Destruction's Destruction (Part 2)
However, when the Destruction battleship began its tactical maneuvers, General Grievous astutely noticed that both The Eye of Palpatine and those civilian ships were charging straight at the Destruction battleship.
In other words, their target appeared to be only the Destruction battleship!
This was completely illogical! Normally, when attacking an enemy industrial base, an attacking fleet would prioritize striking the industrial facilities. Otherwise, if the industrial base was not dealt with quickly, it could continuously produce all kinds of combat units to harass them.
And no matter how one looked at it, the Kubindi planet industrial zone was far more valuable than a single Destruction battleship!
Yet the situation was extremely strange. The Eye of Palpatine continuously adjusted its course in response to the Destruction's maneuvers. It would have been one thing if only The Eye of Palpatine had been fixated on the Destruction, but the other warships were following it as well!
That was highly unusual.
General Grievous had no time for further analysis. The Eye of Palpatine was about to enter attack range, so he made a swift decision and immediately ordered the Destruction battleship to activate its hyperspace jump engines and flee toward another planet!
His gamble proved correct. The Eye of Palpatine indeed abandoned the easily accessible Kubindi planet industrial zone before it, instead immediately drawing the surrounding small warships back into the spaceport within its hull. It then swiftly activated its hyperspace engines and departed.
But over the following period, General Grievous discovered that The Eye of Palpatine always seemed able to locate the Destruction. No matter how he fled, he could never shake it off.
The Eye of Palpatine clung to the Destruction battleship like a parasite on the bone, leaving General Grievous unwilling to let the Destruction stop for