The Komodo War raged on with greater intensity than ever!
Though half of the territories of the Carnegie Group and the Verer Group fell into the hands of the Hexers, the Fridayn took them back at a steady pace!
Starships exploded, chs fell by the thousands and an incredible degree of ordnance was being consud with each passing second!
The Hex Army fought hard, but the different militaries of the Friday Coalition hit their enemies back with vengeance and desperation!
"Don't let these Hexers catch a breath! As long as we let up, these witches will go on the attack again!"
"Take revenge for Carnegie and Verer! Don't let the sacrifices of our brothers be in vain!"
Hundreds of star systems that had beco the site of Hexer invasions just months ago suddenly dealt with another wave of invasions.
The Sundered Phalanx and the Oni Guard both advanced relentlessly despite the opposition in their way!
The Hex Army's overreach and the lack of ti spent on fortifying the conquered star systems ant that the Fridayn could take them back on the cheap!
The Fridayn encountered significantly less resistance in taking them back than their counterparts!
This was a given, as the Hexers pretty much had to dismantle all of the centuries of accumulation spent fortifying the Fridayn star systems. Once the conquests succeeded, there was no way the female supremacists were able to entrench their new gains in a short amount of ti.
Even if they were capable of doing so, they might not even want to do so! To the Hex Army, its resources were better spent on strengthening their main ch units than building up so marginally useful fortifications.
One of the categories of chs that recently received a lot of attention from the Hexers was the expanded Valkyrie product line!
No longer were the Hexers forced to work with a one-size-fits-all solution. The introduction of five additional variants brought enough variety to the ch divisions of the Hex Army to form Valkyrie ch units with a greater degree of specialization!
While the Blessed Squires still served a very vital role to the Hex Army, the Hexers naturally gravitated towards the LMC ch dedicated to female ch pilots.
The ch just called to these aggressive and bloodthirsty won like no other machine designed by the Hexers had ever accomplished!
Other aerial chs may feature greater optimization, offer more varied modules and so on, but the truth was that the Komodo War was fought by people, not machines.
The latter only served as an extension of the forr!
Therefore, the original Valkyrie Redeer model had already captured the hearts of many Hexer military ch pilots.
Now, the release of several new variants made the chs accessible to many more female soldiers!
In an answer to the onslaught unleashed by the Gauge Dynasty and the Konsu Clan, the Hex Army decided to bet big on the Valkyrie product line.
High command had little choice.
"Only the Superior Mother can help us now. We must ask for her blessing to pull us through this war!"
Too many Hexers fighting on the frontlines demanded the powerful new ch models. Restricting the supply of Valkyrie chs would have a major impact on their morale. Yet as soon as the ch regints received their new toys, they fought harder and with less complaint!
The Hex Army had also lost the initiative. The Fridayn constantly pushed them back, causing many plans and movent orders to fall through. The Hexer planners and strategists constantly had to readjust their deploynts because the frontlines collapsed faster than they could cope!
What high command noticed about the Valkyrie chs was that they slowed down the Fridayn aggressors after deploying them en masse. The chs were having a very telling effect as they seed to egg on their ch pilots to do more!
While the Valkyrie chs succeeded in hindering the Fridayn forces to an extent, the casualty rates among their ch pilots tended to be higher than usual.
One of the downsides of the ntal influence that LMC chs exerted onto their ch pilots was that they were less willing to retreat and more willing to take risks!
The Valkyrie Redeer and its variants were offensive chs by nature. They featured above-average defense for their ch type, but that did not an their margin of error was huge.
One mistake might doom an entire ch company of Valkyrie Redeers!
Despite this hefty cost, the Hex Army still went through with deploying the Valkyrie chs in greater numbers. Slowing down the Fridayn mattered more than anything else because the Hexers needed ti to adjust to the sudden shifts.
Whether on land or in space, the female ch pilots who were lucky enough to be assigned to a Valkyrie unit all fought with the blessing of the Superior Mother!
In one battle above orbit, several hundred Valkyrie Huntresses sped up while firing their modified short-capacity gauss rifles at an incoming formation of Fridayn chs.
The Sundered Phalanx deployed a mix of lancer chs, space knights, spearman chs and rifleman chs.
This balanced unit was very hard to deal with, yet the Hexer ch pilots harassing them utilized their mobility advantage to the fullest. The Valkyrie Huntresses nimbly stayed out of the range of the enemy lee chs while focusing their fire on the rifleman chs.
It was quite difficult to get through the protection offered by the space knights, but the Valkyrie Huntresses split up into smaller squads and spread out in order to assail their targets from multiple angles!
No matter how hard the Fridayn space knights tried to cover for their ranged chs, the Valkyrie Huntresses only had to concentrate their Marked For Death ability on them for an instant to produce an opening!
Hardly any Fridayn ch pilot was able to keep their cool when being subjected to multiple simultaneous death glows of the dreaded Valkyrie chs.
While several kiloters of range was fairly short in space battles, it was more than enough for the ranged variant of the Valkyrie Redeers!
"We're out of ammunition!"
"Pull back and resupply. Don't let these brutes take advantage of us. Our chs aren't as good up close!"
