Aboard the mighty Kodiak 2 capital ship, Admiral James Anchor gets an update from fleet officer Emma: most of the Zozian ships are either dead or have escaped the prison planet system. Gerald, at the helm, reports that the Kodiak is in position for the main cannon, a railgun so massive and powerful that to aim it, they have to rotate the whole ship! James gives the order to get it ready to fire, and Jason immediately gets the final preparations underway.
Before the Kodiak can fire, Queen Elcyra’s Varanus ship unleashes a withering laser blast which slices the starboard wing! Seamus gives a rapid damage report: the hull is breached right through the whole ship! Also, the rotational cannon controls are offline ship-wide! Until they can be swapped to the redundant control systems, they’re unable to fire!
The main cannon, however, was unaffected by the massive explosion, and Jason reports that during the chaos, his crew finished the massive energy ramp-up required to fire the weapon. James gives the order and the incredibly powerful quad-railgun unleashes its shells at sizeable fraction of the speed of light! The force is powerful enough that they manage to penetrate the powerful shields protecting the Varanus, and they score a direct hit on her port laser array! There’s a huge explosion as the entire array is obliterated!

Queen Elcyra’s withering attack on the Zozian war fleet is claiming one victim after another – even the civilian transports! Defender Zik enters the cockpit of the Temerity to witness a grim scene: with every powerful blast emanating from Elcyra’s mothership, another Zozian vessel is disabled or destroyed, and the space around the prison planet is growing thick with twisted, burning debris. It’s a slaughter!

Aboard the Vigilant Gaddi, calculations for the jump into hyperspace are nearly complete; so far so good! But nothing seems to escape the baleful beams of withering death slicing through the dark. Just as they’re ready to jump, the Varanus strikes! Both of the starboard cargo containers on the Gaddi are immolated, along with all the former prisoners who were in them!

As sirens blare and a red alert is engaged, Captain Ramesh demands a status report. A frightened David gives the update, but he’s shell-shocked trying to wrap his head around the scale of the mass murder Elcyra just committed. Ramesh reminds him that they still have to rescue the other half of the prisoners – this is no time to lose your cool!

Fortunately, the engines weren’t hit! They can still jump! But will the Varanus hit them again?!