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RAPTOR
The Raptor, Nathan once commented, is a beast, a wild untamed animal, with the ferocity of its name sake and the brains, capabilities of a Galicia Dominator class 7 Sovereign Class battle cruiser, 4 times its size. The Raptor, now moved, so that the Zmet was just visible.
‘What the hell is that’ The weapons controller, Czehort Yow, was staring at the Raptor, his jaw dropped, his eyes looking up and down the length of what he could make out, could see; was a more than imposing piece of armour. Raptor was to him, an image from one of his worst nightmares.
Its outer haul shimmered, as it slowly moved closer to them, indeed a huge vast and imposing beast. A voice interrupted his thoughts. “We are almost ready to deploy our weapon, I have the Protectorate Absolute, Lelanora on screen 3, wishing to observe the battle.
We are to show them NO MERCY.
So, she had decided, to watch, the destruction of the Zimp, an assurance, that Cistera had been killed? No! The broadcasts would tell the people, that their Princess, had been murdered by her captives. Lelanora’s voice could now be heard.
“Greetings Czehort Yow, I can now see, what is happening. Deploy the weapon, ignore the other vessel. When you have destroyed the smaller vessel, attack the other, disable it if you can, get them to surrender and take it over.
“At once Highness, we will deploy our primary weapon, as soon as the Fusion Inverters are ready.” Lelanora could see the Raptor moving in closer. She too, was aware, of how huge and imposing the ship was. she had never, seen anything so powerful. Mesmerized by its detail.
What a shame, thought Lelanora, to destroy such a craft ? Seizing it, would offer up a new Fendiq Sovereign Class Flagship. She was about to tell Czehort, that his new orders would be to attempt boarding of the vessel and seize it.
Her, commands died away, when, the front of it illuminated. Energy washed across the two giant probes, at the front of it.
Flashing across smaller probes, before it emitted a massive flare of colored light.
Not blinding but bright! The light, was increasing in strength. More and more flashes of light, streaming across it. Towards the two probes at the front, like giant pincers, outstretched ? Getting brighter and brighter, until the colours died away.
There was only in its place, the purest white light. The intensity of it was beyond anything Lelanora had ever seen. It streamed out, flaring out, flooding across eveything in its path ?
Lelanora froze, transfixed, remembering child hood stories, one in particular? About Cistera’s father, Ka Colfra and the Alien being ? The one, who had come to his aid against the Urowq?
It could not be ! The story was just that, a story, a legend!
Her thoughts, were rudely interrupted. There was a weird, hissing sound, from Raptor.
The light increased ten fold, from the almost blinding strength. It was, so intensely bright, you could not look upon it,
To do so, would have burned the retina in your eyes, leaving you blind ? Fear? Lelanora was now feeling, sensing and shaking with fear.
Cistera had watched, the same thing happen, before the NEB had informed them, that the chromatic shields were being deployed. They could still, view proceedings, but would be protected, from any white light effect, eyes protected ?
Raptor’s weapon, was combing the energy, a rising crescendo, it was capable of a fusion reaction, on an astonishing level.
The moment, the reaction went critical, the light intensity would increase way beyond what it had been. The end result might have been anticipated, the truth was, what followed went far beyond anyones wildest imagination.
Shielding nodes on the zimp blinked and sparked until the light died down. Where the Zmet had been? Was empty space.
As though it had never been there, not a piece of scrap, nothing!
Cistera, had been a witness, to all that, had taken place. Everything her father had told her, was true. Once again she looked over to Nathan still sleeping, moved over to him to lean down and gently plant a kiss on his cheek. There were no doubts about it, here was her father’s KaLasec.
There was loud, ear piercing squeal from Tan ! “ Zeid ! Starburst don’t I just love you !
You there Dees” “You coming home babe or we got to drag you in.
Nathan’s, gonna be real mad at you Tan, for missing that show”
Tan laughed. “First time in a long time since we deployed that as a weapon and still as good, since Noge retweaked it ! Zeid would be real proud!”
Starburst, I discovered, was a weapon, designed by a scientist called Zeid, Noge a friend of Nathan’s had redesigned the fusion inverters, to create a formidable weapon.
Noge, was into armaments and weapons. Starburst with its particle acceleration units, coupled with the fusion reactors, were tweaked to deliver one hell of a punch of energy. Deflected by nodes, which blocked the energy, from damaging Raptor.
Zanthian crystals, gave the energy pulse, its pure white light and absorbed, any stray energy. Megallian crystals focused the beams making them 40 times more powerful and the Spectrovex array, created a rippling, sheet effect. Dispersing the white light along hundreds of invisible grid lines. Cistera was shoved aside, by Tan now moving next to Nathan.
Tanya, was unbearable! I tolerated, her high spirits, with her waking Nathan up as he heard the news. She infuriated me, with the way, she kept blocking my path, as I tried to get close to him.
We took the Zimp and docked with the Raptor.’
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