The coalition fighters were not fully engaged in fighting the unknown enemy ships. The Commander watched from his station his anger mounted as this force as definitely strong, though little. He tapped open the broadband challenge.<br/><br/>"We are outnumbered and these b*****ds are strong. I need reinforcement," he said into the open channel.<span style="font-style: italic">"we are in sector Delta 5. We can assist in less then a minute Commander."</span>came the reply from a large star class ship, much like his own. "how many squadrons to do you have," the Commander responded darkly into the tela link.<span style="font-style: italic">"we have six sir."</span>came the reply. "Good get here and deploy them immediately," he hung up the channel and turned to his lieutenant.<br/><br/>"I need a damage report," the Commander said to the lieutenant.<br/><br/>"Sir our main weapon just got taken offline by a pirate ship. The weapons on that ship are unlike anything we've ever seen. Our Ion Pulses are online and our turrets are returning fire. Some of the pesky enemy ships have been destroyed. They are very numerous and appear autonomous, but we don't know much about them beyond that they appear to be on par with our technology level. Their repeated attack though not strong is straining the aft shields," the man said as a report.<br/><br/>"Divert power to the shields and target the planet with the pulses. We're going to destroy Osmaria," the Commander announced. Without another word to the lieutenant who sent out the orders the Commander clicked on his tela link, "This is Battle Commander Igarias Tore of the Coalition high command in Osmaria airspace. I request a full tactical assault be launched on Osmaria within the hour."<br/><br/>--<br/><br/>Eduian looked over at Protheus, and was just about to respond when he felt the shake of the building around him. He grabbed the male and pushed his roughly towards the hallway. Just as the ceiling caved in with the deafening sound of shattering concrete metal and the hissing of wires. Smoke instantly filled the hallway and Eduian looked over at the man. "You ok?" He could feel the bite of debris in his own arm and chest, but he didn't have time to take care of his own injuries.<br/><br/>He looked around the ruins. They were lucky to have dogged the strike. What had once been the left wing of the Tearsia base was now nothing more the ruins. Smoking hissing ruins. His ears ringing and pain filling him he responded to Protheus's previous words. "Get to your fighter and engage any b****d you can find. Don't hold back and rain down hell" without another word Eduian took off at a dead run heading for the largest civilian ship that was docked on the as of yet untouched upper level. He'd barely gotten into the ship and strapped down when the hatches sealed. "launch" he called and heard the screaming from the back as the ship took off. He rose on unsteady feet. Aware that he was bleeding and battered.<br/><br/>"Head for the first clear space and have every civilian ship launch into Hyperspace. We make for the nearest safe zone. Have the fighters engage only what is necessary to escort the ships," he ordered the captain. "contact as many allies as you can. relay my orders to the fighters."<br/><br/>Without another word he made his way back to the civilians and as he opened the door he noticed a lot of children were sprawled on the floor and chaos raining. He saw Mystique and headed straight for her. "What do you need?" he asked her. He was covered in dust and blood coated the left side of his face, torn clothing and arm. Clearly showing he'd been injured in the last explosion.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Zir cursed heavily as he heard the 'brace for impact command.' he still hadn't finished bridging the manual controls when the weapon was fired. He flew back and smashed into his controls which caused him to curse savegely over the link which he'd left open.<br/><br/>"Damn it," he called out in universal. "Dar I need a damage reports from that." he called out, "You'll have manuel in three.." he flicked the last of the switches and snapped the two connectors together, "you have manuel control Dar. Kick ass!" he said the last as a battle cry. Pain still laced his right side, but he ignored it. He'd bitch about it later. Right now he had to see what damage the ship had sustained from that and recharge their weapon.<br/><br/>He went to the other council and slid into his chair. Sliding the restraints on this time so he wouldn't be thrown about into anything else he flicked the circuits manually and then entered into the system and called out over the link, "ready in 5 for you Dar," he said. Their weapon charged quickly, but each blast would be a little less powerful. The first had taken the enemy weapon clean off, and done a number on their fighters.<br/><br/>--<br/><br/>Two hyperspace windows opened at that moment and one other battle cruisers, Large powerful star ship class Coalition ships, exited hyperspace. The other group were Aridian fighters led by Skar Akarianous.