Their non-standard issue gauss rifles gave the Valkyrie Huntresses a lot of punch, but the chs weren't able to carry a lot of ammunition. This was fine, as the nimble and mobile ranged chs all turned around and flew back to the safety of their own lines before the Fridayn could entangle them in place, leaving over fifty broken Fridayn chs behind!
In another part of the battlefield, a different variant of the Valkyrie Redeer eschewed hit and run tactics and dove straight into the Fridayn formations!
Hundreds of Valkyrie Interceptors bore their spears and shields with steady grips as they flew into a barrage of enemy fire!
Various auxiliary chs in the midst of the Hexer elents all projected various shields, ECM and other forms of assistance.
Yet various Valkyrie Interceptors, so of them issued to their ch pilots just days ago, continued to fall off or explode due to the focused fire coming from their targets.
"Don't slow down, sisters! We will pay them back at least three more tis for all of the good Hexers that fell. Ready your spears and mark your targets!"
As the Valkyrie Interceptors charged forth, their third eyes all began to shine hundreds of spotlights at the Fridayn chs that were in their way.
Though the Sunderers already knew what to expect from the Valkyrie chs, no amount of preparation could truly prepare them against the sensation of being stared at by a mother who was much greater than they ever thought!
The Fridayn ch pilots began to quail in their piloting suits.
"I can't hold still!"
On the other hand, the Hexers who piloted the Valkyrie Interceptors each felt as if the Superior Mother blessed them more than usual!
The commander of the Valkyrie chs felt inspired. She transmitted an order that caused all of the Valkyrie Interceptors to activate the small projection modules built onto their fras.
As the Hexer chs rapidly closed in, a huge projection began to appear in the middle of their formation.
A giant representation of the Superior Mother ca into existence! The projected illusion held a spear and began to thrust the giant weapon into the Fridayn formation at the sa ti just before the Interceptors slamd into their targets!
"GIVE THEM DEATH!"
The Valkyrie Interceptors expanded their glows, causing them to overlap across the entire Fridayn lines!
The Sunderers weren't able to adjust to the sudden changes!
Crash!
Hundreds of silent collisions occurred within a span of a dozen seconds as a succession of Interceptors ran their spears through shields, armor and other delicate components!
A large number of Fridayn chs coasted backwards as they were either downed or damaged to the point where they couldn't regain control!
Of course, the Valkyrie Interceptors didn't co out unscathed. Dozens of them got struck by instinctive or lucky counterattacks. Others botched their attacks and collided head-on against an enemy ch, thereby concussing their entire fras!
"Push through their lines! Initiate Shock And Awe!"
Before the Fridayn could recover and take advantage of the relatively static Valkyrie chs, the latter simultaneously fired their Starburst grenades which quickly overwheld any nearby sensor systems.
"Hah! Did these witches think that would work? Think again!"
Surprisingly, the Sundered Phalanx chs withstood the Starburst grenades! The Fridayn had modified and hardened their machines to resist the interference generated by these grenades!
However, at the sa ti the grenades exploded, the Valkyrie Interceptor chs also unleashed powerful pulses that never failed to shock the minds of any nearby enemy ch pilots.
Yet despite unleashing these powerful pulses, the Fridayn chs seed to take no notice and continued to launch their counterattacks, if with a little less fluency than before.
Many Valkyrie Interceptors were caught by surprise! They either suffered crippling damage or received blows that would take days to repair.
"Retreat! Shock them again!"
The Valkyrie Interceptors perford the sa as they receded, but the Fridayn chs continued to stick to them as best they could, downing more Hexer chs before the two sides finally separated.
"Damn!" The Hexer commander cursed. "The blasted Fridayn have adapted!"
In order to counter the Shock And Awe Pulse of the Valkyrie chs, the Fridayn not only hardened the sensors of their machines, but also added so automation!
Whenever their ch pilots blanked out, the Fridayn chs would automatically hand over control to an AI that had been tracking the entire battle in the background. Once the AI gained control of the ch, it could automatically form the correct response in theory!
Though letting AIs take over control was not the most ideal solution, against a asure that often succeeded at incapacitating ch pilots, it was better than nothing!
No longer were the Valkyrie Redeers able to force the enemy chs to lose control either.
After a few days of recording successful results, the Fridayn expanded the scope of this counter to more asures.
Now, even when the Valkyrie chs managed to paralyze an enemy ch pilot with several focused death glares, the AIs always kicked in whenever a ch pilots lost a certain degree of attentiveness in battle.
As the Hexers increased their use of the Valkyrie chs, the Fridayn weren't sitting still. Aside from developing thods to mitigate the latest toys of the Hexers, the Coalition also began to deploy an increasing number of expert chs in battle.
This was the real killer to the Hex Army!
The more ti passed, the more expert chs the Fridayn were able to muster. Every third-rate that was at least sowhat aligned to the Coalition were 'persuaded' into lending their expert pilots.
With the Fridayn Masters and Seniors developing hastily-customized expert chs as fast as they were capable of outputting, not even glows could dent the increasing damage these powerful chs inflicted on the Hex Army!
"We can't go on like this! We need to put a stop against these endless enemy expert chs!"
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