"Jesus!"
"The carrier... the carrier is standing upright!"
"What kind of weapon is this?"
"How does this attack even work?"
In the operations room, the commanders stared at the live footage, blood rushing to their heads and eyes bulging, as though they had stopped thinking at that instant.
A steel behemoth weighing 97,000 tons had actually been tipped upright in the harbor as easily as a child's seesaw by the impact of a tiny humanoid target.
The sheer visual impact was enough to shut down the brains of these Eagle Country officers who had served for years.
At this point, any talk of tactics, data links, intelligence, or analysis was all fucking bullshit.
The instant the USS Ronald Reagan stood vertically in the harbor, these Eagle Country men understood that the feat before their eyes was beyond human strength.
Even bringing over every crane and gantry crane in the world might not have been enough to haul this steel behemoth upright.
"Oh God!"
"This is a miracle! Only a god could do this!"
"What kind of enemy are we facing?"
Several of the more timid intelligence officers in the operations room had already gone weak at the knees and dropped to the floor before the LCD screen.
And this was only footage captured from the air at the scene!
The footage alone had enough impact to shatter everyone's worldview and confidence. What, then, of the Eagle Country sailors who were actually there?
Aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, several assault squads had originally been stationed on the deck with light and heavy weapons.
The instant the carrier's stern rose, they were thrown into utter disarray.
The tremendous clanging in their ears made every sailor standing on the deck blanch, an indescribable fear of the unknown rising within them.
"Sir... what