The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

2675. The Establishment of the Righteous Army Alliance (Part 2)

Padmé Amidala projected her envisioned structure onto the hologram, and continued, "Our entire purpose stems from the Galactic Empire's trampling of life and freedom! This is the sole reason for our rebellion! And our ultimate goal, as our organization's name suggests—the Alliance for the Restoration of the Republic—is to rebuild a free and equal republic, which is the only objective we strive for!"

"The Dawn Kingdom is also an evil totalitarian and dictatorial state. We oppose the Dawn Kingdom's policies and they are also one of the biggest instigators of war in this galaxy. Therefore, we also oppose their acts of war. However, they are not our primary target. In fact, we share a common goal in overthrowing the Galactic Empire. We can negotiate and cooperate, but only on the premise of equality."

"Afterwards, once the goal of rebuilding the Republic is achieved, we can negotiate with the Kingdom of Dawn or cooperate with them, as long as they are willing to accept the Republic's ideals and become a member of the galactic family, we agree to forgive their past transgressions."

"But what we need to do now is to first simplify our organization, rather than blindly expanding its size. First, we need to streamline our core strength to the minimum, retaining only those comrades with the firmest beliefs who are willing to sacrifice everything for our goals."

"These people will use the former Imperial Fourteenth Army sector as their base of operations to command resistance movements in other parts of the galaxy. We will not establish our base on any civilized planet that the Empire can find, as that would only invite slaughter. However, we also cannot abandon the areas controlled by the former Imperial Fourteenth Army, because the Galactic Empire's power has been reduced to its lowest level there. The planet Rylos and its surrounding area are our key targets."

"Beyond our core members, we will also unite all forces that can be united. This includes the sector governors of the Empire, military generals, mercenary organizations, former separatists, and so on. They are peripheral members, and until we are truly certain that we can unite with them, we can only have a cooperative relationship. Peripheral members will not affect our operational policies, and we will only offer suggestions on their actions, not issue orders."

"This is the role of the Advisory Committee. It will be an organization representing members of various classes and races, coordinating and organizing the activities of peripheral members. If an Imperial sector governor wishes to overthrow the Galactic Empire, then great, the Advisory Committee will provide him with intelligence support and help him coordinate internal administration, gradually breaking away from the Galactic Empire's rule as much as possible without triggering military intervention from the Galactic Empire."

"There is no hierarchical relationship between us and these peripheral members. After the overthrow of the Galactic Empire, we will re-coordinate our relationship with them. On the premise that they must accept the Republic's program of freedom, equality, and democracy, we will decide whether to directly incorporate them into our alliance or whether they need further transformation and education based on their specific performance in the process of overthrowing the Galactic Empire's rule."

Padme-Amidala continued, "Then there's the Military Council. They will directly command our existing armed forces, and based on General Jan Dodena's previous advice, we will also establish the X-wing fighter units as independent combat units for more flexible operations. The fighter units will be commanded by General Dodena."

"Our starfleet is commanded by General Jarl-Ackbar. Our fleet cannot confront the Galactic Empire head-on, so our primary policy is 'existence fleet.' That is, the fleet will primarily engage in threatening operations and will not consider direct combat unless the opportunity arises. The purpose of our fleet is to tie down the power of the Galactic Empire, so that every action they take must match the size of our fleet, or they will be attacked by us."

"Then, the Military Council will also be responsible for dispatching military advisors to peripheral members and training combat personnel. This is because many peripheral members, such as some agricultural planets, do not have sufficient military strength in their governors and therefore need our help."

"Finally, I need to reiterate that our current objective is to no longer incite civilians to revolt. If they wish to break free from the Empire's rule, we will sever the connection between these areas and the Galactic Empire through indirect means, such as attacking logistics fleets, disrupting communication frequencies, and turning administrative officials against their cause. However, we will absolutely not support them in directly engaging in armed resistance. If their will to resist is strong enough, we can bring them back to our bases and, after training, engage them in production or combat missions."

