"Arbiter! The enemy has breached the First Defense Line! We inflicted only 17% losses on them."
The First Defense Line lay 100 kilometers from Babylon Mainland, amid a scattering of small Island Cloud archipelagos. The terrain resembled the reef archipelagos of the Blue Sea.
Its defense network consisted entirely of unmanned underground facilities, equipped with large numbers of Defense Mobile Suits and Automated Repair Yards.
Its purpose was to provide early warning of invasions and reconnaissance by fire.
Even so, the heavy Zaku losses had inflicted few casualties. Judging by the data coming back, the actual kill rate might have been below 5%.
As Lilith reviewed the reports from the battlefields, she gained a clear understanding of a Four Emperors crew's actual combat capabilities.
Even their most ordinary members were equivalent to upper-mid-tier Grand Knights.
The Headliners were stronger than ordinary Holy Knights, and some individuals among them could rival Titled Knights.
The problem was that the Headliners' position within the Beasts Pirates seemed potentially equivalent to that of Grand Knights...
"Fully activate the Second Defense Line's defensive facilities. Have the Knights remotely control the 'Commander Units' and weaken the enemy as much as possible."
The so-called Zaku II Defense Mobile Suits were essentially line fillers. They were cheap and quick to manufacture.
To cut costs, everything except their frames was made of ordinary metal. Even their armor was ordinary steel. Only their weapons had escaped corner-cutting.
Even their jetpacks and magnetic levitation systems had been specially modified, sacrificing endurance for greatly enhanced mobility.
They needed replenishment after just thirty minutes of flight, but that was not much of an issue for unmanned homeland-defense weapons.
Besides, against powerful enemies, whether these fragile models could even survive thirty minutes was questionable.
The Zaku II Babylon Commander Types serving as "Commander Units,"