Once the Supermassive Mass Projector was complete, Iax immediately began the next phase of operations.
Large quantities of the remaining matter were fashioned into Adaptive Combat Cores and gathered into enormous nanospheres.
These kilometer-scale nanospheres were transported to the center of the Supermassive Mass Projector. After being shifted into a higher dimension, each was compressed into a miniature sphere less than ten centimeters across, then fired like a streak of light toward the Imperial Worlds that the Orks had invaded once again.
Objects subjected to quantum compression had no mass in the conventional sense, and their physical constants also changed.
Within one hundredth of a nanosecond after passing through a planet's atmosphere and reaching its surface, each nanosphere expanded instantaneously.
Countless Nanomachines released the forces binding them together, spreading their mass far and wide.
The violent acceleration made them burst apart easily against the surface, leaving only tiny punctures in the ground.
The adaptive combat machine cores within shattered on impact, then triggered temporal fixation, forcibly rewinding themselves into intact wholes.
The scattered, uncontrolled Nanomachines immediately synchronized with the command protocol and began converging on these special cores.
Thousands of metal spheres soon took shape on the surface.
Then they began a second round of extermination against the Ork forces previously deployed from the Planetary Fortress.
These Orks were stronger than the previous wave and had more equipment.
The Planetary Fortress's bizarre teleportation device had even transported colossal war engines such as Mega-Gargants directly to the Orks.
The Hive Cities on many Imperial Worlds had suffered severe damage.
Before the damage from the last attack could be repaired, the Orks' second ground invasion had destroyed almost everything.
Hive Worlds whose Void Shields were already damaged proved especially vulnerable to super-heavy war machines like the Mega-Gargants.
A single volley from the