Chapter 7041 Gamma Laser Beam Weapon Supremacy
Chapter 7041 Gamma Laser Beam Weapon Supremacy
When the combined damage output of dozens of warships including numerous capital ships focused on a single greater phase lord, the results were devastating.
Not only had they aimed their weapons at the same phase lords, their energy beams also converged on a single spot of the enemy leader's spatial barrier.
This exerted an insane amount of strain on the defensive barrier. Although the unstable spatial activity caused many beams to fly crooked, the advanced AIs and targeting systems of the CE warships rapidly compensated for the anomalous behavior and made sure the persistent energy beams remained on target.
The enemy was unable to endure this constant damage intake. The effects of the transphasic hyper laser beams were not that exaggerated at first, but when so many of them concentrated at a single point and remained active for many seconds, the dramatic concentration of partially phased energies produced an unknown compound effect that began to disrupt the energy barrier even further.
This was the goal of the Gamma Scorchers!
They not only tried to focus their fire to the best possible extent, but also concentrated so many energies at a single coordinate in order to generate a temporary anomaly!
Whatever the Gamma Scorchers were doing, it was working. The concentration of phased energies warped the local space to the point where the spatial barrier fizzled out at least 50 percent sooner than Ves and other people expected!
"This is impossible!" Gloriana exclaimed! "How can transphasic hyper laser beam cannons produce this result so quickly? It does not make sense!"
She was quite familiar with how energy weapons worked, as did many Senior Mech Designers who designing mechs armed with them before.
Laser weapons had always been the most basic and low-end option available to mech designers. While they were efficient, precise and effective at longer ranges, their damage output had always been one of their greatest letdowns.
However, the Gamma Scorchers proved to everyone that they had underestimated the potential of the laser weapon system.
By giving them the ability to launch persistent laser beams, they transformed this simple method of inflicting damage into an effective counter against phase lords!
Although the demands were heavy, the transformed laser beam cannon batteries had truly succeeded in breaking the defenses of a champion without relying on a champion of their own.
Once the greater phase lord's body became exposed, the persistent laser beams mercilessly focused on his head, causing the gigantic nunser to rear back in pain as the combined energies along with the strange spatial anomaly almost carved a hole through his skull!
Fortunately, though slow, the phase lord succeeded in rearing back and allowing his chest to take the brunt of the damage.
Though his flesh was getting torn into at a prodigious rate, the nunser phase lord finally folded his true body and shrunk in size just before he initiated an emergency blink!
The injured phase lord disappeared from view before suddenly reappearing just behind one of the other greater phase lords.
While that saved the nunser from getting carved into pieces, it also caused the CE warships to direct their firepower at the greater phase lord that was being used as physical cover!
The same thing was happening all over again!
"The laser cannons have not interrupted their fire once since they unleashed their initial persistent beams!"
The laser beam cannons continued to remain active with no signs of reaching critical condition. They only grew a little hotter, but not to the point where people grew concerned about whether they would begin to melt or anything.
This was definitely not a normal result! Ves guessed that the Cybernetic Empire also managed to develop much more effective heatsinks. The amount of waste energy being transferred away was so much higher than what was previously possible for a warship-grade weapon system of this size.
At this point, the native aliens understood that they had fallen into a trap.
They had come so close that the persistent energy beams could burn at them for a long time if they attempted to turn around and get out of range.
The native alien leaders reluctantly concluded that the only way for them to survive this unfavorable circumstance was to bite the bullet and commit to their attack!
They needed to get close enough to break apart the human fleet formation and crush the enemy warships with their superior physical might!
To that end, the greater phase lords all decided to move faster. They squeezed out all of the speed they could muster from their true bodies, though there was not much they could do to move any faster.
The Gamma Scorchers weren't stupid enough to remain in place. They had already turned around and burned away, trying to traverse more distance in an attempt to prevent the enemy phase lords from closing in too soon.
The warships accelerated faster this time, proving that they had previously been moving slower on purpose!
The speed of the warships just happened to give the phase lords hope of catching up in time, but the latter would definitely lose a number of their own in the process.
The alien native gods could still decide whether it was better for them to turn around and flee from this horrible human fleet.
Whether it was due to pride, hope or stupidity, the phase lords chose to keep up the chase no matter the consequences!
The phasefighters and warships under their command struggled to keep up with their giant leaders. Although they were able to contribute their own firepower to the fight, their influence was marginal due to all of the maneuvers.
"The 24th Gamma Scorchers are stringing the native aliens along." Ves commented. "I bet their warships can accelerate even faster, but they are deliberately controlling their speed in order to give their enemies just enough hope to get close. There is no other explanation why they are moving at those exact speeds. The native aliens are fools if they think they can get close."
