Chapter 6310 Terrans Under Siege

Chapter 6310 Terrans Under Siege

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During the Red War, ace pilots quickly stood out as one of the most strategic assets of red humanity.

This was not too different from how they were treated in the previous age, but the Red War raised their importance up a notch.

The native aliens had a lot of phase leaders under their sway.

Sure, many of them were lesser phase lords who managed to luck out and not die when they transcended the limitations of their mortal bodies, but that still left a lot of aliens who gained the power to fight against mechs barehanded.

Many major alien races managed to spawn a lot of phase lords over a long time. Certainly, phase lords were not immortal and some of them eventually died from old age, but there were still lots of them available that were in the prime of their transcendent lives.

Many of those phase lords had begun to accompany the fleets assaulting human space.

Not all of them participated in the thick of the fighting on a willing basis, but what could they do? The Red Cabal and the leadership of all of the aligned alien races collectively made the determination that it was better to go all-out in the early stage of the war and eliminate the latent threat posed by red humanity straight away!

This inevitably required a bloody sacrifice, and it was the phase lords at the bottom of the totem pole that needed to pay this heavy price.

No matter how unwilling they were, the expectations of their race and the orders from above forced them out of their cushy temples and drove them all the way to the frontlines, knowing that they could die for many reasons!

Ace pilots and their absurdly strong ace mechs was the most common threat they faced.

None of them were easy to deal with. Their high mobility, high defense and mind blowing variety of powers made each of them a nightmare to fight against.

Even if their ace mechs could not match up against the phase lords in the field, they could still engage in endless harassment where they could still inflict enough damage to delay any offensive pushes.

Fortunately, not all ace pilots possessed the raw talent required to land a killing blow against phase lords, especially the larger and more physically imposing ones.

What truly frightened the phase lords in the field were the god mechs roaming across the frontlines!

Dreadful enemies such as the Light of Sol, the Evolution Witch and the Destroyer of Worlds terrorized entire armadas as their mere entry in a star system foretold the doom of every single alien that happened to have the misfortune of being close to these human death gods!

There was no way for lesser phase lords to resist against the might of the most powerful god pilots of red humanity.

At least the dreadnoughts of the Red Fleet were a bit less imposing. Their power was still vast, but they were so much slower and less flexible that phase lords could easily get away from them if they split up right away.

That was not possible with god mechs.

These absurdly tiny specters of doom utilized their own God Kingdoms to mask their approach and only unleashed their unstoppable attacks when they got close enough to make any escape attempt futile!

The Red Tide Offensive had already raged for over a month.

During that time, god pilots alone accounted for a huge amount of death and destruction.

No one had any precise figures at their disposal, but many phase lords heard that hundreds of their fellow 'gods' had already been slain by the much more powerful human deities!

Yet despite the bloody toll exacted by the human god pilots, the Red Cabal still conscripted more phase lords and pushed them to the frontlines.

Not just lesser phase lords, but even greater phase lords found themselves reduced to cannon fodder in this unimaginably cruel conflict!

A united nation state centered around Old Earth existed for millenia and survived the passing of multiple ages in one form or another because the Terrans were willing to fight to maintain their own heritage and identity.

The rise of the Terran Empire was the heyday of their people.

The rift caused by what eventually became known as the New Rubarth Empire may have caused the Terran Empire to collapse in the much more diminished Greater Terran United Confederation, but it had successfully survived an uprising that could have ended many other unwieldy star empires!

The catastrophe of the end of the Age of Conquest and the abrupt rise of the Mech Trade Association and the Common Fleet Alliance as the new human rulers still did not lead to the end of the Terrans.

Sure, the proud Terrans had been forced to give up a lot of rights and sovereignty, but somehow they managed to preserve the essence of their nation state, their heritage and identity.

Now that the Great Severing caused the Terrans to get stuck on the wrong side of the greater beyonder gate, they still did not break after losing access to the ancestral home planet their state centered around!

The proud Terrans remained unbowed and unbroken as they manned the 3rd defensive line and exchanged blows against the unending tides of alien assault fleets.

The native aliens were not unbeatable. They still had many flaws and weak points that the human mech forces could exploit.

However, the Terrans fought hard and made numerous sacrifices to defeat one tide of attackers, only for the next tide to deliver a fresh batch of alien assault fleets!

Although the Red Cabal did not dare to send too many alien assets at once for fear that the Light of Sol would swoop in at lightspeed and tear them all to shreds, the illusion that the major alien races could keep on sending tide after tide of attackers still made it hard for the Terrans to maintain their steadfastness.

The morale of the Terran defenders started to shake.

It would be devastating if this continued. This was why the Terrans enacted a lot of measures to prop up morale and give the soldiers a reason to be optimistic.

For example, the leaders drastically increased the rewards issued to the Terran linefighters.

They also put down their pride just enough to permit themselves to issue requests for assistance.

Most importantly, they put much more effort into publicizing the deeds of their greater heroes.

That last part was the most important one. The Terrans already realized long ago that the only way to solve their problem on a permanent basis was to produce more god pilots among their heroes.

This put a lot of renewed attention on the ace pilots of the Terran Alliance!

In particular, the peak ace pilots all endured a huge amount of expectations from the masses as everyone hoped that they would break through and join the side of the Light of Sol in driving away the native aliens wholesale.

It was on this day that Saint Tusa Billingsley-Larkinson met his mentor for the first time.

The fresh ace pilot of the Larkinson Clan read through the extensive briefing package that the clan prepared for him. It not only brought him up to speed with the current geopolitical difficulties of the Terran Alliance, but also provided the necessary context to understand the difficult position facing the ace pilots that shouldered everyone's expectations for a brighter and more prosperous future.

One of them happened to be his 'mentor'.

Ves had come through and managed to negotiate a deal with one of the Terran ancient clans to show Saint Tusa the ropes.

The Larkinson ace pilot in question just didn't expect that he would receive the tutelage of one of the god pilot candidates of the Terran Alliance!

Tusa stared at the long and distinguished record of Saint Isaiah Simovich Dostoevsky.

Otherwise known as the Messenger of Silence.