Knowing

At 128x slow motion, the B-3 engineering repair robot's speed was slowed to the extreme, nearly reaching a standstill.

Yet, the wide-eyed crew still caught a glimpse of a black shadow flashing across the footage, instantly striking a nearby B-3. Before they could see the result, the B-3 that had captured the footage went black.

"What was that? Did anyone see it clearly?"

The group shook their heads. One of them asked, "Do we have things like that on our ship? Did we bring some kind of secret weapon that's gone rogue?"

"You've watched too many movies, or did a hatch slam on your head? That clearly isn't ours."

"You can't be sure of that. Your clearance isn't high enough to know about the truly classified stuff."

"You!..."

"Enough. I've reported the situation to the Captain, so we don't need to worry about it anymore. Gwendolyn, keep slowing it down. Set it to 256x; I want to see what that shadow is."

A moment later.

"Did you see it?"

"No..."

"It looked like a whip?"

"..., judging by its lashing attack style, we know it's something shaped like a whip. But we need a concrete answer, stop using words like 'looked like'."

"..."

"Gwendolyn, slow this footage down to 512x!"

At over 500x slow motion, the group finally saw what it was. To be honest, even after seeing it clearly, they could only conclude it was whip-like; they remained completely ignorant of the material or data regarding the attacking object.

However, while they didn't know what material that whip was made of, they were quite familiar with its style.

"Zerg?" After all, they had been at war for a long time. Since the many civilizations of the Star Sea Alliance primarily followed a mechanical path and were deeply influenced by