"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Countless laser beams lit up the battlefield. Boom, boom, boom! The frontline units on both sides were practically plowed under by the concentrated fire, leaving only a scattered handful.
But the units behind them continued surging forward, charging at the opposing lines.
From a distance, the flashes of gunfire and explosions spread from the initial point of contact into a vast hemisphere of space, like a glittering garment dazzling against the night sky.
This battle covered a much wider area than the first. The Twin Stars drone swarms were not trying to break through Earth's defensive lines, but to exhaust its strategic reserves!
For that reason, the survivors lucky enough to emerge from the wormhole did not gather into large formations. Instead, they gradually dispersed, seeking hostile targets across a broader area to minimize Earth's advantage in heavy firepower.
The warships' powerful weapons were ineffective against these scattered, small, high-speed targets. Earth had no choice but to suppress the enemies at the wormhole exit while committing large numbers of small and medium-sized weapons to clear them out at close range. Otherwise, once they amassed even greater numbers, they could become a decisive force on the battlefield.
With no formations to speak of, both sides quickly became entangled in a chaotic melee. As the Twin Stars drones deliberately spread out, the battlefield gradually expanded from hundreds of thousands of kilometers to over a million!
Such a vast expanse forced the combat units on both sides to abandon massed engagements and fight in small, isolated encounters.
The Twin Stars forces mostly fought in flights of three. When necessary, they also called in nearby allies for support.
Earth's approach to grouping up, however, came in all shapes and sizes...
There were groups of dozens of Special Missiles making suicide charges,