Others however were..... not aiming as wide.<em>Zara</em>seemed particularly piqued about this battle for whatever reason (probably because they were still close enough to that hurricane that rain was lashing over her hull), and she was trying to get a good lock on one of the heavier ships in the enemy formation- she had lots of corrosive warheads in her magazines, and she was going to see how many she'd have to use before they got the hint and cleared off. All along the length of her beautifully polished decks, hatches and panels began to swing open, as her VLS launchers were loaded.<br/><br/>At the same time, her inner pair of turrets unfolded like metal origami, revealing one of her trump cards- on the original<em>Zara</em>-class, the guns of the main battery, officially designated as<em>cannone da 203/53, Model 1927</em>and manufactured by Gio Ansaldo & C, had been mounted very close together in a common cradle, something that was unique to heavy cruisers of the<em>Regia Marina</em>. For the new<em>Zara</em>, it meant that, although her Laser Oscillation Systems (her particle cannons) didn't have as heavy a broadside to them compared to other ships, it<em>did</em>mean that when in particle cannon mode, those cannons essentially had a yield equal to a<em>Kongo</em>-class Fast Battleship's particle cannon.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Some slight distance away, Effie was weaving from side to side, using her Klein Field and Wave-Force Armour to protect the supply tanker that they had met. Her expression was not pleasant at that moment, both from the battle, and from a nasty suspicion that was fermenting in the back of her mind; she kept casting glances over to the<em>Abbeydale</em>, wondering if she'd been bait for a trap, or worse...