Agile and under perfect control, the smaller ship darted about the clumsy, almost uncontrollable Southern ironclad.
Alien ships darted around, trying to locate her.
The ship weaved and darted about, the air exploding around it.
As the ship darted free into space, Lanarck looked back to see the slug sprawled across half a hemisphere.
But just as she reached the top there came a great crashing noise like a tree coming down and the ship rocked and darted forward.
Around and around the planet, in brief bursts of completely incomprehensible speed, the huge ship darted.
The ship then darted into the air and the shrinking edge became an ever-decreasing circle upon the ground beneath her.
Luckily the smaller ship darted aside in time and fled for safety behind a nearby moon.
Now the black ship darted in against the Ionian, completely covering the merchant ship from view.
The black ships darted forward in a solid wall, then halted.