Dunark, the crown prince of Kondal, had developed that stabbing ray as
the culminating weapon of ten thousand years of Osnomian warfare;
and, driven by even the comparatively feeble energies know to the denizens
of the Green System before Seaton's advent, no know substance had
been able to resist for more than a moment its corrosively, annihilatingly
poignant thrust.
And now this furious stiletto of pure energy, driven by the full power
of four hundred pounds of disintegrating atomic copper, at this point-blank
range, was hurled against the mere inch of transparent material which
comprised the skin of the tiny cruiser.
--DuQuesne attempting to damage a Fenachrone scout as a stratagem.