Admiral Theodore was initially confused, how did they get inside his fleet formation? The admiral simply thought that maybe the enemy has a cloaking capability and just used it and waited in this spot to achieve their surprise.
He is perplexed about the utter stupidity of the enemy's strategy.
The confusion they created is indeed effective in temporarily paralyzing his forces but he can simply overcome that by the sheer number of ships in his fleet.
He started barking orders and organized his fleet to fight back.
..........
More than a couple of hundred ships from the Armada were destroyed during the first few seconds of the attack and a few hundreds more were lost before they started to mount a real counter attack.
The Admiral quickly realized something is amiss when the ships they were trying to target will suddenly disappear.
Also new reports keeps coming is stating that new enemy ships suddenly appeared out of stealth as well.
..........
In reality, the only ships that are currently engaging the Empire's fleet are the ones in Adam's personal group.
The moment they appear inside the enemy formation, they will fire a salvo of their weapons on their intended targets then perform a micro jump to another location.
Their plan is to cause damage and not allow the enemy fleet to lock on to their ships.
Since micro jumps are still outside the Empires technological capabilities yet, they automatically assumed that the enemy is using some sort of stealth technology.
They lost almost a thousand ships already before the Admiral realized that the enemy is not using cloaking technology but they are performing micro jumps instead.
The idea of such a technology falling into the Empire's hands is enough to make the ambitious Admiral salivate. Such a find would surely elevate his rank again, maybe this time he can finally be promoted and command one of the Empires Jupiter class ships.
.............
While the Admiral is dreaming about his upcoming promotion, Adam's fleet also started getting its first casualty, it happened when an over excited frigate captain went beyond the allotted time and kept on firing at her target. It exploded from the combined attack from three enemy ships.
...........
Alice is feeding all these information directly to Adam and he is also making minor adjustments to their previous set of commands.
...........
While the battle is raging outside, inside one of the enemy ship, hundreds of Battle Robots and Juggernauts suddenly appeared.
Some Sentinels are also included in the raid but these guys appeared inside critical rooms like the ship's bridge and the communications room.
They immediately started getting resistance from the crew but due to the strategic location where they are set to appear, they are able to easily overpower their opponents.
It didn't take much for the enemy ship to fall under their control.
The Sentinels immediately started the second phase of the plan.
They liquefied and merged themselves into the ships critical control structures.
This allowed Alice to use the advanced Nano Technology syphoned all information about the ship and learn their technology.
This also allows Alice to add the ship to their ranks and use it to fight the rest of the enemy fleet.
They purposely selected the biggest and meanest looking enemy ships for this part of the attack.
.........
Right at this time, another phase in Adam's plan is also activated.
The remaining half of Adam's ship back in Earth's orbit also started their sniping duties.
With their Translocator cannons, they are firing their bombs directly inside the enemy ships.
They are tasked to take enemy ships out of the battle in the fastest way they can.
They are instructed to target an enemy ships bridge first. Once the ship is dead, then a few rounds of graviton bomb inside their engine and power core room is enough to make the ship explode from within.
.............
Admiral Theodore is getting frustrated now.
He is losing way more ships in this battle, the enemy's smaller ships seem to be able to destroy his ships without any problem.
His ships weapons seem to be having a really hard time locking into their targets.
The Admiral's musing was interrupted by one of his communications officer.
"Admiral! Captain Phillips of the Battle Cruiser Menorah is not responding. Nobody in that ship is responding at all. We don't know why they have suddenly turned against us sir!"
"Admiral! I'm also having the same problem with the Dreadnaught Kasikagi. Rear Admiral Hemlin is not responding to our calls."
Admiral Theodore suddenly has a very bad feeling about this battle. It seems like there are a lot of unknown factors in this that he is not aware of.
"Admiral! Our force is down by 10%, we are still losing ships in rapid rate. We are also barely able to mount a proper counter attack. Also our main force is still moving forward and is about seventy thousand miles from Earth now."
"God damn it! Who the hell are these guys? And where did they get all this technology."
Theodore slammed his fist into his command chair.
"Admiral! We just lost another battleship; Captain Singh's Tremult Class Battleship just went offline. It seems that their power core just went critical and created a cascading explosion inside sir. The ship is lost with all hands on board."
The XO is holding paper report with his trembling hands.