Navarch Ability Cooldown 30 Seconds -

Kel opened her eyes. They were white-hot, featureless, burning with stored light. The crimson coil around her neck sang.

Darrow didn’t relay it. She could feel them. The ship was her body. Every hull plate was skin; every sensor, a nerve. But she couldn’t act. Not yet. The cooldown was not a technical limitation. It was a biological one. Push the Navarch’s gift twice in rapid succession, and the feedback would liquefy her brainstem. navarch ability cooldown 30 seconds

The Navarch’s ability—the one that could rewrite local gravity, that could thread a fleet through a pulsar’s heartbeat or collapse an enemy dreadnought into a ball of scrap the size of a fist—had just fired. The enemy’s vanguard was gone. Vaporized. But now came the wait. Kel opened her eyes

“Navarch ability ready,” the ship’s voice announced. Darrow didn’t relay it