Boom! Boom! Boom! Explosions erupted across the SPHA-T self-propelled turbolaser artillery!
Before this colossal 140.2-meter-long land unit, the M-808B Scorpion tank, at only 10.2 meters long, was like an ordinary person standing before a high-rise building.
Yet the one utterly incapable of fighting back was this giant, the SPHA-T.
Although the SPHA-T carried ten anti-infantry scatter laser cannons, those weapons posed no threat whatsoever to the Scorpion tank's armor.
In contrast, the Scorpion tank's 90mm high-velocity smoothbore cannon, equipped with the Hypermatter Acceleration Technology now widely used by the Fourth Civilization, could easily penetrate its opponent's armor.
After being struck by more than a dozen shells in succession, even that gigantic vehicle over 140 meters long finally could not bear the strain any longer. It was crippled amid a violent chain of secondary explosions.
Upon receiving news of the ambush, the furious Wilhuff Tarkin had no choice but to assign more fighters to patrol and defense duties on the battlefield, easing the pressure on Steel City's air defenses.
It was not that he had never considered sending his Acclamator-class assault ships directly into Dexen Satellite's atmosphere to provide support, but reason still stopped him from doing so.
Because according to intelligence from various sources, the Separatist army on Onderon possessed at least two J-1 Proton Cannons.
Like the Galactic Republic's SPHA-T self-propelled turbolaser artillery, the J-1 Proton Cannons produced by the Technological Alliance were immensely powerful weapons with low production output. Moreover, over the past few months, the Technological Alliance had repeatedly refused to provide J-1 Proton Cannons to the Confederacy of Independent Systems, citing shortages of raw materials and funding.
As a result, these powerful weapons, capable of directly shooting down Acclamator-class assault ships, had at least not appeared in large numbers on the Confederacy of Independent Systems' front-line