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Blood on the Line, Pt 2
The Imperial battleships both took on incredible amounts of damage - with one taking far more than the other. The two Felrahn reinforcement fleets absolutely hammered the battleship that faced off against them, and shattered its armor with every moment that passed.
Their rail cannon slugs also struck any broadside turrets that were exposed, and smashed the chitin protecting them as well.
A number of their stinger-like weapons were blown apart and thrown out into open space.
Not that the Drogar battleship stopped firing back. They shot their own particle-charged slugs at the Hegemony ships, even as their own frigates and fighters advanced down the far right flank.
Worse, the topside chitin armor slid open and released the massive hovering particle beam turrets inside. All
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