Grand Admiral Thrawn was undoubtedly the finest commander of the Fourth Empire, without equal. But the battle he commanded that shocked me most was the one fought in the Ithor System and the Parlin-Minor System, back when both he and I served the Galactic Empire. In that battle, Grand Admiral Thrawn truly wagered everything. He had never been so reckless, nor had he ever been so desperate. And that was because standing opposite him was also his greatest opponent. — Memoirs of a Fourth Empire Veteran, Book Five, Section 36. Memoirs of Rael-Bentin, staff officer to a Fourth Empire Rear Admiral.
Dunn-Vesex, the King of the North, had finally been driven into a corner like a rabbit and bared his fangs!
At his command, the last Defense Fleet gathered around Parlin-Minor Planet immediately lunged viciously at the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Sub-fleets Sefrans-Tann had left behind!
Just as Thrawn had said, the fleets Sefrans-Tann left behind were all equipped with outdated mainline warships. Her original plan had been for the First Fleet to hold back Thrawn's fleet while the Archangel Titan warship led the Second Sub-fleet into the battlefield to secure victory. The Third through Sixth Sub-fleets would then expand the gains.
Thus, the First and Second Sub-fleets were the strongest in both quantity and quality. Tann had assigned all five Divinity-class battleships to the First Fleet, and most of the most advanced warships—such as the Hell Angel-class, Doomsday Battlefield class, Behemoth-class, and Paladin-class—had also been placed in the First and Second Sub-fleets.
Naturally, although the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Sub-fleets appeared to possess eighty capital ships, most of them were second-rate warships from the Clone Wars era.
On Dunn-Vesex's side, however, although he had only sixty capital ships, forty of those were the Galactic Empire's most advanced Imperial II-class