2757, Dantooine Meat Grinder (IV)
The Scorpion tanks' tracks rolled across the scorched earth, crushing all the Imperial soldiers still lying on the ground screaming and groaning into bloody pulp.
It was an incomparably agonizing process. Their polymer-alloy armor would not simply be flattened; instead, it slowly deformed under the tremendous pressure, magnifying their pain severalfold.
Without the cover of Deflector Shields, the Scorpion tank cluster moved across such flat terrain as though no one stood in its way. They advanced swiftly, soon driving deep into the Imperial army's defense line. Their 90mm rapid-fire electrothermal cannons maintained an astonishing rate of nearly one round per second, shredding every target to pieces.
Flashes of explosions erupted one after another across the positions, while thick smoke swept metal fragments in every direction.
Amid those tanks, dozens of heavily armored four-wheeled off-road vehicles advanced at high speed. Under the Scorpion tanks' cover, they swiftly cut into the Imperial army's positions. Then, those off-road vehicles began to transform, rising upright and becoming mechas over four meters tall!
The mechas strode across the battlefield, the flamethrowers mounted atop their heads continuously spewing blue plasma flames. Everywhere they passed became a sea of fire.
They were Evil Bat Vehicles. These vehicles, developed by Tyran Heavy Industries, had actually completed development long ago. Their original model had been the Hellfire vehicle, a light off-road combat vehicle equipped with a flamethrower. However, its role overlapped with the cheaper and more efficient Warthog off-road vehicle, and military evaluations had concluded that such flamethrower weapons did not suit the needs of the current battlefield. Thus, it had received no military orders.
But after Mobile Deflector Shield generators matured and began seeing widespread deployment on the battlefield, ground combat gradually shifted toward positional warfare and even trench warfare. This made the