Karamat.
Since becoming Gamma World's Forge World,
it had been operating under almost constant overload every day.
Even with computing technology from the Golden Age, the immense strain had left it "covered in wounds" and "falling apart." Vast mechanical factories ran continuously, swallowing enormous quantities of resources each day to manufacture components for the Megastructure Synapse Condenser, weapon parts, and all manner of standard weapons and equipment for ships and war vessels.
They were then sent to the Second Military Factory—the military factory on the fifth planet—for assembly.
The colossal mechanical structure consumed immense resources as it forged all kinds of weapon components.
Among them,
in the orbital region synchronized with the Synapse Condenser,
a new weapon was undergoing final assembly.
It stood silently in the vacuum.
Eternal darkness enveloped it. Its body was pitch-black, as though black was its very essence.
It sat atop a captured and modified planetary fragment.
It was a weapon personally overseen by Brown.
On the asteroid fragment,
the enormous rigid structure sprawled across the asteroid's bedrock like roots.
Eight thick black hands gripped the asteroid tightly.
The dark matter energy generators spreading beneath them resembled the hearts of those black hands.
From the intricate inner structure of the three-thousand-meter-tall steel giant hand extended a deflection turret fitted with a prism.
"Chief, the Light Lance has been forged. All structural data matches the projections."
"However, the final experimental feedback phase has not yet been carried out."
"..."
The Light Lance was based on Necron technology excavated by Vetius. By exploiting certain laws of the real universe, it extended the range of a Light Lance strike countless times over.
In theory,
it could strike the Golden Throne on Terra instantly from the other side of the Milky Way.
Naturally, the energy consumption required would be an