Inside the bridge of the Silent, the warriors had recovered from the brief dizziness caused by the jump.
The range of their ship's radar and the Zerg swarm's shared field of vision appeared on the tactical holographic star map. A purple-red tide of creatures charged between the steel walls, explosions lighting their way forward as fragments of steel and biomass alike broke apart and burned.
Perhaps it was precisely because the space around the gravity well had descended into chaos that Yu Lian and his companions spotted the Imperial fleet maneuvering at high speed in the distance so quickly.
It was a formation of battlecruisers and heavy cruisers. Their elegant silver livery alone was enough to identify them as the Imperial Guard.
The fleet was now maneuvering at high speed, arcing away from the chaotic battle ahead.
"The Imperial vanguard's arsenal ships and guard ships have all been boarded by the swarm, but they haven't suffered structural damage yet. The situation won't become clear for some time. The enemy's main fleet is clearly preparing to flank them. They want to cut through the swarm and sink the hive ship directly," Deng Zhengqing reported quickly, relaying the staff's analysis.
Really, there was no need to analyze it. Anyone with the slightest bit of common sense could figure out what was happening.
The chaos looked likely to continue for a while, which in turn gave the Empire's other formations room to maneuver.
They could simply bypass the chaotic, indistinct battlefield ahead and charge straight at the swarm's core. Just the layers upon layers of carapace and tower-like antennae on the No. 1 hive ship, which had accompanied Shari for years, made it look imposing, never mind its towering Titan-class size.
Even someone thinking with their knees could tell that it had to