The Center of the Galaxy, Pt 2
Thanatos joined the other drogar ships and lobbed numerous disintegration mortars at their enemies. They flung streams of mortar fire down at the incoming enemy ships with reckless abandon - even if they missed, they still struck the station far below.
Those that didn’t miss slammed into the incoming devastators with relative ease.
The orange energies that encased them swept outward and completely shorted out any repair circuits near the point of impact. Then, the dark nuclei burst all over the armor plating where countless nanites began to eat through the armor itself.
They chewed through every metallic element in their path greedily, and reduced the enemy devastators’ exterior defenses moot. Each of them had massive gaping holes that revealed far more fragile components inside.
In fact, the mortar nuclei already began to eat into those components, which caused a handful of the enemy devastators to begin to lose internal power.