Boom! Boom!! Explosions rang out incessantly across the battlefield, whether against the city shield or within the Republic Army's landing zone outside the perimeter.
Both sides had completely unleashed their firepower, holding nothing back.
However, Steel City's city-scale shield caused the Republic army enormous trouble. This city-scale shield was exceptionally sturdy, having been designed and built with the extreme possibility of a siege fully in mind. The shield generators within the city possessed immensely powerful shield capacitors, enough to neutralize the vast majority of incoming fire.
Moreover, this city had been built upon the foundations of a former Mandalorian Crusaders forward base. Back when Mandalore the Ultimate had planned to invade the Galactic Republic, he had spent more than a decade preparing. This forward base on Dexen Satellite had originally been intended to support millions of Mandalorian Crusaders, so after more than ten years of construction and development, it was vast in scale and extraordinarily solid.
For that very reason, Wilhuff Tarkin's previous plan to have his flagship bomb other parts of the satellite, attempting to destroy Steel City through indirect damage such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, had failed completely.
In truth, if Wilhuff Tarkin had concentrated all his warships on a targeted bombardment at the time, he would still have had a chance to destroy the shield. But his innate instinct for self-preservation had made him choose a method that avoided confronting the orbital defense system, and he had consequently failed.
Now, with his warships attacked from behind and his orbital bombardment capability nearly crippled, this city shield—one he had never managed to deal with—had become the greatest obstacle standing before the Galactic Republic.
Faced with this one-way shield that Tyran Heavy Industries had installed regardless of cost, the Republic army had few options.
After all, Dexen Satellite