When it came to defensive performance, everyone aboard the Freedom Defender was convinced that this unidentified Star Destroyer, which had displayed such "terrifying" capabilities,
would show equally impressive—or even superior—offensive power.
It was the same question as before.
Without being sufficiently confident,
why would the enemy dare to ambush the Freedom Defender so brazenly
with just one Star Destroyer?
At that moment,
the Freedom Defender's commander had a gut feeling.
The Freedom Defender was in danger!
Right now,
the Freedom Defender's only hope
was its Star Destroyer Cannon!
Though that hope was extremely slim,
it was still the only thing keeping everyone aboard the Freedom Defender fighting on.
Unfortunately,
events unfolded
exactly as Murphy's law would have predicted.
The Freedom Defender's Star Destroyer Cannon was less than one-fifth charged.
The Four Symbols Origin Crystal aboard the Sky Peng Horizontal
had already completed its entire charging sequence!
As everyone aboard the Freedom Defender watched in horror,
a cyan halo
shot out from the bow of the Sky Peng Horizontal
and struck the bow of the Freedom Defender dead on!
The next moment,
through the windows of the Freedom Defender's command center,
everyone witnessed with perfect clarity
the most immediate result of the cyan halo colliding with the pale blue halo of the Freedom Defender's energy shield!
It wasn't the back-and-forth clash they had imagined, evenly matched and mutually annihilating.
The Freedom Defender had fought Star Destroyers of the same class before.
Given the integrated nature of a Star Destroyer's Defense System,
the deciding factor in battles between Star Destroyers
was the Star Destroyer Cannons on both sides.
So, in battles at the Star Destroyer level,
the most crucial tactical priorities
were evading the enemy's Star Destroyer Cannon fire
and ensuring that your own Star Destroyer Cannon hit its target!
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