Skrand Sharp-Bick's objective was crystal clear. Since he was on Kira planet, he had never intended to retreat.
Even if Tang Xiao could not directly destroy the Death Star, he would fight to the bitter end here!
This battle plan was completely different from those at Chardaan Planet and Paks Planet—his first step was to utterly destroy the Death Star's escort fleet, especially its anti-air warships!
The Protoss Purifiers' Unmanned Bombers unleashed a merciless barrage, with no regard for reason.
After the previous two waves of drone attacks, the Death Star escort fleet's formation had already fallen apart. This escort fleet had suffered considerable losses during the defensive battles at the previous two planets, and now, facing the Claw Fleet's full-scale assault, they had no answer at all.
As before, after coming under attack, Wilhuff Tarkin began withdrawing all anti-air warships within the Death Star's Deflector Shield range, combining their anti-air firepower with that of the Death Star itself to form an even stronger anti-air defense network.
And that amounted to abandoning the other escort warships.
Those Imperial-class Star Destroyers could now only circle around the Death Star, serving as anti-air turrets as well.
They formed dense formations, hoping that more concentrated anti-air fire could destroy as many of those damned drones as possible. They had completely abandoned any thought of defeating the opposing fleet, because the earlier battles had proven that to be utterly impossible.
Faced with the Fourth Empire's absolutely dominant air power, they had no chance of resisting!
How long an imposing Imperial-class Star Destroyer could hold out before being destroyed depended on the opposing drones' ammunition load... It was an incomparably humiliating and tragic fact.
More than two hundred Star Destroyers were now like bison being torn apart by a pack of wolves, their formation in