Fleeing in Panic
"Betrayal?" Adi Gallia repeated softly. "Even I can no longer tell whether I've betrayed anyone... I only know that things can't go on like this."
The moment she finished speaking, she shoved the controls forward. Her Delta-7 fighter traced an unbelievable serpentine path through the sky with incredible agility and speed, opening fire on Eeth Koth from multiple angles.
As they dueled, the other Republic warships continued bombarding the Plague.
The Plague's shields had completed their recharge cycle, but even so, they could not withstand the Republic fleet's overwhelming firepower.
After being struck by thousands more turbolaser blasts, the Plague's shields were finally destroyed, and massive amounts of firepower poured onto the warship itself.
The first target was the enormous Hypermatter Railgun at the front of the ship.
Countless explosions erupted along its four energy rails, each more than ten thousand meters long. The terrifying blasts tore away the outer armor, sending innumerable fragments flying.
The Fourth Civilization officers and soldiers aboard the Plague fought with everything they had. They operated every turret capable of firing and attacked the Republic fleet with all their strength, while the factories inside the warship continuously manufactured missiles and fed them into the launchers.
The battle had become exceptionally brutal. Neither side could afford to retreat even a single step.
At that moment, the battle between Adi Gallia and Eeth Koth also reached its conclusion. Seizing an opening, Adi Gallia launched a missile at extremely close range and manually detonated it early!
It was the same trick Darth Malthael had used when fighting them before, and it proved unexpectedly effective in aerial combat between powerful Force-sensitives.
The missile blast destroyed Eeth Koth's fighter engines. Adi Gallia then accelerated straight toward the Republic fleet, easily weaving past the interception of the Republic