"Send out more Intelligent Wingmen! And launch a large number of teleport beacons. Whichever method succeeds in getting aboard the enemy flagship will give us an opportunity for a boarding action."
Mo Tuo reminded Wood.
"Alright."
After receiving Mo Tuo's reminder, Wood once again dispatched over a thousand Intelligent Wingmen toward the distant Imperial Combined Fleet.
These Intelligent Wingmen had no human pilots. They were entirely controlled by the intelligent system aboard the Emperor-class Battleship, and that system had both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was that the intelligent system reacted faster than humans, giving it a better chance of guiding the Intelligent Wingmen close to the Imperial Combined Fleet's flagship.
The disadvantage was that Intelligent Wingmen controlled by the intelligent system feared the enemy's psykers. Powerful psykers could interfere with purely mechanical and electronic equipment.
However, the intelligent system aboard the Emperor-class Battleship was extremely powerful. Once it detected electronic equipment being interfered with, it could directly make the equipment under its control self-destruct, leaving the enemy no chance to take control of it.
"Those damned heretics! Where did they get so many powerful weapons and such equipment?"
On the bridge of the Defender of Terra, one of the Minotaurs Chapter's three Battle Barges, Azrael, Chapter Master of the Minotaurs Chapter, stared grimly at the battlefield display before him.
Despite being surrounded by more than a hundred of their main warships, the heretic naval fleet was still mounting a stubborn counterattack.
What was more, their various assault craft, which had originally enjoyed a numerical advantage, were now being utterly suppressed by the enemy's fighter force, unable to fight back at all.
Large numbers of elite pilots and Space Marines had already died in this fierce naval battle, but the fleet could not simply refuse to dispatch interceptors against the