Chapter 699: The Death Zone

Imagine, in the vacuum of space, two advanced civilizations engaged in fierce battle, both capable of flight at speeds exceeding half the speed of light. What kind of weapons could they use in combat?

Using something like space torpedoes or missiles would be laughable because their speeds wouldn't be as fast as the targets they are meant to attack.

In atmospheric flight, it's often that smaller but more powerful aircraft are faster, such as fighters being definitely faster than bombers, and missiles are faster than planes. This relates to a problem of power-to-weight ratio, but in the vacuum of space, where there is no air and no resistance, flight speed becomes unrelated to the size of the craft.

Hence, weapons in space often revolve around emitting beams and rays, like lasers at the speed of light, or rays reaching ninety-nine percent that of light beams.