Boom! Boom!! Boom!!!
Dull explosions rang out without end. Octavian Grant, Twentieth Army Governor of the Galactic Empire, looked up at the sky, his expression incomparably grim.
The relentless bombardment had already lasted three days. Over those three days, every five hours on average, enormous nuclear missiles of even greater destructive power arrived right on schedule, striking Fondor Planet's Planetary Shield with precision.
The continuous bombardment by giant nuclear missiles with yields in the tens of billions of tons had placed enormous pressure on Fondor Planet's Planetary Shield. Octavian Grant had already arranged for three industrial enterprises on the planet to continuously manufacture shield capacitors to meet the shield's needs.
Now, every bombardment caused tremendous energy consumption in the Planetary Shield as it neutralized the nuclear missiles' power.
That was how shield systems worked. If it were a warship's armor belt, an attack spread over a wide area with little power per unit area might not even count as a scratch. But a Planetary Shield had to expend an equal or even greater amount of energy to neutralize such an attack.
That was why 99.999% of the planets in the Milky Way Galaxy could not afford a Planetary Shield. In the end, it came down to one word—expensive. It was expensive to buy, and even more expensive to operate. On some less industrialized planets, a single round of enemy bombardment might drain all of the planet's power generation into the Planetary Shield.
Octavian Grant had just signed orders to convert thirteen factories on the planet to produce more shield capacitors. At the same time, more reactor units would be added to over seventy power plants across the planet. More supplies were also being continuously shipped in from the Galactic Empire's rear areas.
But even so, it would take at least