Strictly speaking, even in the Empire, going down with the ship was a low-probability event. If you couldn't win, you surrendered... What was so strange about that?
But this time, Qu Jianlei and the others ultimately did not pursue total annihilation. Small Ships were limited to a maximum pursuit distance of ten million kilometers!
There was no need for total annihilation... The Company-level Warship that had escaped last time already knew most of their Trump Cards.
The reason they had rushed to set up the Major General this time was also because they feared that once the news spread, such opportunities would become fewer and fewer.
Some Imperial soldiers were still eager for battle and hoped the pursuit distance could be extended to twenty million kilometers.
Fourth Boss merely asked blandly, "Do you know what 'control' means?"
They couldn't even control the desires in their own hearts, yet they had the nerve to talk about control?
Hearing that, the Imperial soldiers could only fall silent.
They were merely greedy for merit, not reckless fools. Of course, they knew that Digital Phantom had already been very considerate of their feelings.
In any case, after this battle, there was not much loot. The number of captured Small Ships in particular was especially low, not even half of what had been lost.
The main reason was that the Division Level Ship, which possessed the most Small Ships, had self-destructed directly.
The gains and losses from the Company-level Warships were roughly even, the Battalion-Class Ships showed a slight surplus, and there were more than two thousand prisoners.
As before, if there had been no ships going down with their crews, three thousand prisoners definitely would not have been a problem.
A few starships had escaped, but that no longer mattered. They only needed to