Elias looked at the empty air where the connection cable had been severed cleanly, as if by a laser. He smiled. "I guess we're going to need a bigger ."
To a layman, it looked like nothing more than a dense, brushed-aluminum cylinder bristling with high-tensile bolts and a single, glowing fiber-optic port. But to Elias, the lead engineer at Aetherdyne Systems, it was a masterpiece—the first "J-spec" unit capable of handling a 1000-joule discharge in a microsecond burst without melting its own casing. DE-250-A-1000J.pdf
Elias wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the perfectly silent machine. "What is it then?" Elias looked at the empty air where the