When the Fourth Civilization launched its final offensive on the ground battlefield, the space battlefield reached a turning point that would decide victory or defeat almost at the same moment.
The Enlightener killed every person aboard the Republic fleet's flagship, turning the massive Prosecutor-class battlecruiser into an empty shell.
Following battlefield protocol, the Republic fleet immediately appointed a new Fleet Commander and continued fighting under his command.
But the new commander was still haunted by the ordeal and had yet to recover from the terror and shock. Perhaps he still held out some hope regarding the former commander's fate, because he actually failed to order the Prosecutor-class battlecruiser destroyed at once!
By the time he finally made up his mind and prepared to have his fleet destroy the Prosecutor-class battlecruiser, it was already too late. Before beginning their Orbital Drop, the two Corsev Battlecruisers had launched more than a dozen assault landing craft toward it, packed with B-1 battle droids in folded storage and warship operators.
Those assault landing craft delivered more than five hundred operators aboard the Prosecutor-class battlecruiser. If it had been a Hunter Class, that would have been another matter, but the Prosecutor-class was a warship from a bygone era, and its operating systems had long since become semi-public knowledge.
The operators quickly restored the ship's shields. When the nearby Flame Hunter Class Battlecruiser turned its turbolaser batteries toward them and opened fire, the immensely powerful Deflector Shield blocked most of the incoming fire!
Then the Prosecutor-class battlecruiser unleashed its full firepower, firing on the surrounding Republic warships while speeding toward the Fourth Civilization fleet formation.
The Battle of Terminus Planet had already been utterly wrecked, and that was meant literally.
Whether it was the personnel, equipment, and cities on the ground, or the fleets in space,