"Hammer of Morning Star's" purification strike, which transcended conventional understanding, fully revealed its effects within minutes after the silvery-blue light swept across Jade Stone Star.
The Bug Race's bio-signals on the planet were completely erased from all detectors, along with the network of energy conduits deep within the crust, as if they never existed.
The geological structure of the planet remained stable, leaving only the physical scars of war.
Meanwhile, the main fleet of the Bug Race outside the Aisera Star System seemed to receive the signal that the core node was completely "erased."
After a brief chaotic moment, as if they had lost command, the dozen or so giant bio-ships resembling living asteroid began to slowly, yet uniformly, withdraw from contact with the United Fleet of the Star Alliance, retreating to the outer regions of the star system and even deeper into space.
