Chapter 82: Gravitational Shockwave

Spector flew around and between the asteroids that were spinning through space as its rear ballistic repeaters continued to fire at the incoming missiles.

The missiles were being taken down one by one by the combination of the ballistic repeaters picking them off and the asteroids Adam flew Spector close to, causing the missiles to continually impact them.

While this was happening the Revenge continued to fire its many laser cannons at Spector, most were evaded either by Adam's piloting or by asteroids that got in the way and absorbed the impact. Some shots did manage to hit however before they dissipated against Spector's shields.

[Entrash (Hoenn 7): I'm surprised the ship's shields are still holding.]

[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): It just goes to show that its shield tech is at a rather high level for a medium class ship.]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): Perhaps, the shots that have landed have all been rather spread out, allowing for the time needed for his shields to regenerate so it's difficult to tell how good they really are.]

Eventually the last of the missiles were eliminated and so before the Revenge could launch anymore Adam started to put his plan into motion.

"Scan the vicinity for a group of asteroids close together and large enough that the Revenge's blasters won't be able to just blow them apart."

"Scanning."

[Pokemonking0924 (Mobius 2.0): What's he doing?]

[Prestigious3horns (Vinox 2): No idea.]

"Scanning complete."

"A group of three asteroids matching your requirements have been located at bearing zero four two by zero one nine."

Adam turned Spector in that direction and saw a group of three asteroids close together that were spinning as they flew through space.

"Perfect, prepare the seismic charge." Adam instructed.

"Affirmative."

[SciFifanboy (Earth): Seismic charge? That's so Sci-Fi.]

[Leonthemoneygiver (Earth): Whoa there Boba Fett.]

[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): It is Sci-Fi, but it won't work like in the film.]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): What makes you say that?]

[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): A seismic charge is a bomb used in a certain Sci-Fi film that works by absorbing all sound around it before exploding and releasing the collected sound in explosive shock waves. It won't work In reality however because unlike in the film, space Is a vacuum and sound can't exist there.]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): Ah I see, yes you're correct that sound can't exist in space and therefore the seismic in the film wouldn't work, however these seismic charges don't work by absorbing sound but gravitational forces.]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): Everything in reality produces a gravity field; the seismic charge the streamer is talking about absorbs all the gravitational forces emitted by gravity fields in its vicinity until it becomes unstable.]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): Once it reaches a certain level of instability it explodes and releases all the collected gravitational forces in one go decimating anything around it.]

[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): Wouldn't that affect the streamer's ability to fly his ship? I mean his drive uses gravitational forces right.]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): You're correct, that's why seismic charges are normally either set on a timer or are remote activated, this also makes them near impossible to detect until activation.]

[Gunlovergirl (Earth): So it's still a bomb?]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): In a sense, yes. It's more of a cross between a bomb and a mine. It's remote or time detonated like a bond rather than proximity detonated like a regular mine, however you also don't drop it on something like a regular bomb and instead leave it somewhere for someone to pass like a mine.]

[StealthAssassin9 (Earth): So it's a mimb or maybe a momb???]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): What?]

[The rest of the chat: …]

"Seismic Charge standing by." Spector informed as Adam continued to pilot her around and between asteroids while evading the Revenge's laser beams.

Adam had Spector head straight for the gap between the three rotating asteroids and as soon as she passed through the gap he said, "Deploy."

The chat watched as a compartment next to where the countermeasures were released opened before a tube shaped object with rounded ends left the compartment and floated in space as Spector flew off.

[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Hmmm judging by its size I'd say it's a category 2 seismic charge.]

[Justiceistruth: (Earth): Category two?]

[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): a classification to say how destructive it is. A category two is powerful enough to destroy medium class ships though it's not really powerful enough to do any damage to a large class ship like that one. Honestly I was expecting the streamer to have a more powerful one considering the tech we have seen from him so far.]

[Prestigious3horns (Vinox 2): Maybe he's using it as a distraction, after all he is only buying time until the fleet catches up.]

[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): That's true.]

The revenge tried to blast away the three asteroids that Spector had passed through, but they were incapable of doing more than lopping off small chunks and so had to divert below them which allowed Adam to gain some distance.

