For one brief, beautiful moment, Mary considered that they might have dealt a severe blow to the Great Enemy's military capability. So many ships had been destroyed in seconds, and tens of millions of lives were lost in the failed attack, that it had to be a setback for their plans.
She couldn't have been more wrong.
The crushing defeat only solidified the enemy's resolve that the humans were the real problem, and within minutes every battlefield was suffering from an influx of Cathedral Ships to reinforce the enemies that they were already facing. Unless they had come from the Alliance battles, these were all new vessels that they hadn't been tracking, and Mary had no idea how many more could be coming their way.
There weren't enough vessels to go around, and Mary was beginning to despair about the number of worlds that they were going to lose before they had enough forces to hold what they had left.
