The Medusian’s armor and uniforms completely ectoplasmic Bellis could change her exterior appearance moment to moment or vanish completely or reappear in any number of places at once with a singular consciousness. Bellis shared only a third of this consciousness with Annua her de facto lieutenant and sometimes liaison to the planetary counsel; although it was Sylvestia that enforced the regent’s power with silent unquestioning force coupled with an endless well of cold-blooded bloodlust. Bellis appeared at the court of the Queen of the Galaxy knowing this queen to be but a stepping stone rather a pebble to crush beneath her ectoplasmic boot heel.
Many planet delegates were present, some who hadn’t participated in the Great Wars because of their extreme distance. But here they were having traveling hundreds of light years to greet the new commodore of star quadrant 9 the largest ungoverned sector of space. The crab nebula and its super weapons were little match for a lighting strike into the heart of the nebula. Many experienced pilots in the planetary fleet relishing being chosen to steer the anxious marauders into the center of an enemy expecting little more than a small invading force. Dividing into three prongs of attack left the enemy defenseless with crippling blows from all sides. Bombs dropped they could not destroy destroyed things that had lain unseen for ages. Eons of uncovered stoneworks and columns, gigantic metal works, bridges and tunnel networks revealed to lay below the surface of every metropolis, cosmopolitan center, and small village. Walls were no barrier to the shapeshifting invaders the one unchanging thing the gauge of their metal hacking anything and everything clean in two. Buildings demolished for miles around; planet surfaces scorched by their own internal heat as unstable volcanic plums and searing geysers punched into the crust allowed the burning mantel to escaping flooding plazas and wide avenues with a torrential wave of overflowing lava the zombie army thought nothing of.
Whatever managed by sheer will to survive the rains and floods of fire was minced with sabres striking at hyperspeed from miles away. Rampant electricity heating inert the gas in the planet’s atmosphere produced unstable volatile compounds resulting in world shaking explosions. The crab nebula surrendered after one assault; the devastation chronicled thereafter as the First Great War. For this overwhelming victory Bellis received the galactic Grand Star.