RedAndCosmoteer
The Rebel ships now go into full on combat. With the imposing force greatly weakened, they now have only one strategy.
Destroy or be destroyed
They deep-scan the system, but find nothing of use. They pull out the ships they originally sent to find the signature and focus on getting out of the system intact with no enemies alive to tell the tail.
Catelyn my non-existent AI modules (I should really write the full lore of the Rebels and the SGG someday, but basically, there are no AI cores in the Rebel ships)?