Sure enough, several minutes later, a soldier from the ship's sensor division shouted, "Detected an increase in the energy output of the Separatist Durov-class Battlecruiser!"
At the same time, an officer from the Fire Control Department came over to report, "General! The shields of nearly every warship in the Separatist fleet are cycling at an extremely rapid rate. Our last salvo had no effect at all!"
"General! The Separatists' Durov-class Battlecruisers are directly replenishing shield energy for their other warships!"
"The damaged Separatist warships are withdrawing! We don't have time to break through their shields again!"
"Damn it!" Admiral Siost slammed a fist onto the table. His mood, which had improved somewhat just moments ago, instantly turned foul again. "These new Separatist warships... were they built solely to stall for time? Bastards!"
The staff officer shook his head as well. "I also think these Durov-class Battlecruisers were made purely to disgust people. Their armor and shields are both thin, yet they insist on installing these devices..."
"Inform all ships to halt their attacks for now. Cycle the shields and main-gun cooling systems again, then recharge as usual." Xiost quickly calmed down. "The Durov-class Battlecruisers' engines have limited power output. They cannot replenish other warships' shields without limit, nor can they endlessly increase the output of other ships' engines."
Admiral Siost had now truly experienced just how revolting these Durov-class Battlecruisers were. In his view, warship combat meant stronger firepower, thicker armor, more fighters—head-on confrontation that set the blood boiling! What kind of warship took the stance of go ahead and hit me, I can take it, voluntarily abandoning offense to focus entirely on defense?
Yet these warships had appeared within the Separatist fleet, and in the battle to defend the Eriadu system, they had played an exceptionally crucial role. To