The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5139

The outcome of the main battle against Stingray 1 and her remaining yurzens escorts was never in doubt.

Once the aliens took the bait and split up their warships in order to chase after the Spirit of Bentheim, the ships left behind did not have the numbers to resist several mech divisions as well as two ace mechs.

However, the losses were still bound to be serious, especially if the technologically advanced puelmer heavy cruiser was given a chance to fire her gun batteries for an extended period of time.

Her weapon systems were a lot more accurate and precise than the warship armaments of other races!

The planners and officers of the Golden Skull Alliance already budgeted for all of the casualties inflicted by the puelmer homeship.

Just because the Phobos managed to cripple her warp drives did not mean her other systems dropped in performance.

So long as her shield generators and gun batteries remained intact, she could still function as a relatively mobile gun platform that could resist a lot of attacks while dishing out a lot of punishment in return!

While the expert mechs and ace mechs of the Golden Skull Alliance could easily evade or resist these powerful attacks, the same could not be said for all of the other mech units!

It therefore came as a pleasant surprise to everyone that Venerable Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson overcame the alien homeship's powerful barriers far sooner than projected!

No one cared that the Dark Zephyr's success could not be replicated by any other machine.

So long as just a single mech managed to get this close to the hull of an alien ship, the latter had already been checkmated!

It just took a decent amount of time and effort for the expert light skirmisher to thoroughly disable Stingray 1's gun batteries, thrusters, and any shield generators that the mech could reach without inflicting excessive damage to the valuable prize.

In any case, now that the Dark Zephyr was in the process of crippling Stingray 1 with impunity, the remaining mech pilots could breathe much easier now that the greatest threat had been taken off the board!

"Damnit, the yurzens are making a run for it! They've completely given up any pretense of defending Stingray 1! They are already splitting off in different directions while activating their warp drives!"

"Stop them as much as possible! Forget about chasing after the larger and more well-defended yurzen warships. It takes too much effort for most of our mechs to overcome their defenses. The Penitent Sisters and Glory Seekers must launch their battle formations as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the remaining units should focus their attacks on the smaller vessels!"

The yurzens still had too many ships for the mech forces to immobilize all of them. The mechs of the expeditionary fleet could inflict a lot of damage if they concentrated their firepower, but that still left many alien ships free to warp out of range and make their way out of the Corellix System without suffering any further damage!

Although the expeditionary fleet could still pursue a handful fleeing alien ships by sending superdrive-equipped carriers after them, there were too few of the latter to make this worthwhile.

No matter what, alien warships were still highly capable of beating up starships with their formidable primary gun batteries!

The cleanup continued after the outcome of the battle was decided a lot sooner than everyone expected.

The Jedda Sandivar and the Royal Jeem contributed significantly to the capture of several fleeing warships. Since the two ace mechs were no longer needed to contain Stingray 1, they fully unleashed their superior might against the inferior yurzen warships that showed far too little will to fight!

Back at the Spirit of Bentheim, Ves smiled a little brighter when he saw that the main enemy raiding fleet had fallen apart.

Though he felt a little annoyed that the yurzens showed a lot less spine than the wheednars, Stingray 1 at least fell into the hands of the Golden Skull Alliance. The value of this single sub-capital ship far exceeded that of a dozen yurzen warships!

Ves no longer needed to pay attention to the situation in the field anymore. He could devote most of his attention to answering the questions of the students who attended his first lecture.

Of course, the question and answer session was restricted to the 250 students who actually enrolled for his Frontier Wisdom course. If he had to answer the questions of the tens of thousands of other students, he would probably remain stuck here all day!

One of the students sitting in the auditorium of the Eden Institute rose up after Ves granted her permission to speak.

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