Gray's Second Fleet main force also went to war with the Imperial Combined Fleet in the Karen Galaxy.
The Imperium's advance force had only just entered the Karen Galaxy when several naval warships, like lambs lost in the wilderness, charged defenselessly into the airtight trap laid by the fleet led by Tulas near the Mandeville Point.
These Imperial warships had only just completed their Warp jump and had not yet activated their Void Shield generators when they instantly became victims of Tulas's fleet's fierce bombardment, vanishing into ash in the blink of an eye.
Each time one of the Imperial Combined Fleet's twenty-odd vanguard warships emerged from the Warp, it was destroyed by the Star Navy Fleet. A lone warship was helpless before such a tidal onslaught, one after another becoming blazing wrecks adrift in the cold, dark void.
However, the Imperial Combined Fleet was formidable after all. Though its advance force had suffered devastating losses and been wiped out, a great many warships were still waiting in the Warp to make the jump.
When Tyberos sensed that something was wrong, he cautiously dispatched another destroyer to test the situation.
Like a moth flying into flame, the unfortunate destroyer emerged from the Warp. Before being utterly destroyed, it successfully relayed critical information back to the fleet behind it.
Tyberos's expression turned grave upon receiving the intelligence. He had not expected those heretics to have received word and already set an ambush at the Mandeville Point. The Imperial Combined Fleet's advance force had already been destroyed.
After a brief moment of thought, Tyberos decisively issued a shocking order: all warships were to immediately deactivate their Gellar Fields and activate their Void Shields.
Faced with Tyberos's order, every seasoned warship commander carried it out without hesitation.
After deactivating their Gellar Fields, the