Things progressed with blinding speed. To ensure he didn't miss a single scrap of data, Hye issued a final, risky command. He ordered a large number of Soulers and Reapers to exit their transport ships and fly directly toward the closest hexagonal weapon pieces.
He was offering up his best warriors as live bait to see exactly how the weapon interacted with his deadliest warriors.
Then, the void screamed. The weapons fired.
The attack was entirely alien, a phenomenon that would have baffled even the most ancient dwellers of this universe. In the standard theatre of galactic warfare, destruction was a matter of brute physics: you amassed a colossal quantity of energy and hurled it at a target until its structural integrity failed.
