The battle had gone on long enough that the Galactic Republic had acquired a very clear understanding of the Conqueror-class battleship's technical specifications. Data such as the number and power of its main guns, as well as its shield capacity, could be measured with relative accuracy after repeated battlefield scans.
The technical data for the Conqueror-class battleship's most important weapon—the High-Energy Directed Ion Pulse Cannon—had also been recorded.
After all, the two super warships, Malevolence and Plague, had cast far too great a shadow over the Galactic Republic. Therefore, in order to speed up construction, the second Conqueror-class ship, Destruction, had not undergone major modifications in most respects. The Republic military was thus very familiar with much of its data as well.
In particular, the Republic military had mastered key data such as the ion pulse cannon's range, rate of fire, pulse wave propagation speed, and area of effect through repeated research and scans.
It should be noted that the High-Energy Directed Ion Pulse Cannon used by the Conqueror-class battleship was not actually a lightspeed weapon. The word "directed" in its name was essentially a definition of the weapon's properties. An EMP was inherently dispersive, but to make it directional required magnetic field containment.
Thus, the pulse fired by the Directed Ion Pulse Cannon actually traveled at the speed of that electromagnetic field's movement, which was not particularly fast. At least in the hands of a top-tier Jedi Knight like Anakin Skywalker, a starship could still escape by accelerating to maximum speed.
For the past few days of fighting near Rendili Planet, Lieutenant General Trinald Skarrid had calculated his operations around the range of Destruction's Directed Ion Pulse Cannon, and the tactic had worked every time. The moment Destruction opened fire, he would outflank it, forcing the enemy warships to