Chapter Twenty
It took the Transgalactic Council only ten days to locate the Shadow’s flagship vessel, but their scientists took over six weeks to develop the anti-matter bomb. The idea for the technology wasn’t new, and they’d already been working on a prototype when the battle had occurred, so they hadn’t had to start from scratch. The greatest challenge, Jas heard, was to envelop the anti-matter in pulse energy for long enough after its manufacture for it to be fired and taken in by the Shadow weapon. Anti-matter was incredibly unstable.
Also, the UA couldn’t simply create the bomb, jump to the Shadow ship’s position, and fire it into the Shadow’s beam. It would have to send a ship that was carrying the bomb-making equipment to attack the Shadow vessel. If the bomb wasn’t fired in tim
