As the micro portals began to stabilize and merge into slightly larger ones, each a few centimetres apart and lasting for more than a fraction of a second, the researchers began to work on a plan.
While the Mecha would take a few minutes to get in position after a larger portal stabilized, they could launch a full out attack and bombard the enemy to keep them from organizing before the Mecha team was ready.
It would be a glorious first strike, and the first time that any of them had actually used a weapon on a living target.
Of course, that suggestion led them to a discussion on whether the energy beings could truly be considered alive, and not just a sentient existence, like the Androids. But even with the ongoing discussions, they kept to the plan and prepared their weapons for the Commanders' orders.
