compared to the massive Mass Drivers, that slowly, but so steadily, with
    a bass, gentle hum, began towering to the sky, reaching out to it with a barrel so long you would need two loaded semi-trucks to cover the length. The
    barrels aligned, and I could still hear the humming, but it started growing stronger, stronger... before one of the barrels sparked inside a few times, and
    I was blinded by a vast flash... Only then, the humming cut off, only then, I heard the lightning, and only then, a spik