The burning wreck of the largest yurzen battleship caused the confrontation between the two disparate forces to enter into a new phase.
The aliens no longer dared to take the lone human factory ship lightly anymore.
Even though the Spirit of Bentheim had come by herself along with a modest amount of mechs, her 'firepower' exceeded their imagination!
Human tech was too powerful and confusing for the aliens. These extra-galactic invaders not only possessed a dizzying amount of high technologies, but also appeared to be capable of making a joke out of the laws of physics!
Flames were not supposed to be that effective against their starships!
The conditions needed to make their alloys combust and burn outside carefully controlled lab conditions led them to assume that they could never possibly lose one of their largest and most well-defended assets through a simple fire.
They were right.