It was designated . It wasn't a weapon in the traditional sense. It was a forty-foot spire of oscillating obsidian, wired directly into the planet’s tectonic plates. The brass back at Central Command called it a 'Pacification Engine.' Thorne called it a coffin maker.
"I said, initiate the sequence."
The Symphony began to physically shudder. The obsidian plating rippled as if the serpent were waking up, sloughing off its skin. symphony of the serpent 47