Deep space, Collective Flagship "Praelatus meus, automated systems from Sol report spike in warp energy, we are detecting a new form of Exogen energy." The officer reported, panic in his voice "They will u..." "No!" The Fleet Master said, clenching his fists tight and his eyes beginning to glow "They shall prevent our trap! Fire the beams, get me that flagship now!" "They aren't charged! We wont be able to recover more than half the opponents ship at best, and-" "Half is better than nothing, Officer, activate them! Detonate all other defenses, tell NP to prepare for emergency reception, get stasis field ready!" "Affirmed, activating turrets... Now." Sol As the Collectives defences detonate, the unique turrets began to fire their stream. The same sort of beam used by the collector drones, it was designed to slowly teleport the flagship, molecule by molecule, to a secure facility at an alarming rate. The massive hanger their flagship is was being teleported too had a stasis field active, ensuring than the Imperial crew nor their ship could do anything to the station. It seemed the Collective had not yet given up on their plan of capturing an Imperial Flagship intact, whatever the cost... Making such a large scale version of the material gathering beam was certainly not cheap, the rare materials involved must have been astronomical to say the least, and now it had been thrown into overdrive, barely being 50% charged. The fleet master was determined that he would beat Chaos to the punch, and take the ship before they could do any damage to it. He had heard enough from command to estimate that Chaos would either tear the ship apart or turn it into one of their own, and neither was desirable. The greenish yellow beams scathed across the black of space towards the enemy flagship, the crew of the Collective vessels watching the video feed with their breath held, awaiting the results of the endeavour...