The cruisers came out of slipspace with the battle in full swing. 40 Latagonian cruisers, 28 frigates, and 10 Destroyers were firing their MACs. On the other side a force of ships, not...their's...but a strain of them. They looked like the reptilian "Concordat". Hayes noted 37 in all. They returned fire with their plasma based weaponry, and for a few minutes it looked like a colonial battle, with settlers standing in lines, firing at each other with muskets. It was almost beautiful, as the blueish plasma, and streaks of MAC rounds danced across space. Then, in a sudden, the beauty was devastation. The MAC rounds impacted first, and 23 of the "concordat" ships went spinning, a few sputtered and went black, but the majority returned to their original positions. Those that had been hit by the Cruisers looked worse off then the rest, but not even a Cruiser's MAC round could break the shields of these ships alone. Then the plasma arrived at it's deadly destination. The ships it impacted with didn't go spinning, like with the MAC rounds rather, they glowed white hot, and then, as the heat died, gaping holes could be seen in their hulls. Most ships like that just died, but the cruisers survived. Marathon class cruisers could survive three hits from those plasma bolts. The Halcyon class cruisers could survive more than 20. Halcyon class cruisers, while older, had an inner-hull honey combed with pockets, and titanium battle plating. They could loose more than 90% of their outer hull before loosing structural integrity.
Finally Hayes looked up. "Deploy the device." He said. For the first time in years a victory would be achieved, not because of sheer numbers, but because Latagon finally had a weapon.
The two cruisers carrying the weapon opened their MAC turrets, but instead of a huge metal slug coming out, a beam of light raced towards the "Concordat" ships. This beam, though, was not blue like the Plasma, but white. When it impacted the ships exploded and small beams of light raced towards the other and they too exploded turning into the white lights. The "Concordat" fleet was decimated with two well placed beams of light. The Molecular Disruption device was a success. Dr Device would soon be a part of every ship's arsenal. To be used as a ship's "sharpshooter". A sniper shot, that could decimate a whole fleet if they were packed tightly enough together. The beams of light would dissipate after a while of mot touching any other molecules. The vacuum of space served to stop the destructiveness of the device before it got out of hand. This weapon could not ever be used in the presence of a planet. If even one beam reached the surface of the planet, the planet would be destroyed, so powerful was this weapon.
