(they’ve locked on to our pattern position and follow us.) “Didn’t Reynald— It happened. So, so many Judas lay in the void, disabled. When Reynald gave the order, they followed it. Almost four hundred Judas inverted their Shadows at once, uploading the reformat virus into the Whenstream. Cataclysm was an understatement. To open up a Shadow in the Stream was an accepted tactic of the Judas, using a black hole that was the Shadow to open a phase space portal into the Stream. But to invert a Shadow in the Stream... Of course, it had been done in space battle countless times before. Space battle, not time battle, not Stream battle inside of Program Seven. The Shadow tethered the Judas vessels to the main program. To invert the Shadow code was in essence to sever all tethers, which forced the program to reformat to a new phase level, a physical phase level. To invert meant the end of the virtual program as a new reality was written.
