Everyone was in position and ready to move as Max cleared the horizon, using his height advantage to add targeting Data for his Pilots on the ground. That let them accurately target the Heavy cha of the Grax military forces with artillery, breaking armor plates, and disabling weapons in preparation for their entry into the city.
[Advance] Max ordered, and the Fast Attack Crusaders activated their thrusters and leaped over the wall, bringing the fight to the enemy, while the others took down the gates and let the Line cha and Corvettes flood into the city, with the Heavy cha as their backup.
The Super Heavy stood back and continued to shell the Grax Heavy cha Regint as the Terminus forces advanced, joined by the rebels, who fell in behind the cha, carrying mostly industrial tools, pitchforks, and shovels, the truest of all lee weapons.
The mont that the protesters inside the city saw that the reinforcents were the Terminus cha from outside the walls, the fight against the Military turned suddenly brutal and bloody. The civilians charged the soldiers, while the Light cha picked off as many as they could to reduce civilian casualties.
The Grax cha responded within seconds, running to the scene just in ti to be t by the Fast Attack Crusaders and lted down to slag in the streets.
The antique design that the Grax was using was particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, as the alloy of the structure softened significantly and made the armor plates buckle, letting the Terminus cha disable them in seconds.
Before Max fired a single shot, it was clear that the civilians would win this engagent. But when he unleashed the Disruptors on the Military bunker where the last of their reserves were being deployed, all will to fight vanished and the Military vehicles and cha began powering down.
Their occupants mostly exited the vehicles to surrender to their civilian neighbors. However, so did flee into the city, hoping to hide and erase any mory that they had sided with the vanished Deities.
The fight raged on for a few more minutes, but there were no targets that needed his level of firepower to deal with, so Max resorted to simply corralling the remaining defenders with his light lasers, crippling their cha and guiding them to the main forces to either fight it out or surrender.
Most chose to surrender.
[Sir, we have a large movent at A3. Suspected Super Heavy cha and an underground military fortress.] the Third Company of First Battalion reported, drawing Max's attention away from the fight at hand.
[On my way.]
They had taken very few casualties so far, and the dics weren't reporting any dead yet, only injures and broken cha, a state that Max would gladly maintain if it were at all possible.
[Multiple uprisings reported. Deploying Drones to assist.] Nico inford Max as a string of reports ca in all at once.
This must be the Grax Loyalists' last stand, their organized effort to push the Terminus forces away from the cities while their force is spread thin and they haven't yet received reinforcents.
The number of fighters that Terminus had wasn't high, but even a half dozen per city could do a lot of damage to forces that were unprepared for an aerial attack.
Max arrived at the mining facility designated A3 in under a minute and found sothing that he never thought he would see in actual combat.
The Grax had created a rolling fortress. Initially, it had been mostly buried, but now that it was moving, it was over a square kiloter in size, rolling on gigantic treads, with its own shielding and nurous defensive guns.
[Would you look at that? It's an actual mobile city. I've seen them in video gas, but I never thought that soone would be insane enough to actually try to build one. I wonder if we can get the design schematics for this thing before we leave? The Gars Museum would love it.] One of the pilots raved as he watched the city rise up from the ground.
The gar's museum would love this fortress. It had everything a mobile city could need, and it was a sha that they would have to break it to stop the military from using it to wipe out their cha forces.
The guns on the fortress were specifically designed for this scenario, Cleansing Light notwithstanding, and they were more than capable of blasting a Heavy cha Company out of existence.
Max focused all of the Disruptor beams on one arm and launched an attack against the front gates, the blow causing the city's shield to warp and flicker.
[This shield is a different technology than the Capital shield. I will continue to fire, so prepare to breach the city once the gates are down.] Max ordered.
A second blast caused a breach in the shield, and damage to the gates, while the third blew the gates wide open and cleared the mass of defenders that were lined up behind it, leaving the mangled remains of a cha Battalion scattered through the streets.
[Moving in. Command requests that you keep the shield down in case we need to make an ergency evacuation.] The cha Company requested.
[I am on it. Nico, see what you can do to disable this city.] Max replied, knowing that she listened to all broadcasts simultaneously.
[Working on it. This is not a Grax-built piece of technology. I think it was left by the humans that were here before them.] Nico replied.
That made sense, the idea of a mobile city was archaic, outdated for millennia, even on the most hostile of worlds now that Terraforming Technologies had advanced so far.
The Terminus cha were fighting in the streets, but it seed that the defensive guns could not be turned inward, and only Max was subject to their sporadic fire. After a few minutes, even that ended, and the city ground to an abrupt halt.
[Commander, we found the power distribution node. The main power to the city has been cut. The facility is nearly abandoned, with only a few surviving soldiers and four Grax clerics remaining.] The cha Company Commander reported.
[Excellent work. Capture the Grax for interrogation, and bring the prisoners out of the facility. We will have to sort them out later.] Max ordered.
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