As time went by, the expeditionary fleet flew closer to the pakklaton refugee fleet.
The latter still hadn't made any attempts to accelerate away from its attackers. Neither did the pakklatons choose to accelerate towards the humans in order to make their guns more effective.
Both sides experienced an increase in the rate of hits after a while. Not only were the marginally shorter distances making life easier for everyone, they also became more proficient in landing their shots under difficult circumstances.
The alien warships incurred more scars, especially the ones that the higher ups designated as priority targets.
However, despite their poor conditions, the pakklaton bird-shaped vessels were showing a lot of resilience.
Ves and many other people knew that this was largely because their firepower was being scattered across a larger surface area.
