“Weapons free!” cried the admiral. His fleet hardly hesitated, and immediately fired their forward-facing weapons into the incoming Imperial fleet. Their particle rail cannons shot bright blue streaks of superheated tungsten rounds into them. They slammed into the heaviest armor and caused cracks t
The Hegemony admiral was absolutely awestruck by the destruction that was heaped on his fleet. He was even more awed by the seeming chaos that enveloped all around him, and could only watch haplessly at the Empire’s expert use of their fluid swarm. It was nothing like he had ever experienced, certa
But while they were reloading, the clouds of dust stopped dissipating. A flash of reddish energy swept from the outside in, which immediately caused much of the shattered material to return to the battleship. Almost like they were being magnetically attracted back inwards. They began to pile up al
Outside, the heavily ridged chitin plating on the topside of the Imperial battleship began to slide open in long sections. As they drew back, they revealed further chitin plating beneath, which also opened up. Once the final layer had been drawn back and out of the way, massive hovering guns floate
Once everything was mopped up, the fleet turned towards the nearby orbital array and began to advance on it. Though it fired at them defensively, there was absolutely nothing they could do. And when the Imperial fleet fired back, the result was nothing but devastation. The array was taken apart jus
NeutroDrive Prime, Vaar’torin System, Great House de Jardin The First Feathers walked into the cruiser’s cargo bay along with Minister Mathilde, a few of her aides, and many ship engineers. They walked through and inspected every millimeter of it and made sure that everything was up-to-spec. Behi
Jan was taken aback, but quickly nodded in understanding. He and his family were all rescued under fire themselves. While the combat fleet fought, they were directed onto the ships by armored personnel at the same time. Back then, he didn’t know who they were and assumed they were soldiers. It nev
She exhaled deeply, then continued on their walk across the park. The thought of quintillions of people separated from their natural world filled her. She imagined it was something like a kind of trauma, but one that existed on a generational scale, and could be measured across centuries. The thou