ROOOOOOOOAR—BOOM!
Space at the outer border of System #31 tore open like a ripped black curtain as seven thousand jagged Iron-Wing warships poured out of a massive blood-red warp gate!
At the very center of the formation loomed a warship so colossal that it cast a shadow across three nearby moons.
It was the Black-Star Crusher—a ten-mile-long dreadnought forged from ten billion tons of compressed black meteoric iron and plated with golden sun-crow feathers. This dreadnought was Warlord Tie Kuang’s masterpiece: he had worked a hundred billion miners to the bone for eighty years to build it as a tribute gift for the Third Prince of the Golden-Crow Sun Clan, and had borrowed it to rule the Heavy-Metal Cluster with terror.
Mounted along the spine of the ten-mile dreadnought sat a single, half-mile-wide cannon barrel shaped like a roaring three-legged crow’s beak—the Star-Melting Main Cannon, a weapon capable of vaporizing a small moon in a single shot!
Standing atop the armored command tower of the Black-Star Crusher was Warlord Tie Kuang (Rank 8 Mid Peak) himself.
He looked like a walking fortress of jagged black metal. Encased from head to toe in Rank 8 Meteoric-Iron Battle Armor, his shoulders were three yards wide, and crimson solar fire leaked out from the eye-slits of his visor as he stared across the system at the White Dwarf Stamp-Press Shipyard.
