Yago-Dur Counterattack (10)
"Report! Separatist boarding forces have entered our ship! Numbers unknown! We've lost contact with seven compartments!" An officer ran up to the captain of the Knight-class Star Destroyer, visibly flustered.
The captain's face was grim as he asked solemnly, "How many boarding craft have attached themselves to us?"
The officer looked even more frightened. "F-forty-four..."
"Each of those Separatist boarding craft can carry twenty to thirty soldiers. That means even by the most optimistic estimate, nearly a thousand soldiers have entered my warship! How many Marines can we still contact?" the captain asked.
"Because of differing mission requirements, our ship's Marines were not at full strength. We initially had only 4,000 Marines aboard. Some lost contact during the bombardment and surprise attack just now. We can currently reach around 3,000," the officer replied.
Knight-class Star Destroyer
The captain fell silent for a moment, staring at the ship's schematic on the screen before him. More than a hundred locations aboard the Knight-class Star Destroyer were marked in red, with alarms still sounding in some areas.
Those were all places where the armor had been pierced by enemy fire during the previous engagement.
When Yago-Dur had crashed into the planet, his Knight-class Star Destroyer had been in a terrible position. It had suffered powerful gravitational tearing, and the Deflector Shield had consumed an enormous amount of power resisting it. Worse still, all the warships had been disoriented and scattering in every direction at the time, and his ship had even collided with a transport vessel!
There was no question that the transport had immediately shattered against the Knight-class Star Destroyer's massive 1,600-meter hull, but that had further worsened the energy drain on his ship's Deflector Shield.
Then the Separatist warships had suddenly flown out from Yago-Dur, catching the captain