Recovering Sentinel Prime (Monthly Ticket Request)

Lox did not allow the expedition fleet's flagship, the Ultramar Watcher, to enter lunar space directly.

For one thing, the colossal vessel was simply too conspicuous.

Even under the cover of a holographic field, there was no guarantee that it could remain completely undetected by Earth's humans at such close range.

Once a warship reached a hundred kilometers in length, the gravitational field generated by its immense mass could already be observed and directly calculated by certain astronomical instruments.

For Earth, which possessed some Cybertronian technology, suddenly calculating a massive gravitational effect in seemingly empty space right next to them would have been rather terrifying.

On the other hand, Lox ordered the Thundercloud-class planetary warship to remain within Mars's gravitational range.

Its weapons systems would remain on alert, ready to provide support at any moment.

If Unicron truly awoke ahead of schedule, the flagship would spare no cost and unleash every offensive measure it possessed to bombard Earth, delaying the enemy's movements and buying precious time for Lox's withdrawal.

Naturally, Lox did not believe that a warship possessing merely Dark Age of Technology-level human technology could defeat an enemy as powerful as Unicron.

But as long as it could buy time, the objective would have been achieved.

Within the fleet, six battle barges activated holographic distortion fields, reduced their engines to idle power, and headed toward lunar space.

Each battle barge carried five hundred mixed Primaris Space Marines, along with varying numbers of war-pattern Iron Men and Sentinel Iron Men.

That force alone could deal a devastating blow to present-day Earth civilization.

Of course, Lox's enemies had never been humanity, but the Cybertronian aliens whose positions differed from his own.

So long as the humans of this parallel universe were not too outrageously absurd, Lox had no desire to turn