including frigates, destroyers, and escort carriers, and its main function was to deter space pirates; it did not possess direct combat capabilities.

The sources of the escort fleet's warships are quite complex. In addition to the small warships that the Dawn Kingdom itself retired, a large number of them were purchased from the black market, and sometimes they were even secretly purchased from the Galactic Empire.

For example, Corellia Engineering Corporation sometimes produces small frigates for the Kingdom of Dawn to earn some extra money. So don't be surprised if you see ships like DP-20 gunboats or CR-70 frigates in the Kingdom of Dawn's escort fleet.

The black market was even more active, with ships from all sorts of sources being sold. In fact, within the Galactic Empire, the fleets of some sector governors often contained a variety of miscellaneous items, such as Ghost fighters, Cobalt Alloy-class frigates, and Vengeance-class destroyers.

Of course, we must mention the superstars of the Dawn Kingdom's escort fleet—

Grey Horse-class escort carrier!
This type of escort carrier is very simple to build and extremely inexpensive, yet it can provide support and flight control guidance for up to 48 Ghost fighters or 60 Siegfried stealth fighters, making it both cheap and efficient. If equipped with Vulture robotic fighters, it could even carry as many as 100!
Moreover, after several upgrades, the flight control system of the Grey Horse-class escort carriers has been greatly enhanced, and an electronic countermeasures system has been added.

Against pirates, the Grey Horse-class escort carriers, fully loaded with Ghost Fighters and Higra stealth fighters, are virtually unstoppable. Even the sheer number of Vulture robot fighters would leave those poorly equipped space pirates utterly hopeless.

Currently, the Dawn Kingdom's escort fleet alone comprises over 8000 Gray Horse-class escort carriers! In addition, there are 100 other decommissioned capital ships, over 40000 medium and small warships, and over 30 fighter jets of various types. Of course, the number of Vulture robot fighters alone exceeds 20.

In addition to these fleets, the Dawn Kingdom's system also includes several special forces:

The Geth, the Protoss, the Vasari, and former Confederate states of the Independent System.