The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5357

Chapter 5357 The Phase Leaders Appear

After the collapse of the outer defensive sphere, the First Armada did not press on right away.

A lull in the fighting ensued as both sides began to recover and take stock of the situation.

The alien defenders were more than content to use the available time to reorganize their defenses, analyze their enemy's weaknesses and recover their morale.

The human attackers recovered their injured and escaped personnel while also replenishing their mechs and other combat assets.

The leaders of both sides knew that the second round would become a lot more intense.

The First Armada had undoubtedly won the first round in a crushing fashion, but it had lost the advantage of surprise.

Sure, the aliens suffered a lot of material losses, but the units stationed in the outer defensive sphere happened to be the weakest ones in the star system.

The middle and inner defensive spheres possessed a much higher priority on newly released tech!

The powerful sensors and scanners of the First Armada already detected a lot more modern phasefighters, warships and defensive installations.

Many of them had been built in the last five years, which meant that each of them incorporated a hefty proportion of stolen human technology!

This made the middle defensive sphere undoubtedly more challenging to breach.

There were many clever minds among the alien defenders. The Red Cabal had allocated a large amount of elite forces from different alien civilizations to every Tide Station.

Even now, a lot of puelmers were working on developing countermeasures against the insanely effective hyper ECM systems of the Throne of Lies.

Even though she did not boast as many guns as her larger sister ship, her incredibly effective ECM systems posed a greater threat to the middle defensive sphere because of its more compact dimensions!

Already, the alien defenders were producing signal boosters, sensor probes, tightbeam transceivers and other stopgap solutions.

None of these measures could fully counter the unreasonably powerful ECM measures of the Throne of Lies, but they were better than nothing.

Soon enough, the First Armada had completed its reorganization. Its replenished mechs and recovering warships began to spread out in an attempt to envelop the middle defensive sphere.

This was not entirely a good idea as the human forces had to spread their mechs and warships thin.

Nonetheless, the Red Two's leaders deliberately chose to go through the effort of surrounding the alien positions because they aimed to do far more than destroy a single Tide Station today.

The second round commenced as both sides opened fire against each other!

The more modern alien warships and defensive installations performed a lot better than their earlier counterparts.

Their crews were more skilled and composed. Their hasty stopgap measures ensured that they could observe their enemies and maintain contact with each other.

The Throne of Lies did her best to compensate. Her armaments might not be as powerful or numerous, but they were particularly effective at debilitating enemy targets!

Hundreds of transphasic missiles launched from her hull. They accelerated rapidly through space and reached their designated coordinates before exploding in the middle of many alien formations.

Each detonation unleashed an electrical explosion that knocked out a lot of probes and nearby electronic modules!

Sensor arrays became blinded. Communication links became garbled. Whole phasefighters momentary glitched out, causing them to get taken down by human mechs with ease.

The Throne of Lies had plenty more warheads in reserve. The dreadnought launched a second salvo of EMP missiles as soon as they loaded into the missile tubes. The powerful AIs had already calculated the optimal spread patterns, enabling them to disable as many vulnerable enemy electronics as possible!

Still, as disruptive as the EMP missiles may be, the modern orven and puelmer warships were not that easy to disable.

The aliens might not put as much emphasis on electronic warfare, but even they knew how to harden their systems against EMP attacks.

The alien warships and defensive installations resisted the EMP missiles quite well.

This was why the Throne of Lies began to target them with her more direct weapon arsenal.

Her Spark Reactor began to output more energy. The primary and secondary gun batteries of the 15-kilometer dreadnought soon began to channel all of that power in the form of highly disruptive ion beams!

Each of the main gun batteries of the Throne of Lies had been upgraded with electrical hyper materials.

The incorporation of this special material supercharged the disruptive effect of her armaments and caused every strike to have particularly strong effect against transphasic energy shields and electronic systems!

Many alien warships targeted by the smaller dreadnought quickly lost their energy barriers.

Once exposed, entire gun batteries, surface modules and even thrusters started to get knocked out after getting struck by unerringly precise white ion beams!

Combined with the fiery attack salvos unleashed by the Guns of Armageddon, the aliens rapidly suffered serious losses!

However, the defenders of the Tenth Tide Station could clearly take it.

The middle defensive sphere actually served as the main line of defense.

The inner defensive sphere might be composed of the best and most elite alien units stationed in this strategically important star system, but their quantity was by far the smallest.

As such, if the defenders failed to break the backs of the human attackers at this junction, the Tenth Tide Station would come under serious threat.

This could not be tolerated!

The orven and puelmer defenders fought even harder, knowing that they had the advantage of numbers on their side.

"We are detecting multiple strong spatial fluctuations! Each of them are coming closer." _{freēwēbnovel.com}

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