A Spectacular Opening (Part 1)

Shadda-Bi-Boran, outer space.

After a burst of intense white light, an enormous, elongated warship appeared. It was a full 14,100 meters long—at sixty kilometers per hour, it would take a car fifteen minutes to travel from one end to the other!

The warship was iron-gray from head to toe, brimming with an industrial feel and a terrifying sense of oppression. Its main hull was a massive diamond-shaped structure made of four sections, with a hole four hundred meters in diameter at its center.

Anyone who saw that structure would instinctively assume that the hole was a gigantic spaceport. It could even accommodate a warship the size of a Hunter Class Battlecruiser, while Light Cruisers such as the Apocalypse-class and Aquatens-class could circle around inside it freely.

However, only those who understood this warship knew that it was not a spaceport... It was a gun barrel over four hundred meters wide and more than ten thousand meters long...

The power of a shell fired from such a barrel was beyond words! If it struck a planet without a Planetary Shield, a single shot could potentially trigger tectonic movement, reducing the world to ruins amid violent earthquakes!

Plague... that was the name of this warship. The Plague Titan warship, Ragnarok-class!

Now, after leaving hyperspace, the Plague Titan warship simply remained there in silence, utterly motionless.

If there had still been people on Shadda-Bi-Boran, the mere presence of this warship might have been enough to make them submit their surrender at once.

Of course, there was no one on this planet.

Not only was it deserted, but deadly gamma-ray streams filled the surrounding region!

In fact, just twenty years ago, Shadda-Bi-Boran had still been a vibrant, living planet. However, a supernova explosion destroyed everything. At the time, the Galactic Republic Senate had mobilized