Thread:Zillafire101/@comment-4960835-20160524105213/@comment-5496489-20160905031549

@Charles Accel Gates can be used to transport large numbers of forces within minutes across vast ranges of space. Also sometimes you need to take acceptable breaks when writing fiction, if the fight is one sided in the good guy's favor there's not much to get invested in and no real reason to care about what happens. If you can't have desperation you need balance. As it is it doesn't really come across as an important event and just an annoyance for the Covenant. Realism is all fine and good and I applaud for trying to make it so, but you can take these acceptable breaks from reality. The vast majority of readers will be perfectly willing to role with it since it will create a more meaningful and dramatic conflict which is what engages the reader. At the very least you may want to avoid words such as "flatten" they really do give off an overpowered vibe.