After binding another planetary core, the Heart of the Forge immediately began calculating the next launch trajectory.
A Planetary Fortress was not a warship, after all. It had no conventional means of movement.
Against a target like this, the Heart of the Forge could easily launch an attack without even approaching it.
After all, although the Supermassive Mass Projector could accelerate objects to terrifying speeds, they did not arrive instantaneously. They still needed time to travel.
And an extremely massive physical object was vastly different from the beam produced by an energy weapon. Striking over such enormous distances required calculating far more parameters.
Nearby celestial bodies, cosmic fields, and other factors could all cause its attack trajectory to deviate.
Even Planetary Fortresses artificially reinforced by the Orks could not withstand such a strike. If it accidentally hit an Imperial World, the outcome was easy to imagine.
An ordinary planet would shatter in an instant.
Moreover, gravitational fields did not all have negative effects. A well-planned attack trajectory could even use natural gravity to further increase the "shell's" speed, raising the attack's effectiveness by 0.5–1%.
With an attack this destructive, even the slightest increase in power could be dramatically magnified by its inherent destructive force.
Fortunately, Iax, the main control core, had numerous ships available for distributed computation over immense distances through Quantum Communication. With the enormous computing power supplied by the three Titan Ships as well, calculating an attack spanning a few Star Systems was hardly difficult.
As another shock wave of energy rippled through the Star System, the planetary core suspended above the Heart of the Forge's hull vanished completely.
This time, however, the Heart of the Forge did not immediately begin moving after launching its attack.
Silver light began flickering around the now-empty Supermassive Mass Projector.
Nanomachines began