>shadows...
>
>reflex cannon.

Ah, here I think you misjudge. Sure, the reflex cannon (as well as the PTC on the Concordia, the Big Mother Gun on the AT&T station and every other superweapon in the UF arsenal) could blow fleets of Shadow battlespiders into the next world, but the battlespiders are damned fast and agile, capable of staying out of the firing arcs.

Other than that, I'll agree with your assessment; the battle will be long & hard, but the Shadows are screwed in the end -- the Authors are arrayed against them, after all. ;)

>poor shadows.

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