Men Like Gods; Part I, Far Journeys - Men Like Gods, #1

MEN LIKE GODSPart IFar JourneysEli Gamasin, the engineer of suns, travels to the world of Ora where a conference of various star people is being held. At the conference, rumors about a yet unknown advanced civilization of "Galaxians" are unveiled. These seem to be involved in a cruel war with even more mysterious enemies, the "Destroyers". In order to gather some knowledge about these races a squadron of star cruisers is sent out to the Pleiades cluster.
Arriving there at the world of Sigma humans and their allies become witness of the cruel war crimes of the "Destroyers" and become a combatant party. One of the humans, Eli's best friend André, is being captured and abducted by the Destroyers, which are capable of being invisible. During a battle amidst the star field the humans are able to destroy many cruisers of the destroyers. André remains missing. The expedition decides to travel to the Chi Persei cluster where the homestead both of the Galaxians and the Destroyers seems to be located.
Warned by the Galaxians the human expedition force enters the cluster and is being trapped. The Destroyers turn out to be able to bend the three-dimensional space at will. The captain of the last remaining cruiser attacks and annihilates a star fortress of the Destroyers and breaks free. The ability of the humans to annihilate matter to space is the tactical advantage in that case.