consequences

Precisely shaped

Precisely shaped and directed jets of plasma sliced six perfect circles through the tough, refractory armorplast as easily if it had been no tougher than old-fashioned glass.
The consequences for the personnel inside the gallery, none of whom were in spacesuits, were as ghastly as they were predictable.
* * *
Thandi watched the hurricanes of atmosphere explode out of the breaches her teams had blasted. Computer chips, loose furniture, sheets of paper, and human beings came with them, sucked out by the hungry vacuum before interior blast doors and emergency hatches slammed shut, sealing off the air-gushing wounds.
"All Tango-Lima-Alpha units, this is Kaja. Phase One