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==== Your fortress is still: ====
* 20× 1000 mm kinetic guns, 1% c, 2× fire rate
* 20× atomizers
* 10× lasers
* 100× light-speed 1000 mm railguns
* Infinite ammo, infinite durability, recoil solved, self-powered

You are now:
* Completely capable of one-shotting anything you actually hit with a railgun, shield and all.
* Totally able to atomize stuff you track long enough.
* Still smashing entire formations with the big shells.

But now the numbers are working against you:

===== Even if your per-target kill time is short when focused: =====
* There are 10²⁰ bodies.
* Each has: - 100k shield HP - 1M–100M body HP

Your total DPS is enormous, but the total HP on the field is now astronomical. In pure math:
* You can still kill anything you can see and focus on.
* But the time to clear the entire swarm is now so huge that: - The fight is essentially an endless grind. - New mutants and new attacks will keep appearing long before you can wipe everyone.

===== The 100k-hit shields mean: =====
* Even stray or partial hits don’t get rid of units quickly.
* Every monster can survive a lot of glancing fire before you actually touch its real HP.
* Formations and tank walls hold together much longer under your guns and beams.

That extra survivability gives them:
* More time to: - Dodge, - Combine, - Devour any remains that aren’t atomized, - Run mutation experiments.

===== Your problem isn’t “can you kill a thing?” anymore. You absolutely can. =====

Your problem is:

: 

With 10²⁰ swarm units:
* They can saturate the sky from all angles.
* They can constantly push on many more fronts than your weapons can fully cover at max intensity.
* Even with 20 guns, 20 atomizers, 10 lasers, 100 railguns, there will always be: - Sectors getting “only” a fraction of your fire, - Moments when your weapons are retargeting, - Blind-angle tricks and decoy waves.

The hive mind will absolutely:
* Throw massive waves at you from multiple directions simultaneously,
* Sacrifice some fronts to pull fire,
* Focus real attempts through any lane that looks even slightly under-defended.