"Who fired the shot?"
Captain Griss's eyes had been filled with that dazzling, scorching beam of light.
He felt a bit perplexed, slightly confused.
The White Ghost's dedicated battleship, the elegant, high-tech, gull-wing styled battleship that was rumored to be capable of super-fast flight, was so easily blasted to pieces with one shot, and the White Ghost along with the Valkyrie were finished...
This neither aligned with the interests of the Empire nor the conduct of the generals.
And here, within the Empire's territory, there couldn't possibly be any battleships from other forces; this shot had to be fired by the Empire.
High-energy ion beams were the most commonly used high-lethality weaponry of the current Galaxy civilization; the Dreadnought's ion cannon could directly detonate a planet's Star Core, while the ion cannons of ordinary battleships varied in destructive power based on caliber, type, and density of energy.