A barrage of fire grazed past the Plasma Bugs and hurtled deeper into space. Only a few dozen shots hit their targets.
Scorching energy struck the shields, sending violent ripples through the blue membranes of light and illuminating the carapaces beneath.
Forty-six Plasma Clusters struck in succession, yet left only fleeting ripples on the shields. The Plasma Bugs adjusted their orientation and continued forward, not even pausing under the bombardment.
"Forty-six hits!"
"Enemy shields remain intact!"
"No effective structural damage observed!"
Everyone felt somewhat deflated.
Over a thousand platforms had fired a full volley, but across the vast distances of space, only forty-six shots had hit. The hit rate was downright pitiful.
That was bad enough, but after all the trouble of landing those hits, this was all they did?
They did not even count as a tickle!
Fendona looked at the screen and said in surprise:
"All those attacks, and they still can't hurt them?"
Lin Mo explained:
"The distances in space are too great. Landing a hit is already good enough. We can't really expect any damage yet. We're still in the attrition phase."
Then he turned to Zheng Jinren and asked:
"They can block energy weapons. Don't the Orbital Platforms have Electromagnetic Cannons?"
"They do," Zheng Jinren explained.
"All platforms are equipped with Electromagnetic Cannons, giving them a means of kinetic attack. In theory, they're better suited to dealing with shields that favor energy defense like these."
Lin Mo said, "Then why..."
"Because of the distance," the staff officer interjected.
"Electromagnetic Cannon projectiles have a maximum velocity of only 4.8 kilometers per second in space. At a distance of two thousand kilometers, they would take over four hundred seconds to reach the target area, far longer than the flight time of a Plasma Cluster."
"During that time,