The battle had begun in earnest.
Warships and mechs from both sides began to shoot at each other.
While the melee mechs of the human defenders had yet to go into action, they had already begun to maneuver across the battlefield in the hopes of finding favorable angles of attacks.
The native aliens did not underestimate the threat of these melee mechs. If left unchecked, these primitive machines wielding swords, spears or axes could debilitate a lot of alien assets with the help of their space suppression modules.
In order to prevent these melee mechs from weakening transphasic energy shields and disrupting the operation of warp drives with impunity, the native aliens had to stop or stall them no matter what it took!