The enemies they faced were growing stronger and stronger. Just like the Dimensional Beast Legion they had encountered this time, there had even been an S-class Dimensional General among them. Who could guarantee that in the future, they would not encounter worlds where A-class fighters were mere cannon fodder and S-class fighters formed the main force? Xiao Ran had even considered the possibility of even stranger, completely unknown mixed worlds appearing—Mission Worlds with no template at all, constructed entirely by Prometheus itself. That was why it was necessary to begin reorganizing the legion.
The ones who could truly play a role in battle were no longer those B-class Pilots who could serve as core backbones in other legions. In many worlds, B-class Pilots could certainly be considered powerful, but in the situations the Burning Legion now faced—and might continue facing in the future—B-class combat power could at most be regarded as squad leader level. Aside from clearing out cannon fodder, they had little other use.
Up until now, the legion's original advantages in combat power had gradually shifted as the enemies' levels rose. True combat now relied on top-tier S-class combat power, turning battleships, which should also have been absolute main-force assets, into support units and transport machines. The current Macross-class ships still played an important role that could not be ignored when squads of participants carried out ordinary missions. But in high-level Legion Missions and legion confrontations, their usefulness became far too limited. They were more often treated as transport tools and sources of firepower interference. Their importance had plummeted, and they could easily become enemy targets. Even using them for firepower saturation felt somewhat inadequate to Xiao Ran.
Their firepower was insufficient, their speed insufficient, their armor insufficient, their accuracy insufficient, and their maneuverability insufficient. Of course, in