It was during one of these tense meetings between the Galactic Rulers and the Regent, which had already begun to devolve into heated arguments, that every intergalactic weapons control system across the cluster, from military command centres to battleships and even orbital Galactic Cannons, suddenly came online.
The instant the systems activated, every weapon began charging in unison.
The Galactic Rulers tried to issue shutdown commands, generals shouted orders, and technicians fought to regain control, but nothing responded to them.
None of the weapons was under their control any longer.
Every orbital cannon and every dreadnought-class battleship charged its main armament and fired immediately at the attacking forces that were laying siege to them from all directions.
