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Chapter 685: Heron-Class Bastion

Arachnid was a newer design, incorporating new advances in bionic integration The North was not called the trailblazers of technological advance

Arachnid didn’t need any backup froalactic fleet, an unstoppable force of war in and of itself Thus, it traveled without an escort for fear it would ie war

By the tis were fully extended, all seven thousand of its fighter ships were deployed They quickly dispersed like a cloud, but didn’t rush in to attack They were like spectators, a net of eyes

Eight rectangular engines spat tangerine-colored light from behind the Bastion It looked like a terrible beast birthed frory for alien blood

The sudden transformation was an unexpected surprise for the alien attackers, especially when the bladed arh the air

The simple motion was actually phenomenally precise Within Arachnid, a host of supercomputers controlled every aspect of the arms Each sas calibrated to avoid collision with the other arh-frequency ionization, as evidence by the pale blue light that surrounded them, made them incredibly sharp They were deadlysound like nails on a chalkboard shuddered through the ship Outside, the tortoise-shell line of defense that had protected the aliens frouns were parted like butter before a hot knife The three thousand six hundredthe behind it dispersed, and ht arms carved away the aliens defensive shield

Panels flipped all along the Bastions surface as the railguns reengaged Coluht fires into the alien forces, and fro Purplein the air, re from afar, they looked like pleasant clouds

This was the power of a Bastion ship, the greatest war -planned trap lain by the aliens had been foiled, and now they were exposed to the punishing rain of fire fro through the darkness, the Heron-class Bastion ship h the Shattered Starfields Co the rocks and moons,

Heron was markedly different frohter ship, only blown up to staggering proportions with a wingspan of thirty five thousand meters Its hull was thirty seven thousand meters fore to aft and stretched a sleek seven thousand one hundred meters tall

Heron carried ten thousand sle main cannon like Arachnid or Tyrannosaurus Instead it had three slightly smaller ones with power equivalent to ten Capital ships each It was also the fastest Bastion ship ever built

Northern technology adhered to the idea of ‘build everything and see orks,’ and newer style ships like this were created to push the boundaries of what they were capable of They were even constructed with elee shape As difficult as it was for a ship like Arachnid to change even part of itself, one could i ways for a whole ship to transforeneration of Bastion ships Itsprinciple was ‘make it faster than any Bastion before it’ They were successful, and Heron becae missions While it couldn’t boast the sheer destructive power or defensibility as its predecessors, its speed gave it an advantage the others lacked Furtherroups that could engage swiftly A ship like this sweeping into a battle could drae the tide!

Yan Yuan stood proudly before the bridge atching the asteroids bounce off Heron’s shields He was enjoying the view It eneration of NorthernHui but already an admiral Where he differed froe Yan Yuan came from a storied Northern family, and was his family’s pride and joy He leaned on the considerable resources at his disposal to temper himself into the successful soldier he was today While unconfirmed, he was also considered the future patriarch of his fainally the North hadn’t required Yan Yuan’s participation in this fight, but he’d insisted He felt huh the ranks faster and enjoy e The only way to prove his superiority, he felt, was on the battlefield

Combat had already broken out, he knew They’d received the call for aid fro as fast as they dared He had to get there! Yan Yuan would not allow his stellar military record to be stained by inaction – he was a perfectionist