Suddenly.
A small reddish-brown planet caught his attention.
"Zero, what's that?"
Hope pointed toward a distant planet. "Dawn Star's moon?"
A Holographic Projection quickly unfolded. "Light Satellite One, Dawn Star's only moon."
Reading the detailed information in the holographic image, Hope murmured to himself, "It does look a little like the Earth-Moon system..."
A flash of light interrupted his recollections.
He looked into the distance.
A second flash appeared.
"Zero, magnify this area," Hope said gravely after confirming that his eyes weren't playing tricks on him.
The Holographic Projection changed rapidly.
Looking at the warship in the image, familiar yet somehow unfamiliar, Hope instinctively narrowed his eyes.
"A Golden Crow Battleship?"
He murmured to himself, "That can't be right. Golden Crow Battleships don't have those protrusions on their hulls..."
Zero quickly explained, "Experiments related to shield technology are underway in the target area."
"This Golden Crow Battleship is an experimental model equipped with magnetic field shields and Plasma Shields."
"Shield technology?!" Hope's eyes flew wide open.
Was this the shield technology he was thinking of?!
The images in the Holographic Projection soon gave him his answer.
"High-energy ion beams, first volley!"
Lü Yongchang's voice rang out inside Shipboard Laboratory One aboard the Earth.
The instant he finished speaking, dozens of surrounding Golden Crow Battleships activated their High-Energy Ion Beam Weapons simultaneously.
Since they had charged in advance, there was virtually no delay. Powerful ion beams shot straight toward the target warship-a Golden Crow Battleship with numerous hemispherical devices distributed evenly across its hull.
Faced with concentrated fire from so many ion beams, an ordinary Golden Crow Battleship would have met one outcome, and one outcome alone.
The destruction of the ship and the death of its crew.
But clearly, the Golden Crow Battleship at the center of the target