Captain Pegase's judgment and orders should have been right.
This hastily assembled fleet, made up of three battlecruisers and more than twenty cruisers, had pulled off a stunning fleet maneuver. It had taken them just forty-five minutes to reach the battlefield in a straight-line formation.
...To be fair, if all they'd done was charge straight ahead without any order, that could hardly be called a proper fleet maneuver. It would have been more like a speed race. But reorganizing a formation while moving at high speed was an incredibly difficult operation. It was a serious test of the commander's and captains' ability to coordinate, the departments' capacity to work together, and the ordinary crewmen's professional skills.
What was touching was that the fleet had actually pulled it off.
Of course, the one coordinating the various warships was Captain Pegase, who also served as deputy admiral, along with Lady Viscountess Seluz, the chief of staff. But that didn't matter.
At the moment, the fleet's formation was still riddled with flaws. The battlecruisers and cruisers seemed to have taken up their positions at random. At best, they could ensure they wouldn't collide while underway and try not to obstruct one another's firing arcs.
In a fleet engagement, this formation would probably fall apart the moment the enemy charged. Still, it was at least a tidy semicircular formation, with some maneuverability and defensive capability, and enough room for every warship to fire its main guns.
At any rate, this had to be a little better than the Tanlian Fleet's nonexistent formation, right? Probably...
Meanwhile, Sobek had of course received word that the enemy fleet's two main forces were accelerating and seemed ready to attack them from both sides. But that was no longer something he could worry about.
Lieutenant General Laster of the