Gloriana frowned. "I do not think the native aliens are that ignorant. They should know by now that they have fallen into the plans of their human foes. They just do not have anything better to do. The phase lords can only continue to close in while using whatever spatial abilities they have to debilitate the human warships."
It was too bad that this was not working. It became obvious by now that the lesser and greater phase lords actually did not possess any good means to inflict damage at a distance.
Their lethality was the highest at close range, but it rapidly dropped off after that point. The phase lords had always disdained the practice of wielding ranged armaments, and now that custom came to bite them back in their butts.
Without a powerful rifle or any ranged weapon system that was superior to the primary gun batteries of a warship, the phase lords had no way of dishing out any significant damage. This shortcoming might prove fatal now that they were being strung along like a kite!
Seeing as the phase lords were unable to close the distance, they instead began to rely on their minions to exert pressure.
They forcibly ordered their phasefighters and warships to stop cowering behind their bodies and accelerate forward as best as possible.
The phase lords even focused their spatial manipulation on warping the space in front of their own units so that they could cover more distance than usual!
The desperation move was working. Although the enemy strike craft and larger vessels could no longer hide against human attacks, they were able to launch repeated attacks against the human vessels.
The Gamma Scorchers evidently adopted a naval doctrine that emphasizes firepower and mobility over defense.
The hull plating of their warships were not very thick and their azure energy shields were not as powerful, though they were remarkably more efficient.
Even so, all of the sustained damage was taking a toll on the vessels. Their active shield links made sure that no single vessel got taken down prematurely, but as their defenses endured more strain, the warships required more and more energy to keep everything together!
This posed a problem for the Gamma Scorchers as they needed to dedicate a large amount of energy to their persistent laser beam cannon batteries.
The Gamma Scorchers needed to make another move.
They did so by shutting down their laser cannons. A huge amount of emergency coolant sprayed from the primary and secondary turrets. The emergency release rapidly cooled down the strained gun barrels to more acceptable temperatures.
The weapon systems began to transform for a second time. Their barrels lengthened and grew even thicker at the base.
As soon as they finished their transformation, the energy cannons began to launch their persistent beams again, this time at a considerably higher intensity than before!
"Those… those are gamma laser beams!"
A regular graser beam already inflicted a lot of damage even when it was active for a fraction of a second.
What would happen if the energy cannon did not pulse its activation, but instead kept the damage output active on a continuous basis?
The result was that any target that got struck by the gamma laser beams received much more damage than before!
The sheer quantities and concentration of energies involved in this attack defied people's imagination.
The spatial barriers of the enemy phase lords wore down at a faster rate, partially because the strange energy anomaly had grown a lot more severe!
It was as if the concentration of all of the transphasic hyper gamma laser beams seemed to generate a small star at the point of convergence. No spatial barrier was able to resist its might for long!
Multiple phase lords lost their defenses and started to get cut and burned so much that they quickly got crippled and died!
The phase lords had no effective way to defend themselves against the overpowering might of the graser beams!
Their huge true bodies should have given them a hefty buffer, but the gamma lasers were so precise that their combined strength quickly cut through all of the flesh and bone and instantly vaporized large pieces of brain matter or other vital organs!
There was nothing the native aliens could do. Their damage output was respectable, but nowhere close to matching that of the Gamma Scorchers.
Combined with the mechs that did an excellent job of clearing out the enemy phasefighters, the Gamma Scorchers eventually relied on the overwhelming firepower of their persistent gamma laser beam weapons to finish off a formidable fleet led by multiple phase lords.
Of all of the native gods that joined in the attack, only a handful of lesser phase lords managed to get away after they split up and let their peers attract the brunt of the firepower!
"The Gamma Scorchers did better than the Dominators." Gloriana commented.
"That is because the 24th relied on strategy and misdirection. The 76th solely relied on brute force to win its battle. There is nothing wrong with that, but the extra effort from the Gamma Scorchers enabled them to claim the lives of a lot more phase lords and other aliens."
The demonstration of the 24th Gamma Scorcher Warfleet was not too varied, but already showed the charm of the handful of energy weapon systems on display.
The Irradiator Gamma Laser Beam Rifles and the Persistent Gamma Laser Beam Cannons both proved so powerful that the Gamma Scorchers did not need to rely on other parts of their Arsenal to finish off their alien foes!
Ves looked thoroughly impressed. "Damn, if the other warfleets of the Cybernetic Empire can spank the native alien fleets as easily as this, then red humanity should not have to worry about going extinct in the next five years."
"It is too bad that the native aliens proved incapable of dealing with the new weapons." Gloriana sighed. "If they were stronger, then the Gamma Scorchers may have been forced to reveal other innovative weapon systems."