"Report! The Vanguard has been destroyed, and the minefield at the wormhole exit has been cleared! Three enemy attack sources detected, attack energy density 34,000, defensive line at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers!"
The adjutant swiftly reported the intelligence and results they had obtained.
Because passage through a wormhole caused force field disturbances, traveling through one with a Force Field Shield active was tantamount to asking to self-destruct. All ships therefore had to deactivate their Force Field Shields before entering a wormhole.
With the Twin Stars' current shield technology, reactivating a Force Field Shield generally took around five seconds. In other words, for the five seconds after emerging from the wormhole, their warships would be completely exposed and unprotected.
To exploit this weakness while ensuring accuracy and damage, Earth had positioned its defensive line approximately 1.5 million kilometers from the wormhole. The time a light-speed attack needed to travel from launch to impact fell neatly within that five-second window.
"Three attack sources? What's going on?" Gustav froze for a moment.
Hadn't they said there were only two Sea Race warships on the other side? And the attack energy density seemed higher than he had expected.
"Two have already been identified and confirmed as our military's frigate models, but the third attack source... I'm sorry, Commander. It has activated optical stealth, so we cannot obtain detailed images of it.
"But calculations based on the target's gravitational data suggest that it is an asteroid roughly five to fifteen kilometers in diameter! We suspect they have used the intervening time to turn it into a firing position, but we cannot determine the number of weapons mounted on it or its defensive capabilities!
"In addition, our radar has detected around thirty high-mass asteroids more than a kilometer in diameter near the battlefield. They