An unending metal storm spread in every direction.
These simplest, cheapest metal projectiles added the final dose of fuel to the surrounding annihilation reactions.
The flames of the explosions grew ever fiercer.
But the concentration of antiparticles around the Expeditionary Fleet was dropping rapidly, visibly declining.
The only drawback was...
With insufficient reserves of adaptive nanorepair robots, the heat and radiation from matter-antimatter annihilation completely destroyed the outer warships' surface armor, exposing the radiation shielding layers beneath.
The once-imposing steel warships had become bizarre hybrids of steel and wood.
Of course, there was good news, too.
The radiation shielding layers made from Nus trunks were powerful enough.
They blocked and absorbed almost all the immense radiation produced by the explosions, saving most of the human warships.
Without the necessary conditions, this wood from the [Nus Civilization] did not begin differentiating in the intense radiation.
Otherwise, the Enrojet Alliance might have witnessed a miraculous sight-branches and leaves sprouting all over the enormous warships.
That would likely have left them deeply bewildered and terrified.
The explosions ended.
"Report our losses."
Bai Yixuan stared at the red warning messages covering the holographic projection and spoke grimly.
"All reserve carrier-based drones have been destroyed. All [Black Tortoise] frigates have been destroyed. Damage to the [Golden Crow] and [White Tiger] exceeds 30%..."
"Personnel casualties are nearly 90% among the Eugene People and 10% among the humans."
"The temporary factories are operating at full capacity, doing everything possible to restore the fleet."
The Eugene People had primarily been assigned to the [Black Tortoise] frigates and various smaller vessels on the fleet's outermost perimeter.
Their losses in the explosions were therefore unquestionably the heaviest.
Bai Yixuan took a deep breath. "What's their condition? Their morale..."
With 90% of their members killed or wounded outright, their morale