The Second Armada encountered greater numbers and stiffer opposition.
The alien defenders held their ground with greater fervor.
With three of their most impressive native gods watching over them, the morale of the elite soldiers of the Red Cabal remained high.
Not even the Indignation of Righteousness and the Dominion of Man could shake their confidence all that much!
Fortunately, the Red Two made sure to add enough fault tolerance in their planning. The mechers and fleeters had already estimated that the strength of a typical ancient phase whale could not match that of a god pilot.
The only advantage that the native aliens could count on in a fight was superior numbers.
The more ancient phase whales cooperated with each other, the greater the extent they were able to wrestle back control over space from the God Kingdoms of their difficult human opponents.
