In Ombara planet's outer orbit, eight Hunter Class Battlecruisers escorted five Acclamator-class assault ships as they began their landing operation.
Fighter formations had already launched. More than two thousand fighters stood ready around the warships, but none showed any intention of entering the planet's atmosphere to fight.
On the perimeter, ten Generous-class frigates of the Confederacy of Independent Systems Navy kept firing from a distance of ten light-seconds away, yet they did not dare approach too closely.
The two fleets exchanged fire from afar. Warship shields were constantly hit and severely damaged, forcing the vessels to withdraw behind their formations. But that was largely all—neither side inflicted any fatal damage on the other.
In fact, this kind of long-range exchange was the most comfortable form of combat for Generous-class frigates, which possessed two powerful main guns. Yet even so, ten frigates against eight Hunter Class Battlecruisers was an arduous fight, especially when the Hunter Classes had not even sent their fighter groups forward.
So those garbage warships being phased out was entirely deserved. In the original storyline, the Confederacy of Independent Systems had kept using Generous-class frigates until the very end, and their defeat was hardly undeserved.
However, the Galactic Republic's attention was focused entirely on the landing force, so the presence of this Confederacy fleet truly caused them considerable trouble.
Because landing on Ombara planet was an extremely difficult task—one could even say it was only a step away from suicide.
Ombara planet had no light whatsoever. It was a shadow planet...
That was right. This planet was also often called the "Shadow World."
Ombara planet was located in the Ghost Nebula Sector. The Ghost Nebula was a fan-shaped nebula orbiting a giant star. Positioned directly between Ombara planet, Atoa planet, and that star, it blocked all light from