The Mech Touch

Chapter 6664 Final Skirmishes

The final battle of Viola Magnifica had begun just before the start of the fourth year of the Age of Dawn.

The native aliens had completed their preparations and began to advance on the planet that had frustrated them for so long.

The human defenders had done their best to prepare, but the fighting that took place in the months preceding to this momentous day had continually worn down a portion of the orbital defense network and the mech forces that sought to hold the native aliens back.

Although every offensive push made by the aliens caused them to lose a lot more hardware and lives than their human adversaries, the calculus was still in their favor due to their heavy numerical advantage!

Now that numerous powerful ace pilots abided by the orders of High Human Command and transferred to the much more strategically important Upper Zones, the native alien commanders behind in the Middle Zones recognized an excellent opportunity to make a lot of inroads into the Middle Zones.

The aliens remained patient for the time being. They did not launch all of their forces all at once, but instead began to send out their scouts and skirmishing forces to gather more intelligence and confirm that the human defenders had not secretly called in reinforcements in order to lay an ambush.

Space was big and largely empty, so it was very hard to hide a large concentration of troops.

However, there were still numerous planets, moons and asteroid belts that could be used to hide a number of surprises. The aliens were concerned whether the humans had hidden any secret bases or fleets in these locations, so they sent out huge swarms of phasefighters and occasionally a few fast and light warships to investigate their current situations.

At the same time, the human defenders were also suspicious whether their adversaries had brought in additional warships or an extra phase lord or two. It wouldn't be the first time the native alien commanders tried to be clever and try to take the humans by surprise.

Both sides therefore had a strong interest in deploying enough scouts and skirmishers to all of these satellites and fight an information war.

The goal of both sides was to collect as much intelligence of their enemies as possible while denying them the opportunity to gather their own information!

Hundreds of small fights ensued across the star system.

The fights surrounding the empty and undeveloped planets generally lasted an hour or so before the human defenders took the initiative to withdraw.