The blinding psionic torrents swept across the battlefield again and again, tearing apart, assimilating, igniting, and destroying everything in their path. Heavy fortress missiles burst from rippling spatial gates, and every appearance of these bizarre destroyers brought a fireball as dazzling as a small star. Warships silently came apart in space. Powerful weapons capable of easily destroying any star system civilization were everywhere here, while space warships that would be regarded as miracles on mortal battlefields had become expendable goods, vanishing in organized formations amid fireworks that filled the sky.
The New Army had abandoned most of its outer territories in order to concentrate all its forces around the Quiet Core and its surrounding battlefields. But that did not mean every outer territory could be easily captured. Some peripheral worlds lay along vital military routes. The New Army needed those universe-hopping footholds to gather troops or block Abyss Shilin reinforcements headed for the Quiet Core. Thus, at these "key nodes," neither side yielded an inch. Soldiers fought bloody battles for every space facility and every World Gate, willing to pay any price to keep these vital communication lines from falling under enemy control.
This universe was one of the most fiercely contested, as well as the bridgehead where the Old Army and New Army faced off. Most of the space facilities that had once existed throughout the universe had long since been destroyed. The old Sovereignty Nexus was now nothing but a stretch of burning slag spanning several astronomical units. Both sides were currently vying for control of the universe by constructing temporary World Gates and sovereignty facilities, and the arrival of the Allied Forces had completely pushed the New Army into a disadvantage. Barring surprises, capturing this universe was only a matter of time.
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