What Hermit had told Gayett was not wrong.
After the second Commander II-class Dreadnought, the fleet flagship Rosana, was sunk, the Galactic Republic fleet was finished.
Fleet Commander Admiral Siost went down with the Rosana. In truth, he would not have had any chance to escape anyway, because after its shields were breached, nearly every system aboard the Rosana had fallen into paralysis.
Yet in its final moments, the Rosana's main guns still fired one last shot, piercing the Xuanwu's shields once again and giving Master Gayett his final chance to break into the Xuanwu.
Who fired that shot, who gave the order, and who pressed the button had all vanished into the dust of history along with the Rosana's thunderous explosion.
Just as Master Gayett had failed to cause any damage inside the Xuanwu.
People always remembered the heroes who accomplished earth-shaking deeds. Yet they did not know that there were countless others who might seem to have achieved nothing in the eyes of history, but who performed their duties faithfully and stood firm, choosing to fight to the end even in the face of ultimate despair.
Such people were heroes too.
Heroes buried by history.
The Galactic Republic's entire fleet sent to counterattack the Eriadu system had deployed nearly one hundred Hunter Class Battlecruisers, over two hundred small and medium-sized vessels of various types, and two Commander II-class super warships.
A total force of 1.13 million!
Facing the Ankolon-class Titan Warship Xuanwu, which possessed an overwhelming technological advantage, they chose to fight to the end! They launched a suicidal assault on the Xuanwu, and the final thought of most of them was this: even if they died here, they would tear a piece of steel from the Xuanwu!
It was a battle doomed to fail. With the destruction