The Mech Touch

Chapter 6688 Extreme Range Competition

The battle had begun.

The leading elements of the native alien forces had entered into extreme weapons range and began to test the defenses set up by the humans.

Numerous distant alien warships utilized their laser cannon batteries to lightly rake the energy shields covering the orbital fortresses.

At this range, it was hard to ensure that the weapons would hit their targets. Even if the orbits and trajectories of the large orbital fortresses remained completely the same, the extreme range amplified every mistake caused by dialing in the wrong angles.

This was why the human defensive forces did not bother to fire back at the distant enemies. It would only waste energy, wear down components and provide more information to the aliens.

The attackers had different ideas in mind.

"Those aren't ordinary alien ships. They are puelmer heavy cruisers!"

"Damn, almost all of their laser beam attacks are landing at our fortresses. Their titan shields are taking a more serious beating than expected!"

Although the orbital fortresses were unlikely to go down due to the probing shots launched by the enemy warships, the fact that the puelmer vessels were able to maintain such a high hit rate at such an unreasonable range was already impressive! This instance fully validated the theory that the puelmer race had invested their latest and more up to date assets to this star system!

The puelmers proved once again that they developed the most advanced sensors and targeting systems among the major races of the Red Ocean.

It was hopeless for anyone to shoot down the vessels. The puelmer heavy cruisers were much more mobile than the orbital space fortresses. They utilized their superior mobility to frustrate humans who thought that they could return the favor.

The puclmer warships continued to fire their laser cannon batteries at the defenses. The rest of the native alien forces took their time to cautiously move forward without risking any of them overextending.

It took a lot of time and trouble to make multiple different fleet elements move in a coordinated fashion towards a target.

Until the native aliens were ready to start the main battle, the puelmer heavy cruisers not only continued to fire their laser gun batteries without concern that they will overheat or miss to many shots.

In fact, the nuelmer heavy cruisers slowly started to become more accurate. The native aliens were testing the field performance of their powerful transphasic laser cannon batteries and calibrating their settings in real-time!

"This is a mind game." Saint Commander Casella warned the members of the Golden Skull Alliance over a communication channel. "The aliens are testing our patience by attacking us in a steady and irritating fashion. They are showing off their extreme range strike capabilities as well as the technological improvements of puelmer assets. They are exploiting a universal weakness of every sentient being, and that is our unwillingness to take a beating without dishing it back."