New Condria

There was a slow whirling sound as the battleship that had ended its beam assualt activated its other weapons... And them giant holes were punched in the remote cargoshipsn releasing the antimatter and consuming the ships before they reached the L'Er. The "crack" sound from the firing of the weapons sounded a few moments later. The calculations must have been done in a fraction of a second to target so many of the cargoships before impact.
The remaining ones impacted with the ships, and crumpled on impact with the shields, the anti-matter spraying over the shimmering shields. The ships stopped their beam attack to divert their power to shielding to withstand the assualts. The balefires impacted with the shields, followed by the lasers, but only the shields of one ship failed. Fires erupted over its deck, and the lights along its lateral lines died as it drifted, dead in space.

There was another pulse, blasting back the physical weaponry towards the EU lines before it impacted

The largest ship finally did something. Seven large holes opened in a circle on the front of the ship and lit up, and a larger pne opened in the centre of the circle. A screech erupted, and black-blue beams from the seven holes met in the center. There was a glow from the largest hole as it began to charge up. Energy spiked at the device, and there was a link between the nearby star and the device, which seemed to be participating in an energu transfer

There were disturbances on the edge of the system, signs that something was about to enter no doubt...

The voice sounded out again

[i]"It says 'Your kind come but they never leave; They do not understand the cosmos, how it gives life, and how it takes it. And so they die, and we grow stronger. The dead, now, the dead can not pass on their new found knowledge. So more of them come, keep trying to spread into the stars...'"[/i]

There was a silence for a moment as the device charged and the ships reinstated their core safeties, and began to transfer power back to weapons and engage once more with their beams. Then the voice continues 
[i]"What do you think, under your shimmering umbrella? That you might escape the coming fire? That shield will not protect you, and if you stay we will flood like water over your world, we will fill your holes and drown you. But we are not without mercy..."[/i]