Smoke of War in the Eastern Territory
Grievous stared at the flashing coordinates on the holographic star map. Around those ten Purifier aircraft carriers were another 100 Purifier Scouts. These scouts were all white with gold trim; without question, they were all Purifier-made.
"Because the Protoss Council refused to deploy troops, none of the Phoenix fighters originally assigned will be participating. And the Purifiers have yet to overcome the technical barriers needed to build the Phoenix fighter's key technologies themselves. Therefore, the fleet participating in this operation consists of ten aircraft carriers and 100 scouts," Elena said.
Grievous nodded as he examined the data on the Purifier Scouts. He found that, in terms of size and length, these ultra-heavy fighters resembled corvettes more than fighters, yet possessed extraordinary agility and tremendous speed. Combined with their powerful antimatter missiles, they packed formidable firepower.
Rather than fighting other fighters, Protoss Scouts were actually better suited to engaging large enemy warships. They were aircraft called scouts, with the mobility of fighters, the size of corvettes, and the job of bombers.
He immediately ran multiple battlefield simulations, and he also believed that the combination of Scouts and aircraft carriers was the best configuration for fighting the Galactic Empire fleet.
Because at present, the Galactic Empire's fighter formations had effectively become mere supporting players on the battlefield. Once Protoss Carriers entered the battle, their fighters would have no chance whatsoever of getting close to the main fleet.
Under such circumstances, compared with air-superiority fighters like the Phoenix fighter, the Scout's antimatter missiles could inflict the greatest possible damage on the Galactic Empire's Star Destroyers.
Although Grievous could see in the database that both the Protoss and the Purifiers possessed a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, this was all they could field for now.