The Foundry Core tried to pull away, but it could not accelerate properly while it was still trying to keep its escort frames between itself and the strike group, and the moment it lost that clean ability to reposition, Astra took it.
"Main batteries," she said, voice flat and focused. "Fire."
Four twin-mounted Sovereign 2200mm Stellar-Class electromagnetic cannons slammed the void with a force that made the surrounding wreckage contort, and the shots hit the Foundry Core in rapid sequence.
Its shield logic collapsed first, then the modular plating cracked, then internal segments ruptured, and in the span of seconds, the core's structure turned into a violent bloom of debris and dead light.
Nearby Omnic units stopped moving a little as they tried to process what they saw.
