The Star Dragon, Pt 4
Every turret on the top deck of the carrier shifted and swiveled and adjusted as they tracked the many incoming enemy targets. Many pilots and gunners gripped their controls tightly as they anticipated the initial barrage.
And once their targeting intelligences beeped in alert, squeezed their triggers.
Almost all of the mecha’s guns fired at the same time, and flung countless shells and slugs and sabot rounds up and out at the Federation fleet. The force of the combined blast was so powerful that the entire carrier was pushed downward.
That was even in spite of their bottom thrusters flaring out to absorb the massive recoil.
Most of the rounds they fired were concentrated on the incoming cruisers - all knew that eliminating them quickly was the only way they could survive this assault. Or at least, see it through to both their grisly ends.