The Stormblade Samurai model had made its first proper debut on the battlefield!
Ketis would have preferred to wait for a few more weeks so that the Spirit of Bentheim could have produced more copies of this new dual-wielding swordsman mech.
It was already impressive that the Swordmaidens managed to field a single full squad so quickly after she completed her latest design!
Though the quantity of Stormblade Samurais was not enough to make a significant difference in this battle, it was enough to test its performance and make direct comparisons with other melee mechs!
"Come on sisters." A veteran Swordmaiden told her fellow Stormblade Samurai pilots. "Our blades are made to drain energy shields, so don't stop attacking until we can get through!"
As the dual-wielding swordsman mechs flew within range, they began to pound the segmented energy shields with swift and unrelenting attacks while continuing to circle around the wheednar heavy cruiser.
The barrage of lasers and machine gun fire erupting from the heavy cruiser occasionally dinged against their armor, but the modern mechs benefited heavily from the stronger and more resilient armor system designed by Sara Voiken!
This gave the Samurai pilots enough confidence to continue their attacks. Even if they weren't able to stay motionless long enough to concentrate all of their attacks on a single segmented energy shield, the sensors still measured the approximate effects of every attack.
Ketis' eyes gleamed as the initial sensor readings suggested that her Stormblade Samurais were sapping the enemy warship's energy shields at a much more impressive rate!
"Every light Stormblade attack can inflict more than three times the damage of a single conventional greatsword attack!"
This was much bigger of a deal than it looked on the surface!
A greatsword was a larger and more hard-hitting weapon that took quite a bit of time and effort to swing against an opponent. They relied on a combination of force and sharpness to deal damage.
A single-handed stormblade on the other hand could swing a lot faster with less exertion, which meant it could strike at greater frequencies at the cost of less power behind every attack.
While there was a physical component to the attack of a stormblade weapon, their electrical components meant that they could inflict a lot more damage against energy defenses through disruption!
Since every Stormblade Samurai wielded two swords at the same time, this meant that they could effectively maximize the disruptive attacks that they could inflict on a transphasic energy shield!
"The heavy cruiser is losing her energy shields at a faster rate!"
If the Swordmaidens deployed a hundred or so Stormblade Samurais, the wheednar warship would have lost her primary form of defense at this time!
Still, Ketis was more than satisfied with the results.
"You can go ahead, Dise." She transmitted to the Swordmaiden expert pilot.
"I have been waiting for this!" Dise responded as her expert mech glowed brighter on approach!
Many Second Swords flew out of the way as the First Sword descended upon the beleaguered wheednar heavy cruiser like a comet!
.com As the living expert mech came closer, her Decapitator greatsword started to get surrounded by a shimmering field of stars.
Ketis had been unable to pass on her fairly recent Ultimate Cut technique to Venerable Dise as it was too specific to her own sword style.
That did not mean that Venerable Dise had done nothing to improve her own ability to cut through transphasic defenses.
She had spent months practicing and refining her Phase Cutter technique.
Compared to the previous she employed this extraordinary sword technique, she succeeded in shaping the field of stars into a sharper and more condensed energy blade form!
The First Sword momentarily looked as if she was wielding a sword that was over three times as long as the Decapitator!
The alien heavy cruiser detected the huge threat posed by the expert mech and directed numerous secondary and tertiary gun batteries towards the approaching machine.
However, the First Sword easily resisted the tertiary weapons fire with her resonance shield and easily evaded the more powerful attacks launched by the secondary warship weapons.
The expert swordsman mech soon came close enough to launch her charged attack!
Both the expert pilot and the expert mech roared at the same time!
"CUT!" [CUT!]
The enormous blade made out of thousands of miniature stars made contact with a half-depleted transphasic energy shield and tore right through as if the barrier was made out of paper!
The First Sword charged straight through the gap she had just made before the wheednar vessel had any chance of plugging the gap.
Now that the expert mech managed to get inside the main defensive envelope of the alien heavy cruiser, she had free reign to cut down all of the gun batteries that had suddenly become vulnerable!
Ketis already shifted her attention away from the live feed. She had absolute trust in Venerable Dise and her fellow Swordmaidens.
She instead chose to complete her calculations based on the data gathered just a little bit earlier.
The Stormblade Samurais depleted their energy reserves a lot faster, but the gains were more than worth it. Their offensive threat against warships were simply too great to pass up, especially in an age where battles against shielded warships would only become more common!
While the Stormblade Samurai had yet to test its mettle against opposing mechs and other types of enemies, the new model's effectiveness against the transphasic energy shields of warships had already been confirmed!
"We need to equip our Swordmaidens with more stormblade weapons!"