NARRATOR: The Touch-And-Go and a hijacked bus streak towards the exclusion zone. Both are just seconds away.
In the shadows behind Paris, hacked cameras show the Swimming Scorpion secure amid a web of point defenses.
NARRATOR: The massive beam originating from what used to be Credomar issues no warning.
It emerges unheralded in the prow of the sloop, traverses lengthwise vaporizing bulkheads and crew with equal efficacy, and punches through the annie-plant at the stern.
NARRATOR: Across the soundless vacuum of space, evaporating neutronium is just another radioactive light-show.
The sounds emerging from the spectators are more interesting.
BURANABOT: It worked! Grab hold!
TAGII: TAD is down! PORTING!
KERCHAK: Whoa.
PETEY: Unexpected.
SCHLOCK: I want one of those.