Phobos was cracking open. Crimson energy bled from its fissures, fed into Tomb-01 by the Seeker. The Black Pagoda gunship (designation: Revenant) danced a deadly ballet with the Seeker, its weapons flaring against the obsidian hunter's erasure beams.
"Revenant to Dawn's Edge," Handler's voice crackled. "Distract the Seeker. We'll hit the siphon nexus on Phobos!"
"Distract it?" Baylor scoffed. "That thing erased stations!"
[SEEKER ANALYSIS: PRIMARY ATTENTION ON REVENANT (87%)]
[WEAKNESS: GRAVITY LENSING COOL-DOWN CYCLE (12 SECONDS)]
"Do it," Wu Gen ordered. "Silas, target its rear axis when Baylor jinks us past. Lin Mo… be ready to catch."
The Dawn's Edge dove, engines screaming. The Seeker ignored them, focused on the Revenant.
[GRAVITY LENSING DETECTED: SEEKER TARGETING REVENANT]
"NOW!" Baylor wrenched the controls. The ship lurched into the Seeker's targeting path.
[VOID SHELL: ACTIVATED - 20 UNITS]
Lin Mo channeled energy into the hull. A shimmering, event-horizon-like barrier flared.
The Seeker's gravity lens hit. The Void Shell shrieked, absorbing catastrophic spatial distortion. [VOID SHELL INTEGRITY: 41% | ENERGY DRAIN: CRITICAL]
Silas fired. Not energy weapons. A kinetic harpoon forged from Elder Thing alloy, ripped from Outpost Theta. It slammed into the Seeker's exposed rear axis.
CRUNCH.
The Seeker shuddered. Its gravity lens flickered, disrupted.
The Revenant seized its chance. A lance of focused plasma, hotter than a star's core, speared down onto Phobos, striking the main energy siphon nexus.
Phobos screamed. The crimson energy flow snapped. Tomb-01 pulsed with fury.
The Seeker, damaged and enraged, spun towards the Dawn's Edge.
Handler's voice: "Lin Mo! The fragment! It's inside the siphon chamber! Go!"
A Keeper drop-pod launched from the Dawn's Edge, carrying Lin Mo and Wu Gen towards the ruptured moon.