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Immediately, the signal to activate the FTL interdictors goes out, sealing the system.
Meanwhile, its bombardment platforms lost, the SA fleet comes about, fighters spreading out to swoop in and provide cover fire. The main flagship, the Trisagion, shrugs off torpedo blasts, and together with the Mobile HQ's charges at the heart of the defending fleet. On the other side of the engagement sphere, the Searing Thunder missile platforms open fire, drowning the Killerbees in swarms of missiles, even as nearly half of them explode from enemy fire.
The Venator Dreadnoughts form up as the backbone of the fleet line, shields flickering, but stubbornly resisting barrage after barrage of artillery fire.
At the outer edges of the fight, a small drone launches from a corvette, cloaking out of sight soon thereafter.
