Upon Adam’s command, seven shockwaves of gravitational forces that were grey in colour appeared at the location of the seven seismic charges and started to expand quickly outwards in all directions.
As the gravitational shockwaves hit the two small class ships, they were almost instantly destroyed, while the two medium class ships lasted a few seconds longer with their stronger shields, but they were still destroyed soon after being hit.
The large class TISF ships had an experience similar to what happened to the large class pirate ship before, where their shields managed to absorb part of the shockwave before they collapsed, and the hull started to buckle after being hit, damaging internal systems, which disabled them.
The cruiser-class ships' shields easily absorbed the impact with no problem, however.
Unfortunately for the TISF, what came next was something that no one had ever seen before, not the TISF, not the imperial family, not anyone watching the stream.
As the gravitational shockwaves collided with each other, they didn't cancel each other out like some were secretly expecting; instead, they merged together to create a single giant gravitational shockwave containing the power of the seven original ones.
As soon as the large class ship was hit by the new super gravitational shockwave, it was instantly turned to space dust, and even the remaining parts of the small and medium class ships were reduced to space dust.
As for the cruiser, its shields barely lasted a fraction of a second before everyone watched in shock and awe as its hull began to buckle under the pressure of the super-gravitational shockwave.
Eventually, its hull could handle no more, and the internal damage to the systems caused it to blow up, sending parts of itself flying in all directions for a fraction of a second before they too were turned into space dust.
Eventually, all that was left of the six TISF military ships was dust that floated through space.
The room of the imperial palace was dead silent as everyone watched the six TISF ships be reduced to nothing but space dust.
Eyes bulged and mouths hung open on the handsome and beautiful faces of the imperial family at what they had just witnessed.
“Eventually, one of Emperor Daniel’s children managed to ask with a cracked voice, “What on Terrana did we just witness?”
“What you just witnessed, brother, was a medium-class ship destroying six TISF ships, including a cruiser on its own.” Tessa replied before adding in a chilly voice, “And that same ship is now the enemy of our race because of someone in our family.”
As she finished speaking, she turned to her father and said, “Do you understand now why I classed them as a traitor father? We could have had that ship and her crew as allies, but now they are our enemies. He did that with seismic charges alone; what’s to stop him from using his ship's cloak to bypass our military and attack anywhere he pleases? Including here, the imperial palace.”
As she finished speaking, the family members shivered at the thought before Tessa continued.
“We do not know the true capabilities of that ship; for all we know, he may have weapons even more powerful than what we just witnessed.”
Emperor Daniel was silent for some time as he considered what his eldest daughter had just told him.
“If you're too weak and cowardly to investigate your own family, Daniel, I will do it for you.” Victoria suddenly proclaimed before continuing, “I will have my Ororis family conduct an investigation into every member of the imperial family and their recent activities.”
“You do not have the authority to make such a claim to the Emperor Victoria,” Petunia said angrily.
“You forget, Petunia, as decreed by the first emperor after we settled on this planet and named it Terrana, my Ororis family is the secret hand that protects the empire from behind the scenes, that includes from the imperial family themselves.
If there is enough evidence to show that a traitor is among the imperial family, then my Ororis family can use any and all means necessary to root out that traitor and no one, not even the emperor, can interfere.”
“And how do we know that it is not you who is the traitor and you're simply using the Ororis family and this situation as a way to protect yourself?” Petunia snapped.
“For two very simple reasons.” Victoria replied smugly before explaining, “First, only my daughter and I seem to have any interest in resolving this situation and trying to repair our friendship with the one who did that.” At this point, Victoria pointed at the Holographic screen before continuing.
“And two, if I truly were the traitor, I would never suggest getting my Ororis family involved and would try to keep them as far away from this as possible for the simple reason that no one who is proven to be a traitor to the empire is spared the death penalty, not even a member of the Ororis family.
I hope for all your sakes that none of you had anything to do with this.”
As she finished, Victoria turned on her heel and left the room with Tessa following behind her.
“Husband?” Petunia said as she turned to Emperor Daniel.
“Don’t even ask.” Daniel said while raising a hand before continuing, “There is nothing I can do to prevent this. They have enough evidence that someone in the family is a traitor to the empire, and I have no authority to stop them. If I tried, I would be myself classed as a traitor and be executed.”
As he finished speaking, Emperor Daniel rose from his chair and left the room with slightly slumped shoulders. He knew Victoria was right; he had failed as an Emperor by not knowing that someone from his own family was conspiring against the empire.
All he could do was hope that when the traitors were revealed, they did not number too many and that he could remain emperor after this.
“What the hell even is that ship?” The admiral asked in shock as he stared at a holographic screen that was showing the space dust remains on the TISF ships.”
“Unknown sir, we have been trying to find any correlation to it within our databases, but nothing shows up.”
“Can someone please explain to me how one medium-class ship is capable of defeating six military ships, including a cruiser, then?” The admiral asked before suddenly saying.
“I want that vessel at all costs; its technology appears to be far more advanced than we first suspected.”
“It has just jumped to FTL, and we also believe it has cloaked again since we are having trouble detecting it.”
“I don’t care what you have to do, just find it.”
“Jump to FTL and activate condition yellow”, Adam instructed.
Since the EMP interference was now gone, Spector was able to enter FTL before cloaking, and as soon as it did, a notification appeared on the stream.
[[Stream betting pool correct answer: Yes]]
[Beczontop (Terrana 5): Hahaha, I knew he could do it. Gimmie the credits. 😁]
[HackerSu (Trillion): Oh yeah, my drinks are on all of you tonight, thanks so much. 🙏]
[Lizziethetruepower (Palalxia): Figured he would find a way. Good job.]
[MerceadAnderson (Palaxia): 😭]
[Lizziethetruepower (Palalxia): Are you fucking serious? You seriously bet against him after what he did to those pirates?]
[MerceadAnderson (Palaxia): I’m sorry, baby.]
[MerceadAnderson (Palaxia): Don’t baby me, god, maybe I should get a divorce and join his harem.]
[MerceadAnderson (Palaxia): NOOOOOO.]
[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Kekeke, the streamer has another woman who wants him.]
[SciFifanboy (Earth): THAT WAS SOOOOOO SCI-FI.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): THAT was awesome.]
[Superior4horns (Vinox 3): How did he even do that?]
[Prestigious3horns (Vinox 2): It looked like the seven separate gravitational shockwaves somehow combined into a super gravitational shockwave.]
[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): I have never seen anything like that, you never cease to surprise, streamer.]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): This deserves researching, I never imagined that you could combine the gravitational shockwaves of seven seismic charges into one super gravitational shockwave. I figured they would cancel each other out, which is another reason why I said it was impossible. It appears I was wrong.]
“End stream,” Adam said as he relaxed in his chair and breathed out a sigh of relief.
[[Missions Complete]]
“Well, that was certainly entertaining,” Rowena said with a smile as she, Lorelie, Tephe and Stacey relaxed in the mess hall.
After Stacey showed them to their individual rooms, they all decided to go to the mess hall, where they all got themselves some chocolate ice cream before deciding to watch Adam’s stream.
They could see some of the action taking place out of the mess hall windows; however, the microcams gave a much better viewing experience of everything that was happening, especially the creation of the super gravitational shockwave and the destruction it caused to the TISF ships.