The field also deactivated the Constellation's antimatter fuel and left the ship nearly powerless. In addition, the machine projected a powerful dampening field which cut off all communications with Starfleet Command.
The main bridge was destroyed, the phaser banks were exhausted, the warp drive was destroyed and the impulse drive was severely damaged. The Constellation sustained heavy damage. The machine proved completely invulnerable to counterattack because its hull was composed of pure neutronium. The ship's deflector shields were quickly overwhelmed by the onslaught.
Orbiting the fourth planet was the planet killer, firing a pure antiproton beam at the planet and consuming the planet's rubble as fuel.Īs the Constellation approached, it was attacked by the planet killer. Proceeding to system L-374 (stardate 4202.3), the ship found three intact planets, and a fourth in the process of breaking up. Around stardate 4202.1, the Constellation, under the command of Commodore Decker, encountered massive destruction in system L-370 – all seven planets had been utterly destroyed.
