Understand, first: it has been defanged by distance alone. The forces inherent in the design do not permit such things as safety, not past that critical point. There are redundancies and paths to cut things off beforehand, myriads per method- but here, the only way out is through. The rods cannot be pulled apart once they've melted, after all, and an undirected explosion is barely better than a directed one. But there is no need to cancel, not this time- the heat boils through the lasing rods with the passage of starlike power, and a distant gem (glittering, finely-made, built for this) shines with reflected candlelight.
