BOOM!! BOOM!!! The Hunter Class Battlecruisers descended from the sky, their main guns taking aim at Scipio and firing as they came down!
Every shot that struck the planet's surface created a devastating explosion spanning dozens of kilometers, leaving no living thing in its wake!
Yet this was merely the artillery preparation.
As the Hunter Class Battlecruisers descended, their hangar platforms opened, releasing their fighters—Geth fighters in insectoid form!
The moment these fighters launched, they viciously pounced on the fighters launched by the Scipio Defense Forces, slaughtering those pampered mercenary pilots.
Many of Scipio's primary defense forces were mercenaries under long-term contracts. The InterGalactic Banking Clan, even those Human factions more closely aligned with the Republic, had refused to allow Republic troops to be stationed there.
How could these mercenaries—who had abandoned adventure, willingly become capitalists' watchdogs for a stable income, and some of whom had even started families—possibly stand against cold-blooded killing machines like the Geth?
Even though they outnumbered the Geth fighters several times over, the mercenary-piloted fighters were shot down in waves, utterly unable to fight back!
After a round of suppressive Orbital Bombardment, the twelve Hunter Class Battlecruisers immediately began landing operations.
Under the cover of Geth fighters, large numbers of Geth transport ships began landing, deploying thousands upon thousands of Geth soldiers. Those Geth soldiers then began clearing out landing zones for the warships.
That was right! Judging by this formation, they intended to land the Hunter Class Battlecruisers directly on the planet's surface.
At the same time, Rush Clovis had already become as skittish as a frightened bird, running everywhere with his bodyguard detail. He had first wanted to hide in the vault, since that was the safest place.
But the Core Five of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, who managed the vault, immediately turned