The T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer No. 1 ship · the bridge.
"Target locked — a T3 Cavalier-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer!" The deputy captain looked toward the one at the command console: the captain, and at the same time the T3 Wolverine squad commander — Shen Bing!
"Ready the electromagnetic-jamming cannon," Shen Bing said.
"The electromagnetic-jamming cannon is readied; the target is locked."
"Fire!"
"The electromagnetic-jamming cannon has struck the target!"
"Close in and attack!" Shen Bing ordered.
Of the hundred T3 Wolverine-class heavy 12-barrel particle-energy rapid cannons fitted to this T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer — apart from a very few that, on account of the positions they held, sat in the dead-angles of fire — 90% of the gun positions took aim, one and all, at that T3 Cavalier-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer.
That T3 Cavalier-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer had, at this moment, too, sensed that something was amiss: its ship engine was unstable, its speed gone awry, and at the same time an enemy interstellar destroyer was closing in on it at speed.
The captain of this T3 Cavalier at once handed down the order to open fire upon the enemy interstellar destroyer, and to request support from the friendly ships round about.
The T3 Cavalier-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer's firing range was greater than that of the T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer.
And so, it was the T3 Cavalier's attack that first came down upon the T3 Wolverine.
The T3 Wolverine's hull armor took the cannon fire head-on; the smoke and dust born of the blasts appeared all over the T3 Wolverine.
But when this smoke and dust dispersed, it was found that the attack had inflicted only the very faintest of wounds.
And within the bridge of this T3 Wolverine No. 1 ship — one couldn't so much as feel any shudder of the hull's being struck.
The T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer, this model of interstellar warship, employed the most stable of hull frames and the greatest capacity to withstand a beating, while at the same time ensuring that, when taking an attack, the effect felt by the crew within the hull would be lowered to the least possible degree.
Through the deep-space telescope, Shen Bing could see, plain and direct, that T3 Cavalier opposite firing away without cease, laser beam after laser beam coming down upon the T3 Wolverine's hull.
Were it not that another electronic-information window displayed the data of the attacks the various parts of the T3 Wolverine No. 1 ship's hull were sustaining, in all likelihood she'd not even have felt that this interstellar warship she stood aboard was under enemy attack at all.
"This defensive power…" Shen Bing marveled within.
Though she'd known this interstellar warship's positioning and data early on, still, when she truly felt this sensation of it upon the battlefield, within her she was quite shaken all the same.
And there was, at the same time, a kind of stirred, exhilarated pride.
"We've entered our weapons' firing range! Requesting permission to open fire!" the crew member manning the weapons department cried.
"Fire!" Shen Bing handed down the order.
In that instant, the T3 Wolverine No. 1 ship, which had all this while been taking attacks, went for all the world as though it had gone mad — densely teeming lasers flying out toward that T3 Cavalier opposite.
The T3 Wolverine-class heavy 12-barrel particle-energy rapid cannons the T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer carried were a class of short-range heavy energy rapid cannon.
So long as the energy supply gave no trouble, then this cannon could, in theory, launch its attack with no gap whatever.
But because a single turret had a 12-barreled muzzle, in practical conditions, were it to keep up full fire without cease, the T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer's energy system would drain exceedingly fast, and some gun positions would even face a situation of insufficient energy supply.
But such a high-load combat environment arose exceedingly rarely; and so it was only a drawback in theory.
Apart from this, this T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer was, in short-range firepower output, truly quite terrifying!
And at this moment, that T3 Cavalier-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer opposite felt this terrifying pressure.
Within its bridge, the whole crowd of them felt for all the world as though they were aboard a little boat beneath a raging storm and towering waves.
And at their ears there came, besides, the ceaseless, one-after-another alarm-tones.
"Evade! Evade at once!" the captain shrieked.
"Captain, just now the power of our ship engine has been left at only 30% remaining; we simply… can't dodge the enemy's ship-cannon fire!" a crew member said in his alarm.
In this moment, this captain despaired.
He looked at that interstellar destroyer within the deep-space telescope, firing away without cease.
No!
This was, beyond all doubt, no mere interstellar destroyer.
How could an interstellar destroyer have such terrifying heavy armor, and such a dense ship-cannon weapon system!
The image in the deep-space telescope went to blinding static-white — which meant that the hull armor, in this quarter, had already been damaged to its very limit.
A few breaths later.
This T3 Cavalier-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer exploded, turning into a fleeting fireball; and after the flames dispersed, there remained only battered, wound-riddled ship-wreckage.
The T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer No. 1 ship · the bridge.
"The target has been destroyed." a crew member reported to Captain Shen Bing.
Shen Bing looked calmly at that interstellar warship opposite, gone to so much rubble; a result such as this had been well within her expectations.
"Make ready…"
And just as Shen Bing was about to give the order to search out the next target—
suddenly the bridge felt a slight shudder — not very strong, but against the originally steady environment, it seemed quite pronounced.
"Warning! The right-side hull armor is under attack; the hull-armor strength in this region stands at 68% remaining."
The warning-tone sounded at the same time.
Because the T3 Wolverine's heavy-armor design had, from the first, foreseen that it would withstand no small number of attacks head-on, in the setting of its warning system the overwhelming majority of low-power attacks would, as a rule, be omitted.
Otherwise, in all likelihood, Shen Bing here would have been deafened to death by the din.
And an attack that could be flagged by the warning system — one may well imagine what grade it would be.
"Report — an enemy T3 Dragon-Croc-class Medium Interstellar Battleship just now used its bow cannon to attack our ship! That ship lies in our starboard direction!" the deputy captain reported.
Shen Bing's eyes narrowed.
"I was still looking for that next target — and now it's delivered itself right to my door. Then it'll be the one. Get in contact with the two nearest T3 Wolverines; combined operations — we'll encircle and wipe out this T3 Dragon-Croc!"
Though, in a one-on-one, the T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyer had nothing to fear from the T3 Dragon-Croc-class Medium Interstellar Battleship opposite either — still, taking efficiency and cost-effectiveness into account, Shen Bing did not go in for that sort of showing-off, but adopted the most effective manner of fighting.
Including Shen Bing's own flagship, very soon another two T3 Wolverines advanced, in company, toward that T3 Dragon-Croc-class Medium Interstellar Battleship.
That T3 Dragon-Croc-class Medium Interstellar Battleship sensed something amiss and began trying to open up the distance — but very soon this interstellar warship's captain found that the ship engine had lost its power, and its speed had begun to plunge.
"No! No… don't come over here! Don't let them come over!" the captain cried in terror — there was no knowing whether this was an order he was handing down to someone, or a scream on the very brink of death.
For all that it was an interstellar battleship — under the siege of three T3 Wolverine-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Destroyers, it did not hold out past three minutes before it was encircled, wiped out, and destroyed.
The three T3 Wolverines at once set to seeking out their next target.
Faced with T2- and T3-grade interstellar frigates and interstellar destroyers, they could settle them single-handed.
And faced with the stronger main-battle ship-classes, these T3 Wolverines would gather together, and strike with precision!
One fatal blow!
This was, precisely, the combat style of this class of interstellar warship!