It was widely believed that battleships and massive guns would always embody the romance of space. Standing aboard an enormous warship and feeling the tremors of its guns firing could often set one's blood racing.
Xi Yan, however, thought otherwise.
Compared with the overwhelming sensory impact of massive spaceborne guns, the Marshal clearly preferred silent yet astonishingly powerful energy weapons.
When dazzling lasers streaked through the dark, silent universe and pierced every obstacle, they might not have looked as spectacular as massive guns, but they gave the crew a different kind of thrill.
Fire, fire!
Trade shots with those runaway toasters!
Two stars, one yellow and one blue, formed a binary system, and a great battle was unfolding within it.
Purple and green lasers shot in from opposite sides of the system, crossing between the stars before striking the two enormous fleets.
The First Fleet's hundred ships formed a massive battle group in a standard broad-based conical formation. Their Plasma Thrusters spewed deep-blue energy beams, generating tremendous thrust.
This was humanity's First Fleet, the expeditionary force fighting against the XT-489 Extermination Unit.
The First Fleet and the Iron Purifier's reinforcements had both advanced at full speed, arriving in its home system at the same time.
A major battle was inevitable.
Commander Ning Zhiyuan reported to Xi Yan, then took a deep breath and ordered every ship to launch a Banzai Charge.
They could not compete in combat experience or weapon quality, so they could only throw their lives into the fight.
Although the Determined Exterminators had three full-strength main fleets, they had just finished a major battle against the Zirick Cooperative and rushed straight back to relieve their home system. They were undoubtedly in terrible shape.
A full-strength fleet of the XT-489 Extermination Unit consisted of sixty ships. Even after