The Myriad Stars System came back online and reset, resuming its comprehensive observation of the Stellar System.
The white flash had destroyed many older satellites, but over a thousand cameras still resumed monitoring Water Blue Star!
And there, in the Solar System, was that life-bearing planet.
The side of Water Blue Star that had once been green, yellow, brown, and white.
Had now become a yellow wasteland!
The moon looked as though it had been slapped, the dust knocked loose trailing far out into space.
Had that yellow planet not remained in Water Blue Star's orbit, Luo Qi would never have believed it was the same world!
What the fuck happened to humanity's promised last stand?!
Did someone pick up the wrong script?!
With a vivid demonstration, the Extrasolar Battleship had taught Luo Qi how a superior civilization could annihilate and toy with an inferior one.
Under the white flash, vast amounts of escaping material had accumulated on Water Blue Star's other, shadowed hemisphere.
They formed a conspicuous trail over ninety thousand kilometers long. Mixed with Orange Star's atmosphere, seawater, plants, animals, and even wrecked mechs, this tail stretched nearly eight times the planet's diameter!
Everything that had not hidden behind the planet's shadow had been utterly destroyed!
So much for humanity's space defense network!
So much for the bases on the lunar surface!
So much for the massive ground armies!
Water Blue Star's surface resembled a peeled potato, its deeper geological strata laid bare.
Humanity's fragile interstellar fleet had vanished outright into the cosmos, leaving not even a scrap behind!
Observations showed that, in that single second, the entire planet had shifted roughly a thousand kilometers from its prescribed orbit!
It had lost hundreds of billions of billions of tons of mass!
The ratio of land to ocean had