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Transmission of electromagnetic impulses is limited only by the very fastest thing in normal space and friction caused by what it is traveling through. That thing is light. The speed of the incoming fire was likewise limited by this cosmic speed limit. It was not disruptor fire that would be hitting her hull or shields. These were not Aschen ships. Balls of plasma contained in eletromagnetic fields screamed at her from the attacking frigate at just a small percentage under the speed of light and from not more than five kilometers away.

The energy field was a tight mesh, constricting space around her vessel. This made it more difficult for her ship to move as space itself seemed to restrict her. This would make her evasive maneuvering ineffective at such close range and against turrets that could track her movement. The webbification array on the frigate that even now constricted her movements would follow her as long as she remained in range and as long as the attacking frigate had a target lock.

Some of the drones the frigate had deployed encountered the green plasma bolts and some managed to spin away as they started to fire on AMI. None of them exploded as luminescent shields wavered like liquid water and splintered green balls of exploding plasma. Perhaps she had severely underestimated just how advanced these people and their technology was?

The EMP failed to effect the drones or the ships. They were built to withstand the harshness of space and shielded heavily against electromagnetic pulses. The barge was being held stationary, the frigate in a tight orbit around it as its hull started to come apart. Plasma detonated against the frigate's shields, some hitting, some missing completely. Point defense systems come to life spitting a hail of magnetized plasma at the drones as they came on. Both ships returned fire now on AMI and their drones converge on the new ship. Capacitors start to drain from the pressure and escape pods rocketed from the barge as she came apart in multiple violent explosions that seperated her hull into five different pieces.