The Dark Eldar pirate ship was so fast that it streaked past Li Qinwu's fleet and was about to vanish into the depths of the Webway ahead.
I can't let them get away, Li Qinwu thought. The Dark Eldar are lunatics who delight in torturing people. There's no communicating with them. Kill them on sight!
Otherwise, who knows if these lunatics might follow you home to smash, loot, and burn everything!
Li Qinwu ran straight to the Fortune's aft compartment, planted his distinguished backside on the Psychic Throne, and used it to link to his body and draw out his psychic power.
The Solar Sails, which had remained folded against the Fortune's hull, slowly unfurled under Li Qinwu's psychic control, forming four enormous sail surfaces.
Driven by its four Solar Sails as well as its conventional thrust engines, the Fortune's dual propulsion sent its speed soaring instantly!
The Fortune raced ahead, leaving the other warships behind as it headed straight for the Dark Eldar pirate ship!
The Dark Eldar Corsair-class Frigate was a small vessel, roughly 1.5 kilometers long, with limited firepower and defenses. Its main advantage was speed.
But the nearly six-kilometer-long Fortune was even faster thanks to its dual engines!
The two ships, one large and one small, raced through the fiber-optic-like Webway, the gap between them rapidly shrinking.
Several hours later, the Fortune actually began running alongside the Dark Eldar Corsair-class Frigate!
The Dark Eldar aboard the pirate ship were stunned. How was the humans' flying steel rod so fast?
On the Fortune's bridge, the captain ordered:
"Port Macro Cannon batteries, fire a full salvo! Break these Xenos bastards' Psychic Shield!"
Hundreds of Macro Cannons on the Fortune's port side fired together, unleashing shells of various calibers.
The shells hammered the pirate ship's Psychic Shield, setting off