Zir cursed in Riozan for several minutes as he rushed towards the monitors once more flicking them up and prepping their shields, engines and dampeners for the upcoming mayhem. He finished quickly just as Darin was giving orders to launch the ship. He headed for the door, activating his tela link as he went so he could continue to hear the captain. At the door he turned back and said "Once I get to the engine bay I can have it online in a minute. Takes two to get down there. So In three. I'm com hot so use the link." and with that he left the room.<br/><br/>It took a little under two minutes to reach the engine bay and get the shields boosted by crossfeeding their hyperdrive. He tapped the tela link in his ear, "Dar I crossed the Hyperdrive into the Shields and your baby's coming online in just a moment," he paused a moment as he started going over switches using his tentacles to hold levers in place as he ran though powerup of their new weapons system. "First we won't be able to run in this configuration I'll need fifteen minutes warning. Second don't blow us up!"<br/><br/>With that Zir turned on the weapons system and stepped away swearing again. "your online and I'm feeding you the controls. In three," he flicked open his wall monitor and started activating remote control of the weapon, "your up. Good luck and don't get me killed or I'll really hate you Dar."<br/><br/>--<br/><br/>Eduian felt the shockwave go through the base as the transmission cut out and the screaming intensified. Everyone ducked and tried to hide, but outside of a mild showering of debris raining down nothing really happened. He closed his eyes offering up a quick prayer of thanks as he shouted.<br/><br/>"GET EVERYONE MOVING, NOW" to be heard over the noise. People began to filter out of the hallways again more slowly this time. He needed to speed them up, but frightened children were hard to convince to move and everyone was doing everything they could. The adults were simply too few to make an impact in the noise. At least there were only a few left now. He could see the last guards corralling the little ones down into the main hallway from where he stood.<br/><br/>--<br/><br/>"Where ready Commander," the tech said as the last minute passed and the weapons full charge system reached firing capacity.<br/><br/>"Repeat last bombardment sequence," the commander said in a dry tone.<br/><br/>"Ready," the tech announced not even a second later.<br/><br/>"fire," the commander's word echoed and in that moment three things happened all at once. The weapon fired, an explosion of sound and static sounded across the control room and alarms began to go off and the ships system powered down. The weapon was offline and there was severe damage to it. The commander cursed and covered his ears with his hand. He shoved the startled gaping tech out of his way and called up the data shouting. "GET ME SOME INFORMATION ON WHATS GOING ON NOW" into the now deafening silence. The noise had lasted only for two minutes. The damage was extensive but the weapon could be fixed. "Get Lieutenant Grieves on this. I want my weapon back online. Deploy the fighters to take out the thread that just hit us hard and if someone doesn't get the smaller ion pulses online within the next ten minutes I am going to be executing the lot of you!"<br/><br/>There were resounding 'yes sir's' and running techs. The communication system was down. All of it. "I want a  damage report in less then five minutes, or your first on the chopping block." This anger was evident and clear.<br/><br/>Meanwhile on the Osmaria base the strike took out the whole left section caving in that section of the base. It took out all of level E and a good section of level D. Eduian's section was caught in the damage from the failing structure.