"Brothers! Kill them all!!" Dryden Vos roared. Crimson Dawn's warships accelerated forward as well, unleashing every bit of their firepower upon the Galactic Republic fleet.
These vicious gangsters had always been lawless outlaws, with an instinctive hatred for order. Now that they had the chance to beat a drowning dog, they naturally vented all the violence in their hearts.
The warships of gangs large and small, including the White Worm Gang, as well as mercenaries, bounty hunters, and smugglers, were unwilling to fall behind and launched their attacks one after another.
Some small groups had only three or four light corvettes, yet they were still ferocious, searching for openings to fire on Republic warships.
Almost from the very beginning, the battle had been thrown into utter chaos. Under the assault of thousands of small, fast warships, the Republic fleet, which had originally split into two groups to raid the poles of Dawn Star Planet, had gradually scattered under fire from the Star Ring's defensive installations.
Now, facing attacks from thousands of small warships, they quickly devolved into fighting on their own.
And such a battlefield situation was fatal for the Hunter Class Battlecruisers!
The Hunter Class was not suited for chaotic melee combat!
Its eight main guns were too few in number and positioned too strangely to deal with attacks coming from every direction. Even more fatal was Supreme Commander Cassio Tagge's order to launch every fighter.
That order made all sixty-five Hunter Class Battlecruisers fully deploy their bow Hangar Platforms for rapid fighter launches. Not only did this further interfere with the firing arcs of their main guns, it also turned the Hangar Platforms into their greatest weakness!
The small warships seized this opportunity to charge straight into the Republic fleet's formation, turning the battle into a melee!
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