Countless torrents of data flooded the battlefield.
The Men of Iron and the Necrons were fundamentally different.
Although the Necrons had been transformed into living metal, they were not true machine intelligences. Unlike Iax, who could make any unit part of his own body and control it directly, even the most meticulous command still required a little reaction time.
And every Necron ship captain and subsidiary fleet commander had ideas of their own.
This presented no obvious disadvantage when fighting other races.
After all, most races followed the same procedures.
Against the Men of Iron, however, this tiny disadvantage began to be magnified without limit.
The Dark Angels watching nearby had already seen the enormous silver ships alternate with one another in perfect, successive defensive maneuvers more than once.
An inexplicable strangeness pervaded the battlefield. Those mechanical ships seemed to be fighting not as a fleet, but as a single entity.
Whenever concentrated Necron fire brought down a ship's shields and damaged its hull, another ship would appear with uncanny timing in the line of fire, using its own shields to absorb all subsequent damage.
The damaged ship did not retreat, but it slowed noticeably, letting other ships overtake it.
After silver light shimmered across its hull for a while, the damaged ship would repair itself, reactivate its shields, and catch up with the fleet to continue fighting.
Although the Silver Fleet did not outnumber the Necrons, it seemed to have suffered few losses in this extraordinarily intense battle.
Of course, there were also scenes that shocked the Dark Angels even more.
One Assault Cruiser that had pushed deep into the enemy formation used its Lance Weapon to ram two Necron Scytheblade-class Light Cruisers in succession.
Its double-edged prow plunged deep into their hulls.
The Rapid-Fire Railguns concealed beneath its