The Eristic Illusion

[Cadmus]

California System

Several Days Later

Bravo Group! Cut him off around the east! Charlie Group, light him up! Alphas on me! Move!

Nick Jackson roared into the communicator, coordinating the police officers underneath him in an ambush against a pirate train that theyd been waiting for - and it had just come into scanner range.

The Patriot Fighters shot into action a split second after the commands were bellow, afterburners on full, piercing paths through the icy clouds of the west California system, in which the Cortez jumphole lay. They quickly disappeared through the fogs, but the scanners in Jacksons experimental Liberty Police Bomber kept track of them.

Laser fire, presumably from Charlie Group, lit up the nebula in a way noticeably different than that of the natural electrical discharges, in pulses of bright white light that arced through the mist.

Jackson was feeling smug about this surprise ambush on the smuggler until a series of blue lasers sliced through the nebula, in contrast to the white of Libertys lasers. These bursts of light were followed by a bright orange flash that could only mean one thing - a ship had exploded.

Jackson was stunned for a split second, but as a second blast of orange lit the nebula, he swore and moved into action, kicking on the afterburner in a dive towards the smuggler as he yelled at all flights to converge on the smuggler. Alpha Group was behind him, diving with guns blazing at the unseen target.

Yells and hoarse orders quickly filled the radio waves, all coordinated against the target that sat in this opening in the nebula - a Pirate Train that was putting up quite a fight. This was it, the target of this whole operation: a train, filled to the brim with Cardamine. This would be the greatest catch in Jacksons career.

Alpha Group flew straight towards the ship, and then all pulled up, letting loose a storm of missiles from their ships the projectiles were sluggish for a moment, and then gained speed rapidly, crashing into the shield of the transport with purple-white flashes of energy. The visible sections of the shield flickered a bit at this assault.

His ship rolled to the left as he let off a burst of antimatter straight into the broadside of the ramshackle train. It was such a big target, it would be no problem to hit.

The foreboding blue-white mass hurtled towards the train, leaving a trail of decaying antimatter behind it as it lost some of its critical mass. The moment of watching the deadly projectile soon ended, and the view from Jacksons cockpit was replaced by a brilliant burst of white gasses caused be a recombination of matter with antimatter, releasing deadly energy

This flash enveloped his view for a brief moment after the antimatter hit the Trains shields, bringing them down in a crack and fizzle of lightning.

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