Excerpt from Annihilation, Book III-A Rose Grows in Weeds
G et Mikado and Ren-Bir on the com, Dorg ordered. The two ship captains appeared on his display and Dorg said, We have a Plant scout that just jumped into the system on the other side of the sun. I am sending you the coordinates of the ship and I am planning to jump in and surround that ship with our three ships and fire immediately on emergence from null space. The Dremel are going to detonate a nuclear weapon on an asteroid close to the scout and we will all jump one sem before it goes off. Have your jump officers synchronize their systems with Rossville and use your primary beam and two needles. Well begin the operation as soon as the plant ship crosses the jump limit by 15 minutes, any questions?
No sir, they both said and broke connection to ready their ships.
Lt. Glensh looked up from her display and said, Sir, the scout has crossed the jump limit and is 15 minutes inside it.
Klas, tell the Dremel to launch the missiles on my mark, we will jump at 14 sems after launch. Ready, mark; please count down the launch for us.
Ten sems, nine, eight, seven two, one, fire.
Mark 14 sems and jump; ready weapons, Dorg ordered.
The time counted down and Glensh said, Jumping now.
The three megaships jumped and broke back into normal space surrounding the Algean Scout just as the nuclear explosion detonated. Fire now, Dorg yelled!
The scout was hit by three 5,000 foot wide primary beams and six needles. The 6,400 foot long scout disappeared in an explosion that didnt even leave rubble. Nothing remained of the huge ship bigger than dust motes.