As Padme Amidala spoke, she pressed a few buttons on the holographic star map, and suddenly the image in the huge projection changed to a three-dimensional star map of the entire Milky Way, with tens of thousands of marks inside!
Each of these markers represents a planet that deeply resents the rule of the Galactic Empire and longs to rebel, yet lacks the strength to do so. Moreover, among these planets, there are quite a few inner ring and core ring planets!

It can be said that if the power of these planets could be integrated, it would actually be a force powerful enough to shake the foundation of the Galactic Empire's rule!

However, it's clear that such a massive force is currently impossible to coordinate. The Galactic Empire will absolutely not give them that chance; the slightest hint of weakness will immediately invite the most devastating attack!

Padme Amidala had clearly given this matter considerable thought; she had in fact deeply reflected on all the problems the rebels had faced and ultimately proposed her own solutions.

She is now reorganizing the rebel army into the Rebel Alliance, or the Allied Forces. Ostensibly, this is a matter of streamlining and reducing personnel, but in reality, she intends to make the Allied Forces a bond that connects the countless planets that have risen up in rebellion.

Padmé has discovered that although the Galactic Empire appears to be incredibly powerful and possesses a massive fleet, its foundation of rule has long been rotten. In fact, it could be said that the Empire is still a complete nation only because of the suppression by Palpatine's powerful forces.

Under the oppression of the powerful, those local officials and people from all over the country had long since become disloyal and alienated from the empire.

Therefore, the Allied forces did not need to defeat the Empire's fleet on the main battlefield; they only needed to disrupt the administrative relationship between the Empire and the local authorities to effectively disintegrate the Empire.

This is why Padmé agreed to unite the various factions, including imperial governors, military generals, and former separatists, as peripheral members.

Because if these governors and generals were to completely dismantle and fragment the Galactic Empire, its mighty fleet would also be divided into countless parts. In this way, the Empire's power, which unified the entire galaxy, would be far less formidable compared to the Allied forces.

The idea of ​​having the Allied forces abandon their bases on those civilized planets and relocate to establish their own bases in remote and secluded locations serves two purposes. Firstly, it's about breaking up their forces into smaller, scattered units, leaving the Galactic Empire's powerful fleet unsure of which target to engage. Since they don't know who to attack, then they should attack the Dawn Kingdom.

On the other hand, it also reduces the hostility of those planets towards the Allied Forces. After all, the only reason many weaker planets refuse the Allied Forces is that their presence will lead to an invasion by the Imperial fleet. If this issue can be resolved, these planets are actually quite willing to help the Allies in various situations.

At the same time, as long as the Galactic Empire is overthrown, even if it is in a state of division, the situation of those planets that are being exploited and oppressed will be greatly alleviated.

Only after that will the Allied forces gradually consolidate their strength and officially rebuild the Republic from the ruins of the Empire!

Everyone present listened attentively to Padme Amidala's plan. They realized that compared to establishing their own sphere of influence in a corner of the galaxy, gradually expanding, and eventually defeating the Galactic Empire, Padme's plan was clearly much more reliable. After all, not just anyone could accomplish what the Dawn Kingdom had done.

Moreover, this plan, on the one hand, keeps the alliance at a distance from those peripheral members, thus ensuring the purity of the alliance and its righteousness in the face of external threats; on the other hand, it can also unite as many forces as possible to overthrow the Galactic Empire.

Padme-Amidala's report later became known as the Yawen Manifesto.

The greatest significance of this declaration is that it guided the future direction of the Righteous Army Alliance's struggle, clarified the goals of the struggle, and was implemented as the highest code of conduct for the Righteous Army Alliance.

The Yawen Declaration clearly named the rebels the Alliance for the Restoration of the Republic, identified the Galactic Empire as their sole adversary, and specified that the method of struggle would be overthrow by force. It also abandoned their last illusions about the Empire and ceased any attempts to exert influence in the parliament.

