Of the decapitated remnant of the Crab driving itself like a spear into the hull of the Probe. Of the ship’s spine crumpling and cracking as it encountered the hull plate, lengthy sections wheeling out of the collision. Then, seconds later, the main GUTdrive pod itself, still wrapped in its huge block of asteroid ice, hurtled towards the Probe.
Poole roared, ‘Probe this—’
Just as Poole had set it, the engine overloaded on impact. A pulse of GUT energy, the energy that had once driven the expansion of the universe itself, was released right up against the hull plate surface of the Probe.
Another astounding explosion, that must briefly illuminate all the worlds of the inner Solar System.
-Xeelee: Vengeance, Ch. 38