The Eventide

[Dusk]

Tennstedt Base, Thuringia System
20.01.836 AS

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"Project "Eventide", entry four. First results."

"The prototypes we're using for this project are quite fascinating specimens. They're a testament to scientific and engineering mastery, expressed through destruction."




"Looking at this exceptional craftsmanship, as someone who spent most of my life repairing war vessels... It's a shame that some of them will simply be used as fuel for this new fire. Those bearing the name "Gekokujou," at least. While with the "Lamia," it was enough for us to study its design and figure out how to add similar properties to other weapons... The girl will have to say goodbye to the "Gekos". We don't build these guns from scratch, after all; we refine existing ones. And that means the original creation will be consigned to oblivion."

"On the other hand, I can't help but be intrigued by what we can create from them. The birth of the new requires the death of the old, doesn't it? It's funny to think about this as the years begin to fly by so fast, no matter how eventful life is..."

"In any case, while I'd be happy to let the eggheads thoroughly study our precious anomaly that the girl brought back from Deep Omegas, we're forced to pick up the pace. Observing the progressive degradation of the anomaly's containment shell, the girl ordered a thorough analysis and the implementation of the findings if they prove useful. While there was a risk involved, I completely agree with her... I saw the thing that attacked the people near Saverne on the recording. Any advantage we can gain against this so-called "Harbinger" will be useful. As they say here, nothing ventured, nothing gained... Pfft. We had a better phrase for that back home."

A shot from an energy weapon is shown on the monitor, becoming brighter and more powerful as it moves further away.

"Dynamic energy containment technology works. But, looking at the results of the anomaly study... Good scientists here have proposed a new theory for implementation. In short, this anomaly has an interesting feature: it seems to actively try to absorb everything around it, especially energy. And they propose trying to incorporate this property into this new weapon. It would seem that this would only harm the results, since it would then consume the energy of the shot itself, right?"

"Wrong. Or rather, it would be right, if not for our remarkable dynamic containment capability. Using it, we can create a double barrier: one holds the blast's energy, just like we planned originally. The second, smaller one inside, contains a miniature replica of this anomaly. Or... Well, at the very least the closest we can get to it. When the collision happens, it releases all its energy, embodying it in destruction. The second "bubble" then also bursts, revealing a short-lived anomaly that, for a few moments, absorbs everything around it. Especially, if it can reach it, the energy of an enemy ship."

"So... We'll supplement the original "Gekokujou" with what it lacked: the ability to sabotage enemy vessels' energy supply."

"Heh. Playing with things like that in my old age... I should get the girl to bring me more drink."

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