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The Destroyer Gemini slowed as it approached the massive asteroid. The support fighters raced away from the Gemini and took up flanking positions. Alone and this deep in space, there was always the present threat from the Chitins. The destroyer activated the deflection laser and began nudging the asteroid off its collision course with the populated planet, Eros.

The first flash came from the shadows on the surface of the asteroid as the Chitin craft fired a plasma spear. The second came from the furthest fighter as the plasma spear vaporized it. Two more flashes from the Chitin weapon quickly destroyed two more fighters.

Within a nanosecond of the first flash, the Gemini’s artificial intelligence targeted the point on the asteroid where the Chitin weapon blasts had originated and launched a salvo of combat drones. At the same time, the forward battery of guns each fired a thousand rounds of high density metallic shot in a wide spread over the target area.

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