Over a hundred assault craft met the incoming fighter formations and countless intelligent wingmen. The two sides unleashed attack after attack across the void. Light lances, plasma cannons, and meltaguns streaked through space, relentlessly firing at one another.
Relying on their tremendous agility and speed, the Aerospace Fighters easily evaded the attacks from the assault craft. While flying at high speed, a single light lance shot could easily punch through an assault craft's armor, piercing several Astartes Space Marines inside. Assault craft whose engines were hit by light lances suffered sympathetic detonations, blasting the Astartes Space Marines' bodies within into ashes.
The assault craft piloted by the Astartes Space Marines had no energy shields at all and could only rely on their own heavy armor to withstand attacks. Yet this ordinary protective armor appeared exceptionally fragile under the bombardment of light lances and plasma cannons.
Meanwhile, every attack from the Astartes Space Marines' assault craft was blocked by the Void Shields. It took several macrocannon shells or torpedoes to overload a Void Shield and destroy an Aerospace Fighter, or else they had to get close enough to self-destruct and take one down.
But assault craft were slower than Aerospace Fighters and could not catch fighters flying at full speed. There was even less chance for an assault craft to self-destruct and destroy an Aerospace Fighter.
Each assault craft carrying Astartes Space Marines had to face attacks from more than ten fighters. Even with the Astartes Space Marines' superhuman reflexes, they could not control their assault craft well enough to evade so many attacks.
After only a few minutes of fighting across the void, all hundred-plus assault craft had been destroyed by the fighters, and several hundred Space Marines had perished in the naval battle.
"Bang."
Seeing every assault craft destroyed