As the light slowly faded, the entire planet had been pierced through.
The power of a starship's main cannon was terrifying. According to the Interstellar Weapons Safety Convention, such weapons were strictly forbidden from firing at planetary surfaces. Although many starship main cannons could not shatter a planet in a single blow, they could severely damage its stability, ultimately causing it to break apart or explode.
Even brutes like Asgard, who possessed a planet-slaying weapon like the Bifrost, generally only used it for boarding operations rather than firing directly at someone else's homeworld. That was because this weapon was too destructive; firing it at a planet's surface was no different from genocide.
No society that retained even a semblance of order could accept slaughter and extermination by such means. Once someone did it, they would effectively cut themselves off from interstellar society and become a public enemy of the universe.
So even though the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire had fought the Thousand Year War, neither had ever directly fired a starship's main cannon at a densely populated planet.
But today, that record was broken. A starship under the Interstellar Security Council fired directly at Centaurus's most densely populated market planet and successfully blasted straight through it.
Fortunately, the target site had not been directly opposite the largest market, but somewhat off-center. Even so, the planet's structure had been utterly destroyed. After being pierced through, the planet began shaking violently and was about to break apart.
Main Universe Constantine, who was inside the Central Tower, was shaken right out of his chair. He had barely climbed to his feet before being knocked down again, smashing his head against the corner of a table and drawing blood.
Yet he still scrambled to his feet and rushed to the window, just