The Battle is rather tense, but the rest of the fleet is moving in quickly to support.
A Battle Frigate managed to completely destroy the weapons of one side of the control ship, Though that ship had more weapons, and rotated to compensate.
Losses on the Mikrelian side were beginning to pile up. Morale steadily decreased until...
...the legendary Rear Admiral Lewis of the Star fleet showed up.
The largest strike craft was first to notice their arrival, as it was near the entry point when Lewis warped in.
It seemed to have strayed too far from the mothership, as it was running low on power just chasing a heavily damaged fighter.
Lieutenant Commander Donovan (Working name for the other guy in the Command Ship, you can change it if you want), who had the honor of accompanying Lewis to the battle in his own ship, opened fire on the Heavy Fighter with advanced weaponry.
Lewis had noticed that the Defense Fleet has continued taking losses. He had hoped these rogue ships didn't do too much, but it seems like they won't hold for long.
Donovan and his division of the fleet destroyed the Heavy Fighter with ease. The tide of the battle had officially turned.
Lewis ordered the Defense fleet to go on full retreat and let Starfleet take over the operation to destroy the subcore. They obliged...
...but most of them were very unlucky, and were gunned down by the Collective.
Losses were heavy, but the Starfleet was getting in position for the killing blow.
The fact that the Defense Fleet was very unlucky had surfaced again - one of the Defense Cruisers reported that main engines were entirely destroyed, and it could not retreat. Their crew were trying to rush to the escape pods.
Thinking Quickly, Lewis ordered the main division of his fleet to form an offensive wedge while the other two divisions surrounded the remaining rogue ships in a pincer tactic
Damage was extensive to the stranded cruiser, and fires were going out of control onboard that ship. Lewis had little time left. To make matters worse, the biggest ship - the Subcore - had turned its attention towards Lewis and Donovan.
Mikrelian forces engaged the Subcore and it's escorting Control ship. They were in a heavy defensive position as the Subcore drifted on.
The Electrobolts employed by the Mikrelian Starfleet were proving to be extremely effective weapons - it was disrupting the powerful shields on the Collective's ships.
Lewis' fleet tried their hardest to prevent the Subcore from making a bold tactic, firing just about everything they have. There were reports that two escort ships had already been destroyed, and a Daybreak suffered severe damage.
Lewis and Donovon took point of the now-complete formation, but the Subcore was now directly in front of them!
The Captain of the crippled Defense Cruiser reported from his escape pod that all remaining personnel had safely ejected from the ship and the Cruiser had self-destructed. He did note there were many casualties, however. ((I Self-Destructed it because it was not moving, on fire, and was going to just burn to a crisp anyway.))
Lewis ordered the fleet to engage the Subcore. Just as he did, however, he and Donovan suffered from a massive headache...
Their headaches were more of an agonizing burn as different parts of their heads felt like they were being poked and prodded, being searched... Their thoughts raced around, many images came through their minds,
Donovan's headache ceased, but Lewis saw a vision... Two figures were fighting eachother. One was glowing sickly green and had something of a freakish appearance, both ghostly and mutated. The other figure seemed holographic, had an artificial appearance and was glowing red - almost as freakish-looking with a cube head that had eyes around all sides. The Robot was firing beams of light that could teleport every which way, while the Phantom had multiple tendrils portruding from its body, trying to stab or wrap around the robot. Above, two ships were also fighting, An Assault Coreship and... some sort of living ship never before seen.
The Vision stopped abruptly and Lewis found himself back at the bridge of the Type-1000, the Subcore looming angrily nearby, screened only by the Battle Stations in front of his ship and Donovan's. It transmitted an alarming message:
IF
YOU
REALLY
WISH
FOR
DEATH
I
WILL
GRANT
YOUR
WISH
! ! ! ! ! ! !
The Subcore continued flying towards them. Lewis ran a scan of the Subcore and discovered it's... his...? gambit: The Subcore has an anti-matter core, in which if it is detonated, the resulting explosion could obliterate his nearby forces - including Lewis himself! The only way to detonate it is to puncture through the Subcore to its center. It seems the Subcore knew it was fighting a losing battle, and wanted to take as many Mikrelians with him as possible.
Lewis thought hard, what will be the Rear Admiral's next move?