"Phew..." Matt Horner let out a deep breath and asked the adjutant beside him, "How much longer can Starbase B's Deflector Shield hold?"
"At the current intensity of attack, the Republic fleet will unleash another large-scale salvo in five minutes. Starbase B's Deflector Shield is expected to be destroyed within seven to nine minutes," the adjutant replied.
Matt Horner raised his wrist, adjusted his watch, and announced, "Notify all ships. Move into attack positions immediately! Launch the counterattack in ten minutes!"
"Yes, sir!"
At the same time, Baher Banak, the Givin mathematician, leaned on his scepter and said, "The intensity of this electromagnetic radiation storm will peak in thirty-seven minutes."
"Then... even better." Matt Horner's gaze sharpened.
While Gideon Tarkin was thrilled that he had seized this unusual astronomical phenomenon to launch an attack, he had not considered that the Givin, who had lived in the Yago-Dur system for tens of thousands of years, had long reached an extraordinarily precise level in observing and forecasting such celestial phenomena!
They could calculate the movements of the Three-Body stars with over 80% accuracy. Predicting an electromagnetic radiation storm was even easier.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!!
Inside Starbase B, although all bombardment was blocked by the powerful Deflector Shield and the heavy armor stopped most energy shockwaves, the vibrations and noise from the violent explosions kept the entire station in a constant state of mild earthquake.
"Quick! Get into position immediately! The shield is about to break!!"
Damage Control Department teams rushed past with large numbers of engineering robots, heading to their assigned sectors to prepare for the incoming bombardment that would directly strike the armor.
"Fire in Shield Capacitor Bay Seven! Put it out now!"
"We can't get into Bay Seven! Open the airlock and let the vacuum put it out!"