After about fifty seconds, the pulses stopped. The surges hadn't gotten powerful enough to fuse what few electrical systems remained intact on the derelict, but they had certainly made for quite the brief light show. By the time Nilam arrived in his enviro-suit, the chassis was dormant again. It was lying parallel with the hull of the ship; with all of its sophisticated personal weaponry suspended above it by a strong magnetic field.

After just a few seconds, Nilam could see small plumes of dust shooting from behind the chassis along its torso and it began to float away from the derelict in a straight line, painfully slowly. Beneath it, the chassis left a four inch wide hole against the hull of the derelict that looked as though it had been bored with a plasma torch. No other activity. There were power readings, but all of them faint. He could probably even tether the magnetic field if he wanted to bring it in with all of its equipment.