Of course, one could not say that warships like the Hunter Class and Endless Class were not powerful. In fact, they remained immensely powerful; they simply were not specialized in artillery combat and protection.
Take the Hunter Class Battlecruiser, for example. Although this type of warship had been comprehensively outclassed by the Duchy of Dawn's vessels on the battlefield in the later stages of the Clone Wars, both the Duchy of Dawn and the Galactic Republic had always regarded it merely as outdated, never as flawed.
Likewise, the Endless-class Super Carrier had never been intended for use as a capital ship. In other words, none of the Endless-class Super Carrier's armaments had been designed with "annihilation" as their purpose.
Even though it was equipped with three Particle Beam Lances, the Endless-class Super Carrier would never alter its tactical maneuvers on the battlefield simply to destroy enemy warships.
The Endless-class Super Carrier was a mobile military fortress. Within a fleet, it served as a flagship at the heart of the formation and would not easily be sent into battle to kill enemies.
At the same time, Tang Xiao's greatest purpose in deciding to construct the Endless-class Super Carrier was not to strengthen the fleet's combat capability, but to explore the mysterious Unknown Regions!
The Unknown Regions occupied a vast expanse amounting to one-third of the Milky Way Galaxy. Moreover, because the hyperspace lanes in that region were exceptionally chaotic, modern spacecraft, which were extremely dependent on hyperspace lanes, were almost incapable of navigating there.
Yet the Unknown Regions concealed countless secrets and treasures. After declining from its former dominance over the galaxy, the Kilik Swarm had retreated into the Unknown Regions, while the Rakatans of the Infinite Empire had also left behind countless Relics there. Even uncovering a tiny fraction of