8-587: Spanial, Control
Jennie sees the generally confused looks around her (Lia isn’t the only one) and explains, “cannon are a short range weapon, it’s like a pistol or a rifle only with bigger bullets. It’s very difficult to hit another spacecraft at any sort of range with cannon fire.”
Ipan says, “Contact 1 has stopped and is just shooting at the wreck.”
Indeed, under the assault, the wreck on the screen is starting to break up into chunks. Ipan zooms the view out and the small gold ship can be seen pouring a stream of what looks like little lights into the wreck.
Lia is drinking in every detail of the ships that she can see.
“It doesn’t look like they’re at a particularly difficult range…”