First Contact - Chapter Sixteen

... antly, the lights moved in patterns that brought satisfaction with their mathematical progressions, the hull colors were smooth and brought to mind comfort and calm.

The ones escorting it, though, surrounding it in a sphere of heavy metal, were obviously not built to calm anyone. They bristled with weapons that snarled silently, heavy with thick armor that felt heavy and crushing to the eye, the engines growled with barely restrained energy, and the lights seemed to search for weakness. ...