Not a single observation camera or radar installation noticed the attack craft breaking away from the battlefield and heading for the Moon. In fact, even if those devices had not been destroyed by the massive EMP earlier, the chaos on the battlefield was enough to leave all the Zenith Seat soldiers too busy looking after themselves. Although the drone swarm was not using lethal offensive weapons, every auxiliary system on those pieces of black technology was capable of influencing the course of battle. They darted all over the battlefield, using short-range jump devices and inertial suppressors to perform high-speed maneuvers that completely defied common sense, leaving the Space Station guards' fighters exhausted from chasing them. At the same time, they kept releasing powerful interference signals, making the Zenith Seat communications network—which was already severely overloaded by data congestion—even worse off, with no chance of recovering. This further crippled the defenders' command and coordination. But that was not all. As time passed, it was the engineering machines mixed in among the armed drones that caused even greater confusion and panic—
Because those engineering drones were destroying the command system and communications network of the Zenith Seat Space Station in a far more thorough and brutal manner.
These little devils, with their long, insect-like bodies and multiple mechanical arms, were dismantling anything they detected exchanging signals. They even cut through the station's outer shell and burrowed into Zenith Seat along its internal pipes and support beams, devouring the hardware of its command system and communications network with astonishing efficiency. Wherever they passed, every device fell silent.
Nolan called this process "physical deletion."
Disabling Zenith Seat's command and communications systems and stripping the station of its combat capability was another important task Hao Ren had assigned them. The drone swarm was not merely