Not long after the shuttle reached the edge of the system, another vessel appeared, a spiky cathedral ship similar to the first one that had been fighting against the Myceloids.
This time, they got a good view of its arrival, and what Max saw made absolutely no sense from a logical or scientific standpoint.
It seemed to appear from a portal, but the portal wasn't normal; it was more like a tear in the fabric of this layer of reality, and some sort of energy being was either chasing or throwing it out.
Their sensors were going haywire from the energy influx that they couldn't interpret, and then, as suddenly as it appeared, the tear was gone, and the Cruiser Class vessel was floating in space like nothing had happened.