Quote Originally Posted by Storm
What has always annoyed me is how Queen Brahne managed to escape her ship on an "escape pod", even though Bahamut blew her fleet to pieces in a matter of seconds.
When they show the fleet from above, during the FMC, you can see that the bow and stern of many of the ships are almost intact. Rather than destroying the ships completely, I think Bahamut 'merely' knocked a gaping hole through them.