Azrael thought these rebels were genuinely uncanny. It wasn't that they were too strong to beat, but that their strategies and tactics always changed at astonishing speed.
At first, both sides had squared off on feral worlds and charged straight at each other, as ferociously as the Blood Legion. Then, all of a sudden, the rebels avoided their strongest forces and sank their teeth into their supply lines.
Now things were even more outrageous. Both fleets had dispersed into smaller forces, besieging positions to ambush reinforcements, feinting east and striking west, concealing their true intentions... Every kind of strategy and tactic came into play, as though the enemy changed commanders after every battle.
The constant shifts in the war's tempo made things extremely difficult for the First Expeditionary Force's War Council.
Azrael wasn't wrong, either. Sisyphus was commanding the fighting now, with Li Anjun and his two Librarians working seamlessly alongside him.
Occasionally, Bars would also charge out of some bizarre location, looking utterly resigned to life as two hulking men hauled him along.
The entire Ghoul Stars region had descended into chaos. Xenos factions had been stirred up, the Expeditionary Force and the rebels were locked in ferocious combat, and Evan was rushing everywhere to make deployments. The Tech Mogul had finished observing the contracting Transdimensional Rift and was collecting records of half a planet shattering, while the Necron Overlord was mobilizing heavy forces to protect his energy-storage device, which had jumped into the neighboring star system...
The battle continued for six months. Repairs to the Light of the People's internal engines were completed, but living conditions weren't doing so well. Material shortages had forced them to dismantle some facilities and melt them down into engine covers.
Furthermore, the single mineral harvested from the exploded planet couldn't meet the