The Helix

The bridge crew froze when the second orbital laser cannon blast came towards us.

We were dead, albeit in a minute, so all we could do was try to work out how the enemy had developed a way to fire a weapon with a 24 hour cooldown twice in 10 seconds.

We quickly ruled out false data about the cooldown, a second cannon array, and some sort of illusion.

As we settled on some sort of time distortion must be in play, impact occured.

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The bridge crew froze when the second and third orbital laser cannon blasts came towards us...