Machine World (Undying Mercenaries book 4)
“In other words, instead of moving from one planet to the next, getting closer and closer to the central star, we dove straight down toward the target world’s northern pole.
It was no secret we were coming. Three Imperial capital ships, dreadnaughts all, can’t hide on approach. Once we turned off the Alcubierre drive and transformed from glowing blue-white spheres of light into what looked like a trio of comets with hundred-kilometer long plumes of exhaust, any alien watching the scene would have to be blind not to know what was coming next.
The good news was that they couldn’t have detected us until we came out of our warp bubbles. As I understood it from the techs, we were technically visible as a bubble of light while the drive was active, but since that effect was moving faster than the speed of light in relative terms, there was no time for the light thus produced to reach the eyes of anyone watching. We were, effectively, out-running our own shadows.
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