Chapter 39 - Visualizing a Beheading (Patreon)

While writing the combat scene this chapter, I wanted Gothic to use his sword to behead some enemies.  So I pulled up videos like this to get a sense for how others have done it.

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This sword was pretty much the closest thing the Star Trek universe had to the lightsaber of Star Wars fame and was another of my many inventions, its antiproton edge allowing it to cut through damn near anything. The science and technology behind this weapon actually came from the Hur'q/Collectors, but they never would have imagined using it the way I had. Since the blade edge was made of energized antiprotons, no physical matter could withstand it. Given enough time and effort I could even cut through the thick hull of a starship, as I had done once before when I had stolen two Collector power cores from destroyed ships, so the armor worn by the alien stood no chance of withstanding my attack.

In the silence of the corridor, my enemy's head slowly fell off his neck and loudly struck the deck plate with a meaty thump. Thankfully, the antiproton edge had cauterized the flesh as it cut, so there was no blood to dirty my brand-new fucking carpet. Fucking alien bastards messing up my new ride. Cleanliness aside, cauterizing wounds would prevent bleeding damage, which wasn’t ideal. Perhaps I could impregnate the anti-proton energy with something that would prevent cauterization as well as coagulation. The Jem’Hadar had done something similar to their weapons, so why couldn’t I?