"Damn it... damn it!!" Master Gayett was somewhat alarmed, but he still looked around. Finally, using the Force, he caught sight of a tiny black speck in his field of vision—another ARC-170 fighter flying at extreme speed.
He felt slightly relieved, but then a violent impact and flash erupted behind him!
Gayett was horrified. He whipped around, only to witness an incomparably gruesome scene!
The Rosana, their flagship and the last Commander II-class Dreadnought, was erupting in an endless series of explosions!
The dreadnought's shields had been breached!
The Xuanwu Titan warship was like a hunting snapping turtle, suddenly thrusting its sharp beak out from its shell and launching a concentrated assault against the unprotected Rosana!
The Xuanwu's four forward Pulse Laser main guns continuously fired at the Rosana's bridge! After the heavy Durasteel armor withstood that barrage, it turned and began rotating, using another four Pulse Laser main guns at its stern to fire again!!
Hundreds of fires had already broken out across the Rosana. In the vacuum of space, such sustained fires meant there was still air inside feeding the flames. It also meant the fireproof and blastproof bulkheads had failed to seal, and that... most of the warship's internal systems had already been paralyzed!
The Rosana did not possess the Xuanwu's almost magical self-replicating Nanobots. Its battlefield repairs relied entirely on damage-control crews working on site. But damage of this scale could no longer be repaired from within. Several small engineering craft launching from nearby hangars were shattered by the frenzied Vulture droid fighters the moment they took off!
Seeing that horrific sight, Gayett could not even be sure whether the Fleet Commander—that stubborn man, Admiral Siost—had survived...
But... a flash lit up!
The main guns of the Commander II-class Dreadnought Rosana fired once more! Four immensely