"Geth! The Geth fleet has appeared behind us!!!" the radar officer shouted himself nearly hoarse.
There was no need for him to shout. Gillard Perine had already seen the terrifying sight on the holographic tactical star map—more than 2,000 Geth warships had abruptly appeared behind the battlefield amid a distortion of space.
That was right, directly behind the Imperial fleet!
In that instant, the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse. What had been an evenly matched fight became an Imperial fleet caught in a pincer attack from both front and rear!
One had to know that, given the firepower layout of Imperial-class Star Destroyers and Victory II-class Star Destroyers, their weakest point was their rear!
Compared with the Divinity-class battleships, Hell Angel-class ships, Aiken-class ships, and Doomsday Battlefield-class battlecruisers of the Kingdom of Dawn, which could fire sideways, as well as the Kohl-class and Durov-class Battlecruisers, whose overall cylindrical structure allowed their turrets to simply turn and fire behind them, those ships naturally had little to fear from being attacked from both ends.
But the warship designs of the Galactic Empire—or rather, Kuat Drive Yards—were basically shaped like triangular pyramids. Their enormous sterns not only housed vulnerable engines, but also blocked the firing angles of the forward turrets. In other words, their most vulnerable point was also a blind spot in their firepower.
Against the enemies they had faced in the past, the overwhelming frontal firepower of Star Destroyers had naturally carried all before it. But now, as the Kingdom of Dawn's technology continued to advance, all kinds of maneuvering methods had begun to emerge, making direct strikes at the rear of a fleet no longer impossible.
Just like now...
The sensor operator turned and reported, "General! The Geth fleet used warp travel!"
"Even warp