The calculated attack crossed the vast distance and struck Amalaga's swollen flesh.
Railgun rounds left deep craters in Amalaga's body, but failed to inflict any penetrating wounds.
Plasma erupted in massive bursts, the tremendous energy within burning and melting flesh into gleaming spheres of energy that drifted into space.
"Life."
Amalaga recited the true word a second time, this time targeting the T'au defensive fleet.
The ships began to disintegrate. Their integrated alloy hulls bulged, the swelling lumps splitting the metal with crack after crack as biomass fluid squeezed out from within.
Enormous open spaces such as corridors and gun barrels were filled with flesh. T'au crewmen and soldiers were pinned tightly against the walls and floors by the meat.
Those without weapons were crushed to death alive, while those with weapons did everything they could to tear an opening through the endlessly growing flesh.
But as more and more blood steamed into the air, their pulse rifles carried less and less energy. The armored warriors drowned in scalding blood.
Engines and gun emplacements exploded, tearing gaps into the hulls, only for them to be filled by wantonly proliferating flesh. These twisted ships covered in tumors came under Amalaga's control.
The entire defensive fleet slowly drifted above T'au, then fell under the pull of its gravity.
The people on the planet began to scream. They could not comprehend why their mighty fleet had turned into such things.
Layer upon layer of shields flashed beneath the impact of the crashing ships. Flesh smeared across the shields continuously gnawed away at their energy, then fell to the ground through unstable gaps.
This planet was highly developed. From the Air Caste sky-fortresses level with the atmosphere to the Earth Caste engineering academies reaching down to the planetary core, everything in between was T'au