The unexpected escape left people feeling neither the joy of a miraculous escape nor the relief of a sudden ascent, but rather a deep sense of lingering fear.
Across such vast interstellar distances, what an adversary observes is never real-time data—this was basic cosmic physics. Yet cold logic did little to quiet the terror... the terror of another barrage of superluminal missiles tearing through realspace without warning.
"The enemy must have caught sight of the Deep Space anchored to the second moon from over a month ago. After running their tactical calculations, they fired warp-capable weapons directly at the coordinates to obliterate the moon!"
What could exceed the speed of light? A Warp Drive, naturally.
Mounting a Warp Drive directly onto a missile and transformed it into a relativistic strike weapon of terrifying lethality.
