LOCATION: Aboard
the Siege Tower
OBJECTIVE: Provide Tactical Orbital Bombardment Support
ALLIES: Brawlers [member="Siobhan Kerrigan"] and [member="Eyrecae Alzari"]
ENEMIES: Confederate Hypervelocity Cannon Emplacements
With his capital ships, interceptors, and fighters engaging the enemy movements HK was finally able to focus on the real goal.
Finally using his recently developed High Orbital Kinetic Bombardment systems,
"
Roger that, Sio, I am holding my landing forces for now, at least until the storm calm a bit, let me know when you will come across any more fortifications you want gone."
So far the droid had enough, with the coordinates sent by Siobhan targeting the Confederate emplacements would be much easier, and he knew just what to target first. Their anti-aircraft weapons, starting with the biggest ones, the Hypervelocity Cannons.
And so, the droid sent to one of the
Inimica gunships he has installed these new
HOKB-1 systems on a message,
Fire when ready, coordinates as follow.
The beauty of these guns was that they could be fired from a distance that would be out of the range of small-caliber planetary defenses that worked better against a smaller craft like a gunship.
"
To all Protectorate forces, warning, tactical orbital strike incoming at the north-east Hyper-velocity cannon, clear the area."
The droid sent out a warning just in case there were Protectorate troops around that specific cannon for some reason.
The pilot finally found his mark, zooming and whooshing through the battlefield in high-orbit, past even the shipyard ring, and he pulled the trigger, to make this hit it took a combined effort of HK preparing these gunships and sending them, Siobhan feeding coordinates to the droid, and now HK finally giving he order to pull the trigger. Multiple posts.
There was no sudden booms of the guns fired, there was no flashes of light or explosions, two special two-meter spikes were sent from the gun-pods attached to the gunship, fired at speeds many times over the speed of sound, perhaps even over ten-fold, they only picked up more on speed as they gained acceleration due to gravity, their special structure ensuring the twin projectiles didn't burn through the atmosphere. They were too small and moved too fast for anyone to realize what happened.
And then.
The ground shook as if with an earthquake and one of the hyper-velocity guns collapsed, imploding on itself with the impact, the ground beneath it collapsing in a deep crater, few explosions rocking the immediate area as its ammunition busted. The damage was intense, but also localized, the weapon did not level entire cities, just obliterated the small specific area. One hyper-velocity gun down.
High Orbital Bombardment Gunships move into positions.
HK has sent out orders to other vessels equipped in similar manner of weaponry, the one that just fired hitting pedal to the metal and whooshing off in evasive actions before Confederacy would realize what the Protectorate were firing and from what.
"
How was that?"
HK transmitted to Kerrigan, hoping she saw the fire-works show.
