Is- Koth had also noticed the unusual movements of the Separatist fleet, but he considered them a perfectly natural response.
According to reconnaissance, the enemy only had six Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers that had just been received, and their condition was still unknown. After all, those warships had drifted through space for twenty-five years without maintenance or management. There was no guarantee of how much combat capability they still retained.
Beyond that, there were several Escort Carriers that could not be incorporated into a regular fleet at all. The Gray Horse-class was only 210 meters long, essentially a mobile hangar. The Homeworld-class had been converted from Predator-class heavy replenishment ships. Though they were 800 meters long and had ample space, they had too few launch and landing platforms and could not fight as regular warships.
As for the five Cobalt-class heavy frigates, without a numerical advantage, they were merely a token escort force.
So the only threat was the Plague Titan warship, which was already nearly crippled!
But he had eight Aquitenes-class light cruisers and five Hunter Class Battlecruisers! With Plague's main guns destroyed, even if they pulled back and traded fire at range, they would absolutely not lose to them.
Thus, Is- Koth was more concerned with how to bring the Blade Fleet back intact. The Separatists had already seized six ships, and that pained him immensely.
That was why he had ordered an all-out attack on the transports: to preserve more Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers.
It was not that Is- Koth had never considered the possibility that Sefrans Tann had taken control of some warships in advance and mixed them in to ambush him. But the odds of that were extremely low.
Republic warships were encrypted. Controlling them required encryption keys. The Separatists had no keys and could only force