Matt Horner stood inside the Starbase A Agonev-class star base serving as his command center, staring grimly at the holographic star map before him.
On the holographic map, the Republic fleet maintained a tight formation and kept moving, reducing the hit rate of the Particle Beam Lances while continuously bombarding the Yag'Dhul System by every means available.
This Republic fleet was not actually all that powerful: thirty Hunter Class ships, ten Knight-class ships, seventy small and medium warships, and one Commander II-class.
Compared with the defense fleet of the Yag'Dhul System under his command, it could even be considered at a disadvantage.
The Yag'Dhul Defense Fleet included the two Agonev-class star bases, A and B; ten Sova-class Carriers; forty Kohl-class Battlecruisers; twenty Calamity-class battlecruisers; seventeen Hiigaran-class battlecruisers; fifteen Martha-class missile heavy cruisers; five Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruisers; five Durov-class Battlecruisers; and one Consul-class aircraft carrier.
In addition, there were more than four hundred small and medium warships, though most of them were frigates.
There were also eight Munificent-class communications frigates, three Defiant-class destroyers, and two Deceiver-class destroyers. These warships belonged to the Gran Defense Fleet. To reinforce the fighting in the Yag'Dhul System, they had dispatched their own Defense Fleet as well.
Many of the ships in these defense fleets had been ordered back when they were still part of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Later, Kinyen was assigned to Dawn Star Planet's war zone, while the Fourth Civilization fleet was deployed under unified arrangements. As a result, Kinyen had not been equipped with the Fourth Civilization's warships and had instead retained its former defense fleet.
For the Gran homeworld of Kinyen, if the Yag'Dhul System fell, the Galactic Republic's next target would be Kinyen. Thus, both for public and private reasons, they had to do everything in their power to