Admiral Siost's expression shifted unpredictably. He understood that defeat was already inevitable.
No—after the simulation results had come out, defeat had already been certain. His struggle until now had merely been for a more dignified ending.
He just hadn't expected to lose so miserably!
Even with two Commander II-class Dreadnoughts joining the battle, his fleet still could not harm the Fourth Civilization fleet protected by the Xuanwu Titan warship!
It was like how the Hunter Class, despite being a carrier warship, had previously been able to engage most of the Separatists' main warships in artillery duels. You possessed advantages in numbers, tonnage, and even total energy output, yet if the battle still turned out like this, it could only mean one thing—the technology contained within that Titan warship was at least two generations ahead of the Galactic Republic's existing warship technology!
Before the colossal-warship-and-heavy-guns doctrine that scientists at Kuat Drive Yards, the Republic Ship Inspection Committee, and the Galactic Republic Engineering Department still took considerable pride in, the Xuanwu Titan warship had shown them through reality that energy output could be used for far more than simply firing guns at people!
The most typical example was its Fleet Shield technology! This system, which had given him the greatest headache, had effectively replaced rigid shields with flexible shields.
The Deflector Shields commonly used by the Galactic Republic were a type of rigid shield. Essentially, such shields used their own energy level to offset the enemy's energy level, pitting force directly against force. Even in the newest technologies, there was one that could disperse incoming attack energy and then use the shield as a whole to spread out and offset it, but the underlying principle remained unchanged.
The theory of flexible shields had been proposed by members of the Galactic Republic's scientific