As the first connection was completed.
The Nova Cannon on the test platform fired.
A gray beam shot straight into deep space, showing none of the containment reactions previously seen with the Atomic Pulse Cannon.
The energy plunged straight into space, then entered the area covered by the Pariah Nexus.
The weapon fueled by concentrated psychic power seemed to suffer some interference. Scans showed that its energy dispersed faster than under a normal power supply.
But the beam still successfully struck the seemingly distant planet.
The gray-white energy struck the Phase Shield surrounding the Necron construct on the planet's surface, immediately eating a hole through it.
It then struck the enormous dark Tombstone.
The Pariah Nexus's Warp-isolation field quickly dispersed the energy.
The Necrons seemed to show no reaction to the attack.
Iax did not know that the conflict between the Stormlord and the Silent King had already approached fever pitch. Most of the Necron forces here were preoccupied with the civil war and had no time to bother with Iax.
Still, the successful test firing was good news for Iax.
The subsequent tests of the Antimatter Ray, Fragmentation Cannon, and other energy weapons all went smoothly.
The weapons all fired correctly after switching power sources.
Only the projectile-based Railguns encountered an unexpected problem.
This gray-black psychic power seemed unable to replace electricity to generate magnetization and establish supermagnetic rails, as the small, normal Psychic Crystals could.
The energy also corroded the entire length of the Railguns' rails, leaving them pitted and almost immediately unusable.
After repeated tests, Iax had no choice but to have the nano-swarm devour the warped rails completely. The corrosion even seemed to have caused some of the rails' total material mass to disappear.
Once the weapon modules were confirmed to be usable, weapons were installed