When those xenos began descending on Karamat,
they quickly encountered clusters of mining ships.
Calling them mining ships would be more accurate if they were described as mobile battle fortresses.
After all, whose mining ships carried weapons advanced enough to blast apart the hardest Wackstone ore—and whose shells could shatter warships armored to the hardness of ceramic plating?
Some of them charged into Gamma World.
But they did not achieve the overwhelming advantage over Gamma World they had imagined.
A slaughter squad
had just set foot in the planetary-defense asteroid belt of Karamat.
They thought they had approached Gamma World's core worlds.
Yet they had only reached the outermost edge of Gamma World.
And approaching that outer edge had already triggered Gamma World's defensive systems.
As those space dwarves dreamed of massacring Gamma World and completing their mission of revenge,
they finally remembered that, upon entering Gamma World, they had seemingly received an AI warning.
"Suspected Golden Age industrial template detected. Analyzing data. Scanning."
As drones projected their scanned data before the space dwarves' eyes, the image of an entire planet being constructed gradually appeared before them.
This world had not formed naturally.
It had been built by Gamma World.
The shape and placement of every stone had been a work of craftsmanship requiring a measure of Gamma World's engineering.
That was why they had believed they were nearing Gamma World's core planets.
Boom!
The enormous explosion jolted the slaughter squad awake.
The moment they approached Karamat's outer ring, they had already been locked on.
Then, as the space dwarves of the slaughter squad neared the port, they suddenly noticed distress signals coming from their warships.
Then they saw their fleet seemingly vanishing into the void, slowly disappearing.
Yes, slowly disappearing.
It was as though some creature existed within the