The landing craft's braking engines ran at full power, the particle streams pouring from their sterns punching enormous holes through the clouds.
These landing craft were all single-use delivery vehicles.
To maximize their payload, they carried neither the fuel nor the propulsion systems needed for a return trip.
Once they landed in an environment with 3.7 times normal gravity, they would be dismantled directly into base modules, never to return to space.
The hundred-meter-class spaceships following them were completely different.
They had specially reinforced load-bearing frames, high thrust-to-weight engines, and energy reserves far exceeding those of the landing craft.
Even after landing on the surface of the Third Planet, they could return to orbit at an enormous energy cost.
Inside the Kona Base Command Center.
Everyone watched the live footage transmitted by the drones.
The Kona Civilization had a vast range of attack methods: laser beams, plasma cannons, electromagnetic cannons, hypermagnetic rail cannons, missiles, gamma-ray cannons, and more. They had them all.
An officer responsible for equipment assessment remained silent for a long time before remarking:
"This is the Kona Civilization's true strength."
During the defense of the Kona Satellite, the Kona Civilization had struggled to protect itself and could only provide Great Xia with intelligence and limited long-range support.
Now that they had recuperated and repaired their main fleet, the war-making capabilities of a level-two technological civilization were finally on full display.
Compared with theirs, Great Xia's current Space Fleet was clearly far behind.
Spaceships several hundred meters long could enter the atmosphere under 3.7 times normal gravity, land, and still take off again. That alone was something Great Xia could not currently accomplish.
Great Xia did not lack special metals capable of withstanding high gravity, such as Zheng Gold.
The real problem was that a spaceship could