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KrankysFirebrand48 ONI
By the time the torpedos approached the massive weakened beast, it was already too late to react, at least in the state it was in right now, the shells of torpedos ran through space glistening in the light of passing lasers and plasmabolts, both smaller and larger beasts offered retaliation fire to the fighters and torpedoes, hailing down projectiles almost like a destructive rain on the assailants...
Alas, it wasn´t enough, one torpedo came through, one more, another one, until a good dozen of them had crashed into the massive, beast, engulfing it in an enormous ball of nuclear fury...
The explosion raged for several moments and showed no sign of stopping. Then...
Nothing moved out of the cloud... one of the massive beasts seemed beaten.
There was a certain relief in teh thought that even these massive ancient beasts were not immortal.
...
Yet, it wasn´t the end.
Moments later, the feeling of relief would come to an abrupt and disillusioning end, a mind-numbing terrifying telepathic roar rolled over the battlefield, like the shockwave of a thermonuclear blast, minds strained, some shattered irredeemably into thousands of pieces and drove the untrained who survived to the brink of madness, the death roar of the Warpriest killed everything which had been in its immediate vicinity, be it fighter pilots or minor beasts...
...and yet, it wasn´t the end, the energy released in the last moments of the beasts life, compressed, concentrated.
The center of the site of the beasts death flared up like an eye of doom projectile...
...and then detonated like one, fighters, minor beasts and mid sized beasts, even the still raging cloud of plasma from the explosion, were all drawn in alike, although the mid sized beasts seemed to have enough force to outrun the gravitational pull of the Warpriests last breath and escaped, then...
...the energy released, like the first time when the eye fired a massive explosion erupted although this time localized on location of its death...
As the explosion raged between the UEG fleet and the remaining fleet of the Cultbeasts, those beasts from the now leaderless fleet re-united with the remaining one, which charged the GBE fleet...
As the lances fired, the beasts were prepared this time, the massive Cultbeast they had been directed at rolled to the side and whilst the intensity of the passive lance shots scorched the armour on its lower side it remained functionally undamaged, or at least it seemed like it...
The horde of beasts reached mid-range and along with a large volley of their roof mounted weaponry, smaller hunter cannons and large flak turrets began firing highly penetrative and explosive shells their opponents way, adding a addittional level to their offensive power, unlike the heavy weaponry which was concentrated on the larger ships, these however seemed to be more spread out, the flak even shooting seemingly at randomized toargets or even empty space, saturating it with explosions and making evasive manouvers considerably more difficult no matter the size of the craft...
However, this torrent was only directed towards the british fleet...
Were they ignoring the UEG?
A couple of moments later they would notice, why that was.
As the deathroar of the massive Warpriest had died down...
A second roar came over the battlefield, weaker, because it´s source seemed to be farther away, it was almost...
...as if the rift had answered, it´s surface boiled, raged and then a cloud of the eerie red mist poured into the battlefield like a geyser, drawing a broad red line into space behind the cultfleet, slowly spreading but still too dense to make anything out...
However, something was evident, although the mist covered most of the sight and seemed to heavily interfere with the scanners, something...
Something...
Visual scanners across the UEG fleet could bareley make out... silhouettes? ...and something seemed to be moving within the cloud, causing disturbances in it´s natural flow...
Another telepathic roar, closer, instilling terror in the incoming UEG crews, it was almost like a challenge, whatever was moving within... seemed to be moving towards the UEG reinforcements with a primal fury.