Eduian looked from Mystique to the pilot he'd been giving orders to earlier, "you heard her launch us, and get the other civilian ships launched." He said to the man who was staring at him. Idiots. Eduian had no patience for idiots. He stepped aside so she could enter the cockpit with them as the ship doors sealed and locked just before the next wave of bombardment hit.<br/><br/>Eduian brushed more blood from his face irritated at it's presence and at the wounds he had on his face, arms and chest. Stupid debris. Stupid war. He was frustrated, irritated and moments later he was even more so as he saw the shear force of the battle raging in space. He rubbed the bridge of his nose.<br/><br/>"Mystique how many civs do we have on board this ship. Adults and children. I want to know how many orphans were made today. There are 10 other ships in verious stages of leaving port, the whole planet is being evacuated as of 2 minutes ago. Not everyone is going to make it to the ships and not every ship will make it out. Were the first to leave," he said his eyes closing at the thought of so much loss and destruction. He hated war. Hated the loss, hated the destruction, hated the pain and the grief that would fallow. He pushed his bloody hair out of his face again trying to get the blood out of his left eye. He hated head wounds. He hated blood. Eduian sighed and sat waiting for Mystique to join him and to answer his questions. To give him an update on how many they had.<br/><br/>The announcement that came over the system made him pause and swear.  Great now what would they do. "If we go through that gate to Hellios they will capture and interrogate us for being Tearsia members, we need to get out of here and not to Hellios, these kids won't survive and you certainly won't get to help them or keep them Mystique. They are Coalition. They are the one's who attacked Osmaria, who are going to destroy your home and who killed these kid's parents."<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Four civilian ships took off as soon as the ship that Mystique and Eduian was on lifted off from the base. Those four ships were all more or less full of civilians. Another four were getting ready to launch. The other three were just starting to be filled with civilians.<br/><br/>Two squadrons of Tearsia fighters flocked around the four ships. For a total of 30 fighters surrounding the ships. None of them engaged any other fighters unless they came within striking distance of the civilian ships.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Skar smiled at Darin's words. Never one for formalities even now. Skar laughed, "Some things don't change do they. Well anyways, you planning on sticking this battle out? You being paid to merc now?" Skar was more or less wondering if Darin was planning on getting paid for his assistance or planning on just high tailing it out of there. "Also just a heads up their going to destroy the planet, so if your contact is on that rock. He isn't going to pay, but I will."<br/><br/>He wanted to make sure that if Darin did make a deal for payment he would get paid. Nothing worse then angering a pirate lord. That never ends well. His eyes narrowed slightly, "Go. I'll talk to you after this storm goes down." he said at last. "Fly safe," he added and returned to giving orders to launch the fighters.<br/><br/>Skar was well aware that he was in a diplomatic ship and thus didn't personally engage anyone in the battle simply sat back at a safe distance and watched the mess unfold. He'd attack, but only if someone attacked him first.<br/><br/>Skar heard the transmission coming in and swore. Damn it. He was in a diplomatic ship, but like all Aridian ships it was armed for war and fully active. Aridian's didn't believe in being unarmed ever. He pressed his controls. "Get these fighters closer to us, don't engage. I repeat DO NOT ENGAGE. Form a protective barricade around my ship. Remain ready in case someone attacks us, but do not engage." Almost immediately his fighters disengaged from combat and retreated to form a full protective ring around his ship. He couldn't risk an interstellar incident. Unless they engaged the civilian ships with weapons he wouldn't act to against the Coalition not openly.<br/><br/>He opened his other channel muting Darin's channel as he turned to face the Coalition captain who'd just made her announcement. "This is Crown Prince Skar Akarianous of Aridia. I am here on a diplomatic mission assisting in the protection and defence of civilians under attack." He said regarding Selendis with his cold ice blue eyes. He wore full formal Aridian dress including the jewelry that even non Aridians would recognize as marking him as the Crowned Prince of Aridia.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Zir sighed heavily as he continued to give the ship all the power he could, "Dar we can't keep pushing like this, we'll break something! You realize this hunk isn't a fighter yes!!??" he growled in an angry tone. Mostly because Zir was really pissed off and he hated being in a situation he couldn't do anything about, but sit around for the ride to be over.<br/><br/>He charged the weapon and noted it was still stable, "You have another shot in 5" he said his voice still tense and angry. He didn't like the look of all the enemy ships suddenly in their system and really hoped their hyperdrive wouldn't be locked down... Ahhh crap. "Dar, you better hope you can run on regular engines, we lost our hyperdrive to their grave field...."<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>The Commander felt the sudden jarring impact of something landing into the unshielded side. The shields had collapsed only moments before. Shields down. Intruder alarms buzzed. He swore and wanted to kill someone else. His anger mounted into a tidal block of fury. He'd never been so outgunned in all his life. This was suppose to be a simple mission. One his ship could handle. How the hell had they gotten so much reinforcements so fast?<br/><br/>He heard something from one of his crew and his eyes narrowed to pinpricks in anger. "yes yes tech get the link active and put them on vid," he said darkly and just as the channel snapped open something took out all engine power to his ship in a hard sharp collision. He swore so loudly and vehemently that every eye turned to him.<br/><br/>"Yah I can see I'm outnumbered," he snapped at the female on the vidscreen who'd just finished speaking not a moment before the collision with his ship. "As you can clearly see we've just been rendered completely incapable of retreat. Our shields are down, engines destroyed and now we are being boarded. So unless you have a brilliant solution to getting power to the ship I suggest you pluck the parasites off our hull and start teleported our people out of here!"<br/><br/>It was evident that defeat didn't please the captain at all and that his anger was towards everyone and not directed at her, yet his tone was less then polite and his voice dark and crisp snapping in anger. He looked away from the vid screen, "WHY are there no fighters getting that hole sealed up and those parasites dead!" he growled at the gaping crew. Man ran to give orders, "STOP STARING AT ME AND GET BACK TO WORK!" he shouted, "OR I"LL GUT YOU ALL!" he finished and turned back to the vidscreen, "Incompetent idiots," he mumbled and returned to their conversations, "I presume you've disabled their hyperdrives by now?" he asked more out of curiosity then anything else, he was almost certain she had. She seemed competent unlike the crew of lackwits he'd been stuck with when given this mission.