Good Shooting, Kid

"Good shooting, kid!" The telespurt from Ha Na caused Lu Ca to pause in her celebration. The Emotion Casting Titan had been felled by the cooperative retuning of the weapons from the entire fleet. The three other Titans moved into a defensive formation but their merely physical attacks posed little threat to the Mental Superiority of the Liberation Force.

The young gunner watched in fascination as the Terrans created a hyperspace fold to summon a... Star Drive? Without a ship?! In a gravity well?! "Do not become overly confident, kid. Looks can be deceiving!" Lu Ca stretched out using the EtherWeb to accentuate her Telecognition. The StarDrive was preparing for an interplanetary jump. Ridiculous! They had no ship! They had no temporal keel! Although a Jumpdrive allowing instantaneous transitions over any distance, it did so by removing the Ship from Time during its Spatial Transition. Without any method of control...

A rip in the fabric of space-time erupted from the Wave Motion Howitzer and consumed one of the Saucers. "The Third Bridge" vanished from reality, the thoughts of its crew forever stilled.