Engineering encompassed many branches, including materials, structures, power systems, and design, and the Cyberlex civilization was far ahead of every civilization in the Sea of Stars in all of them.
The Prototype Warforms they created with ancient technology naturally benefited from that technology.
How could the feeble defenders on Sadal IV possibly pierce a powerful Prototype Warform's armor with weapons that were no better than pebbles fired from slingshots?
The Prototype Warform's massive-caliber cannons, however, could easily tear through their defensive lines, set off explosions wherever it pleased, and destroy any building in sight.
After a salvo, its weapon mounts began cooling down and reloading.
The stationary Cyberlex Prototype Warform resumed moving. Under the remote control of over a hundred operators, it swiftly broke into a run, whipping up an even fiercer storm that blew down buildings in its path and caused still greater casualties.
The Cyberlex Prototype Warform was simply so enormous that moving quickly across a planet with a dense atmosphere subjected it to tremendous air resistance.
But its powerful propulsion systems could overcome that resistance and accelerate. At such speeds, the atmosphere was violently compressed, then rapidly expelled to either side, perpendicular to its direction of travel, generating intense wind pressure.
The denser the atmosphere, the fiercer the storms stirred up by the warform's movements.
Air was everywhere, and once high-speed air currents appeared in a city, their destructive effects were bound to be widespread.
Calculations showed that the quickest way to break the defenders was to have the Prototype Warform move at speed, generating these massive storms to sweep through the city and its surroundings.
The Prototype Warform ran at full speed.
Despite its enormous size, the machine unleashed tremendous speed thanks to the advanced ancient technology it employed.
Huge volumes of air slammed into the