1563, Cage for a Trapped Beast (Doomsday of the Second Systems Army - 6)
This EMP covered a range of several thousand kilometers. Although the Republic fleet had begun evasive maneuvers in advance, some warships were still caught in it. The Galactic Republic was researching ways to counter Conqueror-class battleships, and the scientists of the Confederacy of Independent Systems naturally responded in kind, further refining their own weapon designs.
What was now mounted on the Destruction battleship was the improved Version 2.0 Directional High-Energy EMP Cannon. Its primary improvements were the EMP's area of effect and propagation speed. Anakin Skywalker had once evaded an EMP in a spacecraft during the story.
Medium and small warships, including CR-70 corvettes, simply could not withstand such a vast EMP field! Every electronic system aboard the affected ships was paralyzed, their engines lost all power, and they drifted through space.
However, the Hunter Class Battlecruisers were now able to withstand the Destruction's EMP. Although most electronic systems on the three affected Hunter Class Battlecruisers were still paralyzed, their most critical power systems remained intact, allowing them to withdraw from the battlefield as quickly as possible.
Besides the heavily protected power systems, another system aboard the Hunter Class Battlecruisers was protected by a complete set of EMP defenses: the communications system. This ensured that if a warship was ambushed by a Conqueror-class battleship, it could at least send word of the attack back, rather than ending up like the Malevolence, unable to transmit a single message and nearly taking Master Ploo Koon down with it.
After firing the directional EMP, Sefrans Tann immediately charged in that direction. The Destruction battleship was equipped entirely with medium turbolasers. Though it had as many as five hundred twin-barreled turrets, it was at a severe disadvantage in terms of