In the desolate expanse of space between the Ithor System and the Parlin-Minor System, this incomparably brutal battle was escalating by the moment.
The Archangel Titan warship unleashed its might across the battlefield. Its twelve high-energy laser arrays were like twelve scythes of death, harvesting the lives of countless Galactic Empire Navy soldiers.
Although Sefrans Tann did not have many warships left under her command, she still did everything she could. On one hand, she moved the heavily damaged First Fleet ships beneath the Titan warship's protection and had them activate their hyperdrives as quickly as possible to return to the Ithor System.
On the other hand, Sefrans Tann had precisely targeted the damaged Imperial ships as well! She ordered the Archangel Titan warship to concentrate its firepower on destroying vessels that had been damaged in the earlier fighting. Better to break one finger than injure ten, and inflicting heavy casualties in a short period would also be devastating to the morale of the Galactic Empire Navy soldiers.
Less than twenty minutes after the battle began, the Archangel Titan warship had already destroyed four Imperial-class Star Destroyers, two Aquitenes-class light cruisers, and seven Kallak-class light cruisers.
Thrawn responded in kind. He had the Lila Executor-class Super Star Destroyer keep pushing forward while concentrating all its firepower on the Archangel Titan warship. He did not order the damaged ships to retreat. Instead, he adopted an utterly relentless posture. If the Archangel continued to ignore the Lila, then the Lila would rather suffer grievous damage than fail to drag the Titan warship down with it!
The Executor-class Super Star Destroyer's firepower was equally terrifying: 2,000 quad-mounted medium multifunction turbolaser cannons, 2,000 twin-mounted heavy turbolaser cannons, 250 proton torpedo launchers, 250 heavy ion cannons, and 500 point-defense laser weapons. Once an Executor-class Star