Out in the cold darkness beyond World #9, one thousand Blood-Skull Star-Destroyers roared forward like a pack of starving wolves.
Their rear Spirit-Furnace thrusters spat out three-hundred-foot tails of crimson flame, pushing the massive iron hulls to terrifying speeds. Space dust and stray meteor rocks were pulverized into fine powder by the iron rams mounted on the bows of the warships.
Up on the bridge of the three-mile-long flagship, Pirate Queen Hong Ye stood at the very front of the prow, her crimson battle-coat snapping in the surging flow of her Qi.
“Big Sister, the vanguard squadron of three hundred ships has reached full warp-charge speed!” First Admiral Hu Bao shouted, his bald head gleaming with sweat and excitement. “In three minutes, we will smash right through the orbit of that purple pill-moon and tear their space railway into scrap iron!”
“Good!” Hong Ye’s eyes blazed coldly as she gripped her forty-foot Blood-Dragon Saber. “That smooth-talking magistrate thinks he can mock my Blood-Skull Armada in front of the whole star sector? First, we smash his train tracks! Second, we grab that fat chef who poisoned Mad-Dog Kui with those pork buns and force him to hand over the antidote! Third, we loot every single grain silo and pill warehouse across all nine worlds!”
