And only then did the light from the solar system, after the gravitational wave spread through it, reach Rui, because it only traveled at the speed of light. It could not travel faster than a gravitational wave, which also traveled at the speed of light.
Thus, only then did Rui see what had become of his native solar system.
It had been greatly destroyed.
Planets.
Asteroid belt.
The many meteorites.
And all of the human lives working in space infrastructure across that segment of the solar system had been lost along with the infrastructure they resided within.
The blood-red suns shining with blinding brightness in his eyes flickered with horror as he beheld the destruction inflicted upon a large portion of their solar system.
It was a realm of destruction that greatly exceeded anything he had ever seen in his entire life. The blood-red suns in his eyes flared with grave severity as his attention focused on the titanic world ship that hung at the edge of the galaxy.
