Complex sentence: When Beckley's spacecraft entered the tail of an unknown comet concealing Max's starship, the intense heat of the spacecraft's thrusters vaporized Beckley's craft as well as Beckley himself.
Split into simpler sentences: When Beckley's spacecraft entered the tail of an unknown comet concealing Max's starship. The intense heat of the spacecraft's thrusters vaporized Beckley's craft as well as Beckley himself.