|You guys might wanna put up your shields.|
A moment later, Cruotis Prime trembled violently.
Fissures spread like veins of molten light across its surface. Volcanoes erupted in violent bursts of magma, and massive continent-sized chunks of rock were ejected into space, colliding with the moon and shattering it.
But before the moon's fragments could even drift far, Cruotis Prime itself exploded.
A colossal surge of energy burst outward, an explosion so powerful it outshone the nearby stars for an instant. The blast released an unimaginable amount of radiation, sending an expanding shockwave rippling across the system.
The sheer force of the explosion disrupted the orbits of the surrounding planets, flinging some dwarf planets off course while others were pulled into unstable trajectories.
From their vantage point, Arthur let out a small sigh as he watched the devastation unfold.
"What a waste of energy."
