Successful Breach

The instant The Observer and Artillery Strike opened fire...

Aerial Strike, Viking Fighters, the F-X Kai, and the Falcon formations also began charging toward the other two CCS-class Cruisers.

As the only defensive forces on Bountiful Star unleashed their full firepower, the Covenant's three-ship CCS-class Cruiser fleet seemed somewhat stunned, and had yet to launch any effective counterattack.

After all, in the eyes of the captain of the CCS-class Cruiser that had opened fire, The Observer was merely a "broken" frigate. It should have been destroyed immediately by their Plasma Cannon fire.

But it was obvious that The Observer was not that broken, and the power of its Electromagnetic Cannon had also exceeded the Covenant's expectations.

After multiple upgrades by The Hive and the Umbrella Arsenal, the Paris-class Frigate had the best maneuverability of all warships, using its superior mobility to make up for its lack of armor.

According to the casualty ratio in Halo, if the UNSC wanted to destroy a Covenant warship, it usually needed three human warships of the same class.

That meant the Energy Shield of each Covenant warship could withstand at least several shots from the UNSC's Electromagnetic Cannons.

Umbrella's Paris-class Frigates were several levels above Halo's UNSC frigates in both performance and defense.

The Paris-class's main gun was still a 30-ton-caliber Electromagnetic Cannon, but after years of upgrades, it could now reach seven percent of the speed of light, with far greater penetration than before.

The Covenant's CCS-class Cruiser, on the other hand, was three times larger than the Paris-class by specifications alone, and its energy shield output and firepower were also superior to those of the Paris-class.

Thus, after an adaptation period of less than half a minute, the Covenant immediately retaliated against The Observer.

Dense Plasma Rounds and "Plasma Missiles" trailing cyan-blue