"Sir! The Eclipse-class prototype ship is accelerating! If we don't take action, it'll get away!" An officer approached and reported to the Fleet Commander of the Kuat Defense Fleet.
The Fleet Commander's expression darkened. At least half of the Kuat Defense Fleet's warships had surrounded the Eclipse-class prototype ship, but aside from dispatching several LAAT assault transports into the ship to exchange fire with the fugitives who had hijacked it—and then helplessly watching the transports' signals vanish one after another—they could do nothing.
After all, this was the Eclipse-class!
With the Malevolence, Plague, and Xuanwu—three super warships—rampaging across the warfront, and with the Plague having once roamed as far as the Core Worlds of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Galactic Republic desperately wanted a super warship of its own.
The Commander II-class was only a temporary answer. It was merely a scaled-up warship built upon existing technology, with no real technological breakthrough. Furthermore, during the Eriadu System Campaign, the Commander II-class Dreadnought had already proven incapable of standing against the Separatists' Xuanwu Titan warship.
Kuat Drive Yards, meanwhile, had proposed the Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer project. In that proposal, Lila Blythex painted an incomparably grand and magnificent vision for Sheev Palpatine, Chancellor of the Republic, leaving Palpatine utterly enthralled by this invincible warship that had been conjured out of thin air—or, more accurately, talked into existence.
It had to be said that, at least in this regard, Lila Blythex far surpassed her father—she knew exactly how to please her superiors.
Thus, the Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer could be said to embody the hopes of the entire Galactic Republic!
From top to bottom, both the Galactic Republic military and the Senate eagerly awaited the Eclipse-class's unveiling, so it could completely shatter the myth of the Separatists' invincible super warships!
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