At this moment, on the outskirts of Dorin Planet, the Galactic Republic fleet was in dire straits. This fleet, composed of twenty Hunter Class Battlecruisers and thirty-three Aquitenes-class light cruisers, had fallen completely onto the defensive.
This fleet was the Seventh Army's Second Sub-fleet. After the capital of the Eighth Army of the Republic, Ord Mantell, was captured and Governor Fan Ke fled in panic, the Eighth Army of the Republic was declared destroyed.
But in reality, the Eighth Army had only lost several core planets, including Ord Mantell. Across its vast jurisdiction, many regions still remained under Galactic Republic control.
Therefore, the Galactic Republic Supreme Strategic Command later reorganized the Eighth Army, assigning all of its remaining territory to the Seventh Army and ordering the Seventh Army to quickly adjust its defensive zone in preparation for the Geth invasion.
The Seventh Army's Second Sub-fleet had in fact been drawn from the remnants of the Eighth Army and reorganized. Its Fleet Commander was still Admiral Eureka, and Gillard Perine was naturally among them.
The Second Sub-fleet had originally been ordered to reinforce Dorin Planet after it came under Geth attack. They transported more than 40,000 Clone Troopers as reinforcements and intercepted the Geth fleet outside the planet.
Those Clone Troopers were all the Kamino version. Although Kamino Clone Troopers had been withdrawn from active service in other Galactic Republic war zones, the Legions stationed in the Northern Galaxy, where the Geth were ravaging, had all applied to the Republic to retain Clone Trooper formations to combat the terrifying Geth army.
The Republic Supreme Strategic Command agreed.
That was why as many as 40,000 Clone Troopers had been deployed to the battlefield on Dorin Planet. In the past, such a move would have been considered extravagance!
However, after the Seventh Army's