With the highest decision being issued, the Astral Knights' Chapter and its affiliated fleet soon began to mobilize.
In the operation to help Pao Shangxing, because of the need to face two epic strong enemies of the Red Pirates and the Black Legion, Soshiyang had to bet all the weights on his hands.
The Knights of the Star Realm currently have a total of 376 people, including the newly-soldiers who have just served, and there is almost no significant increase in personnel compared to the Battle of New Badab. On the one hand, the success rate of the first two batches of recruits is relatively low. On the other hand, the Knights of the Star Realm have fought several bad battles in just over thirty years, and the personnel losses are relatively large.
But this time, in order to successfully retrieve the flagship, Soshiyang had to bring out all his only troops, not only most of the combat robots in the battle group, but also several extinction aircraft.
In this case, the defense of Nyesen IV can only be handed over to other members of the miserable league, especially once the Red Pirates formally fight, the annoyed Huron is likely to repeat the last story.
In terms of fleets, the fleet of the Star Knights also came out in full swing. The main battleships include the flagship [Soul Unbound], the large cruiser [Eternal Loyalty], the combat barge [Soul Messenger], the strike cruiser [Starfire], the moon-class cruiser [Absolute Power], the rational], the Gold Wind] and other seven large and medium-sized battleships, as well as two Cobra-class destroyers, eight frigates of various types, and a total of 17 battleships.
It is worth mentioning that the Absolute Power and Reason are self-built moon-class cruisers of Nassen IV and are also the largest tonnage warship built on this planet. The Golden Wind comes from the Founding World Lucius and was obtained at the auction.
Such a fleet is already very powerful for a battle group, but Soshiyan still felt that it was still insufficient, so he did not rush to set off. Instead, he waited for another two months until the main fleet of the White Temple and the large number of veterans carrying on it arrived, and he officially decided to set off.
This time, the White Temple also made a heavy bet. In addition to the flagship Heart of Light, they sent three strike cruisers and six frigates from the battle group, as well as five hundred soldiers, including a whole company equipped with veterans of the Deh Kill Terminator.
After the fleets of both sides converged, they immediately marched towards the Extreme Star Domain, and the news that the Battle of Pandora had already been conveyed to the Storm Star Domain.
In the Pandora Galaxy, the battle situation is also developing rapidly.
The Empire first arrived at the squadron of the Demet Star Zone, which was commanded by Admiral Orson Carranswo on his flagship Emperor-class battleship [Revenge]. The main force was a dictator-class cruiser [Reliable Loyalty], a ruler-class cruiser [Anvil], two moon-class cruisers [Leviathan Behemoth] [Solar System Lord], and two Fearless-class light cruisers, one Enemy-class light cruiser, three Sword-class frigates of Gamma Detachment, two Firestorm-class frigates of Jaguar Detachment, six Cobra-class destroyers of the 129 Destroyer Detachment, five Scimitar-class frigates of the 89 Guard Detachment, and a total of 24 battleships of various types.
In terms of command, the old captain has rich experience and has fought with the Red Pirates' plundering fleet many times - although this background can only provide him with extremely limited advantages to fight against the terrifying opponents in the Pandora galaxy that occupy an overwhelming military power.
Why do you think it is a terrifying opponent?
Because according to the early reconnaissance confirmation of the Empire, the Black Legion also launched a heavy blow. Abaddon's flagship was not the famous Revenge Soul, but the Desolate Envoy Class Battleship [Wuqing Resentment]. In addition, the fleet also includes the ugly large cruiser [Sacred Corrosion], the Styx heavy cruiser [Ruthless Destroyer], the Killing-class cruiser [Prison Resentment], and the 3 worshiper-class plundering ships of the Purifier Team, the 4 Image Destroyer-class destroyers of the Brutal Team, the 3 Image Destroyer-class destroyers of the Black Death Team, the 2 Image Destroyer-class destroyers of the Blood Red Slayer Team, and the unknown number of small plundering ships.
In terms of total number, the Empire has obvious advantages, but in terms of the firepower of large warships, Chaos has an advantage on the one hand, because the Revenge is very unfortunately an aircraft carrier and is not very good at main artillery battles.
In the next few weeks, General Orson Carranswo carefully launched a tentative attack on the outer periphery of the Pandora Galaxy, with the 129th Destroyer as the forward, and the entire fleet carefully groped forward.
As a result, when the 129 Destroyer Fleet was looking for a way through the asteroid belt on the outer edge of the galaxy, it was ambushed and blitzed by several Destroyer-class destroyers. After destroying two Imperial ships, the Chaos Squad retreated without loss and disappeared into the dense asteroid belt, and all this happened only within a few minutes after the attack began.
Realizing that the other party was prepared, Karansvo did not continue to launch a reckless attack, but established a base on a small planet called Caya on the edge of the Pandora Galaxy.
After the communication guarantee was completed, he began to plan a series of slight attacks against the asteroid belt, aiming to clear out a path to the Pai Shang Star.
In the following two weeks, the Imperial Navy and the Black Legion began a series of escalating fierce conflicts around the asteroid belt, giving the area the nickname "Eidman Alloy Domain" - because it was filled with countless ship wreckage.
At first, Abaddon's fleet had the upper hand, allowing the Imperial fleet to suffer huge losses in its attempt to cross the asteroid belt, but in the long run, it was a battle that Abaddon would not win because his opponent, the Imperial Navy, was willing to slowly erode the power of the Chaos Fleet by enduring the losses, and eventually advance to Pai Shangxing.
Compared with Abaddon, the Empire has an overwhelming advantage in resources, and the war of attrition is the most enjoyable thing for the Empire.
The situation was slowly changing, and Abaddon had to invest more ships to ensure that Karanswo was blocked, and Karanswo was not anxious. He was working hard with the Black Legion, as if he ignored the signals sent by the survivors on Pai Shang Star.
In fact, the Imperial Navy no longer believes that there are survivors on Pai Shang Star. This planet was basically sentenced to death from the moment it fell, so they only regard those weak signals as chaotic traps.
Besides, even if there are so many living people in the Army, it is not worth the fleet's adventure.
Admiral Karanswo is only thinking about one thing now - to destroy the Black Legion fleet and completely defeat Abaddon!
This would be an unprecedented glory, enough to engrave his name on the many monuments standing on the Plaza de Terra Palace.
Just when the battle was in a state of anxiety, no one noticed that near a planet on the far edge of the galaxy, another force was gathering and moving—