The Battle of Zimia was an assault by Agamemnon's cymeks against the humans of Salusa Secundus, the capital world of the League of Nobles. It was the first concentrated robotic aggresion after a century of cold war. The assault was timed to occur while the nobles had a gathering in the planet's Hall of Parliament.
Description
The robotic fleet of armored warships, led by general Agamemnon inside his pyramid-shaped vessel, was ten times the size and power of any force Omnius had ever before sent against the League of Nobles. Soon they overwhelmed the crews of sentry human vessels which opened fire but the robotic ships vaporized the diffuse inner perimeter of human defenses. Only a few distant scouts managed to transmit a warning to the ground.
Because of the existence of a Holtzman shield network, Agamemnon and his small vanguard of cymeks pressed forward on a mission to dirsupt the defence grid and open the way for the machines. Dropcarriages would penetrate the defenses while the robots would prepare for a ground attack.
Xerxes and 3 neo-cymeks, shut down the subsidiary systems of their pyramidal ships shut down their subsidiary systems, and their armored dropcarriages fell unguided into the atmosphere. They crash-landed on the outskirts of the prime city of Zimia, where the main shield-generating towers were located, followed by Agamemnon and other ships, 28 in total.
The Salusan Militia responded. The warship commanders called their crews to battle-ready status immediately. 16 patrol battle groups and picket ships were scattered at random, the shields operated, and the Hall of Parliament was evacuated. Tercero Xavier Harkonnen was dispatched from the military control center with a portable com-station in order to give reports. This saved his life, when a dropcarriage fell and levelled the control center, along with his comrades, to witness shortly after the Cymeks hatching from the pyramid ships.