Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

At that very moment, the fighter piloted by the Orc Emperor slammed into the shield. It passed through as easily as slipping through a ripple in water, closing in on the impossibly enormous Planet Warship.

It was the WAAAGH! Field. When the Orks believed something would happen, the WAAAGH! Field took effect, turning imagination into reality.

The WAAAGH! Field stirred up by the Ork cannon fodder earlier had been limited in strength. But when the Orc Emperor took the field himself, the Planetary Shield immediately turned intangible. Great swarms of Ork fighters passed straight through it.

The Close-in Weapon Systems quickly formed a blockade and opened fire on the incoming Ork fighters. Dense streams of flame carved a wall of fire across space, turning the area around the ship into a hell of death in an instant.

Every Ork fighter that broke through was caught in a deadly trap. The fighters that had crossed the shield alongside the Orc Emperor were destroyed in waves, exploding into balls of fire across space.

The elite Orks following their king into Boarding Combat were, at the very least, the likes of Ork Bosses—minor leaders among the greenskins. On the ground, they could even go toe-to-toe with ordinary Astartes in close combat. But on this vast battlefield, they were as weak and helpless as target dummies.

Under the Close-in Weapon Systems' relentless bombardment, fighter after fighter carrying Ork elites was destroyed. The powerful greenskins struggled in space, turning into frozen corpses.

In Andrik's soul, countless streams of data flowed like a torrent. Every Close-in Weapon System aboard the entire Necron Fleet that could target the Ork fighters opened fire.

Amid the storm of fire, a few Ork fighters weaved through the hail of bullets in something close to a miracle. Even when their hulls