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Meanwhile, back on the Superweapons Firing Platform

[ISB Colonel] The team has departed the Furnace superweapon.

[Admiral Zhersis] We still have a unit signal on surface.

[ISB Colonel] *opens prerecorded hologram*

5 mins later

[Admiral Zhersis] Very well. We will follow the Emperor's orders. He has done what he must.

--

Chrono's ship departed Furnace from the Firing Platform, carrying the team with it.

Following it are hundreds of Core Ships, carrying vital intel and research from the Furnace superweapon.

Standing on the Firing Platform, alone, is its creator and sole commander. Besides him is a massive metal-gray box, loaded with the Nova Bomb. Its detonation strength rivals that of the most powerful stellar flares.

The Super Tactical Droid has entered the X-70K to finish off what needs to be done.

The Cataclysm Machine loomed bigger and bigger in the Furnace sky. The orbit has been set to collide with the Machine at maximum speed.

He reached for the control panels and entered the launch codes. The Furnace Superweapon has already depleted its other weapons. Its final recourse is its main weapon: a tube channeling the power of a thousand stars into a lightsaber of unparalleled power. Nothing could stop this sword of Imperial wrath. Nothing that mortals has created, at least.

[404] Power up the Darksaber.

[Furnace AIC] Darksaber ready.

[404] Full reactor fire. Dump the entire core onto the Machine.

[Furnace AIC] All remaining reactors powering.

[404] reaches for subspace channel

-

over the Furnace Secure Communications channel

crackle

[404] Attention, all members of the Alliance to Restore the Multiverse.

[404] In 120 seconds, the Furnace superweapon will be destroyed. Set all deflector shields to full power immediately.

[ISB Colonel] Very well, my lord.

[Admiral Cole] Farewell, commander.

[Admiral Zhersis] May the Force be with you.

[404] I am the Force. But my gratitude.

[404] The time has come for me to do what I must.

Connection severed by host

-

He looked up. The Cataclysm Machine has filled up half of the airless sky.

He looked down. The fusion core of Furnace is glowing brighter.

He looked sideways. The reactors are fully charged.

[404] And this is how the Cataclysm Machine dies, with thunderous explosions.

[Furnace AIC] All systems ready. Darksaber is fully powered.

[404] Execute Operation: Cinder.

[Furnace AIC] Operation: Cinder initiated.

-

Furnace is halfway blocked by the Machine.

And then it fired.

The red fist of pure destruction erupted from the Furnace core, through the tube, slamming into the surface of the Machine and disintegrating immense swaths of material. The Machine now took up the entire Furnace sky.

He looked up once more.

He saw his greatest creation tear through the surface of the seemingly indestructible object of the Anti-creators.

He looked sideways. the Nova Bomb is ready.

He looked the other way. The Furnace AIC has uploaded itself into the X-70K and is waiting.

---

[404] The time has come for all this to end.

[Furnace AIC] Nova Bomb primed.

[404] Dewit.

''surprise and a bit of panic in Chrono's ship, because apparently nobody noticed a missing member until basically the last moment.

The last thing they heard before they entered the group shield of the Alliance was the Imperial March motif, played in A Minor over the Furnace Secure Communications.

for the last time.''

Furnace is now fully blocked by the Machine from the Alliance Starfleet viewpoint.

---

he looked up one last time.

He saw the surface of the Cataclysm Machine rushing to meet the surface of the Furnace superweapon.

--

A massive nuclear flash flared from behind the Cataclysm Machine. It was the Nova Bomb going off. It was the Furnace Superweapon impacting the Machine.

Ten seconds later, a colossal detonation ripped apart spacetime at the location of where the Furnace Superweapon once was. The supernova glowed with the brightness of a billion suns, creating a wall of plasma that flowed across the surface of the Machine and incinerating all in its way.

A shockwave of energy reached the combined shields of the Alliance. It rippled against the shields, breaching it in weak spots.

An Imperial-3 Star Destroyer near the team's ship was hit by a breach in the shields, and is smashed into pieces. The cloud of debris then collided with an Infinity-class battleship behind it, splicing the latter into two.

Unbeknownst to the team, the X-70K has jettisoned out of Furnace mere seconds before the first impact. It rode on the supernova blast and is accelerated into an elliptical trajectory around the Alliance fleet.