It was a fortunate thing for Leutre, due to his rough handling of the power cable, that he was wearing most of the AMES suit - it saved him from sustaining nasty discharges from the static energy still lingering in the capacitor bank.
Of course, now that is was connected, power had to be fed once more into it for it to function properly once again. The console Leutre had used for that had unfortunately blown up in his face.
Mara ran back as quickly as she could to report on the status of the port wing engine CFS, but she was veered off course by the sight of the sprawled down nepleslian tech. Wide-eyed, the sandy-haired neko crouched by him, examined him a moment and then yelled: "Kurohoshi-Juni, Freeman-Heisho! Veressis-Hei collapsed!"
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As anti-ship weaponry gained reasonably good targetting solutions, the Battle of Taiie erupted in earnest. Projected jets of primordial energy, transphasic beams and tunneling positron bolts enjoined both nekovalkyrja and mishhuvurthyar vessels as the fleets clashed.
Spearing the assault on the Mishhuvurthyar side was Melissons monstrous flagship: a long, dark sinister vessel with a bow split into three talon-like claw - two above and one opposing them below It's central body was elliptical and flowing organically to split at the stern into two large fins. Unlike the other SMX ships, the hull wasn't smooth and greenish-pink; It was covered with thousands of long, sharp looking quills that where a mottled black/dark brown.
A full salvo of six AS-7 torpedoes hurtled toward Melisson's ship, courtesy of one of the Arashi-escorts tailing a Yuumi battleship; the YSS Igen. Aetheric explosions erupted over the spined menace, but the massive ship rode them out without bearing any significant damage for the Arashi's efforts.
The Igen swerved, narrowly avoiding an impact with the black vessel and using its weapon pods to strafe at the behemoth's side, but the Mishhu flagship swiftly reciprocated. The quills were more than decoration; they were each a emitter unit for projected energy beams and thousands of them opened fire in a fan-like matter, rows upon rows of spines riveting themselves.
After only a few seconds of weathering such an assault, the nenerable battleship was reduced to piteous image of it's former self, most of the hull on that side open to space and distorsed. A Ooghlrashithagg-carrier followed up on the assault and finished off the ailing battleship.
The radiance of the ensuing explosion was muted by the next salvo coming from the black flagship, which spread its massive arsenal amongst the nearby Arashi escorts, also withering them down in dazzling displays of firepower. Instead of stopping to actually concentrate on finishing each one of these, Melisson's ship disdainfully swept past them and toward the Dainslef and its escorts as the other mishhu ships tailing it broke off to finish off the Igen's escorts. Combined weapon pod fire from the Star Army escorts only served to have the SMX flagship's shield bubble ripple and shimmer... but the protective layer of the colossal ship held.
Between the battling giants, clouds of yamataian power armors engaged the massive hordes of mishhuvurthyar battlepods that were released as the mishhuvurthyar ships plowed though the 5th XF's formation. Melisson was obviously trying to squeeze the most advantage out from the Mishhuvurthyar massive array of positron cannons covering their hulls. While most yamataian ships were designed to fire their anti-ship weaponry mostly on the front, individual Mishhu vessels would be able to make the most out of their firing arcs and fire all the weapons at their disposal, but at many different targets instead of focusing on the sort of single engagements the Star Army prefered.
