After the pirate ship's solar sails were sliced off by the beams, the entire vessel lost propulsion and began drifting aimlessly through the Webway.
At that moment, Li Qinwu's fleet closed in. Dozens of warships surrounded the pirate ship, leaving no gaps.
The powerless pirate ship was still attacking with everything it had, firing pulsed lance shots and torpedoes, and even sending out small fighters carrying bombs in an attempt to attack Li Qinwu's fleet.
But the moment those Eldar fighters flew off the pirate ship's deck, before they could even accelerate, nearly a thousand small-caliber lances locked onto them and blasted them into space debris.
Afterward, the lances aboard the Fortune targeted the pirate ship's exposed weapons and picked them off.
The lances continuously irradiated the protruding weapon turrets on the Aeldari Battleship. After just a few seconds of exposure, those turrets made of wraithbone melted, blackened, cracked apart, and exploded!
The neutralization process lasted several hours, with each of the Fortune's dozens of lances firing dozens of times.
The final result was that every protrusion on the surface of the Dark Eldar pirate ship's hull, anything suspected of being a weapons platform, had been scorched black and blasted into a gaping hole.
Li Qinwu left the Psychic Throne and went to the bridge.
The automatic sensor door opened. The moment he stepped onto the bridge, the captain reported loudly:
"Sir, the xenos bastards' warship has been neutralized. There are currently no weapon launchers left on the surface of its hull!"
Li Qinwu walked over to the Control Console and examined the scan of the Aeldari Battleship on the Holographic Projector.
"How many people are aboard their warship? Can we scan them?"
The captain nodded.
"The xenos bastards' warship has powerful counter-detection measures, but with our warships close enough