1467 Dominate (1/2)
”Hmmmm…” Jiang Fei hummed.
In his umbral form, his senses were heightened to the extreme. Even though he was hundreds of kilometers away from the main enemy fleet, he could sense the presence of two 'players' amongst the fleet.
These two players were still onboard their own trash-tier ships, safely surrounded by the Alderaanian forces.
Six Apostle-class Corvette ships broke away from the main fleet's formation and accelerated towards Jiang Fei's direction. Apostle-Class ships were extremely lightweight ships that possessed the fastest speeds, second only to observation drones.
The main fleet had dispatched them to deal with the lone observation drone sent by the Fifth Hybrid Fleet. Even now, they had yet to detect Jiang Fei's presence, as his cross-section radius was too small to be detected by any radar system.
”Oh? You're approaching me?” muttered Jiang Fei.
A flash of black light glowed and in the next instance, all six Apostle-Class ships halted in place, as if they were frozen in time.
…
”Captain! We've suddenly lost control of the ship!”
”What?”
”All systems are down, sir! Nothing is responding!”
…
Chaos quickly ensued.
Jiang Fei reached out his hand and clenched his fist. As if he had control of their movements, all six Apostle-Class ships began to move towards each other.
”Emergency evasion maneuvers now!”
The captains of all six Apostle-Class ships quickly tried to do what they could, firing every single impulse engine they had to get themselves away from an imminent collision course with each other.
Unfortunately, all systems were unresponsive to any sort of command. Impulse engine or not, they could not break away from accelerating towards each other. Depending on the ships' speed and sizes, collision would cause devastating damage, and maybe even death.
”Captain! We can't do anything! All systems are down and judging from our current course, the ship is being moved by an external force! We are not stopping!”
”Nothing is working! Engineering has tried to manually trigger impulse engines and they would not fire!”
…
The last moments before the ships' collision were filled with nothing but panic. When all six ships finally collided with each other, a massive fiery explosion erupted, followed by complete silence.
”What the hell is going on?” said the Fleet Commander of the Alderaanian force.
All six ships had suddenly lost communication with the main fleet. Not half a minute later, they collided with each other and turned into space debris. As nothing was working in the ships, no information could be relayed back to the main fleet.
”Commander, do we proceed?” asked the helmsman of the commanding ship.
After all that had happened, he could not decide whether or not to steer the ship forward.
As a Fleet Commander of the Alderaan United Space Force, she had her fair share of participating in many wars. The destruction of six Apostle-Class ships was a loss that she could not be bothered about.
”Aye, Commander Aurelia!” said the First Officer.
A fleet of Seekers were dispatched to the site of the incident to investigate the reason for their demise, as well as to search for traps. Knowing they were coming, Jiang Fei remained close to the wreckage. When the fleet was nearby, he once again reached out his hand and destroyed all the Seekers, lumping them together into one metal clump.
Aurelia frowned when she saw what happened to the ships. ”Dammit! Did the Trade Federation invent an undetectable gravity-well trap?”