When the Trost reached the Spirit of Bentheim, Venerable Kelvin Praetor felt a bit of consternation.
It wasn't easy to bore into a capital ship. The analysts aboard the Soaring Eagle already transmitted a lot of information about the enemy factory ship to his mech.
According to various sources, the Spirit of Bentheim wasn't a typical industrial vessel. She was expressly configured for frontier survival missions and came equipped with both energy shields and a robust layer of armor.
However, a non-combat vessel was never able to match a combat vessel such as a fleet carrier when it came to defense.
The Spirit of Bentheim just posed a greater challenge to the Trost than normal, especially when it was rotating as madly as possible like someone threw a spinning coin in space.