In a desperate move, they had deployed a swarm of nearly five hundred thousand light and heavy starfighters and mechs, sweeping across the void like a plague of locusts.
Yet the Celestial Void Fleet had repelled the entire wave by deploying a mere fifty thousand fighters and mechs. Even while outnumbered one to ten, the Void forces completely dominated the engagement—looking like majestic dragons ripping through a tide of fragile beasts.
Because of this, the casualties suffered by the Republic side were agonizingly one-sided, shattering the morale of the high command and leaving the aristocratic officers completely paralyzed with fear.
In the first hour alone, the Republic had lost about two hundred and fifty thousand mechs and starfighters combined—bringing their total loss count to fifty percent on the dot, and the casualties were rising by the second.
