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Speaking of the Bloodcores...
The sheer tenacity and firepower of the Bloodcores, with not only Cult weaponry but also Collective Tech, are proving to be extremely deadly to the Defense fleet engaged with them. Flak fire was mostly ineffective against the combination of shields and massive amounts of armor they had on, and the Subcore is firing some sort of Quantum-based torpedo array which is tearing through even Kruppstahl armor as if it was butter. It is a good thing only the Largest of the Bloodcore ships have this weapon, but the screening firepower of all the "Frigate" and "Bomber" Dronebeasts are making it hard to even get a bead on the Subcore without suffering critical damages. The only good news is that through the sheer tenacity of one of the GSR cruisers they managed to knock a Frigate dronebeast out of commission, but the cruiser was quickly demolished afterwards.
The large Subcore-equivalent ship is still producing androids and releasing them to board the GSR ships - some are even breaking off to assist the leading Exterminator-Class Mech-beast in hunting down the GSR mech that was causing so much trouble.
Some of the androids that joined the Leader spread out to hunt down and destroy the sniper that tore off one of the Mech-beast's tentacle arms. Hans took this time to make some quick finishing fixes to Tyr before going back in to fight, suddenly one of the Spear-like ships from another Bloodcult fleet sped on by. When Hans piloted Tyr to get a closer look from a safe area, he could see that the there were hideous, humanoid amalgamations being poured out of the cultbeast that had passed by before, and the Exterminator android... was consuming them. As one of the amalgamations was chewed up, Hans saw the stub where the Tentacle arm was shot off reform into a brand new tentacle arm, which then retracted back into its natural position behind the mech. With every abhorrent monster or hybrid android (it doesn't discriminate) it ate, it seemed to get bigger and bigger...
One of the much bigger androids - too big to be eaten - is beside the leader android... covering it from any surprise attacks, most likely.