Black Hole Accelerator MK IX - Test Firing Round 2
The multi-Billion tons of ships have painstakingly mined and moved entire star systems (and their stars). A continuous accelerator ring through multiple jump points shows a particle accelerator cannon spanning Multiple Systems in length, the product of sheer coincidence, a "you must be crazy!" design and half of book worth of mathematical calculations.
At the 'business' end is a single jumpship about to prod the Invader wormhole and let loose the unstoppable menace. Or so it has been said to be unstoppable. Many an unwary player has been swallowed whole by the massive horde.
The ship moves a little closer, each 1 hour increment taking 30minutes to process.
It reaches the wormhole and in a terrible silence, the Invader horde appears as a single red dot... and a stack of contacts too high to be read.
The Black Hole Accelerator coughs. Once.
And the dot disappears. So does the nearby star and most of the business end of the Accelerator itself. Only too late was it realized that being an observation ship was not going to be healthy, but eh, friendly fire is an unheard of term.
So is, apparently, overkill.
EDIT:
A few hours IG time later, the player enters the star system with a scout ship. It seems to be mostly harmless. Except for... another red dot.
Ah, crap.