Countless frigate-class light warships were rampaging through the Republic fleet, swarming every Republic Hunter Class Battlecruiser. The Hunters could only put up a desperate resistance with their inadequate firepower, all while launching fighter squadrons.
That was right. Even now, the Republic fleet no longer carried full complements of starfighters. A Hunter Class generally carried only around two hundred fighters. But this did nothing to solve the Hunter Class's inherent flaw—its abysmal launch efficiency.
Fully deploying the Hangar Platform meant exposing a massive weak point. But if it was not fully deployed and fighters could only launch bit by bit, how long would it take to get more than two hundred fighters into the air?
In any case, since the Duchy of Dawn's frigate swarm had launched its attack, most Hunter Class Battlecruisers had yet to launch all their fighters.
So these warships could only launch fighters while evading attacks and returning fire. Their captains were also agonizing over whether to close the Hangar Platforms.
Worse still, as more and more fighters ran out of ammunition and fuel, the number trying to return kept increasing! Yet those Hunter Class Battlecruisers were still launching fighters, completely occupying their limited launch space!
Chaos began to spread, until even the flight control departments could no longer effectively command their own warships' fighter squadrons!
Some fighters could not land aboard their own ships, so in their desperation, they flew to other warships and requested landing clearance, throwing the entire organization into disarray!
In fact, every warship and its embarked fighters formed an independent command structure. Fighter squadrons were organized and assigned duties aboard the ship, and after launching into battle, they remained under the unified coordination and command of their own ship's flight control center. Only then could chaos be avoided.
It was as foolish