The arrival of the Chaos fleet pushed the war into a new stage.
All vox arrays on Alert Star had been disrupted, forcing Lion to command the fighting both inside and outside Alert Star under these extremely unfavorable circumstances.
Yet only such extreme conditions could fully bring out the Gene-father's talent for command.
Lu Jin watched from within the temporary command center.
He saw Lion's mouth barely stop as he relayed tactical orders to others.
At times, the Gene-father seemed to possess precognitive abilities, foreseeing strategic intelligence that would not be delivered by messengers until dozens of minutes or even hours later, then making preparations in advance.
The operation to retake Saint's Port could no longer be carried out.
Though the Orks would make use of Saint's Port, converting the spaceport into a ground-attack weapons platform, Lion tacitly allowed them to do so and did not immediately arrange an operation to retake it.
The mortal military commanders and Space Marine officers in the temporary command center regarded his acquiescence as a mistake, but the facts soon proved that the Gene-father's judgment had been entirely correct.
The Chaos fleet numbered seven hundred warships.
All the other Chapters combined had only three hundred warships.
There was no need to fight this void battle to know who would win and who would lose.
The Iron Hands Chapter's fleet was the mainstay of their own forces. Lion did not interfere with what each warship should do in the void battle, because experience from ten thousand years ago told him that the descendants of his brother Ferrus had their own distinct way of commanding void warfare.
Yet no matter how unique the Iron Hands were, the hard disparity in the number of warships could not be overcome.
Once the two fleets engaged, the Chaos fleet