Dead Echoes
“So that’s Godeater, huh?” said Eva. “Some crazy energy that eats battlefields? Is that what it is?”
The Admiral shook her head solemnly.
“We’ve no idea, to be perfectly honest. It swallowed up the entirety of Dendrus. Whole thing up and vanished off the map.”
She made poofing gestures with her hand, and had a tone of incredulity in her voice.
“Worse,” she continued, “anything that touches it vanishes, as though it simply stops existing. We sent in multiple probes to perform planetary scans, but… they were consumed by the planet. We can’t sense or scan the planet in any way with what we have. The only way we even know it’s there is through its gravitational field.”
As a person of science, what had happened to Dendrus was beyond the realm of knowledge, of reality.
But for some reason, that didn’t frighten the Admiral.