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LordArcheronVolistad [2020-01-20 07:16:47 +0000 UTC]

Now this is truly-magnificent, though that is to be expected from your work. You can almost feel the atmosphere of tension and impending doom about to befall the unfortunate Hominid planet which just happens to be at a strategic point in the galaxy and important enough to factor into the Didact's Starhopping plan. With the Mantle's Approach being the ship that is the one broadcasting the Slipspace jamming to all non-Forerunner forces, one can imagine how demoralizing that would be for anyone facing it. Humanity and San Shyuum could mow down swarms of Ecumene forces like so much grass, but against the might of the Mantle's Approach, nothing even comes close. At least with other Forerunner ships, they could counterattack and destroy or cripple the Slipspace jamming, at least for long enough to escape. 

Seriously, the Mantle's Approach is such a perfect tool to demonstrate Forerunner power and as a force to not only dictate the battlefield, but over the minds of all who see it. Not only it's sheer size, but because of what it represents. The Forerunners had mass-produced military mobile fortresses the size of moons, and the Hominids and San Shyuum would definitely have developed something batshit-destructive enough to deal with those adequately, as the war progressed, but weapons alone cannot defeat the Mantle's Approach, since it is none either than the Didact who leads it. Whereas other Forerunner mobile fortresses could be overcome with tactics and cohesive attack, the Didact would see the coming of every possibility of attack before the defenders could commit to them. Only perhaps Forthencho could fight the Didact to a standstill, for a time. But alas, for the inhabitants of this world/system, no such hope.

I can imagine the scene where the Didact simply booms over every communication device in the system, declaring his intentions to purge the Humans for their transgressions against the Ecumene, and by extension, the Mantle itself. An outsider may consider this to be arrogant monologuing, but any who have heard of the Didact's exploits know that he is a tactician without peer and every insufferable word carries behind it the force of billions of ships and trillions of guns. A world covered in bustling arcologies and skyscrapers proudly stretching kilometres to the sky would feel like a colony of ants weathering the ominous gaze of a great behemoth, a mechanical titan whose crimson eye casts searing judgement on all it sees. How many people on the world, billions? Trillions? All will soon know the wrath of those who fall before the withering wrath of the Didact, Protector of the Ecumene and Vanquisher of all its foes.

No matter how far the Hominids fight, if it takes a thousand Forerunners and Armigers to finally down a single Hominid defender, before the world-shattering might of the Didact's ship, resistance is futile. The world would launch all it has onto the massive vessel, teraton-blasts and superluminal shells and strategic weapons which shred Forerunner battlefleets to ribbons ripple on its shields and glance off its hull, like waves crashing onto a jagged clifside. Forces are mustered all across the world, only to be targetted and neutralized by rapidly-teleporting Forerunner fleets taking full-advantage of their Slipspace dominance. Weapons of terrible power would be prepared, but the Didact would have their measure. 

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Kamikage86 [2020-01-19 21:10:02 +0000 UTC]

Now this truly shows the size of the Mantle's Approach, amazing how easily it dwarfs the city, magnificent. 

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