The captain's voice cut across every internal channel, calm and final.
"Activate."
For a single heartbeat the entire pirate ship went silent.
Then the core screamed.
Energy equivalent to millions of sectors collapsed inward, compressed past every safety threshold the Technos engineers had ever designed. The void warp drive received the entire supercritical burst in one instantaneous dump. Reality in front of the vessel tore open like wet paper.
A blinding, ultra-dense spatial corridor erupted outward, punching straight through the chaotic battlefield.
The ship surged forward with impossible acceleration.
Everything in its direct path simply ceased to matter. Whether it was information particles, void space fragments, body parts, weapon fragments, the void itself. All ceased to exist.