"Activate." Adam said.

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As the Revenge was halfway past the three asteroids its alarms suddenly sounded before the sensor operator suddenly said.

"SEISMIC CHARGE DETECTED DIRECTLY ABOVE."

"WHAT! EMERGENCY THRUST, get us away from it." Bonnie said in panic.

"Too late." The sensor operator said before the Revenge suddenly shook as the bridge's ceiling buckled while consoles and other equipment on the bridge exploded or shorted out.

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"SEISMIC CHARGE DETECTED DIRECTLY AHEAD." The sensor operator aboard the fleet's ship suddenly shouted.

"ALL SHIPS, ALL STOP!" Admiral Dexter shouted in panic as he jumped up from his chair and stared at the viewscreen as a shockwave appeared.

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The chat watched as a shockwave of gravitational forces that was grey in colour appeared where the seismic charge had been before expanding in all directions.

As it passed through the three large asteroids they started to break down until instead of being three large asteroids, they were now millions or maybe billions of tiny asteroids no bigger than a stone.

As soon as it hit the Revenge it's dorsal shields attempted to absorb the shockwave but ultimately failed and collapsed.

While the dorsal shields did stop some of it, most of the shockwave ended up impacting the Revenge causing parts of its upper hull to buckle as explosions started to happen within the ship.

Parts of the ship's hull broke away and floated in space from the buckling as smoke began to rise from different parts of the ship.

[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): …]

[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): Holy fuck.]

[Prestigious3horns (Vinox 2): That was no mere category 2 seismic charge.]

[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): You're right, it was more in-line with category 3.]

[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Looks like you were wrong Handsome3horns. kekeke.]

[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): …]

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Admiral Dexter along with the other crew on the flag ship's bridge starred in shock as they witnessed the damage the Revenge was taking.

Eventually Admiral Dexter snapped out of his shocked state before ordering, "All ships advance, this is our chance. With the Revenge damaged she won't be able to fly as fast."

"Sir."

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After the gravitational shockwave subsided Adam had Spector turn about and engage the Revenge while firing its 3 laser repeaters towards the top of the ship where the shields had failed.

The laser repeaters impacted the hull which resisted for a short time since a large class ship's hull could resist more than those of smaller ships, but eventually it started to give out before chunks of the hull were blasted away just as the fleet arrived and joined Spector in firing upon the Revenge.

Screams of the pirates dying or begging for mercy were heard over the open comm channel, however after what they had done in the space around Palaxia neither the defence force nor the mercenaries considered letting them off, after all how many of the pirates' victims begged for mercy before being killed. 

With the combined firepower of the fleet the Revenge didn't even last fifteen seconds before it blew up. All that remained after the explosion cleared were random parts of the hull that were already blasted off by the fleet's weapons or dead bodies of pirates that had been sucked into space after the Revenge's hull was breached in multiple places and before it blew up but they ultimately still died even if they wore EVA suits after being caught in the explosion. 

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"All ships present are to fan out and search for any pirate ships that might still be in the area." Admiral Dexter ordered before he went to communicate with the faster ships that had pursued the fleeing pirates earlier.

Adam turned the Spector and had it return back towards where the base had been while he had the sensors sweep the area.

[Celebrityhunter69 (Earth): Damn he got the AAA pass to Diva Lorelie, so lucky.]

[Superior4horns (Vinox 3): Agreed I'm jealous.]

[SciFifanboy (Earth): That whole thing was so Sci-Fi.]

[Gunlovergirl (Earth): I loved that large ship's tachyon cannon, that was awesome.]

[Justiceistruth: (Earth): You just like any weapon.]

[Gunlovergirl (Earth): True, but the bigger the better.]

[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): Kek.]

[StealthAssassin9 (Earth): Lol.]

[Beczontop (Imperial Down): She's right, can't beat a man with a big weapon.]

[Tessisdabest (Imperial Down): And how would you know?]

[OfficialLorelie (Imperial Down):🫣]

[Whostolemyduck (Earth): Cough, I think we're getting off topic here.]

[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): You're just salty because your weapon is lacking. Kekeke.]

[Whostolemyduck (Earth): Fuck you.]

"What is wrong with my chat?"