In the burning sea of void, the ram of the Expeditionary Fleet's Oberon-class battleship Sanctimonious tore through the nebular veil, its nearly ten-kilometer armored hull reflecting the faint starlight.
"Fire."
The Lance arrays erupted simultaneously with crimson-gold beams, sending rippling waves across the Void Shields at the Imperium fleet's prows.
Three seconds later, the blasphemous spire clusters along the Chaos warship's port side exploded in succession. Molten metal and Mutant corpses froze into ice crystals in the vacuum.
The Macro-cannon arrays began their second barrage.
The port-side Macro-cannons unleashed armor-piercing volleys at three-second intervals, tungsten-core warheads carving a conical web of fire across the Chaos warship's armored belt.
When the seventh Macro-cannon volley fired, the enemy vessel's stern armor finally ruptured. Plasma flames burst from the fissures, hurling the engines of two blasphemous thrusters and half a biomass facility into the void.
Above the enemy vessel, the Carcharodons Chapter's Battle Barge swept over the battlefield, its assault pods piercing the enemy ship like arrows.
Because both Imperium and Chaos vessels possessed exceedingly heavy hull structures, once the Prospector Fleet's ample firepower had torn apart the Chaos escort fleet, subsequent operations against heavy warships fell into a stalemate.
With an Inquisition Black Ship comparable to a battleship absorbing the damage, the United Fleet cruised around the enemy ships like orcas hunting baleen whales.
They bled them continuously until the enemy vessels collapsed completely.
"Do you need us to take part in the boarding operation next?"
Inside the observation chamber, data streams flashed across Romulus's lenses.
He was learning. The data supplied by the Machine God priests aboard this ship had given him considerable convenience, enough to construct a model for commanding single-ship combat.
But sometimes Romulus truly could not understand why the Imperium feared ground units like Greater Daemons. Any of