Meanwhile, in the outer space around Planet Barab, the main fleet of the Desilijic kajidic was locked in a bloody battle with the main fleet of the Besadi kajidic. The two sides had been fighting for nearly twenty standard hours.
Twenty hours of combat had left officers and soldiers of every rank on both fleets exhausted. Although the Hutts also used large numbers of droids, there were still plenty of ordinary crew members. After all, the droids they could buy came from the black market; even if they were the same model, their preset programs could not independently operate warships.
That was the tragedy of the Hutts—they had neglected their own industry and technology, so even their civil war now looked like two nouveau riche wearing gold chains and flinging stacks of cash at each other. And even if both sides were throwing money around, the Confederacy of Independent Systems had at least possessed industrial and technological reserves in the early stages of the war.
Around Planet Barab, the wreckage of warships had already become extremely numerous. Drawn by the planet's gravity and gradually shaped into a ring by its rotation, it gathered around the equator. Both sides had suffered enormous losses. Their three hundred capital ships had been reduced to fewer than two hundred, while more than half of their small and medium-sized warships had also been lost.
Such devastating losses forced both sides to gradually disengage and regroup. But neither side had yet determined a victor. They seemed evenly matched, yet it also felt as though one more determined push could secure final victory. As a result, neither side withdrew from the battlefield.
However, at that moment, dazzling white flashes suddenly appeared on one side of the battlefield! It was the physical phenomenon of a large fleet emerging