The leader-battleship "Reinhard Scheer," recently still the flagship of a giant armada of three thousand pennants, looked as if he was tormented for a long time and fiercely by all the dogs of the Underworld; thick slabs of outer armor hung here and there with melted rags, one of the four evolutionary engines was knocked out of the mounts and dangled on the two surviving power farms. The Saxon-class attack battleship next to it looked much better, but it also failed to avoid many hits. However, the Saxons were famous for their survivability, so its chief engineer vouched that all malfunctions could be eliminated by the crew...