At the same time, acknowledging the contributions of peripheral members also loosened ties with the Kingdom of Dawn to some extent. No longer wasting time like before, telling the Kingdom of Dawn that they could cooperate to fight the Empire while simultaneously indignantly declaring that these JG-ism lackeys all deserved to die.

For them right now, eliminating the Galactic Empire is the top priority; other ideological disputes can wait.

Padme-Amidala then announced that a meeting would be held on the planet Coreria a month later, where a secret agreement would be signed to confirm the formation of the Republic Restoration Alliance.

The reason Corellia was chosen is because representatives from many other inner and core planets will also be coming to sign the agreement.

As Padme Amidala demonstrated before, the rebel alliance was actually very powerful, but they were simply unable to integrate these forces.

For example, Corellia actually supports the rebels, but they can't openly build warships for them. Similarly, a resource planet controlled by the rebels can't openly transport raw materials to Corellia, which is tantamount to directly revealing the relationship between the two to the Empire.

For example, the planet Kashyyk, with its large population and fierce people, has been besieged by the Imperial fleet. The Rebel Alliance's resources cannot be sent there, and the Wookiees cannot leave their homeland in large numbers to join the Rebel Alliance's army.

It was precisely because of this isolation that the rebel army appeared very weak.

However, just as Padme-Amidala is planning, these planets may not be able to unite to confront the Galactic Empire head-on, but they can undermine the Empire's foundation of rule from within through political, economic, and other means.

This is the significance of the Corellia planet meeting a month from now!
Following the release of the Yawen Declaration, the new rebel alliance began to carry out its work.

They established an administrative body headed by Mon Mosma, an industrial production body headed by Gam Bel Iblis, an intelligence gathering body headed by Borsk Felia, and a military command structure headed by Jan Dodena.

Everyone has their own role to play.

However, there was another urgent matter: how to save General Jal-Akbar's deep-sea fleet!

The Deepsea Fleet is currently besieged in a sector controlled by the Imperial 13th Army. Darth Vader's Death Fleet is constantly exploring this sector and continues to narrow the blockade, leaving the Deepsea Fleet with fewer and fewer places to hide!

General Jan Dodner organized his X-wing fighter squadrons, breaking them up into smaller groups to attack Darth Vader's fleet's logistics from multiple directions. Thanks to their superior maneuverability and combat capabilities, the X-wing fighters destroyed several escort fleets, making resupply for the Death Fleet increasingly difficult and significantly increasing the supply of provisions to the Rebel Alliance's warehouses.

During the raids, the X-wing fighters, with the entire cosmic environment as their maneuvering range, proved incredibly effective. Elite Rebel Alliance pilots provided cover for Y-wing bombers in their raids on the cumbersome Imperial-class Star Destroyers. They even set a record of destroying two Imperial-class Star Destroyers in a single formation of 12 X-wing fighters escorting 4 Y-wing bombers!

While the Imperial-class Star Destroyers could hold their own against the Dawn Kingdom's fleet in direct combat, all their weaknesses were exposed when facing the Rebel Alliance's strategy of using heavy artillery against light targets—insufficient point defense firepower, inadequate anti-aircraft range to cover the rear of the warships, and an excessively tall bridge, among other shortcomings.

The result was that after easily defeating some mediocre TIE fighter pilots trained on the assembly line, the X-wing fighter squadron used its maneuverability to circle around to the rear of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer and bombard it with proton torpedoes, destroying a Star Destroyer in a short time!

However, General Jan Dodner's X-wing fighter squadron was still too small. Darth Vader, realizing it would be difficult to wipe out these swarming flies in one fell swoop, chose to ignore them and devote all his resources to searching for the Deepsea Fleet.

The last and most powerful force of the newly formed rebel alliance faces annihilation! (End of Chapter)