As the first pair jammed on thier front thrusters in order to turn sharply, they unwittingly caused a cascading pile-up effect which would spell thier own destruction.
Like a pile of massive dominoes, the six corvettes on the end of the convoy rear-ended on another, thier massive hulk's of metal slamming and crashing into one another at full speed, creating a cataclysmic explosion.
The light of thier blast twinkled like a dying star on the void, there one second . . .gone, the next.
