"Governor! We won! We really won! There isn't a single warship of the Republic left in the entire Modell Sector now! We..." Jin Chen said loudly as he supported Volgograd-Kanidi.
Volgograd-Kanidi had already recovered somewhat. He patted Jin Chen on the shoulder and said, "We won the battle, but in truth, this cannot be considered a victory at all. Not at all!"
Jin Chen fell silent...
Because he knew Kanidi was telling the truth.
No matter how disgracefully the Republic fleet had fled in the end, it could not change the fact that thirty of their warships had forcibly opened a hyperspace route to reach the Modell Sector, ravaged nearly every administrative planet in the Modell Sector and the Kuna Cluster, and still departed with sixteen warships remaining.
They had implemented a scorched-earth policy to deny the Republic Fleet supplies, and nearly every cut they made had been into their own flesh!
Warehouses had been destroyed, factories shut down, workers left unemployed. Production and daily life on planet after planet had ground to a halt. Even on Kuna's Tooth Planet, where the fighting had been fiercest, Master Yoda had personally ordered Acting Governor He Yuan to maintain production and prevent famine from breaking out.
That was pity from the enemy...
The price had truly been too terrible...
What did it mean to leave an entire fleet unable to find even blaster gas, Coaxium, or fuel? It meant destroying every last scrap of it! Storing such supplies was no simple matter, so the Hunter Class Battlecruisers' powerful sensors could easily detect hidden resources.
The supplies stored aboard that Cachalot-class industrial flagship were the last reserves preserved by the entire Modell Sector! They were a lure on one hand, and on the other, resources intended for the fleet's final decisive battle.
And